Many of Britain’s coastal waters are unsafe for swimming and water sports because of, and not to put too fine a point on it, the sea is full of turds and human waste. Who says so, the tell-it-like-it-is Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), arguably one of Britain’s most successful marine conservation and campaigning charities does, and they’ve been lobbying for cleaner, safer beaches and rivers for over three decades. Continue reading
On a Sunday morning around midday a little girl and her family were visiting a zoo. Leaning into the lion’s cage the little girl was suddenly grabbed by the lion who tried to pull her into the cage for what it saw as an easy meal and all under the eyes of her hysterical parents. Continue reading
In addition to the Christian observances, Easter Monday ushers in for me, the start of the BBQ season and grilled fish. When I’m not chasing coins and lost jewellery on the coast, I’m lure fishing for bass, mackerel, and pollack along my stretch of the Jurassic Coast. What follows was previously published in 2015 (but updated a tad) on Dick Stout’s top-hole blog, Stout Standards. Continue reading
Historic England is the public body that helps people care for, enjoy, and celebrate England’s spectacular historic environment. On the 13th of March 2024, this influential body published a report: – Extent of Heritage and Cultural Property Crime in England Revealed. Continue reading
My Dallas-based pal, the metal detecting author, blogger, columnist, and all-round effervescing good bloke, Dick Stout, recently posed a question on his up-market blog, Stout Standards https://stoutstandards.wordpress.com/ : –
Have been seeing an inordinate amount of posts on Facebook that go something like this: –
‘Hi, I want to get into the hobby of metal detecting. Which detector should I buy?”
His answer is sound and well-rounded.
…Never more were ‘Yogi’s words truer and here in Part Two they dovetail neatly into the old English maxim of, “Where there’s muck, there’s brass.” Therefore, improving the quality of your beachcombing finds, means exploring where detecting angels fear to dig. It’s hard, it’s slow, but intensely rewarding – if you know which way is up. Here’s a taster… Continue reading
So said the legendary Baseball player, coach, and manager, Lawrence ‘Yogi’ Berra. If you’re the kind of Tekkie who likes to wander onto a beach and search in a random manner trusting to Lady Luck, well, there’s nowt wrong with that. But if you’d like to take things a stage further then you’ll need to be aware of, and understand, two crucial methods of attack. The fundamental route to success is based on two observable facts, Longshore Drift, and those popular areas of beach in the dry sand known as the ‘towel line’.
Today I read joyous news that I know will gladden the hearts of many.
One of the problems facing northern France’s tourist board is that motoring tourists emerging from the Channel Tunnel or rolling off the car ferries in the ports of Calais and Boulogne, is they hit the pedal to the metal in their headlong flight south. They miss much of what’s on offer hereabouts. But for anyone remotely interested in medieval warfare there’s a must-see stop-off sixty kilometres – about one hour’s drive – south-east of the two northern French ferry ports of Boulogne and Calais…the tiny hamlets of Azincourt and Tramecourt. Continue reading
I’m sure all my readers will join me in wishing our King, Charles III, a speedy return to full health following his cancer diagnosis.
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