History in the making - 2007
Does anyone remember Trinny and Susannah - Women Undress. An ITV show which featured these two fashion women dressing poor females who thought themselves as dumpy or ill wardrobed. That maybe cruel but then light hearted entertainment is all about that sort of thing.
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| Wilmington Long Man. Taken from Wiki - Cupcake kid |
Well the two women committed a crime against one of the precious monuments of England - The Wilmington Long Man. For historic evidence go to the Wiki here, but it was a medieval figure marked out by chalk. The idea was to turn the 'man' into a 'woman'. Good thing they did not try it on The Cerne Giant, getting rid of his penis might have been a problem!
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| Cerne Giant taken from Wiki - Peter Harlow |
But they came up against the Druids who were angry at this desecration of the monument and who protested at the site. You can see the disagreement in the video below. The video by the way is old and a bit of jumping around is probably needed, it is 9 minutes long, will not go amiss. We must have covered it on Heritage Action and I wrote about it here.
It is the sheer silliness of it all that still makes me giggle, what were those hundred women, dressed in their white suites, thinking about. Was this women's liberation gone batty, or was it the fault of a producer that had hardly left London to think up this silly prank. The dignified Druids turned their backs on the women as they came down the side of the hill away from the monument.
All this came back this morning when I was thinking about the chalk giant in John Hooker's poem. At least it has stopped raining now. It was a gentle sound though noisier on the Velux windows in the attic.
