Britain's Naked Giant Got A BIG Makeover
19/09/2008 04:36
My arms feel as if
they have done ten rounds with a Sumo wrestler,
I have a nasty gash on my left thumb, my back
is in spasm and I can barely stand, having
tripped myself up and rolled like a human
doughnut down a precipitous
slope.But this is what happens when you take on a giant, especially when it is Britain's last and most celebrated one. I refer, of course, to the Cerne Abbas giant in verdant Dorset.
The club-wielding figure, which is 180ft from head to toe and is administered by the National Trust, is carved into the hillside. It is finally due a makeover.
Thirty volunteers are restoring the giant - infamous for its gargantuan genitalia - to its old glory, re-digging its silhouette, which has been blurred by overgrown weeds and the footprints of animals, and re-chalking its outline.
No one is quite sure when the giant first appeared. Some say he is a pagan fertility symbol and that if a childless woman and her partner spend the night camping between the giant's legs, she will be a mother within two years.
Big story here.
SINC SAYS:
Do you think that mankind maybe, just maybe knew things in days of old we have now forgotten?
