Dianne…

Think it’ll be pretty much guaranteed for our generation of northerners

Happy anniversary!

Doesn’t he? *swoons*

Paternal: bombardier in WWII then a bus conductor. Maternal: coal miner, broke his back in a mining accident then did odd jobs /side hussles.

Classy! 😍
Good to see the shiner’s fading nicely.

Dammit. Poor lass. Big hugs to you both.

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i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)

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Dodgy looking profile for one Brian Hemison.

Yep, following me too - R&B’d.
Also this one:

@fussycoder.bsky.social hi, how’s Molly doing?

A pair of Mallard ducks on an inlet by a stone wall. Mr Mallard has BEAUTIFUL shiny greenish blue feathers on his head and is following Mrs Mallard. Mrs Mallard is busy ignoring him (treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em keen).

Lookit me shiny head! 🦆✨

What a day! Enjoy baffling those squirrels..,

And here’s me thinking Daschunds were bred for tunnelling 😂

Broken piece of stoneware bottle with parts of black letters that spell ‘beer’ visible. There are imprinted curved lines -in black - to frame the words. Parts of the letters D and A are also visible and possibly the start of a W or V.

We found a fair bit of seaglass and pottery today, but this fragment of ginger beer bottle is the bestest piece 😁

They’ll be amazing with the right paint colour to bring them out, and strategic lighting! Very classy and unusual 😍

Mulgrave Castie ruins (really a fortified house, built C13th and converted into a hunting lodge C17th, partly demolished in the civil war then becoming an ornamental feature in the C18th-C19th landscaped park). Remains of the hunting lodge walls and mullioned windows can be seen in the photo. Set in grassland with trees growing close by, and blue sky above.

A reddish footpath leading slightly uphill through spindly spruce trees. Blue sky showing through the tree canopy.

Mulgrave Woods and Mulgrave Castle then back to Whitby along the beach.
It’s a lovely and peaceful place especially on a nice spring day…😊

Yes! Bagsy the leftover raisin and biscuit Yorkie 😁

Fascinating stuff

The more the merrier! Bring enough mugs for us all please.

You coming too? But I’m sitting between you and Axe 😙

Dagnabbit. Missed the excitement.

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No need to kidnap me, I’m in!

I saw that ‘fossil’ recently that contained those, 😍 I’d not heard of them before. We visited Holy Island last year but didn’t know about them or else I’d have looked!

It’s best to look along the tide line and especially where there are gravelly stretches. Low tide is best. Some parts of the country have loads (depends on what industry was nearby too. E.g. there was a glass factory near Redcar, so that’s a good hunting ground). Hope one day you find some!

One very rural village we lived in in Scotland had some areas behind the gardens where, generations ago, the residents (lead miners) buried their household waste. We’d go digging for ‘treasure’ as kids and often found broken clay pipes.

It’s such a joy when a little bit turns up 😁

Thanks Becks x

It’s a mystery! I assume people just threw it into the sea when it was no longer fit for purpose (using the sea as a sort of giant ‘bing’), or, maybe rubbish was buried in bings near the coast but coastal erosion unearthed it and the sea took it away?

*shudders*

A wooden chopping board covered in sea glass (mainly white pieces but some greens and browns and two tiny pieces if dark blue); some bits of ‘fossilised’ (impressions of) ammonites, and some fragments of crockery. There’s also an egg-shaped quartz stone, just because it felt nice.

Piece from a broken clay pipe stem, sitting on my fingers. The hole through the centre is clear and definitely not ‘central’!

Huuuge haul today, mainly from Saltwick Bay which has a reputation for seaglass.
And, near to the beach huts where I found the piece of clay pipe bowl yesterday, Ade found a piece of clay pipe stem 🥳