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Where I was yesterday afternoon, and hopefully again this afternoon.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
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PasturesNew wrote: »We used to spend a lot of time in those parts, on daytrips and annual holidays. I remember at Brancaster you pass a roadside sign telling you the car park floods at high tide. The car park was beside some sand dunes .... and that sign used to haunt/petrify me all day thinking we might not make it back at the end of the day. Of course, we always did as it wasn't a daily catastrophic flooding at all....
We'd often go to Brancaster - and walk out to the shipwreck. To get to it you cross a stream of water about 3" deep. Once over that it's a long way out to the wreck (1/4 mile across sand?) and you're on slightly higher ground than the stream.... so, when the tide comes in, the stream turns into a raging river completely out of sight until you're back to 10' from it.... and many people struggle to cross. I think a helicopter goes out daily these days. Back then it was every man for himself. My dad saved a few people from that sandbank each time we went out to it. For me.... the fear of the water building up, silently, secretly, behind us petrified me.... although dad will have checked/known the tides before we'd even left the house that day, but I didn't know that.
It's similar at Stiffkey. You have to cross cabbage creek, which was knee deep when I went out and waist deep when I returned. The trouble is that it doesn't just get deeper. It also gets a lot wider. Plus the water is cold. I keep an EXTREMELY close eye on the tides. The reason it's so quiet there is that most people don't like to walk through the salt marshes, and then crossing the creek puts off nearly all the rest. I will try to get some snaps of the seals.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I've found a leg suddenly/unexpectedly disappearing up to my thigh on some Cornish beaches in the past. Looks like sand.... then whoosh.... you're up to your crotch in wet sloppy sand... it's something not really broadcast as, although there are places it's more likely to occur, quicksand can turn up anywhere as the sands shift and it's the water/sand mix at that exact moment in time... also, they don't want to scare the tourists
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On the news, a couple, both aged over 100, are celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary. They first met in 1929. It's the Oak Anniversary.
Neither of them looks creaky or frail ... you'd put them in their late 70s and active if you didn't know.
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It's similar at Stiffkey. You have to cross cabbage creek, which was knee deep when I went out and waist deep when I returned. The trouble is that it doesn't just get deeper. It also gets a lot wider. Plus the water is cold. I keep an EXTREMELY close eye on the tides. The reason it's so quiet there is that most people don't like to walk through the salt marshes, and then crossing the creek puts off nearly all the rest. I will try to get some snaps of the seals.
There's a Cabbage Creek on the back road to Canberra from Sydney.
The film was pretty good; predictable but good. It was nicely slow paced which makes a refreshing change from all the stuff I take the kids to. The cinema was lovely, it's part of an expanding chain which shows good films and some blockbusters where you can have a glass of wine and some cheese (2 glasses of wine plus cheese is about £20, about as much as popcorn, chocolates and fizzy drink at the local flea pit). I was also told I had a beautiful accent by a very pretty woman. She was from Manchester though so most accents are probably beautiful by comparison.
In Australia, Manchester is a generic term for bed linen and towels.0 -
Oh Bless! Loved the story of the couple married 80 years. I though OH and I were doing well to reach 40!
Bit chilly and grey here today. Wind still Easterly, but due to go SW and bring rain. OH has gone back to Liverpool today to visit his Mum, and tomorrow the plan is to attempt to weed the lottie! I suspect the weeds will be :eek: ! He's going to take photos for me, before and after. :rotfl:
Grey skies over the mountains by ukmaggie45, on Flickr
First sweet pea in the pot on the deck is in bud, can't wait!
Maybe tomorrow... Looks like it's going to be a good colour. 
First sweet pea bud by ukmaggie45, on Flickr 0 -
It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0
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This was taken about half an hour ago... The mountains have disappeared now, so suspect rain will arrive here fairly soon. Think it might be time to put the central heating on for a bit! :eek:
Cloud over Snowdon - think it's raining there! by ukmaggie45, on Flickr 0 -
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