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Came back from Gloucester this morning and spent the afternoon mowing and mucking out the stable, rather like the labours of Hercules, only with slightly less at stake. Then we decided that frivolity was in order and went to the beach, at Burnham - for those interested in such things, it's where Joseph of Arimathea was supposed to have landed, with the boy Christ. It now sports a stout 9-legged Victorian lighthouse, several miles of sandy mudflat, a very extreme tide and a rather nice Chinese buffet. Miles of silvery water, too, and the beach was deserted.
http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/
Thus was our evening spent. We came back via the local-ish pub. We have hitherto been a bit wary of professing any pagan affiliations in here, it being deepest, darkest Somerset, and this evening what should I find but flyers advertising their Beltane supper. What to do when your alternative religion goes mainstream, eh? We'll probably go to it.
http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/
Thus was our evening spent. We came back via the local-ish pub. We have hitherto been a bit wary of professing any pagan affiliations in here, it being deepest, darkest Somerset, and this evening what should I find but flyers advertising their Beltane supper. What to do when your alternative religion goes mainstream, eh? We'll probably go to it.
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Date: 2007-04-21 10:13 pm (UTC)But, Burnham history, Berrow wreck (which also shows up in the web-site banner slideshow). I lived for 8 years in Berrow, growing up. The path straight across the golf course from our house came out right by the wreck. One day we spotted a chap who'd decided to help himself to the copper rivets that hold the timbers together. So we went and found the farmer down the road who was a parish councillor and he phoned the police and we went back to watch the fun. The 'rivets' by the way, were about an inch and a half in diameter and at least a foot long and made of solid copper. He'd pulled about a dozen when the police got there. :-)
Long after leaving, I became friends with a couple who live in Berrow, so I'm still a regular traveller through Burnham.
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Date: 2007-04-22 09:59 am (UTC)You couldn't make it up.
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Date: 2007-04-22 03:48 am (UTC)That said, they were nice and friendly at the local nuclear power station...
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Date: 2007-04-22 09:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-22 10:00 am (UTC)And indeed we watched the twinkling lights of one of our quaint olde English nuclear power stations across the water. Can't say I'm thrilled to be living so close to Hinckley Point, given that the Bristol Channel has already had one tsunami...
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Date: 2007-04-23 11:11 am (UTC)As an actual reply to this post - I liked Burnham, we stayed at the caravan park which was close to the sea. I remember one evening me and Mum went to the beach at night, when there was fireworks on, it was very beautiful :)