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Electricity Pylons – much needed blots on the landscape or artistic creations from the past? They seem to impose on every aspect of our lives! I read a book many years ago where the author saw these as abominable creatures that rose up and strode upon civilization crushing everything before them! OK. I know, the BBC made a series from that called I think… Tripods… correct me if I’m wrong… but these now accepted oddities in our lives are present in every photo one takes of the countryside! (see Jan’s Queensland sunset) I remember, as a nine year old, talking to the ‘Irish Paddies’ – God Bless Ireland, when teams of these guys were contracted from the depths of rural Eire, payed a basic wage, no tax, if you returned home within six months, wonderful men that were simple and devoted to their work, and talked in no uncertain terms of their increased wealth of British income and how welcome they felt the British had made them before they returned to their motherland. I would add; many young men liked this fine county of ours so much that they stayed here and raised a family… And then, when Britain required the construction of it’s first motorway… It was Wimpey and Irish labour once again! If anyone said to me: “Well, the standing joke at the time was – Wimpey – We Import More Paddies Every Year!”… I would likely reply: ’You are quite right and jolly good for the country… It Was!’  Since before the Romans, this country has been a melting pot for all nationalities… You just name one that has not trod these shores, has not made a life here… And has not contributed to the well balance of this pearl set within a silver sea.