7th February 2026

 

The Callanish Stones found on The Isle of Lewis in Scotland

The Spherical Temple: A place I have never been to and which I probably never will visit but which is so much more grander than old Stonehenge, down South.  This is a pattern of stones which we will probably never understand.  They stand grouped like tall sentinels having a discussion.  You could almost give them human form.  The grey-blue sky shoots away from them, there is a visionary face marked out in the sky.  Late Neolithic you can find their history in this Wiki.  A circle with four stone avenues leading to it but with many more circles in the area.

I missed the Iguana news about culling them in Florida but this morning listened to the farming news about electronically collaring cows in the open so that they could be kept in a specified area.  A mild shock said those who wanted it for their animals.  As a walker and with dogs at one time I feel for those poor animals who have no knowledge of what the small electric shock you get from electric fencing is.

My two dogs Sukie and Moss were so horrified by accidentally touching them that I remember old Sukie just taking off and running for about half a mile, terrified by the experience.  Her reaction to the hot air balloons we would meet while up on the Bath downs was also very similar.

Moss on the other hand when he once touched an electrified fence refused to go anywhere near them and would give them at least a quarter of a mile space.  We would join up at a later stage of the walk,  Having once witnessed an angry cow chasing a man and his dog from her calf I can well see the point of electric fencing but to saddle an animal with an electronic collar is cruel.