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• Labour Wants to Make “Same Sex Education Lessons” to 5 Year-Olds Compulsory

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 612
  By Tom Gower–The Labour Government has announced that it will introduce  “Gender Equality Lessons” to children from the age of five as a means of tackling “domestic violence, homophobia and transphobia” — but will steer clear of mentioning honour based killings. In terms of the plan, “personal, social ...
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• Builders’ bags on the beach

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
    On a single walk along the beach on 28th October 2009 I noticed 16 big polypropylene builders’ bags in various states of burial and disintegration. Here is the photographic evidence for this relatively new plastic flotsam phenomenon. Each white bag measures about a metre cubed. They sometimes have ...
  20 hours ago

• The G&GR Wallaby Player of the Year – Domestic Rugby Series

  
  Green and Gold Rugby THE Aussie Rugby Blog for fans of Australia and the Wallabies — Authority: 432
  The Wallabies started their 2009 test campaign against Italy in Canberra all the way back in June.  Fourteen tests and about six months later the Wallabies won less than 50% of their games.  As a whole the season was… disappointing. Bordering on disastrous. The continued failing in the Tri-Nations is a significant ...
  21 hours ago

• Fish bones & fishing net at Rhossili

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  These intricate and delicate  structures are vertebrae from a fish. They seem both complex and beautiful. They are an example of the interesting and amazing things you can find washed up on strandlines if you only take a closer look. These backbones were still articulated and joined to the head (illustrated in the ...
  2 days ago

• Beachcombings (2)

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  Found objects from the Gower coastline. The tiny Teddy Bear with his red hat was washed up on Rhossili beach – see the picture below for how he looked when I found him. He now lives comfortably dry in the bowl shaped remains of a metal fishing float that I picked up on Whiteford Sands – “La Coquille” is ...
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• A different kind of Mermaid’s Purse

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  Mermaid’s Purses become dry, black and brittle when they dry out on the beach. So they look very different from the fresh ones which are olive brown colour and translucent. The egg and embryo can often be seen within the egg case when it is fresh. These photographs show the dessicated, black egg case of a Skate ...
  4 days ago

• Submerged forest at Broughton Bay

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  The ragged tree stumps and roots, strewn over the seashore at Broughton Bay on the north coast of the Gower Peninsula, are the remains of a birch tundra woodland that once covered the ancient land surface. They lie in position, just as they were growing before they were inundated. Ten thousand years ago in the ...
  4 days ago

• Driftwood with holes made by Gribbles & Shipworms

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  The photographs in this post show a small piece of water-logged driftwood about 30 cm long and riddled with holes and tunnels caused by two different types of wood-boring sea creatures. The larger borings are about 1 cm in diameter and many are lined with a smooth calcareous material that has become stained through ...
  6 days ago

• Daphne Camille Gower — Irasshai!

  
  breakawaycook — Authority: 410
  . We interrupt this regularly scheduled broadcast to bring you the breaking news of the arrival of Ms. Daphne Camille Gower, who parachuted into the world on November 18,  all 3.3 delicious kilograms of her. Her father, a certain breakaway cook, managed to talk the OBGYN into letting him deliver/catch her and place ...
  1 week ago

• Almost a Razor Shell – Pharus legumen (Linnaeus)

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  A collection of paired empty shells of the bivalved marine mollusc Pharus legumen (Linnaeus). This species is similar in appearance, and closely related, to the Razor Shells. Pharus belongs to the Family Solecurtidae whereas the Razors belong to the Family Solenidae. The valves of members of both bivalve ...
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• Patterns in the sand after the storm (3)

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  At first, all you see is the sky and the clouds reflected on the wet beach. However, if you adjust your gaze to peer through the superficial glaze of surface water, you can see the various colours and patterns. The greater the reflection, the more is hidden from the view of the passer-by admiring the more ...
  1 week ago

• Patterns in the sand after the storm (2)

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  Between squally showers and dark scudding grey clouds, the sun shone momentarily and created a rainbow arching over the wide empty expanse of low tide Rhossili Bay, Gower. The sandy shore at this point was covered with fine zig-zagging ripples and a subtle blending of black streaks. © Jessica Winder and ...
  1 week ago

• Red sediment seepage at Rhossili

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  The terrible wet weather of last weekend provided an opportunity to witness close up the process which so significantly contributes to the wonderful coloured patterns in the sand at Rhossili, Gower.  These patterns have been illustrated in earlier postings, and were very much in evidence following the recent stormy ...
  1 week ago

• Send them a surprise in the mail

  
  thefoodiegifthunter.co.uk — Authority: 128
  Brownie heaven from the Gower Coast You know what it’s like, you come home from a fairly rubbish day at the office, and there’s piles of post waiting for you. You know what’s waiting: bills, junk stuff about products you really don’t want, more bills. How about sending something that will really turn any ...
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• More winkles on wood at Whiteford

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  The storm waves shift the sediments around Whiteford Sands. They scour the sand away from some areas and dump it in others. The base of this ancient piece of wood seemed to be embedded in sand during the summer. The storm has washed it away to reveal a layer of  cobbles and pebbles holding it fast. Hundreds of ...
  1 week ago

• Views of Whiteford Sands after the storm

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  The day after the big storm was one of sunshine and showers. At Whiteford Sands, Gower, the tide was at its lowest ebb, the waves abated, and the sandy beach looked like glass. The blue sky with fluffy white clouds was spectacularly reflected in the mirror of the beach. The occasional large item of flotsam, such ...
  1 week ago

• WARNER ARCHIVE: Give a Girl a Break (1953)

  
  Classicflix.com Blog — Authority: 124
  One more new release over at WBShop that almost got in the shuffle is Give a Girl a Break (1953). The color romantic musical stars Marge and Gower Champion as well as Debbie Reynolds. SYNOPSIS: When a temperamental star walks out of a big Broadway show, it’s time to Give a Girl a Break . But ...
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• Stone wall snails at Rhossili

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  Sometimes you turn the camera to capture the big picture …when you suddenly see the hidden things on a much smaller scale. This happened when I had climbed up the steep path and steps at the end of a stormy day on Rhossili beach last weekend. I passed through the gate that leads back to the village and turned for ...
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• Window on Wales (2): South Wales Writers Day 2009

  
  Caroline at Coastcard — Authority: 113
  We had a very blustery ride over to Porthcawl last Saturday for the annual South Wales Writers Day, organised for those who care to come and, in particular, for the members of the four Ready Writer groups along the M4 (Porthcawl, Llantrisant, Blackwood and Swansea). The groups are associated to the Association of ...
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• Patterns in the sand after the storm

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 127
  Many different kinds of ripples and coloured patterns were left in the sand on Rhossili beach the morning after the worst of the gale last week-end. These photographs are the first of a series showing how these different designs looked in the context of the vast expanse of virtually empty seashore, and in more ...
  1 week ago

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