is to walk along the Thames foreshore at low tide - apart from being outsidey and seasidey, it's as social as you want it to be and the beach is full of exciting things - it is an excellent sort of party.
The foreshore is basically a long established rubbish dump that gets turned around twice daily in the Thames washing machine. I frequently meet people* who show me astonishing treasures that they have found on their beach walks.
I'm a beginner and my eyes aren't in yet so I'm still at the stage of being in awe at driftwood and old bones, I'm also keen on the phenomenon known as 'Thames Spuds' - my photo shows one very rude example - soft London bricks that become 'pebbelised' in the churning water
*people who forage along the foreshore are known as 'mudlarks'
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Cool find!
ReplyDeleteAha! That explains what Ringo was doing in A Hard Day's Night!
your cranial filing system never fails to amaze - great pic! x
DeleteOoh! You've become a Mudlark! There is a lovely page on the Book of Faces.This woman finds some wonderful things, like an old Tudor shoe which she has just sent to a university in Wales to be used in teaching students conservation techniques. Though I'm mostly in awe of her lovely, manicured nails!
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DeleteIndeed - I met her at the weekend, she's writing a book for Bloomsbury xx
DeleteOh!!! I always wanted to do that. I had a colleague who fell in all the mud when he was drunk.... lucky he didn't drown to be honest.
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there's a surprising amount of drowning in the Thames! xx
DeleteI am adding this activity to things to do before I die.
ReplyDeletenext time you're in London I'm taking you down to the river Kim xx
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