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Local News20-21 October 2000
Do not automatically throw away the Blue Box Collection Calendar (including the Household Waste Guide) pamphlet that comes through your door. It contains useful information. If you do throw it away it should be put in the blue box with the newspapers and all the other junk mail that comes through the door.
(I usually throw this mail away without looking at it, so it was just a fluke I quickly looked at its contents.)
20-21 October 2000
The Reclamation Plans for Southwick Beach go on the show at Southwick Community Centre. The worse fears of the removal of the beach were not realised in these plans. The new plans are for a much reduced area of beach, but a markedly improved facility, sheltered by the wharfage and piers on either side.
As the beach is not ideal at the moment, and it receives a lot of sea-borne waste, I cannot see all that much wrong with the design. Shrimping will be eliminated, but despite other claims, I do not see this area as the best area for shrimping, and with a little bit of luck or design, prawning could be made a feasible alternative.
The main criticism could be the cost, and how much land and port facilities the port will have to sell off to pay for it, and what are the consequences of such a sell-off in the short, medium and long term. But such thoughts are for the Adur Valley EForum.
19 October 2000Agenda 21 held an open West Sussex Sustainability Forum meeting in the Council Chambers at Adur Civic Centre. However, it was not well publicised and the only members of the public were from the Adur Quality of Life fora. Ian Patrick explained about Travelwise which was launched in 1995, and Ian Evans explained about the Local Transport Plan which is run by the West Sussex County Council (WSCC) Transport & Planning & Environment Services. Agenda 21 contained mostly Council bureaucrats, although it was chaired by a representative from Sussex Wildlife Trust. theme was Transport. The owner of Compass Travel made a presentation of some common-sense facts from running a small private bus company.
Everything was bureaucratic for other bureaucrats and was really boring. It was just a reiteration of the tired government rhetoric over their plans, which lack the will power (my opinion) and funding (answers to questions) to be implemented. My main interest was bicycling facilities. There was no representative from Sustrans.
Agenda 21 although it has an attractive title, does not provide any special 21st century feedback facilities for the public, and all representations have to be made the 20th century way through Councillors, writing to the Planning Dept. etc.
Further Information:
Lots of leaflets.
e.g. Travelwise: "Pedalling Ahead" Cycling Strategy for West Sussex.
Well written, well presented, and contains some interesting facts, but you must be in cloud cuckoo land if you think it is going to make and difference. The earlier Adur Strategy Plan was more realistic.
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
- 20
October 2000
Kingston Beach:
A low neap tide after a period of heavy rain in late autumn is usually very poor for mobile intertidal life on the Sussex coast. However, in the pool under the groyne, there was an adult Blenny, and juvenile Corkwing Wrasse (one) and juvenile Bullheads (4+). The sea still covered most of the shore.
17
October 2000
As
the leaves fall, the occasional glimpse of the red breast of the Robin,
and the red face of the Goldfinch
stands out amongst the muted hues. Goldfinches
are also frequently seen in the "unofficial countryside" in charms of about
5 birds. The Adur
is flooded by the spring tide and swollen by the recent rain, so the hundreds
of Lapwings
forsook the mudbanks which are covered by water to settle on the airfield.
Herons
are plentiful enough to be sure to be seen on the Adur
flood plain.
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Wildlife eFora (Extracts)
From:
mike.hinson@bt.com
Date:
Sun, 01 Oct 2000 19:32:41 -0000
To:
bugclub@egroups.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bugclub
Subject: Bark
boring larvae infestation in oak firewood
Part
of the reply only:
As
stated in the AES handbook "Habitat Conservation for Insects", the
way to minimise harm to the deadwood fauna and flora when using firewood
is as follows:
1.
Never use wood that has been left dead in or near woodland during the
spring
and summer; and that has therefore probably been colonised by wildlife;
instead use wood that has been freshly cut from the living condition.
This is very important if in the case of ancient woodland or wood pasture,
where endangered species are more likely to be present.
2.
Store firewood in a closed polythene tent, this will help to prevent the
logs becoming colonised and thus becoming a decoy. If the polythene
is supported on a framework and kept away from the logs in a sunny position,
the logs will dry out rapidly and soon become good firewood.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukwildlife
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Find
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Words of the Week
antipathy | antpthi | n. L16. [Fr. antipathie or L antipathia f. Gk antipatheia, f. antipathes opposed in feeling, f. as ANTI- + PATHOS: see -Y3.] 1 Contrariety of feeling, nature, or disposition (with a thing, between things). L16-L17. 2 (A) constitutional or settled aversion (against, for, to; between persons). E17. 3 a Something contrary to nature. Only in E17. b An object of constitutional or settled aversion. L17.antipathist n. (rare) a person possessed by an antipathy, a natural enemy E19. antipathize v. (a)v.i. feel or show antipathy; (b)v.t. render antipathetic: M17-L18. antipathous a. (rare) antipathetic E17.
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- Descent into the Maelström (Extract)
- by Edgar Allan Poe
- Never shall I forget the sensations of awe, horror, and admiration with which I gazed about me. The boat appeared to be hanging, as if by magic, midway down, upon the interior surface of a funnel vast in circumference, prodigious in depth, and whose perfectly smooth sides might have been mistaken for ebony, but for the bewildering rapidity with which they spun around, and for the gleaming and ghastly radiance they shot forth, as the rays of the full moon, from that circular rift amid the clouds which I have already described, streamed in a flood of golden glory along the black walls, and far away down into the inmost recesses of the abyss.
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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.
See the Profusion Search method below.
Literature of the Week
- Sussex Web Sites
NEWS
PAGE
(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.
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Then you can go to the Adur Valley page and register to join.
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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
The
River Adur
is build up on both sides through the low-lying flood plain and their are
few marshes or wetlands aside the river. Flooding occurred at the beginning
of the century at Bramber (notably in 1904)
but this rarely
occurs.
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Events
20-21
October 2000
The
Reclamation Plans for Southwick
Beach go on the show at Southwick Community Centre.
22 October 2000
WILDLIFE ON YOUR DOORSTEP
JOIN US ON Sunday 22nd October 2000 at the PADDOCKS FIELD
We
need your help to remove grass cuttings from part of the site to help
maintain
the variety of life that live there
PLEASE CALL IN ANY TIME BETWEEN 10 am and 1 pm
ALL WELCOME PLEASE WEAR OLD CLOTHES AND STRONG BOOTS/WELLIES
THE PADDOCKS FIELD IS OFF LARKFIELD OPEN SPACE (TQ 189 046)
PLEASE NO DOGS, Thank you
SUPPORTED
BY BTCV and ADUR DISTRICT COUNCIL
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