Ailsa

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[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

Watching the bright patches of sunshine skitter along the sands at Crimdon 😎🐾🥾

[Time Team @thetimeteam]

Sutton Hoo Part 2 premieres tonight at 7PM (BST)!

In this week’s episode, the Geophys team hunts for the remains of an Anglo-Saxon hall, and a major anomaly could point to Sutton Hoo’s ancient shipping story. ⚓️

Watch with us on YouTube 👇️
https://t.co/Qsv938cMu5

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

@MisterCorner We took the last journey of the day one tatie picking week many years ago. Feel the need to do it again looking at that beautiful photo.

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

Rudston Monolith #StandingStoneSunday

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

Rudston Monolith. The tallest standing stone in the UK. Rudston Parish Churchyard, East Riding of Yorkshire (also home to another stone and the grave of Winifred Holtby) #StandingStoneSunday

📷 by me on Thursday, husband and terrier for scale.

[Guinevere of Mason. @JHCPAL]

Guinevere's Dialect Compendium. Jarp /jarping - knocking the paste eggs together until one cracks. From the Scottish jaup, "to splash or be bespatter a person or thing " ( albeit the idea is to break the shell not splatter the egg! )

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

@JHCPAL Tid, Mid, Miseray, Carlin, Palm, Paste Egg Day was the rhyme to remember the Sunday order to Easter. Paste Eggs got jarped or rolled in my corner of South Durham 🥚🥚🥚

[Guinevere of Mason. @JHCPAL]

The great egg debate ...it is clearly Paste rather than Pace in the NE, which delights me. OED says "chiefly northern English & historical"....yes to the former ,no to the latter ! Earliest recorded use 1611. From pasch & pace egg. Origins seemingly Dutch.

[South Shields Birder North East Breeding Birds @BirderSouth]

9 days old now, Blackbirds 🐦‍⬛ in my garden Co Durham

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

@12BBYTHESEASIDE

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

@12BBYTHESEASIDE At least I haven’t got one of the cars to ditch 🤣🤭 I probably will see you on bluesky eventually………

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

@12BBYTHESEASIDE I have really enjoyed your posts and the chats we’ve had on Twitter. You’ve been a lovely Twitter mate over the years. Such a shame that bloke ruined a good thing. Best wishes to you and yours BB 🤗

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

@goodupnorth Nice one!

[kath wright @goodupnorth]

whoo....hooo...Kittiwake cam has started again.....

Kittiwake Cam https://t.co/laDQAj6U7z

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

Thanks @NorthumbrianH2O for polluting the sea……..hasn’t rained for days yet you are reported as discharging. No swim for me this evening 😡 How are they getting away with this @Feargal_Sharkey 😢

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

@12BBYTHESEASIDE I’m not good with change……..it’ll take me a year to um and ah about it 😂 I might try a little paddle 🤗

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

Walked from Vane Tempest car park towards Ryhope this afternoon. I knew the hole had gone…….but it’s the law to take a photo 🥹 ⁦@12BBYTHESEASIDE⁩

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

@seatsixtyone The livery was great but we were all very taken with the hi viz!

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

@michelle_37 How lucky was that………I’m going to put the lottery on just in case 😂

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

Made sure I stuffed a bit more in my rubbish bag after spotting this beauty 😁 We were just grumbling about all the sea glass collectors digging the beach up! I only ever take home bits that I see as I figure they want to come home with me 😁 #Seaham #Seaglass

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

@timdredge1 I’m not impressed by people going fully tooled up. Like the fossil hunters that go armed with chisels and power tools. I prefer to find things with my eyes! Way more sustainable!

[Ailsa @ClartyFeet]

@seatsixtyone No where near as funny!