Introduction

After searching the whole internet we found out that ‘Television entertainment’ wasn’t such a good subject. And after two days and two nights of brainstorming, Jens, Karlijns’ brother came up with a very good idea:

How to deal with your sparetime!

The subject may be a little indistinctly, that’s why I’ll explain it a bit: Imagine that you’re on holiday in Great Britain. Well no, let’s say you live in Britain for a year. You don’t have to work in the weekends. But you’ve seen al the shops, cinema’s, sexshops and hairdressers and you’re looking for something to leisure your sparetime. Something that costs a lot of time.

Well, this essay is for all the people with this problem!

How to manage your sparetime: Stonehenge

Whether if you are in the neighbourhood, or not, when you feel really bored, you can go visit Stonehenge:

The history of Stonehenge:
More than 4000 years ago, the people of the Neolithic period decided to build a massive monument using earth, timber and eventually, stones, placing it high on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England -- about 137 kilometres southwest of London. Why anyone ever decided to build Stonehenge remains a mystery, with theories ranging from religion to astronomy. Some of what was Stonehenge still stands today, as mysterious and sacred as it must have been to the hundreds of people who helped build the monument.

The order of the stones.
The stones of the main monument appear to form layers of circles and horseshoe patterns that slowly enclose the site. First there is an outer stone circle, now mostly in ruin. Within this are a smaller set of stones, also set in a circle. Within the centre of the monument are trilithons -- two pillar stones with one stone on top -- in the shape of a horseshoe. Within this is another smaller set of stones, also in a horseshoe.
But it is a monument made of more than just rocks. There is the henge, or a ditch and bank, that surrounds the stone circle. There is also a laneway that extends from the northeast side of the monument from the open horseshoe to the River Avon, a few kilometres away. Several stones mark this laneway, just outside the henge of the monument.

The construction.
On the outside of the main monument is a circle of 17 sarsen stones, or sandstones, left from a set of about 30. These rocks stand four metres high and weigh about 25 tonnes each. Some of them still retain their lintels, which would have been secured in a type of tongue-and-groove slot.

Some of the most interesting theories still being generated about Stonehenge have to do with the bluestones, the small rocks set in a circle between the sarsen stone circle and sarsen stone horseshoe. Originally, there may have been as many as 60, but only a few stand today, two of which are believed to be lintels.

A bluestone horseshoe can also be found within the large sarsen stone horseshoe, which would have originally been made up of 19 stones. Again, few of these are left. The stones were placed in such a way that they increased in size towards the centre and alternated in shape between tall, thin pillar-like stones and stones of a tapering obelisk shape.

How to deal with your leisure: read a book!

Maybe you don’t like travelling, or you’ve already seen Stonehenge, you can go and read a book. One of the most famous writers in the world is Stephen King. If you have doubt about if you’d like his books or not, here’s a summary of the four books from the series named “The Dark Tower”:
Year of publication: 1986
Number of pages: 1116
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
As you can see, the number of pages are quite a lot, so maybe you can spend two weekends with reading “The Dark Tower” !!

Summary:
There's 'something' living in Derry. Every 27 years, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less, IT comes back and kills a lot of people. In 1957 IT has again returned, and the first victim is George Denbrough. His arm is ripped off. Many children dissappear and/or are murdered in 1957 and 1958. Seven children, Bill, Ben, Beverly, Richie, Eddie, Stan and Mike all have seen it, in one way or another. Some as a werewolf, some as a mummy, some as a leper, but there was always some resemblence with a clown. They all survive their encounters with IT, as they call it, and decide to kill it. In a thrilling scene they do, and peace returns to Derry.
Twenty-seven years later, IT has returned to Derry, and Mike is the only one who knows that. He calles his old friends, who have all moved away and are all very famous in what they do. Everybody has forgotten all about Derry, and still they go back to their childhood, to face IT again. They have to remember what they did that summer and who or what they were and are up against. They have to beat it again.

How to deal with your sparetime: Go to London!

Maybe you are lucky to have good weather in your boring weekend. You can wait and keep your Stephan King book for a rainy weekend, and go to London! There is a lot to do in London! We can give you some suggestions:

Historical Buildings
Monument
House of Parliament
Parliament & Big Ben
Jewel Tower
The Old Bailey
Royal Courts of Justice
Spencer House
Royal Exchange
Staple Inn Buildings
Cabinet War Rooms
10 & 11 Downing Street
Tower of London

Churches
Saint Paul's Cathedral
Westminster Abbey
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields
Temple Church
St Etheldreda's Church
Southwark Cathedral
St Bride's

Parks, Gardens & Zoo
Hyde Park
London Zoo
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew
Regent’s Park
Hampstead Heath
Camley Street Natural Park
St James's Park
Holland Park
Vicoria Embankment and Gardens
Greenwich Royal Park

If you are able to have a boring weekend for the upcoming two months, after reading this essay there’s no hope for you. We’ve done the best we could.
The only thing that’s left for us to do for that kind of persons is searching for the number of a psychiatrist. Well, you can hope that Mr. v. Laere is so motivated after reading this essay, that he makes another one, and another one. A whole series ‘How to deal with your sparetime..’ Hmm, that’s not such a bad idea.. We bet it’s going to be a bestseller!