SSP Standing Stones Pron

I'd not noticed this before but I like the irony of the "meditation event" sign in the middle of the carnage. @dicki :)

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is that from the 2007 rolling to the stones ?
hippy.net gone
moving target gone

where are the photos of that ride now ?

King Arthur’s Stone Gower July 2024

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What a great thread.

The Cheesewring on Bodmin Moor (photo taken 2020)

couple from our trip to Orkney, May 2024

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The Rollright Stones, Cotswolds solstice 2023

Enjoyable place for the solstice, nothing like the crowds at avebury or Stonehenge

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you should try some Dowsing around these sites - adds a whole dimension more !

Yeah

Well, thehippy.net exists still but I got sick of updating the photo gallery software so I made it less available, I think. I was going to retire the site, I don't update it often enough and I could save some coin.

Actually, that's a lie, the gallery is still there. I guess I just made it not public or something. If you want Mr @dicki I can send you the pics I have from the ride?

At least some of theHippy.net can be found with the Wayback Machine.

Menhir Products

I've enjoyed a few trips to Brittany and spent quite a lot of time looking at standing stones. I found myself asking - why go to all that trouble? What can you do with a big lump of stone except look at it?

Here is a possible explanation: the purpose was to demonstrate the owner's wealth. It must have taken a great deal of effort to get those stones into position (Obelix can't have delivered all of them!) and nobody works for nothing.

In a word, they were status symbols.

So I would like to coin the phrase 'menhir product' (MP) The essential qualities of an MP are expense and uselessness; examples are very common (especially in the West End): flashy cars and wrist watches, designer handbags - I'm sure you can all add to the list.

How about super expensive bikes?

At least some of theHippy.net can be found with the Wayback Machine.

Shouldn't need to, it's still live, ie.

https://thehippy.net/blog/rolling-to-the-stones/

Taken on a murky ride on the Mendips this morning. This is a modern construction, details below.

https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=14871

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Pen Y Beacon

At a mates farm a few years ago, deep in the acid and we wandered over to here, then a magic horse saved us from a what seemed like a certain kicking on the way back

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Only the stones in the foreground, the upright and the buried ones you can see are part of the circle. The 2 square ones in the back are bordering for a car park

Dartmoor

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