Month: April 2021

Hookland 4/1/21 5:06:28

I call it the Hookland Manifesto, but it‰Ûªs really just shorthand for all the lessons I have learned or had reinforced by exploring the ghost soil of Hookland. I try to live them and ensure the county remains true to them. https://t.co/c12lmadkBE

Hookland 4/1/21 5:27:46

@azrael2393 As my Grandad would say: ‰Û÷You can‰Ûªt win the hearts and minds of the heartless and thick as mince.‰Ûª Time and attention is earned, not a right.

Hookland 4/1/21 6:37:39

@SydMoore1 @ChrisJosiffe @dr_jrbrown @SJFTremoribus We did that. We also did – in the days of early cordless phones – sneak behind the houses of certain councillors and record their conversations for sending into Private Eye.

Hookland 4/1/21 7:49:45

While the term archaeoastronomy was not used before 1973, Professor Arkinstall of Weychester University was talking of ‘Neolithic observatories’ in the 1890s. Of course, not everyone took him seriously, for he also talked of ‘machines on other planets that supplanted the flesh’.

Hookland 4/1/21 8:59:07

Some in Long Lavington still mark their properties with ‰Û÷witch-lines‰Ûª – a rough embedding of shells, broken china or tile just before gate – that are regularly dressed with hearth ash and rowan cordial. It‰Ûªs believed no witch will cross one. – Vera Winterfield, Cottage Wisdom