I found an amazing feather. 40cm long with a faint pattern of spots. I assumed it was from a goose of some kind but apparently this is a primary feather from a peacock.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I've been beachcombing again. The weather has been too settled to stir things up enough to expose proper treasure but I found some great cowrie shells
and expanded my nurdle collection. The purple ones are rare apparently and I've now found four of them. The rougher looking bits are biobeads from water treatment works. No one seems to know exactly where they come from or how they're getting into the sea but they've become very common lately.
This seems to be part of a toy plane from the late 1960s/early 70s that would have been given away with boy's comics when the Battle of Britain movie was released. Fun to research but 50 years in the sea hasn't done it much harm which tells you a lot about the legacy of plastic.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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A sand lizard mural, near Southport.
Millions of creatures turned into a cliff.