An enthusiastic chartered geologist / chartered mining engineer / amateur photographer / radio amateur, who works in the UK's mining sector.
Portland in Dorset, England.
Joined September 2012
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We've Just returned from a fantastic week's holiday in west Devon. Mainly lovely weather with lots of interesting rocks to bother....
Visited Lud's Church in Staffordshire last week. An amazing natural chasm with lots of associated folklore, incised into the millstone grit. Quite a trek but well worth the effort. Another one off of the bucket list.
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This apparently gravity defying topple has still not fully toppled after nearly ten years of toppling. It's still hanging in there...
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Visited Kilve beach in north Somerset for the first time today. Some great early Jurassic geology on display. I'm sure that I'll be back.
A nice day in lovely Lyme yesterday, at the bottom of the Jurassic. Consorting with ammonites.
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Inspired by seeing the recently discovered 'polissoir' stone in Dorset, we went to Wiltshire to find another. This one in on Fyfield Down, about 2 miles east of Avebury. Used to hone stone tools around 5000 years ago.
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At Avebury today and took the opportunity to photograph my favourite trees ever. These beech trees are said to have been the inspiration for Tolkien's 'Ents' in Lord of the Rings.
‘Hugely exciting and rare’: Neolithic polishing stone found in Dorset theguardian.com/science/2023…
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Went to the 'Valley of the Stones' today, to see a recently discovered 'pollisior' used around 5000 years ago for polishing stone tools. Only the second example (within a large in-situ rock) ever discovered in England. What a spectacular thing to see...
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I've wanted to visit this for ages. The beautiful 'Scallop' sculpture on the beach at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. Photographed last weekend.
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We are hugely proud to have attended my daughter Emma's marriage on Saturday. We wish both her and her new husband Azeem, all the luck in the World for their life together.
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My last full week working at Albion Stone has now passed. I could not have hoped for a better group of people to be working with and I will miss everyone in the mining team very much. Thanks to one and all for your unfaltering assistance over the last twenty years.
