Well done BPC council for clearing 80 tonnes of rubbish from Bournemouth beaches in 24 hours. Today the newspaper reported that people had heeded yesterday’s warning and stayed away. I don’t believe a word of it, they stayed away because the weather had changed and the visitors are fair weather friends. A local businessman said that declaring a major incident at 3 pm was useless. I can tell him that Central car park wasn’t full until after 2 pm so I think lots of people working from home did half a day and then went to the beach. By the way, yesterday’s news reported that a million people descended on our beaches, today they said it had been half a million. Another report said it was 40 tonnes of rubbish and not 80, never did trust the press. Perhaps the first figure referred to the whole of Dorset beaches.
While researchers have know for a long time that micro plastic can be found in sea food and bottled water, they didn’t know that it could be absorbed through roots into fruit and vegetables. They said the most highly contaminated fruit was the apple and carrot the vegetable. Now while I can see that the carrot could absorb particles in through the root, after all it is a root, the plastic would have to travel a long way up the trunk and branch etc. to get into an apple. It’s ironic when you think that people started drinking bottled water for their health and now those empty containers are a big culprit in spreading micro plastics through the food and drink chain. All makes you think about our five a day.
Brexit lingers on and the only good thing I can say about covid is that we stopped hearing about Brexit. Now it’s back in the news and BoJo is adamant he will end the transition period by the end of 2020 and if he does it looks like being a no deal exit. At least one recent survey reports that the majority of British people do not want Brexit in any shape or form. I’m not sure anyone knows what they want at this moment in time.
It’s a long time since Robin Hood roamed Sherwood Forest, the people you are most likely to see dodging and hiding among the trees are the bird watchers. They arrive early with their cameras and long or wide distance lenses and look forward to capturing rare and unusual specimens. Recently the twitchers have been surprised by a more unusual sight, a naked man rambling around the area. He has been spotted several times by different twitchers and it seems he is wearing just trainers, a baseball cap and a backpack. Police and the RSPB are looking into the matter. Wrong sort of rare and unusual I wonder? Something for the twitchers among you to dream about though. Tweet, tweet. 😴💤😮