My First Crop Circle (and probable last)

The Uffington Crop Circle
Original Image from Cropcircleconnector.com.

Crop circles have been popping up all over now for a couple of years. For many in the alternative, tree hugging, crystal chewing community they have been a sign of the mystical power of the earth. What utter bollocks. They are testament to the power of cider and the lack of proper entertainment in English rural pubs.

Any way camping this weekend I encountered my first crop circle. While traipsing around the Iron Age site of White Horse Hill and Uffington Castle we also went off in search of the above crop circle. It was a choice between a) go looking for a pub or b) go looking for a crop circle, I lost.

Now there are several things to consider about crop circles. First they look large and spectacular from the air or in photos. When you're stood in one though you realise that they are quite small and desperately underwhelming. More importantly it just looks like a field of crushed corn (wheat, barley, oats or whatever you want I'm using corn in its generic sense). Second, from a distance and with out any reasonable explanation of how they were created they are a bit of a mystery. However, since as Wikipedia states on the subject,

In 1991, more than a decade after the phenomena began, two men, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, revealed that they had been making crop circles in England since 1978 using planks, rope, hats and wire as their only tools.

Its not really a mystery any more is it. So when you see some hippy dippy types communing with the spiritual other while sat in a crop circle you have to think, "what a plonker." It just shows that these people are deluding themselves through choice and really should be placed on some kind of mental health register. The field was full of them. Again if any one mention giant flying spaghetti monsters or any other spiritual being I will get really really really angry.

Any since my visit to the crop circle I can report that despite my negativity I have had no karmic comeback. The fact that my camera has stopped working is nothing to do with it and the fact that my car was broken into is shear coincidence. Better go find my crystal and realign my chakras just in case.