NOW YOU SEE THEM ...

Can anyone solve the mystery of the disappearing placards?

Friday afternoon, 4pm. Three of the new '2km OK' signs can be seen in Sheriffs Lench.

An hour later, another nine have appeared. Typically, they have been erected on land which does not belong to the protesters. (They've done this a lot. I suspect that, having bought themselves a little pad in the country, they actually believe that everything they can see belongs to them. There's probably a psychological term for this particular delusion.)

Two hours later, those nine new placards have disappeared.

Spooky, eh?

Rumour has it that 'someone' was due to travel through the Lenches, Friday evening - hence the sudden appearance of the additional signs. As usual, the nimbies were misrepresenting the strength of their protest and the popularity of their campaign.

And surely they knew that they had no right to place the placards where they did. But that didn't matter. Just as long as somebody-or-other (send your suggestions as to who this might have been to me, via the email address) saw a long line of placards cluttering up the countryside. Once the job was done, the placards could go back to where they came from.

So - familiar shenanigans from VVASP. But what was it all for? Why sneakily erect nine placards for just an hour or two and then take them away?

Better keep our eyes out for a photo in the paper or accompanying a magazine article drawn from a typically misleading and ridiculous VVASP press release. If we see a shot of rolling fields with a cluster of '2km OK' placards in the way, we'll know that they've been up to their old tricks, conning the press into thinking that the anti-Lenchwick Windfarm campaign has genuine grassroots support.

But they're kidding no one, really. Well, apart from themselves, that is.