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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
1 September 2000 : Volume 2 Issue 32
Local News
2/3 September 2000
BATTLE OF BRITAIN AIR SHOW
at Shoreham Airport
2 August 2000
The Adur Valley eForum covering all aspects of life in the Adur Valley commences. You can join by spending a few minutes on the following site, and then you can post messages on almost anything about life in Shoreham-by-sea and the Adur Valley, including, Lancing, Sompting, Southwick, Steyning and the smaller villages in the valley.THE BEST WAY TO JOIN THE
is to click on the link to the
logo, and register as a new member. Allow 10 minutes on-line, but the process should be much quicker.
Then you can go to the Adur Valley page and register to join.
The following choices will have to be made:
1) Receive mail in a daily bulletin.
2) Receive each EMail individually (this may result in too many EMails)
3) Choose not to receive EMails, which means you can visit the web page to choose what subjects look interesting. You can, also, just receive a list of the subjects in a daily digest.
If the latter applies, you will have to click on the menu item Messages.4) It is also possible just to receive a daily digest of the subject headings.
These choices can be altered at a later date. They can also be altered by me, (except for 4) if you cannot work out how to do it.
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- 31
August 2000
Blackberry Picking Time
Mill Hill has scrub and trees to the north of the grasslands giving a variety of habitats in a small area. Nothing like the woodland on Lancing Clump, but enough to support a Speckled Wood Butterfly. Emperor Dragonflies are really a large impressive insect hawking the Waterworks Road.
30/31
August 2000
On
some of the lowest tides of the year, Kingston
Beach was full of marine life, although nothing exceptional. Long-legged
Spider Crabs were common and the intertidal fish included Rock
Gobies, Common
Gobies, Bullheads,
Blennies,
Corkwing
Wrasse (juv.), Butterfish,
Ballan
Wrasse (juv.), 5-Bearded
Rockling and an Eel (in order of prevalence).
Full
Species List
27
August 2000
The
1987 Great Storm denuded so many of the trees in Buckingham Park, Shoreham,
that the habitat for woodland life has still shown no signs of recovery
and it is not likely to because there are no new trees being planted. The
most numerous butterflies were the frequent Red
Admirals. One butterfly seemed inclined
to return to the same area, on the grass path between the large beds of
nettles, after being disturbed. There must be quite a few smaller insects
because 4 Emperor
Dragonflies were on patrol.
However,
a few trees have been planted on the virtually impassable narrow Beech
& Sycamore trail along the southern edge of the A27 by-pass from the
top of The Drive, Shoreham, to Slonk Hill Farm Bridge, where the Speckled
Wood Butterfly
was the first record in the Shoreham boundaries on these web pages.
24
August 2000
Under
the dark Beech canopy of Lancing Clump, Speckled
Wood Butterflies (pic),
fluttered
around in pairs and landed and opened the wings only too briefly on brambles,
ivy and other greenery. There were dozens of them and it was hard to estimate
their numbers because they were well camouflaged when resting with their
wings closed. They were present on the more open paths as well.
An
Emperor
Dragonfly hawked to a from over the Dew
Pond on Lancing Clump.
Ray Hamblett's Lancing Chalk Pit page
23
August 2000
A
Painted Lady Butterfly
settles on a Common Fleabane (yellow flower) adjacent to Widewater
Lagoon. The lagoon had evaporated considerably in the scorching sun of
August. This is the first report of this butterfly on this page, but they
have been previously ranked as probables (too often they turn out to be
Small Tortoiseshells) on the Downs. Clouded
Yellow Butterflies fluttered around everywhere
and are too numerous to rate a mention now. They rarely settle and open
up their wings.
Widewater Lagoon Information Page (link)
Wildlife Records on the Adur eForum (you have to join)
Dept. of Trade of Trade &
Industry: Environment
Sites
of Special Scientific Interest
Sites of Special Scientific Interest: Protection from development
The Lancing Wildlife page has got a Picture Index.
LancingRing2009.htmray.hamblett/Piclist.htm
Comments
welcome
Ray
Hamblett
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukwildlife
British Naturalists' Association (link)
Find
the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
Friends
of the Earth SSSI Navigator
- sac | sak |
n.1 [OE saca accus. & genit. pl. of sacu SAKE n.1] Hist. A right of
local jurisdiction; spec. in sac and soc, in pre-Conquest England, the
rights of jurisdiction included in the grant of a manor by the crown.
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Star:
Latest Virus Information
sac | sak |
n.2 M18. [Fr., or mod.L use of L saccus: see SACK n.1] 1 Biol. A natural
baglike cavity in an organism; the membrane or other structure enclosing
this. M18. 2 Med. A pouch formed by the pathological dilatation or
protrusion of a part; the membranous envelope of a hernia, cyst, tumour,
etc. E19. 3 A bag. rare. E19.
1 EMBRYO sac. pollen-sac:
see POLLEN n.
Comb.: sacbrood a fatal
disease of honeybee larvae, caused by an RNA virus; sac-winged bat a tropical
American bat belonging to any of several genera of the family Emballonuridae,
distinguished by a pouchlike scent gland in the wing membrane of the males;
esp. Saccopteryx bilineata.
saclike a. M19.
tunicate | tjunket | a. & n. M18. [L tunicat- pa. ppl stem of tunicare clothe with a tunic, f. tunica TUNIC: see -ATE1.] A adj. Having or enclosed in a tunic or covering; Bot. (of a bulb etc.) consisting of a series of concentric layers. Also spec. in Zool., of, pertaining to, or characteristic of tunicates. M18. B n. Zool. Any of a group of marine animals, once regarded as molluscs but now classified as chordates in the subphylum Urochordata (or Tunicata), comprising the sea squirts or ascidians and related pelagic and sessile forms characterized by a pouchlike body with a tough leathery or rubbery outer coat, having a single or double aperture through which the water enters and leaves a central pharynx. M19.
alacrity | lakrti
| n. LME. [L alacritas, f. alacr-, alacer brisk: see -ITY.] Briskness,
cheerful readiness, liveliness.alacritous a. (rare) brisk, lively, active
L19. alacritously adv. (rare) L19.
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Excerpted
from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
Developed
by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc.
Computer Tips
The upsurge of EFora
on all subjects (a
few have been recommended before in these bulletins) are an important way
in which the Internet
will change the world.
A list of recommended eFora
will appear soon. Please make any suggestions.
Poem of the Week
As
easy it was to tell black from white,
It
was all that easy to tell wrong from right.
And
our choices were few and the thought never hit
That
the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.
How
many a year has passed and gone,
And
many a gamble has been lost and won,
And
many a road taken by many a friend,
And
each one I've never seen again.
I wish,
I wish, I wish in vain,
That
we could sit simply in that room again.
Ten
thousand dollars at the drop of a hat,
I'd
give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.
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- Historical Snippets
During World War II, Shoreham Airport was the base for patrol aircraft Lysanders and later as home base for Hurricanes A pair of Beaufighters1 of the Fighter Interception Unit were based at Shoreham Airport in 1940. In 1942 the Lysanders were replaced by Defiants2 and in 1943 these were replaced by Spitfire II's. Amphibious Walrus aircraft also took off from Shoreham to rescue pilots downed in the English Channel. In 1944 Sea Otter aircraft were also used. The Free French 345 Squadron in Spitfire Vb's and IX's flew on sorties out of Shoreham from 1944. As D-Day approached both the harbour and airport were a constant flurry of activity. The main activities were Air Sea Rescue operations. After the War, the introduction of jet aircraft brought about the end of Shoreham as a passenger flight airfield.
1 Night fighters
introduced in 1940. The two-seat aircraft with pilot and navigator could
operate the radar in the aircraft for locating enemy bombers.
2Originally fighter
planes, they were already outmatched by Me109s at the beginning of WWII.
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