The righthand side!

A damp Sunday morning in the churchyard of the Congregational church, Broadchalke where there are several family graves. Thankfully this was not the torrential downpour forecast and spirits were still high, helped by roast lunch and chats in the Queen's Head afterwards.

Not an Emm or Emms (as far as we know), just a peaceful pastoral scene in Broadchalke as we strolled down the road to the CofE church.

9th May 2008

No sooner had we got home from the Natural History Museum where we viewed Mary Anning of Lyme Regis's ichthyosaur collection (too dark to photo) than Brigit told us that there had been a massive landslip where Mary had searched for fossils (and we did with the children when they were younger) so we had to go and gawp.

The worst landslip for 100 years in the national press but 26 years in the Bridport & Lyme News!

The slip is to the right of the buildings.

This is as close as we are going to get to the slip - I don't fancy the rest on my head. The tide is in so the blocked beach is not visible but the landslip is most of the bottom area of cliff on the photo. There's a tree hanging upside down to the left. There was an old Victorian landfill site at the top which eventually closed in 1972 so rather than any particularly good fossils, there is more likely to be rusty fridges and canisters!

The whole cliff is now very unstable and the experts expect much much more to come down - which doesn't stop the fossilers who make their way from Charmouth Beach .... so watch this blog!

Looking across the harbour at the restored Langmoor Gardens - in true Lyme style, they had decided to slip onto the buildings below and were closed while costly extensive shoring up went on.

So much more peaceful than March (see my posting then)! This is the first time we have been able to picnic in the gardens for some years. Mike said that it would be just our luck that the place where we sat was the spot they hadn't quite stabilised! However we lived to tell the tale. Oh what fun to live dangerously!!