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     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
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| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.33.242.34 |
Pedestals or bowel motions?  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
Shit a brick - hadn't thought of that! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.33.242.34 |
I thought you might be a statue hunter in your spare time, Des, and these were photos from your latest tracking expedition! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
You're right, John, I am a statue hunter. And this is statue spore. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.131.51.242 |
Good luck in your hunting! (I'm surprised Rhys Hughes hasn't joined in by now) | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Reading this thread, I've just had this wonderfully surreal vision of all the statues going for a walk in the countryside leaving behind "statue droppings" - and Des photographing them!  | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
I just see giant cakes of fudge. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
Fudge is usually brown. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.132.139.224 |
So are stools. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
What are they for real though, Des? And where are they? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.145.81.228 |
My toenail clippings - on a toy farm set | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
Craig, I found them close to where I live - quite near the sea - and they are on one of my regular walks. I've never seen anyone else on that walk, I've no idea what they really are. So they must be statue spore. The only logical thing to think. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
And you live in... the Netherlands? I'm blanking. Fascinating! They're probably relics from the Roman Empire - hey! If they're just sitting there, Des, you should snag them and take them home and sell them on ebay. Tell them they're from a statue of Constantine or Augustus or something. You'd make bank! Though there is the possibility they are giant eggs - eggs that sprout statues? Perhaps, but what is that myth of the dragon's teeth that are buried, that result in the seven warriors of Thebes or something?... hmm..... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
They're really large and heavy and *appear* to be modern man-made. (Holland Haven, Essex, within a longish DFL constitutional walking-distance near where I live). Are therse stone UFOs, now grounded? Or their spore? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.57.88 |
Motorway kerbstones, most likely. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
They're quite huge, Hubert. Bigger than any kerbstone, I would guess. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.57.88 |
Some kind of antient rubble leading up to - The Vats! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.184.109.44 |
What size are they precisely? Judging by the plants next to them I'd guess about 2 foot tall at most and about 6 foot long | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
That sounds right, but I might be walking there tomorrow and I'll measure them. There's no worry about anyone watching me do that - because I've never seen anyone else in that glade (or anywhere near it) and it is on my regular route from somewhere to somewhere else busy doing nothing. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Have they only just appeared, Des, or have they always been there since you've been walking that route? This is a fascinating piece of joint detective work to find out what they are! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
They've always been there - but I only found that particular walk about a year ago after living here for 16 years. A part of it is through a very overgrown path (not by Janacek!). | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.57.88 |
Better watch that, Des. If I'm not mistaken you live in M.R. James country, right? I mean where one or more of his stories take place. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
This morning. (Trousers grubby as just negotiated an overgrown, tussock/branch crowded-in path.)     Walking away from that area nearer to the sea, I then saw yhis in the sky over the treetops:  Turned out to be someone's kite. You see everything in the end is explicable, and not Fortean! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
Re above. I'd guess the largest is about 5 foot long, 2 feet wide, and 1.5 feet height. I forgot to take a tape measure. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.61.161 |
It is my toenail clippings then... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Weber, are you just bragging about the size of your feet because you think, well... you know...? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.61.161 |
Not my feet. Thye're normal size - my toenails on the other hand (or foot or whatever...)... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
Notice the shadow staining the grass in the second photo down (in the last set) - that's not my shadow! And I was alone! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Am I just blind, or do I see the super-subtle outline of a man in that photo - head, shoulders, down to two legs...?  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
Yes, I genuinely shuddered when I first saw it in the photograph hours after posting it above. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
In view of the above exchange, here are the two other photos I took yesterday, that I didn't bother to post above. (It's my foot again, shown for scale!) =======================   | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
That brown stain is like a Leviathan with mouth half-open above the sea's surface. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.156 |
Another stone discovered in Holland on Sea during my walk this morning:  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.156 |
Might look a bit better this way up:  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.147.65.96 |
'Dogstone’ that must have been dangerous to build (if built it was) surprisingly discovered on my walk along the seashore this morning.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.140.118.61 |
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| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.140.118.61 |
I found that picture last night. I have no idea what it is of, or about. Pretty much your reaction to your stone, Des. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Stop press: the statue stools were left by the statue of Winston Chrchill on its nocturnal walks. Critics have commented that it was doing what Conservative leaders usually do to the nation's property, i.e. shit on it from a height. However, Conservative Central Office have said that the stone Churchill was merely fulfilling its statue Tory obigations. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.130.100.94 |
Much to my surprise, someone has been busy overnight building more dogstones around here. Discovered these this morning:    | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.148.174.63 |
Some amazing boulders I photographed ths morning: http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/new-boulders/ | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.16.241.233 |
There's some woods in the valley at the back of my town I tend to visit a fair bit, but I haven't been to the far side of them for a few years since some bad storms tore away chunks of the river bank and destroyed the path. I decided to go back yesterday (having to get ankle deep in a bog to get there) and found this quite wonderful landscape of huge mossy boulders and great stark-white, jagged dead trees, almost as if the destruction of the path had cut off the flow of life to that part of the woods. It all had a bit of a Pet Sematary feel about it. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.148.174.102 |
My secret glade - photos taken today. http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/the-secret-glade/ | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 2.96.205.185 |
I'm hoping that's a rope swing and not a noose in the 7th shot down  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.148.174.102 |
Good God, David. Hadn't noticed that till you just pointed it out!! It's not in any of the previous photos I've taken of that tree over the last few months. And I didn't notice it in real-time when taking that last photo!! | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 2.96.205.185 |
GHOST NOOSE O_O You'll be hearing creaks, soft bumps and faint gasps around the house next, and having nightmares about suffocation. |