Thursday, 26 March 2026

Late Evening Post

There is a time of the evening when you want to add one more post to the blog but do not want to have to do any more reading to do it. 

On BBC TV, Alice Roberts has just summarized theories about Stonehenge, including both the idea that the stones celebrate summer and life and also the opposite idea that they celebrate winter and death, the latter recently propounded by yet another TV presenter, Neil Oliver.

Poul Anderson's work cover many periods of history and also include two references to Stonehenge. Thus, TV viewing, like other reading, can be blog-relevant.

Domestics: laid up with a cold, although not too incapacitated to blog, I will have to miss a day-trip to London this Saturday.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Paul!

The most reasonable thing to say about Stonehenge is that we don't know why it was built, or by whom.

Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

Sean: well, it does have a relation to the seasons and to stellar movements.