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PHEW! What a scorcher. Quite a change in the weather in the last week. At the lagoon, several new views have opened up as a result of the North embankment desecration. Looking towards the housing development in Callaghan Drive and … Continue reading →

I recognised it straight away when I saw it this afternoon. To the untrained eye, just another piece of metal in the distance, but not to the Rattlechain lagoon stalker like myself. This was a piece of history.   All … Continue reading →

    The following pictures record the destruction of anything that could be considered “natural” around the lagoon embankments. Bonaparte, Napoleon and their little mate have been digging and pulling out all the trees, and the change from green to … Continue reading →

OR HOW WILLY PETER MET BLUE PETER And here’s one we made earlier. How to turn a piece of old pontoon, some old drainpipe and a bit of hose into a makeshift pump. Those ingenious buggers at Trinity Street certainly … Continue reading →

Nothing is so beautiful as spring—   When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;   Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to … Continue reading →

Still observing what Bonaparte is doing on the Eastern embankment. According to my “Environment Agency source”, it is to do with problems concerning weed in the pool and “a trial” (What another one!) to reduce water content within it before … Continue reading →

  More activity today on the “beach area”. This time it was Bonaparte on duty, scooping up material and depositing it into a freshly dug hole on the Eastern embankment. Is this “a clean up” because it looks more like … Continue reading →

  The day started with a couple of newcomers to the Rattlechain lagoon, a pair of greylag geese. Not seen any on here before, and don’t really want to either. The oddest sighting on here apparently was an escaped flamingo … Continue reading →

Sometimes people take credit when others campaign for a long struggle. In 1888 the matchgirls strike resulted in the ban of white phosphorus used in matches concerning their quaker owners Bryant and May- mates or should that be “friends” of … Continue reading →

There are various signs now- more than ever around Rattlechain lagoon. A welcome addition or a reminder of the atrocious lack of information previously provided by Albright and Wilson and Rhodia? If you look at the list of licence breaches … Continue reading →