Covid the Cobra

During the pandemic lock down and time of Covid-19 in Stevenage we didn’t have wild parties with suitcases full of wine. We didn’t drive to Castle Barnard to check our eyesight. We didn’t snog our secretaries, well, I didn’t anyway.
We amused ourselves by painting stones. The children were off school so it kept them busy. The stones often had messages of support for nurses and doctors and all the the NHS.
Two local lads found a use for their stones by putting Google eyes on one stone to make a head of a snake. Other people joined in and very soon this snake, named Covid the Cobra went for some considerable distance along the cycle track in Grace Way.
It became quite a tourist attraction and featured on the BBC and Anglia news.
When it came to time for the council to collect them all up so they could cut the grass, they found that they had a total of 10,085 painted stones. Many people thought that we should do something with them rather than just chucking them all in a skip.
So this is the start of that something. The first stones are embedded in this post and covered with resin to protect them from the elements. More of these posts will be placed along the cycle track to commemorate the history of something as simple as painted stones that brought people together.