Local News

9 April 2001

Mark Balsden is the Weapon Engineering Officer of HMS Shoreham, the modern Single Role Minehunter (SRMH) was built by Vosper Thornycroft (UK) Ltd, and launched at Southampton on 9 April 2001.
The first HMS Shoreham

Mapping the Coastline

The Ordnance Survey announce plans to start mapping the coastline, the first stretch to be mapped will be from Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, to Lyme Regis, Dorset.

At the moment rock pools are not mapped on OS maps and this one of the inclusions I had planned for the Shorewatch Survey were maps complete with photographs. However, I do not envisage this to the purpose of such maps, which will include offshore wrecks.

In the first stretch, new rock sea defences have been recently constructed. I always thought that these prominent constructions ought to be given names, and if they are going to appear on a map ...

The very first section is being altered by shifting lorry loads of shingle as this message is being written. 
 

28 February 2001
Food & Mouth Disease Restrictions
The Food & Mouth Disease regulations have come into force to empower Local Authorities to close footpaths and rights of way. Notices have been put on in the Adur Valley, with good reason. The Police have made sure they are enforced and they have been complied with. 
MAFF Information Page
Public Rights of Way and Foot & Mouth Disease
WSCC Information
ESCC Information

National Floodline, Tel: 0845 988 1188
Weather Forecast

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Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com

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Wildlife Reports

March 2001
The Glaucus journal has been sent out to members of the British Marine Life Study Society.
 

8 April 2001
A Lancing Garden   by Ray Hamblett

I got up early this morning and sat wide-eyed looking into the darkness of 
my garden.

Awoke early and, unable to sleep, I went and sat in a chair looking out onto the darkness of the backgarden. Just visible in silhouette are the Hawthorn and the neighbouring rooftops, in the available light provided by a dim glow of streetlamps.
The time is around 4:30am, the sky is clouded and rain can be heard gently tapping onto the ground  and dripping from plants close to the window.
I become aware of another sound; a Blackbird can be heard, maybe 
staking claim to the territory. In time  I begin to hear that another Blackbird has joined in and I think there is a third singer in the distance. The air seems full of Blackbird song.
By 5:30 a.m. a slight glow is showing around the horizon between the cloudy sky and the land which is still in darkness. Then a new sound starts; tsee-tsee-tsee-chur-chur, a Blue-tit almost drowns out the sound of the Blackbird chorus.
At about 6 am the Herring Gulls become active and begin squabbling 
amongst themselves on a nearby rooftop. As the sky brightens with the coming sunrise the Blackbirds fall silent.

One can now be seen moving about, getting on with the daily business 
of survival.Now in the daylight the Sparrows have woken up and a group of 4 or 5 pass the time hopping and flitting through the Hawthorn with its newly emerged, delicately cut, fresh green leaves. The Sparrows friendly chirp-chirp-chirrup giving away their location to the neighbours cat, which has taken up position on a shed roof. It cranes it's head upward and flicks it's tail, anticipating the moment of a feathery catch. !
 

The Glaucus 2000 CD-ROM has been issued to year 2000 Premier Membership subscribers. 
 

Lancing Nature & History - April Newsletter
(Link to the web site by Ray Hamblett)

National Floodline, Tel: 0845 988 1188

 
Adur World Oceans Day 2001
The third meeting to discuss arrangements for this Adur Festival event.
Please express any interest by 16 April 2001 to:
Andy Horton (British Marine Life Study Society)
Glaucus@hotmail.com
or
Natalie Brahma-Pearl (Adur District Council)
natalie.brahma-pearl@adur.gov.uk

Adur World Oceans Day 2000 web page

 

 Wildlife Records on the Adur eForum (you have to join)


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Wildlife Web Sites

The British Marine Life Study Society has an alternative web site address for its Homepage only:

http://www.glaucus.co.uk
 

1 August 2000
The Marine Wildlife of the North-east Atlantic (formerly the British Marine Wildlife Forum)  ***** commences. 

PLEASE JOIN
 
 

MARINE WILDLIFE of the NORTH-EAST ATLANTIC EFORUM PAGE


UK Wildlife eGroups Forum

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukwildlife

Marine Life eFora (Link)


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UK Environment and Planning  EFORUM PAGE

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British Naturalists' Association (link)


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Find the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
Friends of the Earth SSSI Navigator


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Words of the Week

shore (1)

SYLLABICATION: shore 
PRONUNCIATION:   shôr, shr 

NOUN : 1. The land along the edge of an ocean, sea, lake, or river; a coast. 2. Land; country. Often used in the plural: “far from our native shores.” 3. Land as opposed to water: “a sailor with an assignment on shore.” 

ETYMOLOGY: Middle English shore, from Old English scora. sker- 
 

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. 

http://www.bartleby.com/61/7/S0360700.html

twitten

narrow lane (OE twicen)

Excerpted from Thesaurus of Old English by Jane Roberts and Christian Kay with Lynne Grundy.

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Computer Tips

 

Small Publisher EFORUM PAGE

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Computing Net Support Site  (for computing problems) ****
http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/wwwboard.html


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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.

Smart Groups
 

• Star:  Latest Virus Information 

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Poem of the Week
 

The Smugglers Song 

On through the ground sea shove! 
Light on the larboard bow! 
There’s a nine knot breeze above, 
And a sucking tide below.

Hush! For the beacon fails, 
The skulking gauger’s by; 
Down with your studding-sails, 
Let jib and fore-sail fly! 

Hurray! For the light once more! 
Point her for Shark's Nose Head; 
Our friends can keep the shore; 
Or the skulking gauger’s dead! 

On! Through the ground sea shove! 
Light on the larboard bow! 
There’s a nine knot breeze above 
And sucking tide below! 

John Short 1839-1933            

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•  Sussex Web Sites 

WSCC LIBRARY  *****
Excellent and essential service with a full catalogue of books, CDs, videos,  on-line renewals, book ordering.

Sussex & the Downs Discussion Group (with new images of Sussex)
 
 

ADUR VALLEY EFORUM PAGE

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Historical Snippets

The first HMS Shoreham
In 1693 a fifth rate Man o' War was built at Shoreham, with a length of 82 ft. and supporting 32 guns, called the "Shoreham" and engaged in cruising and convoy duties from 1694-97 and the Royal Navy was in existence then, as King Charles II came back in 1660.

Although the Royal Navy had been formed, I did not know for certain if the prefix HMS was used in 1693. However, it appears from the Shoreham Parish registers of 1695 it was in use for HMS Dunwich, for a seaman buried at sea.

Ref:  "Ships & Mariners of Shoreham" by Henry Cheal. 

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Sussex Archaeological Society
http://www.sussexpast.co.uk

SUSSEX PAST
Sussex Archaeological Society  EGroup

Flintman on Flint (Link)

Sussex History Discussion Group

Brief History of Shoreham-by-Sea
 

Events
 

Adur World Oceans Day 2001

Please express any interest to:
Andy Horton (British Marine Life Study Society)
Glaucus@hotmail.com
or
Natalie Brahma-Pearl (Adur District Council)
natalie.brahma-pearl@adur.gov.uk

Adur World Oceans Day 2001 web page
 

 Adur On-line Events page
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• Please send in any details of local events.

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Web Sites
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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition *****
 
 
 

British History Web page ***


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