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Writer & photographer of award-winning books about the sea, beachcombing & mudlarking | Sea Journal | Rag and Bone | Lost to the Sea - 'Wondrous, elegant and haunting' Philip Hoare lisawoollett.co.uk
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Wild and windy again in Cornwall today. This is a new one I’ve been printing this week, taken on the north coast after a storm passed through overnight. The north wind was still gale force, so I was absolutely freezing when I took it (despite so many layers I could barely keep my arms raised).

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Turns out my beachcombed fork belonged to Private A.G. Taylor of the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. In 1940, his battalion was the last to be evacuated from the Dunkirk beaches. As rearguard, it’s likely they thought they were being sacrificed to allow others to get away (more insta @lisawoollett)

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Plastic WWII army man found on a Cornish beach. While he now appears to be pleading, he once operated a field radio. They were originally manufactured 1950s through to early 1970s, with most from the 1960s

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A few beachcombed finds including a pink cuttlebone, table football man, an Action Man 'hard hand' (1966-1973), moon snail, false teeth and the throat teeth of a ballan wrasse, clay leg, crab claws, Playmobile child’s head, variegated scallop and - pleasingly - a headless chicken

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Pink sea fan skeleton found in Cornwall this week, plus one from a while back. Originally thought to be plants, they're actually animals: a type of ‘horny coral’ known also – rather magnificently – as ‘warty gorgonians’ (see second pic for the warts).

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Typeset pages for Lost to the Sea, along with a few sea things picked up along the way – in places that once were land. It’s due out in May, and this is the first time it really feels like a book. Going on last time, it’s also when it becomes something of an emotional rollercoaster.

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