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    4 July 2000 : Volume 2  Issue 23

 
Local News

Moss Environmental are still persisting with their dream plan for Shoreham Harbour. They are being paid handsomely for their research so we must be able to expect detailed analysis of their project!
Most of their ideas have not passed to common sense test so far.

The next stage of their plan is to curry support for their idea of removing the wharfage on the western Adur arm of the harbour (the weir plan has been dropped, but could be reinstated?) to build high density housing. This is directly against the current planning policy for port-related uses only, and may actually be detrimental to the port if in the future they have turn away business because of lack of wharfage.

The plan will be dressed up in colourful language with pretty pictures (just like this web page!). The area could be improved as the Barnes scrap metal  is hardly an invitation to visitors to Shoreham from the east along the A259 coast road. 

All comments please before Moss's next meeting with local groups on 16 July 2000. 

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


    Wildlife Reports

    4 July 2000
    The green seaweed Enteromorpha has covered the mud and sand between the Old Fort and Soldier's Point, Shoreham Beach. This annual seaweed favours area where fresh water and seawater mix, and its occurrence is likely to have occurred because of the excessive rainfall in May, and also because the beach was closed last year and the bait diggers have not returned in their usual numbers.
    House Martins are nesting in Gordon Road, Shoreham. 

    1 July 2000
    Scores of Moon Jellyfish Aurelia aurita in Shoreham Harbour, but they do not appear to be as numerous as in the last two years. The Japweed, Sargassum muticum, was particularly abundant on the edges of the bank and empty wharves opposite the nearly completed new Power Station.

    30 June 2000
    Plenty of Pyramidal Orchids on the cycle route from Old Shoreham to Bramber and on the roadside verges and South Downs way bridlepaths and footpaths over the Downs. Orange-tip and Red Admiral Butterflies flitted amongst the variety of wild plants with the occasional Clouded Yellow. The Redshanks did not seem to be present on the Adur riverbank.

    29 June 2000
    On a sunny day, an unfamiliar yellow butterfly was spotted by Andy Horton amongst the Tree Mallow on Lancing beach. It was bright yellow with a dark rim to its wings. I have tentatively identified it as a migrant, the Clouded Yellow, Colas croceus.

    MU.HedScr: Extensive mudflats with an infaunal community dominated by ragworm Hediste diversicolor and the Peppery Furrow Shell Scrobicularia plana (Shoreham, West Sussex; D. Connor) © JNCC.
    This photograph of the River Adur at low tide (low springs occur at dusk and dawn, hence the darkness of the image) appears in the BIOMAR CD-ROM, which is a model for survey records of the marine environment around Britain and Ireland. It also contains information of many of the invertebrates, sea anemones, sea slugs, etc. and lots of underseascapes that make a worthwhile buy for serious marine life enthusiasts. Click on the image on-line for more information.
     

    ORCHID SLIDE SHOW  (Link) (photographs by Ray Hamblett)

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    Words of the Week

    gallimaufry| almfri |  n. M16. [Fr. galimafree (OFr. calimafree), of unkn. origin.] 1 A varied miscellaneous jumble or medley; (chiefly dial.) a dish made up of minced (esp. leftover) meat etc., a hash, a ragout. M16. 2 A person of many accomplishments or qualities. Freq. contempt. Now rare. E17. 
    1 J. I. M. STEWART The canvas is an amazing gallimaufry of allegorical references. 

    syzygy| szdi |  n. E17. [Late L syzygia f. Gk suzugia yoke, pair, copulation, conjunction, f. suzugos yoked, paired, f. sun- SYN- + stem of zeugnunai yoke.] 1 Pros. A combination of two different feet in one measure, a dipody. E17.  2 Astron.  a = CONJUNCTION 2. M17-E18. b Conjunction or opposition of two celestial objects; either of the points (in space or time) at which these take place, esp. in the case of the moon with the sun (new moon and full moon). Cf. QUADRATURE 3. E18. 3 A pair of connected or correlative things; spec. in Gnostic Philos., a pair of opposites or aeons. M19. 4 Zool. a A suture or immovable union of two joints of a crinoid; the joints united in this way. L19. b The conjunction of two organisms without loss of identity; in sporozoans, close attachment of pairs of gametocytes prior to fusion. L19.syzygial a. (Astron. & Zool.) pertaining to or of the nature of a syzygy or syzygies M19. syzygium n. (Zool.) = SYZYGY 4b L19.


    • Historical Snippets

    BYGONES
    The Shoreham Herald has recently featured a series of interesting articles by Alan Upton about Shoreham in Victorian times, and in the early part of the last century. These included information about the barges that brought bulky goods down the River Adur before the arrival of motor transport on the roads.

    Brief History of Shoreham-by-Sea

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