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.