Following trails

[Beatrice]

I followed a random trail of links the other day and ended up on the BBC archives looking at a program about an English village, Happisburgh, which is falling into the sea due to erosion by waves. B came in to watch it with me, and then the follow-up which was made twelve years later. It was fascinating and very sad. We looked the village up on Google maps and the satellite picture really told a tale: the map overlay has roads going out into what is now the sea. It sparked a conversation about dykes, sea walls, draining sea marshes, and why the Low Countries are low. And, since she's going to be in Norfolk later this year with my mother to visit her great-grandmother, who lives less than an hour's drive away, she can now even put it on her itinerary and see it for herself :lol

What with the travelling halfway around the world to see it in person this is kind of an extreme case ;), but we do an awful lot of this. What interesting trains of thought and discovery have been happening at your place lately?

[~*heket*~]

I can't think of anything like that atm. But I do know that really simple things are starting to interest Stylish now, like sewing and IRONING :lol She seems me doing it and now she wants to give it a go .... she wouldn't have tried either 6 months ago!

[Sarasvati]

You iron?

Um, we've gone from "we're flying to Tasmania for Christmas" "Now?" "No" to googling images of aeroplanes... we've chased down pics of the solar system, but nothing that cool!