Woolly hat and sunglasses today..... for me
....not them. Very bright sunlight today. I took so many blips without seeing anything I was taking.
Re the strange shape of the cliff:Charles Dickens witnessed this. Part of the cliff was blown up to try to prevent cliff erosion. (It didn't work.) I was helping to edit Dickens Journals Online a couple of years ago and came across this:
"The operation of Throwing down a portion of the
Cliff near Seaford by an explosion of gunpowder, was
successfully performed on the 19th. Its object was to
project a part of the cliff, above 200 feet high, upon the
beach, so as to constitute a groin for the protection of
vessels. Several immense charges, containing many
thousand pounds of powder, were deposited under the
cliffs, and ignited by voltaic batteries. There was no
very loud report; the rumbling noise was probably not
heard a mile off, and was perhaps caused by the splitting
of the cliff and fall of the fragments. There seemed to
be no smoke, but there was a tremendous shower of
dust. Those who were in boats a little way out felt a
slight shock. It was much stronger on the top of the
cliff. Persons standing there felt staggered by the
shaking of the ground, and one of the batteries was
thrown down by it. In Seaford, too, three quarters of
a mile off, glasses upon the table were shaken, and one
chimney fell. At Newhaven, a distance of three miles,
the shock was sensibly felt. The effect of the explosion
was stupendous. The chalky cliff cracked along a
frontage of more than a hundred feet; and then the
whole mass of the precipice seemed to crumble into pieces
and fall into the sea. The dislodged mass formed a
bank about three hundred feet broad and nearly three
hundred long towards the sea, and about a hundred feet
high."
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