Peaculiar story from Brewster
Pea plants: better grown in the garden than in your lung Every so often one's quiet little home town becomes for a few days the focus of the world's media. It happened to Budleigh Salterton in March this year with those tragic images flashed around the globe of the poor starfish, washed up in their thousands on our pebble beach for some mysterious reason as I recorded at http://budleighbrewsterunited.blogspot.com/2010/03/starring-role-for-budleigh_4295.html I never did discover the true reason for their demise. Was it really an appetite for Budleigh mussels, as the Environment Agency suggested? Or had the sex-starved little creatures planned a great big orgy on the beach, part of which is set aside as a naturist zone? The headlines got really quite lurid, culminating in a horrid story of how they ended up in a Chinese takeaway. http://services.devon24.co.uk/FORUMS/DEVON24/CS/forums/2059251/ShowPost.aspx This time, it's the turn of our American sister-town of Brewster to be ...