ELECTRONIC
NEWS
BULLETIN FOR
THE
| News & Events |
| Wildlife Reports |
| Words of the Week |
| Historical Snippet |
| Advertisements |
If
you wish to receive this Bulletin, please ask by EMail, specifying the
Adur
Torpedo with your full name.
Glaucus@hotmail.com |
| Web Sites (Local) |
| Poem |
| Computer Tips |
| Games & Leisure |
| Web Sites (****) |
| Events |
 |
| Adur
"World Oceans Day"
SLIDE SHOW 2000 |
 |
| Wildlife Web Sites |
|
(ADUR VALLEY & DOWNS) |
| LOCAL
ORGANISATIONS |
| LOCAL RESIDENTS PAGE |
This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
10 October 2000 : Volume 2 Issue 36
Local News
5 October 2000
At the Friends of Shoreham Toll Bridge meeting, West Sussex County Council pledged £100,000 towards an estimated cost of £500,000 to repair the bridge. As they are the Highways agency, I do not see why they should not fork out the whole cost of the repairs. It is certainly a more important highway for cycles, pedestrians and horses than many of the lightly used roads, cul de sacs etc.
Comments on the Adur eForum please.
The number 2 bus service from Shoreham to Brighton all around the houses is planned to be cut at the weekend evenings. This service has been running for as long as I can remember, over 40 years.
For the Friends of Lancing Ring Coffee Morning see below (or click on this text)
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
- 7
October 2000
The Pied Wagtails are back in their normal winter numbers, bathing in the steady rain.
The post-equinoctial neap tides only vary between 4.0 metres and 1.9 metres (springs can vary from 6.7 metres to zero above Chart Datum).
5 October
2000
A
sunny day with the occasional brief shower, and the Clouded
Yellow Butterflies were still around.
I saw one on Shoreham beach and one at Lancing where I
first discovered one this year.
A Little
Egret was feeding in the cockle
lagoon (to the west of the bridge), part of Widewater
Lagoon. It was possibly feeding on 3-spined
Sticklebacks, dipping its head into the water several times a minute.
Shoals of these small fish can be seen from the small bridge. I had not
seen a Little Egret on the River Adur (estuary)
this year, but the young Bass
shoals were not as numerous as in the special year 1999. The first few
Goldfinches
and Greenfinches returned to the fringes of Widewater Lagoon. Black-backed
Gulls began to roost on the Adur mudflats
and congregated on the tops of warehouses, with 50+ near the houseboats
with a solitary Heron
and a handful of Cormorants.
2 October
2000
An
adult Butterfish
was caught amongst the small prawns and an adult Bullhead
under the groyne at mid-tide level on Kingston
Beach. At least one Shore
Crab was infected with the parasitic barnacle Sacculina
carcini.
At
least 30 Crows
foraged on the shingle as the tide came in. A mixture of gulls, including
at least one mature Herring Gull
stood and foraged on the small portions of remaining sand.
Revised Entry (from Adur Bulletin 43):
22
& 24 September 2000
In
light rain and low cloud on both days, in a moderate southerly breeze occasionally
gusting to near gale, I came so close (2 metres) to low flying female
Sparrowhawks whilst cycling, I thought
we going to collide, but this bird of prey's superior eyesight enabled
to soar quickly out of the way. The first near collision occurred on the
cycle path by Widewater
Lagoon (TQ 196040) and the second one just north of Shoreham railway
station (TQ 218053). The blunt dark-brown forehead of this bird was particularly
noticeable and it looks a much bigger bird close-up.
The
identity as a Sparrowhawk
was confirmed by other reports from Gordon Road (thanks to Paul from the
Post Office), near Shoreham Railway Station, and from Larkfield
Paddocks, a half-mile from Widewater.
The original report identified the bird as a Kestrel.
Encyclopaedia
of Fungi of Britain & Europe
by
Michael Jordan (is available at Sussex Stationers
at £8)
See
messages on the Adur Valley
eForum
Wildlife Records on the Adur eForum (you have to join)
Butterflies
&
Moths eForum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uk-leps
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
-
Star:
Latest Virus Information
gunwale | Ln()l
| n. Also gunnel, gunwhale. LME. [f. GUN n. + WALE n.1, having formerly
been used to support guns.] The upper edge of a ship's side; in large wooden
vessels, the uppermost planking covering the timber-heads.
M. RULE I held on to my
mask, sat on the gunwale and fell backwards into the sea. P. SCOTT She
has riddenlow, laden heavily to the gunwales. gunwale to, gunwale under
level with, below, the surface of the water.
meristic | mrstk | a. L19. [f. Gk meris (also meros) part + -ISTIC.] Biol. Of or relating to the presence or number of similar units, parts, or segments making up a structure.meristically adv. L19.
ocellated
| sletd | a. E18. [f. L ocellatus, f. OCELLUS: see -ATE2, -ED1.]
Zool. & Bot. 1 Marked with an ocellus or ocelli; having spots resembling
eyes. E18. 2 Forming an ocellus; (of a small round marking) surrounded
by a ring of a different colour. E19.
1 ocellated turkey: see
TURKEY n.2
Also ocellate a. M19.
parlance
| pl()ns | n. L16. [OFr., f. parler speak f. Proto-Romance f. L parabola
PARABLE n.: see -ANCE.] 1 Speaking, speech; esp. debate, parley. arch.
L16. 2 A particular way of speaking, esp. as regards vocabulary,
idiom, etc. Usu. w. specifying wd. L18.
2 D. CARNEGIE In the parlance
of newspaper men, I had a scoop. N. F. DIXON In Freudian parlance the company
man might be described as having a weak ego. academic parlance, common
parlance, legal parlance, vulgar parlance, etc.
skerry | skeri | n.2 E17. [Orkney dial., f. ON sker (whence Gael. sgeir). Cf. SCAR n.1] A reef or rocky island covered by the sea at high tide or in stormy weather. Freq. in place-names.
skerry | skeri | a. & n.3 L18. [Origin unkn.] A adj. Of the nature of shale; shaly, slaty. L18. B n. Shaly earth or stone. M19.
---------------------------------------------------------
Excerpted
from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
Developed
by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc.
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.
Poem of the Week
Midnight Special Huddie Ledbetter
Yonder comes Miss Rosie,
how in the world do you know,
I can tell her by her apron
and the dress that she wore,
Umbrella on her shoulder,
a piece of paper in her hand,
I heard her tell the captain
turn loose my man.
Chorus: Let
the midnight special shine it's light me,
Oh, let the midnight special shine it's everlasting light on me.
When you get up in the morning
when that big bell rings,
You go marching to the table,
you see the same old thing,
Knife and fork are on the
table, ain't nothin in my pan,
And you say a word about
it you get in trouble with the man.
Chorus
If
you ever go to Houston, boy, you'd better walk right,
And
you better not gamble, and you better not fight,
'Cuz
Benson Crocker will arrest you and Jimmy Boone will take you down,
And
you bet your bottom dollar that your Sugarland bound.
Chorus
Well,
jumpin' little Judy, she was a mighty fine gal,
She
brought jumpin' to the whole round world,
Well,
she brought it in the morning just awhile before day,
ADUR VALLEY EFORUM PAGE |
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, (except for 4) if you cannot work out how to do it.
Historical Snippets
Celtic (British) Agriculture before the Romans
See also Sussex Downs by Peter Brandon (which was not available when these notes were written.)
These
notes were compiled on the hypothesis/premise that the arrival of the Celts
brought about the beginning of the large alterations in the landscape of
Sussex as they used the land for agriculture, and their iron tools and
increasing population actually moulded the landscape extensively before
the 20th century.
(Rackham
gives figures for woodland as a percentage of the total land area, 30%
at the end of Roman times, 15% by the Domesday Survey in 1086 and about
5% by 1895.)
The
Belgae (1 BC) introduced a heavy plough known as the "ard". It was
an iron plough that dug furrows rather than tilled the soil.
Terraced
Lychetts: This term is used, especially in Brandon's book, about the characteristic
small fields, as a size of about an acre could be ploughed in one day,
and on slopes with the constant ploughing an embankment would build up
around the edges of each field.
Animal
Husbandry: Cattle = Celtic Shorthorn, Sheep = a species similar to
the Soay, Pigs = nearer to the Wild Boar, like a Philodendron (lover
of trees).
Wildlife
not present today (Sussex): Sea Eagle, Raven, Wild Ox, Beaver, Wild
Boar.
Others
possible: Brown Bear, Wolf.
Events
14
October 2000
Coffee
Morning hosted by the
Friends Of Lancing
Ring
It
will be held at the parish hall of The Holy Family Catholic Church in
North
Road, Lancing on 14th of October from 10 am to 12.00 noon.
The
event will feature bring and buy tables and a raffle. It is an
opportunity
to talk to the friends about the care of our local wildlife
heritage.
I
hope to be there with a display of Photographs taken at Lancing Ring over
the
last year.
Ray Hamblett.
- http://appspace.nexus-solutions.net/arc/asp/diary/diaryoutput.asp
- Please send in any details of local events.
Adur On-line Events page
Web Sites
1 August
2000
The
British Marine Wildlife Forum commences. PLEASE
JOIN
|
BRITISH MARINE WILDLIFE FORUM PAGE |
- SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY
For any company or organisation wanting nationwide green publicity, there is an opportunity to sponsor the journal "Glaucus" of the British Marine Life Study Society.
There remains sponsorship opportunities on the BMLSS (England) web site and other publications, including Torpedo.
Sponsorship is also available for the Adur Torpedo Electronic News Bulletin and the Shoreham-by-Sea web pages (which preceded the Adur Resource Centre web site), which would be more suitable for a local firm(s).
Web Site Design Services are available from Hulkesmouth Publishing
Normal
advertisement rules apply.
Submissions
accepted by EMail only.
Adur Torpedo was written, designed and distributed by Andy Horton.
Links
to earlier issues (for subscribers who have downloaded the Bulletins only,
and web site visitors).
