Stonehenge Conversation 1.

‘Bleedin Trilithons. Weigh a bloody ton. They always put extra blokes on the megaliths, but the trilithons, oh no. And the Dai boys from Wales. Talk about thin, eat leeks all the while I suppose. Anyway when we get this there I’m buggering off.

I’ve done 6 megaliths already and I’m nearly forty.’

‘Why not join the erection boys?’

‘Dirty buggers I’m not going near them.’

‘Putting up the stones I mean.’

‘Nah.  Nothing to do there. Wait three months for a bloody stone. Shove it up in a couple of days.  Then waiting again. And what is there to do there I ask you?’

‘What is there anywhere?’

‘Alright, but there’s potential in other places. I can see it, great ports, flying machines, millions of people in cars. But that will always be a godforsaken place.’

‘Mystical you mean.’

‘Mystical my arse. Why they don’t stick the stones up where they get them from beats me. It’s not as if they are pointing at anything.  Sky. That’s it. Well you can point at the sky anywhere.’

‘Not in our cave.’

‘Except the cave.’

‘In the sea.’

‘Alright look we can’t do them in the sea can we, be sensible.’

‘Because it’s against the law of the Gods?’

‘Because we’d bloody drown that’s why.’

‘Anyway it’s an Astronomical Observatory i’nit,  That’s what old Mistletoe said.’

‘So why don’t they do it with sticks. We could have it done in two days. I mean my Dad worked here and his Dad and his Mum. I’m not having my kids on this job. I’ve got them down for winkling.’

‘We shall be able to tell the sunrise when it’s done.’

‘Tell it what?’

‘I mean tell when it’s going to be.’

‘Sunrise? We know when it’s going to be, tomorrow. It’s always happened tomorrow so far as I know.’

‘I mean exactly.’

‘We already know exactly.’

‘Do we?’

‘Yes. Morning.’