[Stones] Silbury time capsule

[NIGELSWIFT at aol.com]

In a message dated 21/08/2007 14:16:34 GMT Standard Time,  
megalith6 at yahoo.co.uk writes:

Hi,

i visted Silbury Hill on Sunday afternoon [19 August
07],  it was bedraggled with construction site
equipment (inert), workers'  portacabin extempore
village (no sign of life), persistent drizzle and  lots
of chalky mud everywhere; the catepillar diggers have
left a wide  muddy track all the way round one side of
Silbury; there is a forlorn  visitors' information
point, roadside of the hill, with a flimsy sign  fixed
to the fence, fluttering in the grey breeze. there are
neither  visitors nor experts in bright yellow, hard
hats, enthusiastically  disseminating words of wisdom:
the spot is entirely vacant. above the  tunnel entrance
is marked out - in blue rope - the shape of a  long
subsidence, running up the hill, directly over the
tunnel. before  the ominous-looking, shuttered entrance
to the re-opened tunnel stands a  motionless mechanical
digger, apparently abandoned? the entire site  is
eerily silent and resembles more the messy aftermath
to some awful  catastrophe, rather than the sprightly
prospect of an efficient EH project,  so deftly filmed
for PR posterity several years ago, when the  initial
steps were being taken to stabilise the hill, and
ultimately  restore it? where are the cameras,
state-of-art technology, helicopters,  snappy press
releases, smart presenters and television experts now?
what  is happening at Silbury? what is happening  to
Silbury?!




Bosting good prose! Congratulations.
it deserves a wider audience.
 
Whaddya think, Littlestone?



   
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