Coal Collecting Southport Beach.

[The PNP]

You seem to have gone quiet on my coal collecting, are you preparing an apology?

In a sense, what I was told was correct, in that you had (albeit years ago) collected seacoal....
If I jumped to the wrong conclusion, i.e. that you had burnt it, then yes apols are due on that score. Btw, what did you do with it if you were unable to make use of it?

[local]

In a sense, what I was told was correct, in that you had (albeit years ago) collected seacoal....
If I jumped to the wrong conclusion, i.e. that you had burnt it, then yes apols are due on that score. Btw, what did you do with it if you were unable to make use of it?

No entirely and utterly incorrect,
picking up a piece of coal whilst walking with children and then discarding it does not in any way amount to "collecting coal" in any meaningful way.

Your imaginary friend/you have the wrong person.

[Snig's foot]

The coal washed in on our beach, as I was told, comes from an outcrop in a channel out beyond the pier. We would all go down and collect it every other day, even in the coldest days of winter, the wind making it bitterly cold down there. You could collect at least a sackful quite easily, and after a pretty high tide the pieces were quite sizeable. It was good quality too, threw out some heat on the fire.

AFAIK all the coal seams beneath the Irish Sea are hundreds of feet down, and not exposed anywhere. I've assumed that the coal that washes up is colliery spoil dumped in the sea from the Point of Ayr colliery....there aren't any slag heaps, so I guess that is what they did (commonplace for seaside collieries).

[The PNP]

No entirely and utterly incorrect,
picking up a piece of coal whilst walking with children and then discarding it does not in any way amount to "collecting coal" in any meaningful way.

Your imaginary friend/you have the wrong person.

That is possible of course. It's also possible that as an anti-pollution campaigner (of sorts), you felt no alternative but to deny it. Then it's also possible he/she has a diabolical sense of humour and told me what they did, to provide themself with entertainment as they watch us squabbling about it on here!

Fyi, the 'local' I was told stuff about, hails from Ainsdale.

[Snig's foot]

The tides are rather complicated, hence the big analogue computation machine that you can see at the Proudman Observatory in Liverpool and also in the Maritime Museum https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/...d-re-displayed

What they are not is a 'wall' of water circulating the globe in response to the gravitational effects of the sun and moon. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide#/...e_overview.svg

Rotation of the earth and the resulting Coriolis forces means that tides are caused by a rotating wave of water that is a combined effect from the rotation and the shape of the 'basin' or 'sea' that the water resides in. The tides are essentially a wave of water that rotate about a fixed point (the amphidromic point) where there is very little rise and fall of water. One of these amphidromic points is in the western Irish Sea, off the south eastern coast of Ireland. When it is high tide at one point, say Liverpool, then it is low tide somewhere else e.g. the Scillies.

[local]

That is possible of course. It's also possible that as an anti-pollution campaigner (of sorts), you felt no alternative but to deny it. Then it's also possible he/she has a diabolical sense of humour and told me what they did, to provide themself with entertainment as they watch us squabbling about it on here!

Fyi, the 'local' I was told stuff about, hails from Ainsdale.

Whatever you do you snivrelling little *****, don't reduce me to your pathetic level I do not lie nor indulge in hypocrisy.

Ainsdale just further confirms how wrong you and your imaginary friend are.

[The PNP]

Whatever you do you snivrelling little *****, don't reduce me to your pathetic level I do not lie nor indulge in hypocrisy.

Ainsdale just further confirms how wrong you and your imaginary friend are.

Then no panic, the 'local' in question cannot be yourself.

Shame, I had a marvellous mental picture of you beavering away at the keyboard spouting eco-drivel, whilst toasting your a$$ on a roaring coal fire in that Ainsdale crib!

[local]

Then no panic, the 'local' in question cannot be yourself.

Shame, I had a marvellous mental picture of you beavering away at the keyboard spouting eco-drivel, whilst toasting your a$$ on a roaring coal fire in that Ainsdale crib!

I suppose in your myopic world the truth is drivel.

I n your case inconvenient drivel as I and lately quite a few others have cottoned on to your self serving lies and hypocrisy.

[Desert Region]

I suppose in your myopic world the truth is drivel.

I n your case inconvenient drivel as I and lately quite a few others have cottoned on to your self serving lies and hypocrisy.

I see what you mean.

[The PNP]

I see what you mean.

I still don't know what to believe.....On the one hand, a chap in Ainsdale that I've known for a good forty years, tells me categorically that 'local picks coal on the beach'. On the other is 'local', who at first denies doing so outright, then when challenged changes his story to; well it was only one piece and I threw it away afterwards.

He may indeed live a totally coal-free lifestyle, in which case good on him. However, he could equally well be harbouring a gloryhole-full of the stuff!

[Desert Region]

I still don't know what to believe.....On the one hand, a chap in Ainsdale that I've known for a good forty years, tells me categorically that 'local picks coal on the beach'. On the other is 'local', who at first denies doing so outright, then when challenged changes his story to; well it was only one piece and I threw it away afterwards.

Local pushed to recalling that once in their life they picked up a piece of coal before discarding it is hardly a change of story! Not does that constitute a lifetime activity of coal-collecting!

He may indeed live a totally coal-free lifestyle, in which case good on him. However, he could equally well be harbouring a gloryhole-full of the stuff!

Oo-er! You should consider getting up-to-date with your lingo! Reet amusing, though!

[The PNP]

Oo-er! You should consider getting up-to-date with your lingo! Reet amusing, though!

Lol - but doesn't everyone have one, i.e. somewhere to stick odd things?

[Desert Region]

Lol - but doesn't everyone have one, i.e. somewhere to stick odd things?

[Desert Region]

You seem to have gone quiet on my coal collecting, are you preparing an apology?

I'm afraid he'll be giving you nothing of the sort.

[The Edge]

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