Another week gone

Cannot believe how quickly this week has gone.  I suppose Monday was really part of last weeks activities and my first picture was taken on that dayand is a bit of a joke.  Captured on our way back from "Up North" I couldn't help thinking what great reception that house gets on it's TV. I wonder whether it's FreeSat, Sky or "extra - terrestial" TV.  You are of course looking at a picture of the Lovell Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank Cheshire. It has long been a Landmark and is known worldwide for it's work in the field of Astrophysics

This week has been dominated by some cold East winds that have pounded the beach and bought with it some seaweed and strangely what looks like straw?.  I'm not quite sure where that would have come from at this time of year.  However mixed up in this flotsam were thousands of white and occasionally blue pellets of plastic.  It is a major concern that this stuff will not degrade but float around the oceans for hundreds of years. Indeed some of the plastic in the sea may have been there for 50 years.  What is more alarming is that although it takes an enomous time to degrade it will be pummeled by the sea into smaller and smaller particles. It's these particles that are potentially the most dangerous, they get into the tiniest of animals, those at the bottom af the food chain. We just need to remember who's at the top of the food chain. In many cases, Us ! Just read this article.

I left the Purbecks for a bit!

We had spent the early part of the week doing touristy things because in the summer we're busy doing other stuff.  It was a bit cold at times and wet too, but we managed to dodge the showers for the most part.  I got as far as Portland Bill in the last entry. 

We went to Swyre Head on wednesday but the visibility was rubbish for photo's as there was a lot of sea mist.  So after a lunch in Corfe we headed off to Arne to see if there was anything better to see there.   The only colourful shot was a pheasant by the side of the road.

Thursday wet and miserable so did mainly SSC membership stuff.

Friday saw us off to Poynton to visit Lou's dad.  It was a long day starting with Dialysis at 7:30, a five hour drive, then to the working mans club in the evening.  Over the weekend we took a drive to Buxton and visit the pavilion there.  Drove back home along "the cat and fiddle", Englands most dangerous road. This runs across the Pennines between Macclesfield and Buxton. The road was closed the day before due to snow drifts.   Unfortunately there was no scenery to see, as fog gave about 50metres visibility.

Sunday we  visited Alderley Edge and saw  Merlins Well.  Locall egend goes that merlin has hidden King Arthur and the knights of the round table in the rocks and will bring them out of their slumber in time of great peril.

You can see Merlins face carved in the rock above the well.

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