Welcome to the Rabbit Hole

Going down a Rabbit Hole - 

"To enter into a situation or begin a process or journey that is particularly strange, problematic, difficult, complex, or chaotic, especially one that becomes increasingly so as it develops or unfolds."

This is an increasingly-common condition as the internet leads us willingly or not into areas of knowledge that we didn't know existed, and that free time in retirement allows us to follow. Those of us lucky enough to have built up a library of random books can now justify keeping them, gathering dust until their unexpected moment of use arrives.

Time spent on these unassociated subjects leads to a mass of jottings, notes, spreadsheet and maps which risk being lost to posterity, so here's an attempt to draw some of them together for our interest in nature, local history and so on in east Kent.

East Kent, for our purposes, is defined as the triangle edged by the towns of Dover, Canterbury and Sandwich (so broadly the Dover District Council area), into which few people venture, but occasionally overlapping into the wilds of the Elham valley, the marshes of the Wantsum channel and the badlands of Thanet. The immediate hinterland of northern France may also be explored from time to time.

This format is not constrained by scientific rigour and in some matters will postulate theories that cannot be answered by the authors' knowledge. Consequently, comments and corrections would be welcomed.