Marlene's Visit With Boet John, May/June 1997
From London to Stonehenge and Avebury |
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Well yes, alright, it may not be quite a straight line from London to
Stonehenge to Blackpool, but Sis and I share a love of stone circles and we set off trying to
keep one step ahead of the threatened thunderstorms (which never got to us). I got moaned at
for driving past Harrods too fast - though I was trying not to be crushed between two London
buses at the time...
We had a wander round Stonehenge which Sis decided was best described as "rocky" - no use
denying it Sis... it's on tape!!! |
| The boys were far more interested in the gift shop than
in Stonehenge itself! Next stop was
at Avebury and by the time we had got there it was Theo's turn to play at being in the deepest
sleep possible. Put it this way - Jaco opened the car door and Theo's head bounced off the the
seat and onto the bottom of the car and even that didn't wake him!
Fran stayed with him whilst Sis, Jaco and I had a look around the stones. I found some dowsing
rods in a shop and we all had a go with them with some success. |
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| The rods are simply rods of
metal (in this case copper) bent at right angles. You hold them pointing straight ahead and
if things work ok they will turn inwards towards each other when you walk over a ley line or
the perimeter of a circle. (Apparently there are seven such circles within a stone circle, the
outer one normally being marked by the circle of stones and the innermost one being the centre
of the circle.)
If you cross an intersection of two lines the rods turn completely back towards
the person holding them. It is of course easy to make the rods turn by tilting your
hands, but if it works they move even if you try to tilt them the "wrong" way.
Heading for Blackpool
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The motorway was quite busy and for young boys the
gap between two service
stations is far too long! They both had some bits of Lego and things to play with and
Theo had a huge bar of nougat that he was trying to surround in as short a time as possible.
We were stopped in a queue waiting to join the M6 from the M5 motorway when pangs of nature
started to make themselves felt! By the time we were able to stop, things were pretty desperate
and Jaco dashed into the first door he saw which was the mother and baby cubicle. |
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| Shame the
mother hadn't locked it really, but he was too desperate to think anything of it and just
swerved out and into the gents where a huge sigh was soon heard! |
| This place had a Burger King so we were soon chomping
into burgers when
disaster struck! Yes - the toy that Theo had got with his burger wouldn't work. He
went back to the counter with it and was gone for what seemed a long time so Marlene
and I went to have a look and he was sitting on the counter talking earnestly to a
very sympathetic employee who found him a replacement toy. He seemed to be doing so
well that we sneaked quietly back to the table and let him proudly tell us all about it!
Now remember, the place was absolutely packed! How he
managed to get right to the front, and on top of the counter to boot, I'll never know.
Don't want to, really. |
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| Back on the road disaster struck again.
This time a Lego man went completely off his head.
The body we found but the head we didn't despite as thorough a search of the car as is possible
on a motorway!
We were back at home having made the introductions to Mum and Dad who had come
round, before the head was found - stuck firmly to a half-eaten and extremely sticky block of
nougat... |
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