A City of Pyramids

Part One – Egg Heads: The East Kennet formation 22nd July 2011 The East Kennet formation of 2011 was one of the wonders of the season. A circular design, its perimeter contained 10 thin pyramids and ten fat pyramids. At it’s centre, was the now familiar egg-head shape...

A Beautiful Economy?!

The Unbreakable Bond of the Milk Hill formation “Nature is saturated with Deity”, so said Ralph Waldo Emerson and, although I’m sure he meant something different, this quote encapsulates the geometers view of nature too – that the divine may be seen (hidden in...

Crop Circles & Sound Bubbles

Repeat after me, “There is no such thing as a sound wave! Anyone fortunate enough to hear John Stuart Reid’s presentation at the Summer Crop Circle Lectures this summer will have a quiet smirk with me at the subtitle to this blog. John Reid is the UK’s leading sound...

Anarchy in the UK?

…or fixing the Volatile? June the 20th saw two crop circles appear at Winterbourne Stoke, near Stonehenge. Both circles were in the same Barley field each at almost opposing ends. One was a small formation made from three circles with a short flattened bar. The other...

The Great Photoshop Controversy!

Kingstone Coombes, near Ashbury, Oxon. Reported 9th June 2011. Barley The crop circle at Kingstone Coombes was an interesting one. It looked like a younger sibling of the Hackpen Hill circle (see my last blog). It was similar in design, a central circle with three...

You can look but you don’t always see!

Hackpen Hill, Wiltshire, Reported 30th May 2011. Barley “You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes well you just might find You get what you need” – The...

2011 Crop Circle Season – Catch-up #4

With the 2011 crop circle season already underway, I thought it might be a good idea to have a few catch-up blogs looking at some of the formations so far… Simplicity Itself… East Kennet, Wiltshire, Reported 17th May 2011. Barley It appeared that the...

2011 Crop Circle Season – Catch-up #3

With the 2011 crop circle season already underway, I thought it might be a good idea to have a few catch-up blogs looking at some of the formations so far… Obeying the rules? But who wrote them?! Hannington, Wilts, reported 7th May 2011. Oilseed Rape (Canola)...

2011 Crop Circle Season – Catch-up #2

With the 2011 crop circle season already underway, I thought it might be a good idea to have a few catch-up blogs looking at some of the formations so far… Equilibrium? Silbury Hill, Wilts, reported 29th April 2011. Oilseed Rape (Canola) Strictly speaking, the Silbury...