East Suffolk Council have announced (23/2/21) they will clear the exposed lumps of fuel oil previously buried in 1978 on North Beach, and will try to work out what to do next. They think that the oil may be more liquid in the bigger deposits. Anglian Water sewerage pipes run underneath the dunes, which is …
Month: February 2021
Recycle Labels Are a Joke, but not funny
This label really annoys me. I would like to stuff it in the bin and slam the lid shut. But I mustn't do so. Why? Everything about this symbol seems designed to confuse. It looks like the Recycle symbol, but it's in black, which suggests 'No'. There's a thin white line as a bar across …
Eleni V exposed
On a cold and windy afternoon of the 31st I went down to North Beach (aka Gunton Warren). Fair sea running, some sea anglers, people. And of course, some remnants of the 1978 Eleni V disaster. I made a short video, re-edited today with a John Ward sound track. https://youtu.be/_hMMRwO2Qiw The erosion recently has been …