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June 20, 2008 at 2:17 pm #1044821
Hey,
Anyone going to the summer solstice tonight?
Im dubious about the rainJune 21, 2008 at 11:22 am #1174902from BBC news
looks like a good turn out, shame I had to be at work this morning, wanted to pop down…..Quote:Thousands mark summer solsticeThe rain failed to put people off
Some 30,000 people celebrated the summer solstice as dawn broke at Stonehenge in Wiltshire.
Druids, hippies and sun-worshippers were among those who gathered to watch the sun rise at the ancient stone circle at 0458 BST on the longest day.
Rainy conditions obscured the sunrise but the turnout was still the highest in five years.
Police said the event was peaceful, with 17 arrests overnight for public order offences.
As the dawn broke a cheer went up from revellers who gathered at the Heel stone – a pillar at the edge of the prehistoric monument.
It’s all about the feeling you get when the sun bursts through the stoneStonehenge reveller ‘Cathbad’
Unemployed John Tarbuck, 33, from Bude, Cornwall, set up a small tent party next to his car.
“The best thing about Summer Solstice at the ‘henge is you get to meet loads of new people,” he said.
“All the people here at my tent party, I’ve never met before.”
Another man, dressed in a black hooded top, who gave his name as Cathbad, said: “It’s a beautiful experience. It’s about celebrating nature, life and what makes the world go round. “It’s a little bit too heavily organised, with too much intervention from the establishment, but I’ll keep coming back.
“It’s all about the feeling you get when the sun bursts through the stone.”
A spokeswoman for English Heritage, which runs the 5,000-year-old site, said the last time a turnout of 30,000 was achieved was in 2003. “It’s been very wet and soggy,” she said. “Probably a few disappointed people, many streaming out before sunrise because it was so wet and cold. “I don’t think it will discourage people from coming again. Quite a few people come every year and are quite hardy.”June 21, 2008 at 11:25 am #1174904“Unemployed John Tarbuck, 33, from Bude, Cornwall, set up a small tent party next to his car.”
why do they always like pointing out if someones employed … p**ses me right off …
June 21, 2008 at 11:30 am #1174903Agreed DA,I much prefer the term unemployable 😉
June 21, 2008 at 11:31 am #1174905Shit Robot;223566 wrote:Agreed DA,I much prefer the term unemployable 😉:laugh_at:
how have you been mate? long time no speak!
June 21, 2008 at 2:22 pm #1174906Digital-A;223564 wrote:“Unemployed John Tarbuck, 33, from Bude, Cornwall, set up a small tent party next to his car.”why do they always like pointing out if someones employed … p**ses me right off …
hahahah tent party
June 21, 2008 at 3:21 pm #1174901Digital-A;223564 wrote:“Unemployed John Tarbuck, 33, from Bude, Cornwall, set up a small tent party next to his car.”why do they always like pointing out if someones employed … p**ses me right off …
because people seem happy to blab their employment status (or otherwise) to the media
if I was asked to comment about a solstice by a journo I’d keep the subject to the solstice and why I was there and refuse to comment on my occupation – its not relevant IMO to why I choose to be in a certain place during my free time…
AFAIK even the cops don’t have a right to know the exact details of your employer unless its relevant to their investigation (like you have robbed the place or are using it for crime)
June 21, 2008 at 6:13 pm #1174907my sister went an she said she had a laff..I used to go but stoped about 2 years after they opend em to the public as it became more of a family thing an that aint realy down my street!!
Dose any 1 remember the year befor ob opend em up to the public an the suposed party that was planed??was a right mess up to put it bluntly!!:you_crazy
June 22, 2008 at 2:10 pm #1174911My first year there and it was an awesome night!! Had to do some dubious navigating due to holdups on m25 and m3 but got there about 11pm ish.
It was raining very very lightly all night and morning from what i can remember and it was an amazing night/morning!
So many people dancing in and around the stones!
The is the only clear-ish picture i have of stonehenge (which wasn’t distorted by rain or my balance)June 23, 2008 at 8:02 pm #1174910I had a good time 🙂 damp but fun!
hugged the stones, blew a horn, watched some pagan ritual and done sum dancing to the drums :love:June 24, 2008 at 9:36 pm #1174908anyone got any pics of the tent party?
June 25, 2008 at 4:19 pm #1174909Fucking hippies.
June 25, 2008 at 4:32 pm #1174899Anonymousrachus;223820 wrote:I had a good time 🙂 damp but fun!
hugged the stones, blew a horn, watched some pagan ritual and done sum dancing to the drums :love:i got draged into one of them rituals once with king arthur the high druid of britan. was mental n we had to take all our cloths of n shout some weird chant.:you_crazy
June 25, 2008 at 4:33 pm #1174900Anonymousd.r.e.a.m;223611 wrote:Dose any 1 remember the year befor ob opend em up to the public an the suposed party that was planed??was a right mess up to put it bluntly!!:you_crazyi got remanded in jail for organisin one in 96. one of the first jailed under the then new cja.
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