Across the pond

While I was sleeping as soundly as usual last night, a churk of the cliff was falling into the sea only a few hundred yards away. Said to be the worst landslip on this natural heritage coast on Lyme Bay for over one hundred years. Earlier today the coastguard were warning people to stay off the beach, because of the further risk of falls of rock as big as car engines. Now, apparently it is thought to be safe. The fall is likely to have dislodged a treasure trove of fossils, because this part of the coast is one of the richest sources of fossils in the country. This is the link to an amazing BBC video taken from the air which hovers slowly over the scene of devastation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7388564.stm

I am afraid that you will have to copy and paste this URL in because I have not yet mastered the art of inserting links in this new version of WordPress.

Since I had spent the morning merrily blogging away about Hillary Clinton and Gordon Brown I had no idea what had happened until my sister telephoned me. The landslip is on my right as I type here looking out to sea.

The coast on my left, which has even higher cliffs going up to Stonebarrow Hill and the Golden Cap was undamaged last night, as you can see from my picture below. But it did suffer a smaller landslip in the middle of January and a section of te costal path is still closed there.