Fool On the Hill
Posted: Tuesday, 15 January 2008 |
What do you think it is? What is it for? What do you think its called?
Looking back at last years blog I found the Whats in the Can blog (Jan 07) & I thought lets try it again. Anything to brighten our dark days.
So the fool went up a hill on the UK mainland to take a picture of this during his (enforced) extended sojourn. He also went last summer but discovered that he had left the camera behind. He also took pictures on his phone but then that didn't work either...
Day after day, atop of a hill,
The blogger with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still,
But nobody wants to know him,
They can see he's just a fool,
And he never gives an answer.....
I will tell you what it is though - later this month. In the meantime see if you can work out the answers to these questions:
What is it called? What does it do?
Post answers below. We may have a prize.
Comments
It could be called Pipe Dream. I think it plays some kind of music when the wind blows through the pipes.
Larry Liddle from Edinburgh
here's another silly question! is itna viewpoint,made out of old telescope that you used to put a coin in and see the views easier? no doubt i'll get an even sillier answer!
carol from still in nz.
here's another silly question! is itna viewpoint,made out of old telescope that you used to put a coin in and see the views easier? no doubt i'll get an even sillier answer!
carol from still in nz.
'They' tried puting something something along similar lines on a high place somewhere in the Ribble Valley but there was general uproar about in from the locals. 'They' seem to have given up on the idea now in this part of Lancs.
Rachondarox from Lancashire
Woe ! No idea what it is but I bet it makes a fantasic noise when the wind blows, would make a brilliant bird scarer.
Angela from Fair Isle
Does it play notes, MV? Or is it a beacon? It reminds me of the sculptures along the M8 by an artist whose name escapes me for the moment.
Jill from EK
It's a twisted whistling version of the top of Saruman's tower at Orthanc? I love these pieces of big public art, even when I don't like them...the Angel, the people on the shore, woven creatures in woodland, Andy Goldsworthy's ephemera. I'm not so keen on the purely representational like Eleanor Rigby in Liverpool or George Formby in Douglas, and I love the dissent some of it arouses. At least these things get people thinking and talking; at best they make your day. In Glasgow this would probably be called 'Ya Choob!"
Flying Cat from standing purrfectly still...
After last years fiasco, you've got a cheek to try again. I am full of fools, and will not even comment on this. Oh I already have, ( I dunno wot it is )
Tws from Can
1/ Don't know. 2/ Does it matter? 3/Not a scooby. But I like it and all of its other avatars. Now tell us the answers.
Hyper-Borean from Over-the-hill
I reckon Arnish has been busy sabotaging windmills. If you cut all the windmills into pieces too small to mount turbines on and threw them in a heap enough times, just once you would get that sculpture. (And a chimpanzee will write Romeo and Juliet too)
Nic from Coll
I think Angela's idea of a giant bird-scarer is excellent. Sinbad would never have been grabbed by the Roc if that had been hootin 'n' tootin!
Flying Cat from a jolly tar
It's a large version of that stacking game one plays when drinking.
Tired Father from TipsyPalace
Is that the one where you throw all the carkeys into the middle of the room?
Flying Cat from it's only a game
after much rootling around in male staffs brain (!) is this the thing outside Burnley?
mia from purrondering at the pc
MIA! since when, have male staff been issued with brains???
toffee the tom from on neighbours bed
Muness, i've sent you a teaser via FC should be seen on ib soon!
carol(or tws's weather girl) from still here
Kin ya see what it is yet?
Flying Cat from not on Harris
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