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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
18 August 2000 : Volume 2 Issue 30
Local News
14 August 2000
Adur Planners defer a long-standing Planning application to build a 18 hole Golf Course in the strategic gap between Shoreham Airport and Lancing. The Adur District Council Planning Department have some drawings.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.4) It is also possible just to receive a daily digest of the subject headings.
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.
8 August 2000Leo Sayer visited Shoreham-by-sea railway station.
It hard to communicate with someone when he has a harmonica in his mouth. AH
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
Wildlife Reports
16
August 2000
The
Common (or Viviparous) Lizard,
Zootoca vivipara, (not the European Wall Lizard, Podarcis muralis,as
it was originally identified as) poked its head out of flint wall
in which a sprig of Bittersweet was growing, on the Old Fort, Shoreham
Beach. *
Postscript:
these lizards have now been definitely identified as the Wall
Lizard, Podarcis
muralis.
Stream
at Larkfield Paddocks
15
August 2000
The
Grass Snake,
Natrix natrix, can turn up in slightly unexpected
places: I nearly stumbled over one on the towpath adjacent to the airport
a few years ago. But they rarely appear far from water. David
Sadler showed us a juvenile Grass Snake from
underneath a piece of corrugated iron in the wildlife area known as Larkfield
Paddocks, south Lancing. This area is an abandoned allotment.
13
August 2000
Overcast,
but still warm, the towpath from Ropetackle to Botolphs was sprinkled with
butterflies, mostly Cabbage Whites
(there are two British species, the Large
White and Small White), but also an occasional
Red Admiral
butterflies, frequent strong-flying Painted
Lady Butterflies, some times landing on
the bare chalk towpath, Common Blues
on Bird's Foot Trefoil, a half dozen
south of Old Shoreham Toll bridge), and the same number of Meadow
Browns in the same area, with at least
one Gatekeeper
(confirmed)
and
one small Skipper (species
not identified) butterfly. Between Botolphs
and the South Downs Way bridge (pic.)
a single Clouded Yellow flew
by and was blown by a gust of wind and would not settle.
11
August 2000
On
the sunniest and hottest day of the year when the shade temperatures reached
25° C, the bright blue of a small butterfly, almost certainly the
Common Blue fluttered
amongst the grasses and Bird's Foot
Trefoil on the shingle margins with vegetation on the shingle on Shoreham
Beach near the Church of the Good Shepherd (TQ 207 043) . There was also
a single migratory Clouded Yellow
and
scores of Cabbage Whites.
The
large grasshoppers in the grasses had a distinctive under area of orange
(unlike the mostly all bright green and all brown specimens on Mill Hill.)
* If
the grid references are not given they could be found on the
Adur
Wildlife database on the Adur
eForum
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Words of the Week
- autotomy
| ttmi | n. L19. [f. AUTO-1 + -TOMY.] Zool. The casting off of a
part of the body by some animals (e.g. lizards, crabs) as a means of escape.
autotomize v.t. lose by autotomy E20.
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Computer Tips
The upsurge of eForums
on all subjects (a
few have been recommended before in these bulletins) are an important way
in which the Internet
will change the world.
Poem of the Week
St. Mary's Church from the SE
Rise around it the heights that bound our landward gaze from the seaboard here;
Downs that swerve and aspire in curve and change of heights that the dawn holds dear.
More Information on Lancing (by Ray Hamblett) ***
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PLANT LIST (NHM)
Entries
are not that specialised
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- Historical Snippets
Norfolk Bridge
In 1833 The Norfolk Suspension
Bridge was opened. It was the same design as the famous Chain Bridge (originally
built 1849) that crosses the River Danube between Buda and Pest in Hungary.
W. Tierney Clarke and Captain Samuel Brown designed the first Norfolk Bridge.
It was replaced by a
Bow String Girder Bridge in 1922, which was in turn replaced by a Concrete
Box Girder Bridge in 1987.
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2000
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