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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
|  Subject: Re: Avenue query .  Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:05 am | |
| you could be right.
"This'll make 'em Curse trying to figure out what this mile long earthwork means in the future!"
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:11 am | |
| got all me Os maps out and the one i psplit iton is the one i need for the 12 mile walk im doing next satudry to visit some of the remotest barrows in derbushire.
Sod it. !
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:29 am | |
| without a map you'll have to walk from one pub to another singing
"Roll out the barrow!"
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:37 am | |
| | PeteG wrote: | | megadread wrote: | | (But then again i am very drunk and probably shouldnt be posting anyway.) |
but then you wouldn't have saturday afternoons to say "did I really say that last night? Where's the delete button that Steve hid?
PeteG |
Just edited out the swear word in that lsat post whilst drying my map on donnas new top, well i didnt now, ive never seen it before so how could i. Shes gonna killkill me. Dilllema, do i risk washing it or tell her.  |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:40 am | |
| tell her!
If you try washing it your new baby will be able to wear it once its shrank.
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:48 am | |
| I am more scred now than i have been in years, she hasnt beenout for months and is asleep but bought it to go out in tomorrow. this may be my last night on the forums. just aswell really cos i think i am hypocrite for breaking my oewn fule about topics losing their way.  |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:54 am | |
| well mate you a choice
Learn to use a washing machine or
RIP
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:06 am | |
| At the moment i cant even type right. the whole washing thing is a minefield, wghat setting, powder or those little pplastic filled things what dryer setting and its black. I will have to sacrifice my morningand take her to buy a new one, bet she can omnly find one thats three times the price thhiough and the bwrong colour so she needs ne shoes too.
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:17 am | |
| Now my eldest son is laughing his head off at my typing and the whole situation, i got him up to help me and he demanded money also to also help me spell check a post on tma for tommy who can hardly understand english. 
Edit: Im in real trouble with the ladies for that last post arent i. |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:22 am | |
| you better hope the Edit function works before the morning.....
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:46 am | |
| just like baldrick i have a cunning plan. Bdfore she wakes ill make her breakfast i n bed and trip spilling it on her new top whilst waking her, i reckon i'll get away with it but offer to buy a new one anyway ( am i just biggind a deepre hole) that way i get no black eye and she has a anew top. white lie?
Why did i substitute southern comfoet for my spilt lager. i hate spirits
the x is back now.
Ps pete you love new age stuff, pics please.while there light a cancdle for me.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=48646
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:03 am | |
| | megadread wrote: | just like baldrick i have a cunning plan. Bdfore she wakes ill make her breakfast i n bed and trip spilling it on her new top whilst waking her, i reckon i'll get away with it but offer to buy a new one anyway ( am i just biggind a deepre hole) that way i get no black eye and she has a anew top. white lie?
Why did i substitute southern comfoet for my spilt lager. i hate spirits
i cant edit tonight junea and rose will just havce to kick my head inwhilst i scream apologies.. 
the x is back now.
Ps pete you love new age stuff, pics please.while there light a cancdle for me.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=48646 |
would you like a spade to dig yourself in deeper?
Tell the truth man!
"I got pizzed and owe you a new outfit darling"
Wives know when husbands lie.
Their lips move!
as to tma? vapid new-aged twitterings again....
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:06 am | |
| go and chop of her 'legs' and kill the baby before the tealights appear  |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:09 am | |
| I know the stone and tree.
I'd rather leave them alone to grow old together.
Unlike you and donna if you don't come clean me lad!
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:11 am | |
| | Im gonna turn up with large forceps and a white overall and deliver it |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:16 am | |
| | megadread wrote: | | Im gonna turn up with large forceps and a white overall and deliver it |
I'm filming it!
now hid the ruined top so donna doesn't find it first thing.
Don't spill her breakfast on it as she will be off to a really bad day. X2
Tell her what happened and take her shopping and come home with an empty wallet and a happy wife and spend saturday night sober as you can't afford to buy drink!
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:18 am | |
| aaaaaw but i have to wet the avebury babies head.
Why do i feel the need for a whole load of H's followed by A's. |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:22 am | |
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:27 am | |
| | I pray me and donna NEVER get drunk at the same time. I may enquire at the NT though about adoptiung the avebury baby. |
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:33 am | |
| | I wonder if that tree has tits. ROFL |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:35 am | |
| | it certainly seems to have attracted one.... |
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:41 am | |
| I admit i have certain pagan beliefs but that is going way too far. I dont evben know if paganism allows for a immaculate conception let alone a 'conventional' conception between a stone and a tree.
Which stone would you guess is the father. ?
I can see the nutcases now, a stone and a tree making a child, i shudder at what may happen if the american nutters get wind of this.  |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:45 am | |
| | Unbefookingleivable. words fail me. ! |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:51 am | |
| | shame they didn't fail Suzanne eh? |
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:58 am | |
| that went like a peregrine in full stoop over my head ?
Its no wonder paganism gets a bad press, whys it all the nutters have the loudest voices. I know loads of people with pagan beliefs but not one whos worthy of a padded cell. !!
Edit: ah just read the sig |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:02 am | |
| well
"I've written a book proving ghosts don't exist"
sellls 3 copies
"I've written a book proving ghosts are aliens from another dimension who make crop circles to educate and warn us about the forthcoming japanese earthquake"
sell 4.6 million copies.
As Robert Anton Wilson once said
All those people in the world you think are stupid, well half of them are twice as stupid as you thought!
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:05 am | |
| | Im off to bed now, have a REAL busy day tomorrow. Have to apologise to george for ruining his thread and rose and june for that post plus a shopping trip and the hangover is tasking hold already. |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:05 am | |
| | glad I'm just insomniac... |
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Steve M
Joined : 05 Jan 2008
Posts : 502
Location : Yatesbury, Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:04 am | |
| Going back to what this thread is supposed to be about (!)
I've been reading up on this question of whether bits of the Avenue are aligned to anything in the sky.
John North, in Stonehenge - Neolithic Man and the Cosmos 1996 comes close to it. He starts by failing to find star alignments, then looks at the moon. The diagram below is from that book. Note though, that the direction of the northernmost part of the avenue (stone pairs 7 to 15) almost points in the same direction as southern minor standstill - but not exactly!
North has drawn diagonal lines between stones at either side of the avenue, looking for more alignments. I believe there is current work going on now, looking for alignments. Interesting stuff.
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| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:18 am | |
| | Steve M wrote: | Going back to what this thread is supposed to be about (!)
I've been reading up on this question of whether bits of the Avenue are aligned to anything in the sky.
John North, in Stonehenge - Neolithic Man and the Cosmos 1996 comes close to it. He starts by failing to find star alignments, then looks at the moon. The diagram below is from that book. Note though, that the direction of the northernmost part of the avenue (stone pairs 7 to 15) almost points in the same direction as southern minor standstill - but not exactly!
North has drawn diagonal lines between stones at either side of the avenue, looking for more alignments. I believe there is current work going on now, looking for alignments. Interesting stuff.
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Steve , are the ,all important ,declinations taken into consideration ? I don't buy the alignments across the avenue , it's a bit like stones across a stone circle you are sure to hit on to something and there are nearly 37 possible hits to choose from .
George |
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Steve M
Joined : 05 Jan 2008
Posts : 502
Location : Yatesbury, Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:52 am | |
| George, I'm really interestested in this stuff but don't know how to do it.
When you calculated your standstill position, did you do it for a particular date in history? |
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| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:15 am | |
| | Steve M wrote: | George, I'm really interestested in this stuff but don't know how to do it.
When you calculated your standstill position, did you do it for a particular date in history? |
You'd be surprised how little difference the date makes . I used 3000 BC . Here some figures for the winter minor standstill rise at Avebury .
These are bearings not declination . 3000 BC =121.1 ,2500 bc =121.02 , 2000 BC 10.93 , 2000 ad =120.07 .
not a lot in it (innit) . The important factors are the relative heights of the horizon and viewing spot , latitude , distance apart as well as the bearing .
George |
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| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:54 pm | |
| I have re-checked everything ,tightened up the figures ,excluded the 11-27 as the horizon is unsighted and still both major and minor standstills are working with the Bitham Barrow (fwiw I can't come across anything that suggests it is not Neolithic ) in the cross hairs , this is in itself is unimportant it's the avenue aligned on the horizon that matters although the barrow may well have been aligned to as is the case in many cursus /avenue alignments tha tpoint to burail s or it was buit with the avenue oriented to it or of course neither .What is very surprising is the change in angle at the dog leg is within a degree of the same change at the Stonehenge avenue 134 degrees , I doubt if that has been previously noted .
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Steve M
Joined : 05 Jan 2008
Posts : 502
Location : Yatesbury, Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:27 pm | |
| George - this is all very interesting but I don't really understand quite what you've done yet! I've only seen little snippets so far. Are you going to put all this up on a website, in detail?
Pete Admin has put links to some of my stuff on this site and it brings a lot of web traffic - it's great, because people do get to see it. |
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| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:38 pm | |
| | Steve M wrote: | George - this is all very interesting but I don't really understand quite what you've done yet! I've only seen little snippets so far. Are you going to put all this up on a website, in detail?
Pete Admin has put links to some of my stuff on this site and it brings a lot of web traffic - it's great, because people do get to see it. |
Steve , I'll mention it on the archaeocosmology group . if there is anything in particular you are not sure of , methodology etc. do ask . |
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Rose
Joined : 18 Jan 2008
Posts : 154
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:48 pm | |
| | megadread wrote: | just like baldrick i have a cunning plan. Bdfore she wakes ill make her breakfast i n bed and trip spilling it on her new top whilst waking her, i reckon i'll get away with it but offer to buy a new one anyway ( am i just biggind a deepre hole) that way i get no black eye and she has a anew top. white lie?
Why did i substitute southern comfoet for my spilt lager. i hate spirits
the x is back now.
Ps pete you love new age stuff, pics please.while there light a cancdle for me.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=48646 |
So sorry to break from the proper nature of this thread again, but I'm itching to know if Megadread has survived ruining her top? What happening next? Better than TV soaps!
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:25 pm | |
| | Megadreads funeral will be announced shortly...... |
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:54 pm | |
| Cost me 17.99. ****** alcohol.
Did manage to pop into the camping shop and bag myself a new lightweight sleeping bag though, had a massive hangover plus being sooo dehydrated i drank 2 large bottles of lucozade in an hour an half. Alls well that ends well though. |
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:58 pm | |
| He's Alive! Alive I tells you!
Did she have a fit?
HOWS YOUR HEAD?
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june
Joined : 07 Jan 2008
Posts : 471
Location : Wiltshire
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:03 pm | |
| Never mind Megadread, guess that's you baby-sitting too.
By the way, today's Independent has the 50 best camping esentials in the Information magazine. I had a quick look and there is loads of innovative stuff very reasonably priced. I particularly liked the Selk Bag which is a 'cross between a cat suit and a puffa jacket, and you don't have to leave your bed to walk to the loo' - I couldn't see any stragetic zips though. |
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:29 pm | |
| We all got up late so all that was said was 'i don't have time to worry about that now'. Phew.. !
The head Pete, MASSIVE hangover and baby cries.
Well it serves me right don't it.
Ps, Managed some crafty editing this morning to save the wrath of you know who. Shssssh....!!! |
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:37 pm | |
| June checked out that camping gear on the independents site and its quoting prices that are about 30 - 40% above the shop prices, more in some cases. I know someone wwho within the last week got the eta power stove Quoted at 110 quid for 48 quid. !!!
Eta express
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PeteG
Age : 99
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 1603
Location : near Avebury
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:45 pm | |
| | megadread wrote: | | Managed some crafty editing this morning to save the wrath of you know who. Shssssh....!!! |
You were Lucky! You get to keep your knackers....
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megadread
Joined : 12 Jul 2008
Posts : 321
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:46 pm | |
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Rose
Joined : 18 Jan 2008
Posts : 154
| | Subject: Re: Avenue query . Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:58 pm | |
| Glad to hear family bliss has been restored Megadread!
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