Re. the beach/mud flat controversy - Weston "beach" has plenty of sand,
nice dry shake it off the towel sort of stuff at the top. Lower down,
where I was walking when I took the pics it's wet & firm but still
definitely sand. Further out (beyond the warning signs which are in some
of the photos) it turns to mud where people/horses/cars do get stuck
from time to time - I believe the local life boat station operates a
hovercraft to rescue the idiots. Occasionally you even see some water,
but not often...... (the Bristol Channel has the 2nd largest tidal range
in the world).
Marc Lawrence wrote:
> Moose wrote:
>
>> ...
>> ".. mud of which those beaches consist." is the classic, literal
>> correction.
>> ".. mud that makes up those beaches." is more graceful reading.
>>
>
> ...and we'd probably just say "by the mud flats", as a "beach" is
> somewhere you leave your towel absorbing sand while you're in the surf
> for a bodybash. I mean, shaking the sand off your towel over the
> surrounding sunbathers is only barely acceptable if there's a sea-breeze
> making it unavoidable, but shaking mud off it all over them would just
> be bloody rude. ;-)
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