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20th June 2024 An evening as perfect as it could be. After weeks of grey and cold, the elements held and kept their promise of a spectacle for the summer solstice, reaffirming the beauty and spirit of the world. With celebrations taking place at sites such as Stonehenge and Avebury, where ceremony and observation has… Read more
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It’s been a funny eight hours, for certain. About lunchtime today, just before the creeping dread of knowing you’ve much work to do and not much time left, came some news that added an additional spanner to the day. Let’s summarise it simply. Just Stop Oil paint Stonehenge orange. It’s outlandish to read or say… Read more
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3rd February 2024 Treasures can be found in the most unlikely places. Arriving at a waste recycling centre at Stanton Harcourt, west of Oxford, I parked up near a battered drum container which had been designated as a fire assembly point for nearby workers. Surveying the post-apocalyptic scene with rusting cars and the industrious sound… Read more
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27th May 2023 It was a true pilgrimage, if ever there was one. Awake at the unfeasible hour of 3am and in the car by 3.15am, hurtling down the road. By the time I joined the motorway, I was aware of dawn’s first light creeping steadily over the horizon, a race against time. While dawn… Read more
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25th April 2023 “The inquisitive that prefer our own country antiquities to the vain tour of foreign, will find much of curious amusement there.” So said the antiquarian William Stukeley (1687-1765) of the Rollright Stones, on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. Stukeley is a personal hero of mine. The things he got wrong are… Read more
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