Dale Fort Blog Contents 1 – 88

7 11 2019

 Number 46

They’ve got anything up to 100 blue eyes and they’re jet-propelled.  They’re in danger.  Help them.  Read this blog.

 Number 47
Amazing Autumnal starling-related shenanigans at near Steve’s house.
 Number 48
Walk around the Dale Peninsula and stay dry.
Part 1:  Dale Fort to Mill Bay.
Number 49
 Number 50
More on the history of Dale Fort.
Concerning the building of the present structure.
Number 51
Some lovely vehicles at Dale Fort
Number 52
Gingist remarks and lots about Stackpole and Bosherston
and St Govan’s Chapel.
Number 53
It’s nearly Christmas, so do the Dale Fort Botany Quiz.
Number 54
It’s even nearer to Christmas, so look at the answers to Number 53.
Number 55
Season of goodwill over, back to extreme Brexit in the 19th Century.
Number 56
More on the measures taken to limit immigration at 19th Century Dale Fort.
Number 57
Just how do you fire a shell through 20 inches of oak and 5 inches of iron plate?  Read Blog 57 and learn how, you never know when this could come in useful.
Number 58
Once more into the breech dear friends, another small battle against Excel reveals it’s really quite easy to rank data without disturbing the data column.
Number 59
It’s not all beer and skittles.  This one may depress you a little with my pontifications on marine conservation.  However, to cheer you up, it doesn’t mention plastic pollution at all.
Number 60
We return to the days when problems with Europe were solved by simply building more fortresses.  Also some interesting stuff about ablutions, heating and women.
Number 61
The Bones of Julian Cremona; not quite so gruesome as you might expect.
Number 62
The bones of Julian Cremona part 2.  (He had rather more bones than I expected).
Number 63
The third and final article about the Cremona bone depository.
Full instructions on how to blow up an iron-clad steam-ship using only a giant air-gun and half a ton of dynamite.
Number 65
Nunzilla returns in full sparky, clockworkyness to tell you all about Fucus serratus.
Stare at some rock for 24 years and what do you get?  This (and much more besides).
Number 67
You ‘aint Nothin’ but a Dale Saint.

Dale Fort as a private residence part 1 (Colonel Owen-Evans).

Dale Fort Blog Number 68

Number 69

Dale Fort as a private residence part 2 (the formidable Miss Bland).

Dale Fort Blog Number 69

Number 70

Nunzilla returns, she’s breathing sparks, she’s talking about bladder wrack and (this time) she’s not falling over.

Dale Fort Blog Number 70

Number 71

Oxygen.  Why is there so much on earth?  Why we should look after wetlands.  Advice for those who enjoy breathing.

Dale Fort Blog Number 71

Number 72

Nunzilla meets another big brown weed with swollen vesicles and a filmy negligee.

Dale Fort Blog Number 72

Number 73

Seashore Flashers (possibly not what you’re imagining).

Dale Fort Blog Number 73

Number 74

Dale Fort Blog Number 74

Nunzillareturns.  Porphyra spp.  Just a sheet of cells?  NO, much, much more than that including being a 1.5 billion US dollars a year industry.

Number 75

Dale Fort Blog Number 75

Dale Fort during World War Two.

Part one, in which we review the defences of Milford Haven at the start of the war (not great) and look at what was done to improve matters and begin to explain what went on at Dale Fort itself.

Number 76

Dale Fort Blog Number 76

Just when you thought it was safe to drive a giant magnet over a bomb…..

Read Number 76 and avoid exploding.

Number 77

Dale Fort Blog Number 77

World War Two Part Three:  Mine Watching (or not, as you’ll see if you read this).

Number 78

Dale Fort Blog Number 78

World War Two Part Four:  More about the lives of the Dale Fort Staff and a tragedy at sea.

Number 79

Dale Fort Blog Number 79

After World War Two.  What happened to Dale Airfield?  Where did all the people go?  Who was Francis Butler?

Number 80

Dale Fort Blog Number 80

Join your favourite clockwork nun among the diminutive denizens of the mighty deep.  Thrill as she surfs the mighty Bacillaria paxillifera.

Number 81

Dale Fort Blog Number 81

The earliest times of Dale Fort as a field centre.

Number 82

Dale Fort Blog Number 82

The field centre begins, 1947 – 1967.

Number 83

Dale Fort Blog Number 83

The regime of David Emerson (and I come on the scene towards the end)…

Number 84

Dale Fort Blog Number 84

Back in time to World War Two and an article about Dale Airfield

Number 85

https://wordpress.com/post/dalefort.wordpress.com/1289

An appeal on behalf of worms and much more besides…

Number 86

https://dalefort.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/dale-fort-blog-number-86/

Amazing facts about 5 species of salt marsh plant (MUCH more exciting than it sounds).

Number 87

https://dalefort.wordpress.com/2020/11/23/dale-fort-blog-number-87/?fbclid=IwAR023hU1yE2HNjLL_c4dYfOK9Ii-NYeLvukne2tvpaqsejFbOHxVUHIZWOE

More exciting stuff from the salt marsh.

Number 88

https://dalefort.wordpress.com/2020/12/31/dale-fort-blog-number-88/

How to cure haemorrhoids (possibly), how to poison yourself (almost certainly) and how to read about five further interesting species from the salt marsh (definitely).


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