What a revelation; what a story; what a life-changing, history-understanding, game-changing event of monumental…
Well, of monuments.
Stonehenge is in the news again. As it is at least once every thousand years or so. Because they’ve discovered something really important.
The stones, those fucking massive mega-rocks which make up the site, were originally thought to have come from Carn Goedog, some god-forsaken nothing in the middle of Welsh nowhere. But they were wrong. It has now been shown that they come from Carn Meini. Wow. That’s a whole mile away from the original site. Oh no.
The question as to how they then arrived at their present location, 150 miles away, seems to me a more interesting question. An even better one is WHY????
I suspect it was a proto-government-unemployment scheme, get the children off the streets, have them do something ‘useful’. Even though I don’t think they had ‘streets’ 5000 years ago when Stonehenge was born. Not exactly. Maybe it was an ‘internship’, to ‘help move a few stones’.

I’d have called UPS myself, but maybe things were different at that time. Maybe UPS didn’t have an office in Wales back then.
I reckon aliens done it. Used a tractor beam on their space ship and just ‘lifted’ them stones right out’a the ground; all 180 of them and then flying saucered them over to Wiltshire in 14 seconds.

The other theory is more interesting. If you take a look at the latest mobile phone technology, you get a lorra phone in a tiny space. Go back 10 years and some among us (nobs, mainly, plus estate agents, if there’s any difference) were carrying ‘bricks’ which only made very poor phone calls. If you extrapolate this back in time 5000 years, a mobile phone would be the size of Stonehenge.

So there you have it: Andy’s theory, Stonehenge was a mobile phone. The problem was, no-one else had one to receive the call. Details details.

Women are to be ordained at Bishops in the Anglican church. A brilliant moment for women. The reluctance for this apparently stems from Jesus having only male apostles. But he was gay, so of course he did. I read that in Mad magazine, so it must be true. And women Bishops is something we’ve waited for a long time. They look great in long purple dresses so why not?
Though as ever, when big issues occur in religious circles, some will be so opposed that they break away and become the ‘Old Anglican’ C of E and adhere to the ‘old’ and ‘proper’ values of men wearing purple dresses themselves.

At least, it would seem, there is no ‘glass ceiling’ up to heaven.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx