Stonehenge Conversation Number 3.

Three thousand years ago, two locals are at Stonehenge, they are Alric known as 'Al' and Budling known as 'Bud'

Al         It won then?

Bud.     What won?

Al.        This lot. (He pats a megalith) Won the Gurner Prize for Modern Art this year.

Bud.      Oh that yeah. Lucky sod. All the venison and blackberries he can eat for a year and free hut

              maintenance.  Still it took him long enough.

Al.         Took us long enough you mean. He said ' Hey just give us a hand with a stone will you?'

              and I said 'yes', then he told me it was in bloody Wales.

Bud.       How did your entry get on? The pile of flint chippings.

Al.          You mean 'Torment of the soul'  The knappings are life you see, hard and sharp.

               And the mushroom on top represented the soul. Bastards hardly looked at it.

Bud.        I got highly commended for the white horse carved out of the grass.

Al.          Well done.

Bud.        But they said I should have done it on the side of a hill so you could see it.

Al.          Side of a hill!  Where's the challenge in that. They'll be wanting buffalo paintings and

               handprints on the wall of a cave next.

Bud         Right, and thin men with spears and big knobs.  What do they now about modern art? I

               thought 'Falling Stick' would win, but the poor bloke got tired climbing up and down the

               tree.

Al.          I liked that Bud. The way it fell down a bit different every time.  My money was on the

               crab apples joined with grass. 'Warp and Weft.'

Bud.        It pinpointed our time Al, a masterpiece.

Al.          One of the judges was from Iceni.

Bud         They don't know where their own arses are. Another was from Scotland whatever that is

               and he couldn't speak properly, just gurgling.

Al.          And that woman from Hampstod. Hair shaved off. What the hell could you drag her with.

               Don't suppose they've kept up the dragging in Hampstod.  

Bud.        Nah.   These stones. The bloke who won. What's his name.

Al.          Ian.

Bud.        What does he call this lot?

Al.           'Stone Heaven Earth Nowhere God Eternity.'

Bud.         Bugger that. I'll call it Stonehenge for short.