On the night of 5 August, a Facebook account called Shortdude Bob began to spam crop circle groups. His posts were simple, announcing a ‘new crop circle in Wiltshire’ and accompanying this with a direct, overhead photo:
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Calling yourself a ‘master’ doesn’t make you one. Particularly as there’s nothing so shallow as self-praise. Come on now, perspective is a wonderful thing.
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We don’t really know how we feel about there having been two crop circles in the same field, down the same tramlines. They both even seem to be the same size. Nonetheless, we still went back and enjoyed the experience on a hot summer’s evening…
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Despite the early wheat harvest rapidly stripping the fields bare, there’s still time for another crop circle: a tramline-hugging, old-school pictogram featuring an area of ‘basket weave’ holding an array of standing tufts.
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For much of the first half of the year, the rain didn’t want to stop. When it did, it gave way to some ridiculously hot weather. Schools shut, our lack of decent air-conditioning was exposed and we baked. More importantly, the barley and wheat matured much earlier than normal. And, regrettably, that means a terribly early harvest.
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We recently featured the ‘chicken’ crop circle on Roundway Down. Now, a week later, a second crop circle has appeared just a short distance away on the same tramline.
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As far as social media goes, this season has hit a new low for armchair experts and their cynicism, particularly when it comes to the abundance of circles in July. There are those who just can’t get it out of their thick, opinionated and completely misguided skulls that circle makers are somehow receiving some recompense from Monique Klinkenbergh as their outings coincided with the lead up to her conference weekend.
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The Croppie is struggling to keep up with the new crop circles that have been appearing over the last couple of weeks. This one arrived at Odstone Barn, not too far away from Ashbury, Wayland’s Smithy and the Uffington White Horse.
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It has been a long while since we’ve had the time to visit a crop circle and enjoy the experience. It’s what being a croppie really should be all about. So, on a hot summer’s afternoon we set off for Roundway Down, made our way down the horrendously bumpy byway and into the large field of wheat holding the ‘cosmic chicken’ formation.
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Same shit, different day. Same shit, different day. Same shit, different day. Same shit, different day.
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