Beach combing

I am a compulsive collector of the bits and pieces that I find on the beach. Some of them are attached to this wreath of twisted hazel twigs which hangs in our porch.

There are sea-shells, a mermaid's purse, dog-whelk eggs cases, barnacles, crab carapaces, a cow's tooth, a bird skull, a cuttlefish bone, a sheep's neck-bone, a bit of driftwood, pistol, .303 rifle and .45 Thompson sub-machine bullets from WW2, a piece of sand-blasted green glass, bits of Victorian pottery, an old lemonade bottle stopper, a piece of the stem of a clay pipe, a stone-age flint, an ancient stone bead, a sponge, dried sea-weed and a tangle of nylon fishing line. Well, everyone needs a hobby!