16th May from the West Cliff Green, Bournemouth
Quite a lot of blue sky dappled with white and grey clouds. The fresh breeze makes the sea sparkle and dance. It is warm enough to sit on the beach. Under the pine trees there is dark shade and the grass is a vivid green. Purple rhodendrons line the paths. Banks of wild carrot and other tall plants are being allowed to grow up to replicate countryside and woodland. Small warblers seem to have settled in and fill the air with their cheeky, cheery songs. The bracken has punched through the tarmac of the path in several places and vetches have twined to the top of the fence.
From 16th May 2022
The storm lasted two, no three hours, creeping slowly up the channel bringing the distant lightning over the horizon until it erupted over head. This morning there are signs of streams and puddles with dams and cataracts of leaves and seeds and fir cones but the water has all gone and in some places the path is drying out all ready. All that is left is the enormous fans and tree shaped deltas carved into the sand where the torrents cascaded down the chines and out to the snuffling, hissing sea. The sky is grey and drizzly but pigeons, being pigeons, coo from the trees and window ledges. #bournemouth #westcliffgreen #may #spring
From 16th May 2016
Work has begun on a new cultural mine in Bournemouth. A shaft has already been sunk in the Triangle area and the pithead winding gear (pictured here) is already bringing the odd cultural artefact to the surface. Test borings indicated a surprising level of cultural ore buried deep under the library. The Council has always been worried by the lack of culture in the town and have had to resort to closing down old-fashioned culture fired amenities including a concert hall (successfully converted to a carpark), a theatre (just clinging on as a climbing wall) and rebranding the town’s only art gallery as a wedding venue and deck chair store. “We are doing our best” said a beleaguered Town Hall spokesman. “Only last year we have had back to back visits by Joe Pasquale to the remaining theatre and a Status Quo tribute band at the International Centre.”
From 16th May 2011
Big pink rising moon has turned silver and is now surrounded by a haze of light.
