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Just Wondering

As I wandered along Climping beach, I found myself wondering how long it might take for those huge, cubic concrete blocks to be worn to sand? And that made me imagine, just for a moment, that I had been somehow reduced to a microscopic size and that the blocks actually were grains of sand. A little like sugar cubes might look to an ant perhaps.

 

But then I noticed that the remnants of those groynes looked a little like they might be the ancient skeletal remains of a terrifyingly enormous ichthyosaur; maybe the spine, or, worse, the teeth! Something like that.

 

After pondering on that for a while, I moved on to the thought that they were actually the teeth of an absent-minded giant’s comb, dislodged from a pocket as he retrieved his handkerchief in order to blow his nose, which made me consider the definition of the term ‘beachcombing’.

 

And then, it occurred to me that…

 

 

Climping beach, West Sussex.

Usual caveats etc.

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