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Steve_De4

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  1. Just north of Salisbury, on the road to Amesbury, in a new modern village called Longhedge.
  2. Went out trying to take photos for an hour and a half around the North of Salibury Plain, but it was all very sporadic, and high-based, and so nothing but flashes through murk (even drove through quite dense fog at one point). So I came home. And now, after lots of high-in-the-sky rumbles, we've just had our first window rattler up here north of Salisbury.
  3. Thought you might enjoy the improbability of this... the central Wales storm of a couple of hours ago, photographed from Salisbury Plain
  4. I can see the lightning to the North of me from the top of Salisbury Plain. Very impressive it looks from this distance...
  5. I don't often say much here, but I think it's worth noting that I can see the impressive High Wycombe cloud from here near Salisbury...
  6. Lightly snowing again on the edge of the Plain here in Old Sarum. A photograph of the aftermath of last night's snow, which made some interesting wave-like drifts down the road. (Note, the big "drifts" in the background are actually piles of chalk!)
  7. Yes, still going in Old Sarum, and I advise any locals not to attempt the A345 up to Amesbury, which is currently blocked going North, and only handfuls of cars are coming South...
  8. I've just seen a gritter AND a plough going up the road to Amesbury, so I'm guessing that high, open area around High Post is a mess...
  9. So, some snow, as I know snow lovers love this kind of thing. Taken near Old Sarum, Salisbury at about 5.45ish. It's still snowing!
  10. As somebody said earlier, you might be too far west. You certainly are at the moment. There's possibly a small chance later this evening.
  11. From Marlborough, the distant storms are lighting up the skies to the south every few seconds now, and though the stars are still out I can see the first sign of wispy clouds from the front approaching...
  12. I can see the sky lighting up to my South from here in Marlborough - where's that coming from? It's not the Cornwall storm. I guess it's the random pops on the south coast...
  13. An excellent choice by Andy there, and I'd just like to mention that Redhorn Hill is on the Wessex Ridgeway, which is a byway open to all traffic around the northern edge of Salisbury Plain. The road is maintained and can be driven all the way from the Lavingtons to Upavon if you get bored with staying in one place. Also at Redhorn, if you have a vehicle with ground clearance, is a premissive byway into the Plain which - if the red flags aren't flying - takes you through wide open heathland and down to the southern edge of the Plain.
  14. Been thundering and raining for about 20 minutes in Newbury.Sounds like its moving away west now though...
  15. Well, that was a lot of thunder and lightning, and an awful lot of hail Seems to be moving NEnow, but with various stings in its tail... In fact, I just stuck my head outside the front door, and it's just one long. never-ending rumble...
  16. A bit inland, a mile or two, at one of the holday parks, Mullacot, so I hope to escape the worst of it (not that I'm expecting anything good from it, either )
  17. I picked a great weekend for a mini-break in Woollacombe. Still, at least it's not the Channel coast
  18. Yep, rumbles of thunder here in Marlborough as well. All pretty distant so far...
  19. I once did a little essay on the pitch/settle distinction for an English language module. Suffice to say, west country people use it, and furriners come from the east with their fancy "settle". In my informal and entirely unscientific research, it seems as though Wiltshire born youngsters are now beginning to say settle under the influence of those same incomers, and of TV. Boooo!
  20. And to add to what the Devizes and Swindon folk have noted, yes, it is still snowing in Marlborough, and yes, it has recently become pretty heavy again
  21. I don't say much, but I know you all like a snow photo. Here's the A4 just past Savernake Forest at the point, two miles into my journey, when I thought I might as well give up and work at home. I took my good camera with me, though, "just in case" ETA: Oh, the pix seem a bit big - next time I'll make them a bit smaller
  22. There's been the odd rumble in showers over West Wiltshire over the last 20/30 minutes.
  23. Ah yes, that site. I had reason to be researching crop circles the other night, and came across this quote from th same website, at http://www.cropcirclesecrets.org/crop_circles_early.html: I emailed Mr Silva to point out that, although there might not have been tractor ruts/tramlines, the crop was often spaced apart enough to allow people to walk through the fields anyway. And I had practical experience of this, as, when I was a teenager, I had been employed for several weeks to remove wild oats from a crop of something or other. Four of us worked the field, side by side, slowly working our way up and down the field, pulling out wild oats, and putting them in a bag slung over our shoulders. Hence there was enough room to work the rows even when carrying bags - because only treading on the stalks would damage the crop, not simply brushing them aside. Mr Silva denied my experience (and I'm sure our little team wasn't a unique band of wild-oat pickers the likes of which had never been seen before). You didn't even have to walk carefully - in the end, walking through the crop became second nature. Mr Silva replied to me, saying that that couldn't be true, as he'd talked to the NFU, and apparently the "the drill would leave one or two seed rows empty by error, leaving gaps five inches or so." Now, the point of a seed drill *is* to leave gaps of five inches or so (or more) - look at any drill. Apparently in the 1970s it was "intermittent and rare but sometimes it happened." Well, the field I worked had about, at a guess, a six-eight inch row spacing *throughout the entire field*. "There were a few farmers who would also leave the odd narrow path for the purpose which you have obviously explained." No, there was no path, there was just the seed drill spacing. He then added: "However, none of the fields bearing genuine crop circles had any of the above, thus my explanation, albeit simplified for the web, remains correct." So, in the 1970s, only the fields *not* having any obvious means of access (and I cannot deny that some crops are broadcast or sowed in narrow rows) were the only ones to have "genuine" crop cirles. How neat. How obviously circular in argument. Cheers Steve
  24. Wot? We became agriculturalists 10K years ago, invented the wheel blah thousand years ago, used and shaped stone tools for about 200000 years, have been manipulating metals since the Bronze Age, windmills have been around for gawd knows how long, milling using animals even longer, helical screws since, wot, Babylon, clockwork and clocks since about the 12th Century. Obviously since the industrial revolution the pace of change and rate of technological innovation has accelerated, but I don't find that strange, as a technological innovation can spread into other areas, and can also be the precursor to further technological innovation, and that since the invention of moveable type and the printing press (about 16thC) the dissemination of information to inquiring and inventive minds has been rapid and easy (meaning we really don't have to reinvent the wheel). Why then, should it be odd that we "sprinted" into the "technological world" over the "past few centuries" when there has been a continuing accelerationn of technogical innovation since the use of stone tools? What is the unspoken suggestion here, in a thread about UFOs? Cheers Steve
  25. I've been interested in the subject for 40 years - having grown up in Warminster[1] - and as I say, the more I hear, the less I "believe" - although, there's a lot of interesting stuff to read in many many subjects and UFOs are on the backburner for me anyway - as canonical UFO cases fall apart in a mass of contradictions, conflicting witness stories, evidence of hoaxing, dubious hypnotic regression sessions, biased investigations, poor investigations, witness contamination, leading questions, cults, hysteria... oh, the list goes on and on . Every month in the digital age, there's some new best case ever, best video ever, best photograph ever, weirdest thing you ever saw, ever ever, etc. And still there's no breakthrough; UFO videos, photographs and cases remain as open to interpretation as ever, no definitive answer is forthcoming, no solution to the "mystery" is evidentially satisfactory, the big revelation hasn't happened, disclosure will happen soon, prepare for the landings and on and on. The big revelation has been set to occur since the 1960s, and is yet to happen. So convinced was I when I was 18 that something "big" would happen "soon" that if you were to search of the morgue of the Wiltshire Times, you would find a story involving me and my mate John stating quite happily that landings would happen in Wiltshire soon There's even a photograph accompanying it of us sitting on a gate at Cradle Hill, and almost certainly pointing at the sky (for UFO stories, it's important to include a photograph of somebody pointing at the sky). If something landed in my garden, and something got out, and poked me in the eye, I'd want some evidence that it was a) a "craft", http://nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif an "alien". Having got that evidence, fair enough. A mistake "believers" often make in the face of skeptics is the idea that skeptics don't want aliens to exist, or would continue to deny their existence even in the face of "good" evidence. Interestingly, many of the ufologists on the skeptical side I know (Dave Clarke, Andy Roberts, for example) started by believing weird things and wanted weird things to exist. They just couldn't find the evidence; and when they investigated weirdness, the weirdness collapsed into mundanity. I'd like there to be aliens, and ET craft bopping around; I'd like to be part of some galactic federation. I just don't see the evidence (remembering that anecdote is not evidence). Cheers Steve [1] Not that a lot of UFO-interested youngsters will remember the Warminster mystery of the 60s and 70s, which was the single largest UFO flap in British history.
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