breakfast's ready

one. two. buckle my shoe.

though he awakes into a world where rhyme does less work than it used to. he once met a croatian woman who had learned a lot of her english from genesis records. (it's probably quite a good way to do it). 

last night a documentary on how the blue stones at stonehenge came from west wales (and may indeed have been an existing stone circle there). there were techniques for locating where people and animals had grown up due to the strontium in their bones and techniques for working out when buried quartz had last seen the sun (for where the soil was too acidic to permit organic material to survive and thus allow radiocarbon dating). the quartz had to be harvested in darkness and then the measurement of the energy contained in the crystal lattice took several months. 

breakfast's ready.

 there was a recap of the stonehenge aligned with the summer solstice theory (the one horsemouth subscribes to). but why is stonehenge there and not somewhere else?  beneath the fields there are limestone lines that travel from the horizon where the sun sets at the summer solstice (its most northerly point) to the henge itself. nature had itself thoughtfully provided a connection that the mind of man could see and make use of. 

horsemouth has heard that the recent archaeological discoveries at stonehenge  mean that the road tunnel under stonehenge  scheme will not go ahead. he does hope this is true. 

an interesting adjunct. the blue stones were probably dragged to stonehenge from west wales using the route of the current motorway system (it is not thought that the boats available in the neolithic would have been able to transport the stones).  this is the route that avoids most of the mountains - they would probably have passed by close where horsemouth lived as a child in llansamlet just outside swansea. 

horsemouth remembers them building the ring road as a child.