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NEWS BULLETIN FOR THE ADUR VALLEY |
| LOCAL
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| LOCAL RESIDENTS PAGE |
| Adur Flood Plain |
| Chalk Downs |
| Coastal Fringe |
| Intertidal (Seashore) |
| Nature
Notes for
Lancing Ring |
| River Adur Estuary |
| River Adur |
| Sea (off Sussex) |
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| Widewater Lagoon |
| AREA MAP |
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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and the
Adur Valley & District, West Sussex, England
Local News
18 September 2001
The Information Booth at Widewater Lagoon will be officially opened at 10:30 am. It contains a picture display and information by Ray Hamblett and Steve Barker.
Widewater Lagoon page (by Ray Hamblett)
South Downs National Park : Proposed Area
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/reception/papers/Areaofsearchmap.jpgClick on the URL for the complete map
West Sussex County Council announce most paths are now open, unless they are inhabited or used by farm livestock, or farm animals are nearby.
The cycle path from Old Shoreham is officially open.
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
Wildlife Notes
14 September 2001
A great of commotion greeted my presence in a private wild field (TQ 209 068) near Shoreham Waterworks, but I was still surprised when a young Roe Deer, Capreolus capreolus, suddenly jumped out of some dead undergrowth just over a metre high and veered towards me passing just three metres away before running off rapidly towards the road. It stopped at camera distance for a telephoto lens (but the close-up lens was attached) and looked over its left shoulder like a doe. A few minutes later I saw a pair of deer looking like a parent and youngster in the distance in a field under Mill Hill.
Commotion is quite common in this area which is a refuge from the normal human passage, although it is less than 50 metres from the main Steyning road. From the deep stream Moorhens make a lot of noise as they skitter into the reeds. Mallards ascend almost vertically and a Grey Heron circled but did not land.The entrance to this field is covered in with a large array of Fleabane, Pulicaria dysenterica, a yellow flower particularly attractive to butterflies. And on this day with the sun occasionally breaching the clouds, there were at least a couple of the colourful Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies fluttering between the flowers, rarely remaining still long enough for a photograph.
Despite being next to a deep stream, almost stationary as it weaved its way through the flood plain, there were relatively few dragonflies, only one on the day, with a bright red abdomen, and probably a Common Darter, Sympetrum striolatum.
There were still Red Admiral and both species of White Butterfly around.Adur Butterfly Page
Butterfly Guide
British Dragonfly Society Species ChecklistSeptember 2001
The first signs of autumn are apparent as birds in the Adur valley are on the move.
The Black-backed Gulls will increase in numbers on the saltings and mud flats at low tide. They numbered about 25 seen at one time in mid-August.
10-11 September 2001
As the blackberries are removed from the bramble bushes and the sycamore seed capsules gyrospin in the wind, the last few butterflies flutter around included a Comma seen by Jan Hamblett in their Lancing garden (TQ 185 045) with two Painted Ladies.
Speckled Wood Butterflies are still at Shermanbury, seen by Allen Pollard.
The Brimstone Moth, Opisthograptis luteolata, that is attracted to lights at this time of the year has caterpillar that feeds on the Hawthorn.
Butterflies of Lancing
Lancing Nature & History - August 2001 Newsletter
Lancing Ring Photographic Gallery for July
Poem or Literature
Cinq & quarante degrés ciel bruslera,
Feu approucher de la grand cité neufue,
Instant grand flamme esparse
saultera,
Quant on voudra des normans faire preuve.which translates to:
At forty-five degrees the sky will burn,
Fire to approach the great new city:
In an instant a great scattered flame will leap up,
When one will want to demand proof of the Normans.Attributed to Michel Nostradamus
(but probably written by somebody else)
Mississippi
Words and music by Bob Dylan
from "Love and Theft"Every step of the way
We walk the line
Your days are numbered, so are mine
Time is piling up
We struggle and we scrape
All boxed in, nowhere to escape
The city's just a jungle
More games to play
I'm trapped in the heart of it
Trying to get awayI was raised in the country
Been working in the town
I been in trouble since I
Set my suitcase down
Ain't got nothing for you
I had nothing before
Don't even have anything
For myself anymore
Sky's full of fire
And the rain is pouring down
There's nothing you can sell me
I'll see you around
All my powers of expression
And thoughts so sublime
Could never do you justice
Reason or rhyme
Only one thing I did wrong
Stayed in Mississippi a day too longThe devil's in the alley,
the mule kickin' in the stall
Say anything you wanna, I have heard it all
I was thinking about
the things that she said
I was dreaming I was sleeping in your bed
Walking through the leaves,
falling from the treesFeel like a stranger nobody sees
So many things we never will undo
I know you're sorry, I'm sorry too
Some people will offer you their hand
and some won't
Last night I knew you, tonight I don't
I need something strong to distract my mind
I'm gonna look at you 'til my eyes go blindWell I got here,
following the southern star
I crossed that river
just to be where you are
Only one thing I did wrong
Stayed in Mississippi a day too longWell my ship's been split to splinters;
It's sinking fast
I'm drowning in the poison,
got no future, got no past
But my heart is not weary,
It's light and free
I've got nothing but affection
for those who have sailed with me
Everybody's moving
if they ain't already there
Everybody's got to move somewhere
Stick with me baby, anyhow,
Things should start to get interesting
right about nowMy clothes are wet, tight on my skin
Not as tight as the corner
that I painted myself in
I know that fortune is waiting to be kind
So give me your hand and say you'll be mineThe emptiness is endless, cold as the clay
You can always come back,
but you can't come back all the way
Only one thing I did wrong
Stayed in Mississippi a day too long.
- Wildlife
Web Sites
Hoverflies
of the UK
Common
Dragonflies and Damselflies (photographs)
British
Dragonfly Society Species Checklist
Sussex
Bat Group
Butterflies
of Lancing
Adur
Butterfly Page
Shermanbury
(Adur Valley)
Butterfly
Conservation Society
Wildlife
& Conservation Links (West Sussex)
The British Marine Life Study Society has an alternative web site address for its Homepage only:
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
- Historical
Snippets
350 years ago on 3 September 1651, the Battle of Worcester took place.
http://www.battleofworcester.co.uk/
King Charles II ws on the run before finally escaping from near Shoreham on 15 October 1651.
King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1649 to 1685 (dates correction).
Charles II was crowned King of Scotland before the Battle of Worcester, so he was technically a king, though his English Coronation had to wait until 23 May 1661. All the regalia used at the coronation of Charles I in 1626 had been destroyed after his execution when Cromwell ordered that it be "totally broken, and that they melt down all the gold and silver, and sell the jewels to the best advantage of the Commonwealth." Only three swords and the Coronation spoon now survive from the pre-1660 regalia.
Jane
Lane did not acquire the title of Lady until she married Sir Clement
Fisher,
who died in 1683. She continued to receive her annual pension of
£1,000
for helping in Charles's excape, though on Lady Day 1685 it was £750
in
arrears.
Full
Message on Sussex Past (link)
Helen
Poole
Marlipins
Museum
- Words
of the Week
eschatology
| esktldi | n. M19. [f. Gk eskhatos last + -OLOGY.] The branch of
theology that deals with the four last things (death, judgement, heaven,
and hell) and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind; a doctrine
or belief about the second coming or the kingdom of God.
realized eschatology: see
REALIZE 1.
eschatological a. M19. eschatologically
adv. in relation to eschatology E20. eschatologist n. L19. eschatologize
v.t. give an eschatological character to E20.
crusade
| krused | n. Also (earlier) crois-, -ado (pl. -o(e)s),
(earliest, in senses 1, 2) cruciat, & other vars. Also (esp.
in sense 1) C-. LME. [In early use f. med.L cruciata, f. L cruc-, crux
cross; later (16) partly f. Fr. croisade alt. of croisee (f. crois CROSS
n.) by assim. to Sp., partly f. Sp. cruzada (f. cruz CROSS n.): see -ADE,
-ADO.] 1 A war or expedition instigated by the Church for alleged religious
ends; spec. (Hist.) any of several Christian military expeditions made
in the 11th, 12th, and 13th cents. to recover Jerusalem and the Holy Land
from the Muslims (freq. in pl.). LME. 2 A papal bull authorizing
a crusade. LME-L18. 3 Hist. In the Spanish kingdoms, a levy of money, originally
intended to finance expeditions against the Moors, afterwards diverted
to other purposes. L16. 4 The symbol of the cross, the badge worn
by crusaders. E17-E18. 5 A vigorous movement or enterprise against poverty
or a similar social evil; a personal campaign undertaken for a particular
cause. L18.
1 R. W. EMERSON The power
of the religious sentimentinspired the crusades. 5 P. MORTIMER God and
my grandfather headed the crusade for compulsory education in Melksham.
cadastral | kdastr()l | a. M19. [Fr., f. as next + -AL1.] Of or according to a cadastre; having reference to the extent, value, and ownership of land, spec. for taxation; loosely, showing the extent and measurement of every plot of land.
emendation | imende()n | n. LME. [L emendatio(n-), f. as prec.: see -ATION.] 1 Reformation, improvement. LME-L17. 2 (An) improvement by alteration and correction; esp. (an) alteration of a text where it is presumed to be corrupt. L16.
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| 73 | Adur World Oceans Day |
| 74 | General Election |
| 75 | End of the Adur Festival |
| 76 | Plane
Crash Averted at Lancing
Conservative Independent Alliance |
| 77 | Farmer's Market |
| 78 | Ropetackle Public Meeting |
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| 80 | Ropetackle Planning Meeting |
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| 82 | Shoreham Air Show |
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