Thursday 8th August 2024 - 3T's; They've Gone, Try Again and Transfer

For two consecutive mornings we have not seen the swifts wheeling and squealing at the top of Cliff Road.  I am therefore, concluding they’ve left and are making their way back to either the Equatorial or Southern parts of Africa.  They are with us for such a short period and definitely fewer numbers in the village this year.  It’s always sad when they have gone, indicating, it won’t be long before our days of summer (not that we’ve had much of a summer this year) will come to an end.

I mentioned a few weeks ago about cooking scones and saying the next time I made some, I would experiment and concoct my own recipe.  Well, I did just this with the ingredients, loosely based on one of Mrs Beeton’s recipes, but we weren’t impressed.  So it is, as they say, back to the drawing board and the uneaten scones will be fed to our local gulls.

Interesting to see some of the invasive Japanese knotweed, growing on the cliffs below the Sea Marge and now slumping onto the promenade, has been transferred to the bottom of the cliffs at the east end of the promenade.  It was moved along with slumped material, to the rough area adjacent to MacKinnon’s plant and materials compound.  Good or a bad thing, I don’t know but at least it is unlikely to cause a problem in this location.   Today’s photo is of a Japanese knotweed shoot on the heap of slump material; not very exciting but it does serve as a record for the future.