Remember! Remember!

I know, but I couldn't resist posting this, from a book I am reading. It is by Annie Brassey and called "Sunshine and Storm in the East"

"The sea was rushing up violently like an immense fountain jet, while from the cloud above, which was intensely black, an inverted cone came down to meet the sea. Another waterspout, farther off, looked like a long back trough, pouring down from the heavens above into the cone shaped fountain in the sea beneath"

[Alex, somewhere between Paxos and Corfu - is this near you? Though this happened in 1874!]

Umm - from Sandy

I know what Alex said about the blog and I understand why, but just wanted to share this. (May be my only contribution!)

THE green flares of the aurora australis seen on Saturday night were the brightest they have been in seven years, says Astronomical Society of Tasmania spokesman Bob Coghlan.

Mr Coghlan said the natural light show was caused by photon oxygen emissions in the Earth's upper atmosphere reacting against strong solar winds, causing an eerie green glow.

Aurora Australis lights up the night

The Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis

Hail and Farewell.

Dear Readers,

there are things afoot which make it difficult to keep up this blog currently. It is not dead, just in abeyance (it's an interregnum - Lexie)

I had hoped to score last minute English points with 'abeyance', but maybe Lexie will get them for 'interregnum'. (Joke)

Thank you for visiting,

Alex

Another delicate beauty.

A Thing of beauty is a joy forever

Join the dots!

A crab - but what sort?

Looks like a knight in armour going full tilt.

Underwater playground

My mind boggles - so I blog!

No one knows what dark matter is – astronomers merely detect its gravitational pull on normal matter..........

.....Earth's velocity relative to the surrounding sea of dark matter changes as the planet orbits the sun.

New Scientist

And I thought we'd put paid to all that! See The Stone Summons

What makes these odd low tide 'slugs'?

Bearing in mind this was originally an IT project.......

I read somewhere in passing that you could now add static pages to blogger. I decided to look into this (on the search for extra points maybe?) So I did a search and the first I don't know how many hits came up with completely clueless hits and laborious (marks for English usage?) instructions. So I was very glad when I eventually followed this link http://technicallyeasy.net/2010/04/how-to-create-pages-in-blogger/

And maybe, if I had been doing more blogging lately, I wouldn't even have needed that (not that I want to sound ungrateful.)

When you click on New Post you get options -

• New Post
• Edit Posts
• Edit Pages
• Click on Edit Pages, add your content and follow instructions/choices - Simples Lexie!

Tracy Island?

Heart Muscle?

Didn't make it!

I so wanted to get to the 3,000 mark, by 19th March, or 1,000 visitors for the past year, but not even there yet, despite Lexie's hard work. But I've just checked - didn't put the counter up until over a month after I started the blog, so maybe enough visitors beforehand to count?

Google Stats say

Pageviews all time history

2,695

and they didn't start until May 2010!

Beachcombing - low tide

Smallest sea glass collection in the world?