Posted on October 3, 2015
Fossil hunting!
This is one of the things that I enjoy most. It’s pretty much how I got to be where I am today, career wise. Yes, I know I work in IT (and the business end of IT at that) but its because I was taken to a quarry on a primary school field trip and found a fossil that I took the courses and exams and jobs and stuff that got me here.
Anyway, enough of that sentimental claptrap, I decided to infect the kids with the same magic that had worked for me.
So off we went to Folkestone in search of ammonites from the 110 million year old Gault Clay Read More
Category: family, Summer 2015, UK Tagged: ammonite, Apian, belemnite, Copt Point, Cretaceous, England Summer 2015, family, Folkestone, fossils, Gault, gault clay, Kent, kids, lower greensand
Posted on September 13, 2015
After a few hours scrambling over the rocks, it was time for food.
The kids decided that they didn’t want to eat in the High Rocks pub (fussy buggers, the food choices looked awesome) so we drove off in search of a cafe or something similar.
We wandered into Rusthall High St and settled on a little cafe called ‘The Daily Bread‘ – which was small and new and looked interesting. Read More
Category: Summer 2015, UK Tagged: Cretaceous, England, England Summer 2015, geology, high rocks, Kent, summer, tunbridge wells, Weald, Wellington Rocks