At the turn of the Century, in 1601 or 1602, William Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night in which he warned his audience of the dangers of excessive drinking: OLIVIA: What’s a drunken man like, fool?CLOWN: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a…
Daniel Defoe in Wiltshire
The stones have always been with us, marking the passing of time like sundials, their shadows trace out days over the Plain. It’s hard to imagine, instead of the coach-deposited tourists today, a group of travellers, bewigged and perfumed, stepping down from their coach, to stand in the shadows of the great Sarsens. Even more…