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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
16 October 2000 : Volume 2 Issue 37
Local NewsThe proposed Mash Barn Golf Course Planning Application has been delayed. The discussion is on the the Adur eForum.
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
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October 2000
There was very little evidence of the rain of the last two days, Even Widewater Lagoon had not risen to a flood warning extent, although all the flood plain was sodden. The white faces of five Coots on the lagoon were immediately noticeable on a sunny shirt-sleeves day. These birds, in the 1970s were abundant on the Adur estuary had declined in recent years and were sometimes absent altogether.
However, my attention was quickly distracted by a colourful male Kestrel taking off from a stump or a patch of dryish grass to the east of the bridge over Widewater, and flew west so it was hidden by the Tamarisk bushes.
Lapwings and Redshanks returned to the sand banks and edges of the Adur.
11-12
October 2000
Thunder
& lightning, gales and squalls of heavy squirling, sometimes torrential,
rain continuously for over 36 hours. This dreadful weather (worst in my
memory) occurred over most of Britain, but it was worse in the south. The
B2135 road between Steyning and Partridge Green was closed due to flooding
both ways as the River Adur burst its banks.
(The
River
Adur flooded at Bramber in 1904)
In
other parts of Sussex, e.g. Uckfield High Street, the floods were over
a metre deep (over 160 mm rain).
Flood
Reports (Meridian TV)
National
Floodline, Tel: 0845 988 1188
The
Habitat Action Plan for Sussex on Saline Lagoons has been published by
West Sussex County Council.
I
have the document filed under RSK Barnes "Brackish-water Fauna" in my bookcase.
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oxymoron
| ksmrn | n. M17. [Gk oxumoron use as n. of neut. sing. of oxumoros
pointedly foolish, f. oxus (see OXY-) + moros foolish (see MORON).] A rhetorical
figure of speech in which markedly contradictory terms appear in conjunction
so as to emphasize the statement; gen. a contradiction in terms.
New
Yorker That familiar oxymoron a weak tyrant.
oxymoronic
a. of or pertaining to an oxymoron; incongruous, self-contradictory: L20.
oxymoronically adv. E20.
e.g.
living death
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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.
See the Profusion Search method below.
Poem of the Week
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(LABOUR PARTY)
These pages are non-political so the inclusion of the above page is included because of its useful information. If the Liberals or Conservatives produced a page with useful information, we would include it. The page has been vetted.
If you dispute their analysis, put your comments on the Adur Valley EForum below.
ADUR VALLEY EFORUM PAGE |
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.
These choices can be altered at a later date. They can also be altered by me, if you cannot work out how to do it.
Historical Snippets
1821 The permanent entrance to Shoreham Harbour was completed at its present location. This was important because the longshore drift of shingle had caused problems for centuries. In 1832, 1200 ships entered the port. An average of four vessels a year were built in Shoreham during this decade.
A regular Steam Packet sailed to le Haura and Dieppe in France. A Custom House was constructed in 1830. This building which became the Town Hall up to the 1980's is still standing. (In 1847, nearby Newhaven took over as the cross-channel port of Sussex.)
1871
Of
the 161 sailing ships registered at Shoreham, 88 had been built there.
Suter's
Yard (north side of the river)
from
the Norfolk Bridge in the early 20th century
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