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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
21 July 2000 : Volume 2 Issue 25
Local News
15 July 2000
Bath Tub Race 2000Ex-Albion footballer and Manager Jimmy Case started the year 2000 Race.
The RNLI craft crewed by the Huxtable Brothers (Jim Partridge was not rowing this year on medical advice) came in first in 1 hour 6 minutes 23 secs followed closely behind by last years winners the Martin Brothers in the Hills tub.
It was an overcast day and with an early start at 12:45 pm (on a much earlier date*) the crowd was only about a quarter of normal years. The early date meant the tide was not as high and the eigth or ninth tub in got stranded on the mussel beds opposite Ropetackle and struggled to refloat in the main stream of the Adur.
The record time was 1 hour 2 minutes.
(* best available date for the tides. )
19 July 2000Shoreham Maritime: Waterside North
On Wednesday 19 July 2000 a representative of Moss Environmental explained the latest stage in their Shoreham Maritime Plans, for the area known as Waterside North, to a few local groups.
There is a Draft document. The Weir or Barrage Plan has been officially dropped.
These are the flats in Moss Environmental's design plan for housing. They look like 1960s style buildings which fit in with the Roger's plan for high density housing, but even in the 1960s were quickly realised as generally unsuitable for living in. They have been used for social housing in the Adur District and have proved unpopular .
Comments should be sent to:
Alan Perrett
Adur District Council
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
Wildlife Reports
21
July 2000
It
was another sunny day, with quite a strong steady breeze. The eastern riverside
walk from the Toll
Bridge south is lined with Buddleia and the chalk soil contains
grasses, Red
Valerian and a few meadow plants. However, butterflies were only a
handful of Gatekeeper, Cabbage Whites and an occasional Red
Admiral.
20
July 2000
The
nearly Full Moon turned an orangey-pink as it rose at 11:30 pm after a
bright sunny day, with temperatures at least 25° C.
Tides
Page
About
1 metre above Chart
Datum, Kingston
Beach
20
July 2000
There
were just about enough prawns
Paleamon serratus at the low tide mark to make a meal, with very small
Ballan
and Corkwing
Wrasse (plus one full grown adult fish), Bullheads,
Blennies,
a few small Rock
Gobies. A couple of the Long-legged
Spider Crabs, Macropodia, got caught in the net.
28
June 2000
It was a neap tide at a
low of 1.3 metres (no sand was visible) and the rock pools underneath the
second groyne from the west contained a Moon
Jellyfish, Aurelia aurita, and a 5-Bearded
Rockling. In the shallow pools, the male Common
Gobies were in breeding colours. A few juvenile Brown Shrimps,
Crangon,
shuffled in the sandy pools.
SHOREWATCH
NEWSLETTER
WORLD
OCEANS DAY 2000
The
May/June 2000 issue of the Shorewatch Newsletter was a special World
Oceans Day issue and was sent out to members to arrive on their doorstep
from 24 May 2000.
Quiz
Answers: BBCBBCAAC
Copies
are available for the cost of a stamp (you get the envelope for nothing).
Address:
Andy
Horton
World
Oceans Day
British
Marine Life Study Society
Glaucus
House
14
Corbyn Crescent
Shoreham-by-Sea
West
Sussex
BN43
6PQ
Tel: Tel: 01273 465433
British
Naturalists' Association (link)
Find
the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
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of the Earth SSSI Navigator
Words of the Week
Shrimps & Prawns Etymology
shrimp | rmp | n. & a. ME. [Obscurely rel. to MLG schrempen contract, wrinkle, schrimpen wrinkle the nose, schrumpen wrinkle, fold (whence G schrumpfen), MHG schrimpfen contract, ON skreppa slip away. Cf. SCRIMP a. & adv.] A n. Pl. same, -s. 1 Any of numerous small, chiefly marine decapod crustaceans closely related to prawns, having slender long-tailed bodies and one pair of pincers; esp. Crangon vulgaris (also common shrimp), which occurs in sand on the coasts of Europe and is a common article of food. ME. b With specifying wd: any of various crustaceans of other orders which resemble shrimps. M19. 2 fig. A diminutive or puny person or thing. derog. LME. 3 The colour of a cooked shrimp, a bright pink. L19.
prawn | prn | n. & v. LME. [Origin unkn.] A n. 1 Any of various marine decapod crustaceans resembling shrimps but usu. larger and with two pairs of pincers; loosely a large shrimp. LME. 2 A (usu. cheeky or impertinent) person. joc. & colloq. M19.
bunting | bLnt | n.1 ME. [Origin unkn.] 3 A kind of shrimp or prawn. dial. Now rare or obs. M18.
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Poem of the Week
The Run of the Downs
The
Weald is good, the Downs are best---
I'll
give you the run of 'em, East to West.
Beachy
Head and Winddoor Hill,
They
were once and they are still.
Firle
Mount Caburn and Mount Harry
Go
back as far as sums 'll carry.
Ditchling
Beacon and Chanctonbury Ring
They
have looked on many a thing,
And
what those two have missed between 'em
I
reckon Truleigh Hill has seen 'em.
,
Highden,
Bignor and Duncton Down
Knew
Old England before the Crown.
Linch
Down, Treyford and Sunwood
Knew
Old England before the Flood;
And
when you end on the Hampshire side--
Butser's
old as Time and Tide.
The
Downs are sheep, the Weald is corn,
You
be glad you are Sussex born!
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- AD 850. Remains of molluscs showed oysters to be the most important shellfish for the Saxons, followed by mussels.
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Tree remains at Erringham: Beech, Birch, Wych Elm, Oak, Poplar and Apple (or Rowan or Whitebeam).
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