Glorious day and I heard so many larks just half a mile from the centre of the village. A bird of prey, which I think may have been a buzzard, was flying around a field before it caught a thermal and circled and circled getting higher until I could no longer see it. Such a … Continue reading Glorious Day for a Walk
60 mph is too Much A report published by 'Brake' the road safety charity and the insurer Direct Line suggest that 60 mph is too much on rural roads where there are blind bends, animals in the road, lack of width for vehicles to pass and slow moving traffic. They go onto to say that … Continue reading Snippets
Happened into the Station Cafe at Campsea Ash. It appears to have a double personality because on some sites it is called Campsea Ash and others Wickham Market. OK I know the station is called Wickham Market and it is in Campsea Ash, but why the identity crisis for the cafe? The Cafe is a … Continue reading Campsea Ash Station Cafe
Sometimes it is a little difficult not to think that when the bird outside my window stops me from getting that extra 30 minutes slumber. But then it is really so nice to hear. I was walking in an area near to this village and I heard a number of nightingales signing their little hearts … Continue reading Stop that Bird Singing!
We are heading for the low point in sunspot activity. Sunspot activity occurs in 11 year cycles (10.7 years) and we are now heading for the lowest point which will occur at some point between now and the end of 2020. The Maunder minimum period in which sunspots became very rare occurred from 1645 to … Continue reading Oops Where’s our Sunspots
As if by magic the warm weather arrived on Thursday in time for the Easter Holiday. Still a bit of a cool easterly breeze and I think this will remain for the whole of the Easter break although not as strong as today. Managed to spook a herd of deer who took flight around the … Continue reading Maundy Thursday Sunshine
I am getting better at cleaning up this site which is good using a lap top. I have taken off a lot of articles and left a few of my favourites. Just an update on statistics. This site has had over 500 vistors. Obviously a lot of those will be repeats. It has been viewed … Continue reading Site Back
Update:- I see that the Shottisham Village Association is posting on Facebook about speed limit related matters so I though it would be good to republish this blog which was originally posted in 2019. I finally got a chance to look into 20 mph speed limits and there is a wealth, no mass, of data … Continue reading 20 is Plenty Update
I see that someone in The Times was complaining about the proliferation of solar panel farms and the impact on green spaces and in particular an area of natural beauty in Dorset. The solar panels are to be installed on one side of a valley overlooked by villages packed with listed buildings. Green energy has … Continue reading Farming the Sun
We in Shottisham are surrounded by churches. I have been looking to see which out of those on the peninsula is the oldest and the most original. Where I was brought up I spent a lot of my early years cowering under the communion bell at a church that I thought was at the latest … Continue reading Is there an Original Church on the Peninsula
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