1st Jan.: New Year’s Day at Lepe
I usually book double NCI watches on both Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. I figure that, since I no longer drink or celebrate the...
Category: Diary Entry (2025)
16th Jan: NCI Incidents during 2024
At the NCI Stone Point station we often get asked how many incidents we have to deal with so I did a summary for the...
3rd Feb.: Early morning at Lepe
I was on watch at NCI Stone Point on Sunday 2nd February while on the same day at Calshot the RNLI Calshot Lifeboat had been...
5th Feb.: Stonehenge Up Close
I’m a member of English Heritage (or Historic England, whatever it is now called*) and I noticed amongst Member Events “Stonehenge Up Close” at 07:30...
21st February: Photographing “Spot”
NCI Calshot Tower and Stone Point now have a Mascot… “Spot” the Watchkeeper. I was asked to attend the inauguration at Stone Point and then...
22nd February: Toes in the Water
On Saturday 22nd February I briefly visited “Toes in the Water”, an annual arts, crafts, and music event at the St Denys Boat Club which...
25th Feb: BBC’s Stonehenge – fake news!
The other night (24th Feb) the BBC repeated the programme “Stonehenge: The lost Circle Revealed”. First broadcast in 2021 their description on iPlayer says “In...
5th March: Exbury Gardens are open again!
Yeah, Exbury Gardens are open again! It is members only preview week and I went there on a lovely, misty morning.
Moving the Bluestones by Sea
Introduction: Before I visited Stonehenge I explored the English Heritage Stonehenge website. The map showing the route by which the “Bluestones” might have been brought...
Bluestone Transport
So how did the so called “Bluestones*” get to Stonehenge from the Preseli Mountains? Depending on whether you think that the “bluestone phase” of the...