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31 March 2008
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I’m from Bath, and my dad lives quite close to Stonehenge (in a proper house, not in some neolithic mud hut).
Bath is very beautiful, and worth spending more time in than Stonehenge. There’s simply not that much to see in Stonehenge, whereas in Bath you can spend a good few hours wandering around the Roman Baths, Royal Crescent, Circus, Assembly Rooms, the city centre etc, followed by lunch in the Raven pub and a teacake at Sally Lunn’s. My recommendation would be to make your way to Bath and join the tour there if you can.
I haven’t been up close to the stones. I wasn’t even aware that they did close-up tours – they never had them when I was younger. Whether you need to touch them probably depends on your affinity with paganism and ley lines, or a desire to reenact the denouement of Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
If you’re planning on changing your visit, September would almost certainly be better for the weather.
(Thanks @ewe2, I’ve got Spinal Tap in my head now too! We habitually call it Stone’enge in our house.)
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18 March 2013
Offline Well I’ve just had an awful 2 minutes, I’m home alone because my mam is gone to a funeral and Dad and my brother are in Scotland so I have the house to myself ’til around 9ish. A man rang the doorbell and I went into automatic ‘there is nobody at home mode’ mainly because:
1) Stranger Danger
2) I’m in my pyjamas
Anyhoo, I crept to the kitchen window to look out to see if it was a friend or someone I knew and the man looked right back at me 
I had a terrible experience when I was 5ish where I was at home because I was sick and a delivery man came. I was lying on the couch, watching ‘Bear and the Big Blue House’ or something along those lines and the man knocked on the backdoor, course I didn’t answer it (look back to reason 1). He then came and knocked on the kitchen window!! He could see me as the blinds were open and I remember diving under the table and shivering until he left- I believe it’s traumastised me!
So in conclusion: ASJ will not answer the door if she’s home alone and not expecting anyone.
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@AppleScruffJunior said
ASJ will not answer the door if she’s home alone and not expecting anyone.
I’m exactly the same, and am very rarely expecting anyone, so the door is almost never answered. How can one be a good introvert if you’re opening the door to strangers?
@Ahhh Girl It seems no-one here has been to Stonehenge since its revamp (including me). I am aware that it is a very different place to when I was last there, which was some years ago when they started allowing access to the Stones on the Solstice again. I used to go a lot in the ’80s when I was younger, more hippy-ish and more extrovert. As a 17/18-year-old I was caught up in the infamous “Battle of the Beanfield”.
Anyway, until the revamp, Stonehenge was pretty grotty to be honest, trapped between two main roads and totally divorced from its environment.
The bottom road in the picture is now closed, and slowly being returned to grass (don’t know how far along the process is). There’s a shiny new visitor centre some distance away, and a little shuttle “land train” that takes you to the Stones and the wider landscape that has been opened up.
I would check what you actually get access to on the tour, as I’m aware English Heritage do not allow access to the Stones during normal opening hours on the access tickets they sell (which are for before they open and after they close) and state that certain things are not available.
However, English Heritage access tickets do allow you visit to earlier in the day for no extra cost to explore the site more fully. Independent you might to decide to book directly, travel to Salisbury from Bath, and then take a cab to the Henge (about ten miles), giving yourself the chance to see all you want, with access to the Stones at the end, booking the cab to pick you up at the end of your access timeslot.
The next stage in the redevelopment will be the burying of the top road in a sunken tunnel to completely return the Henge to its natural landscape.
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Offline AppleScruffJunior said
Well I’ve just had an awful 2 minutes, I’m home alone because my mam is gone to a funeral and Dad and my brother are in Scotland so I have the house to myself ’til around 9ish. A man rang the doorbell and I went into automatic ‘there is nobody at home mode’ mainly because:
1) Stranger Danger
2) I’m in my pyjamas
Anyhoo, I crept to the kitchen window to look out to see if it was a friend or someone I knew and the man looked right back at me
I had a terrible experience when I was 5ish where I was at home because I was sick and a delivery man came. I was lying on the couch, watching ‘Bear and the Big Blue House’ or something along those lines and the man knocked on the backdoor, course I didn’t answer it (look back to reason 1). He then came and knocked on the kitchen window!! He could see me as the blinds were open and I remember diving under the table and shivering until he left- I believe it’s traumastised me!
So in conclusion: ASJ will not answer the door if she’s home alone and not expecting anyone.
Neither will I.
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In the home stretch of the current Photoshop class. One more assignment due next week.
A couple of recent assignments I turned in:
Coloring in line art our professor provided and creating a comic book cover (we usually have to turn in two variations of each assignment):
We had to do some retouching, so I went the range of natural to ridiculous:
And a book with a folded page – photos by me, text by Wikipedia. 
We also had to restore an old photo, so I chose one of my mother. And we had cartoonize a photo of ourselves, which I enjoyed doing. I might try it out on a couple of Beatley photos next.
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Offline Ron Nasty said
@AppleScruffJunior said
ASJ will not answer the door if she’s home alone and not expecting anyone.
I’m exactly the same, and am very rarely expecting anyone, so the door is almost never answered. How can one be a good introvert if you’re opening the door to strangers?
I’m exactly like that as well. And there’s this one guy who keeps coming around lately, I think he does yard care or something, and he keeps knocking like he’s a friend.
Won’t trick me!
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Offline Applescruffjunior said
ASJ will not answer the door if she’s home alone and not expecting anyone.
My friends will drop by unexpectedly so I will always look before I open.
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Offline parlance said
In the home stretch of the current Photoshop class. One more assignment due next week.A couple of recent assignments I turned in:
Coloring in line art our professor provided and creating a comic book cover (we usually have to turn in two variations of each assignment):
We had to do some retouching, so I went the range of natural to ridiculous:
And a book with a folded page – photos by me, text by Wikipedia.
We also had to restore an old photo, so I chose one of my mother. And we had cartoonize a photo of ourselves, which I enjoyed doing. I might try it out on a couple of Beatley photos next.
parlance
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Offline I opened up a bottle of Jones Soda, and the little inspirational message under the cap was “Stop Smoking.” What the hell kinda inspirational message is that? That’s like opening up a fortune cookie and having your fortune be “lose some weight.”
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I opened up a bottle of Jones Soda, and the little inspirational message under the cap was “Stop Smoking.” What the hell kinda inspirational message is that? That’s like opening up a fortune cookie and having your fortune be “lose some weight.”
Or opening the bottle and it says, “stop drinking soda, it’s bad for you.” 
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Offline @parlance what is the significance of the number 447 on your Hipster’s armband? Does it have anything to do with the symbol to the right of the number?
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8 November 2012
Offline Zig said
parlance what is the significance of the number 447 on your Hipster’s armband? Does it have anything to do with the symbol to the right of the number?
Don’t know what the original artist was thinking, but I’m going to say it’s the time she heads over to the bar every day to grab a PBR.
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