In my wanderings up and down the Costa Blanca and Costa Calida, I’ve noticed that many residents are worried that the Spanish Costas are sinking, possibly because of all the concrete being used in the construction industry along the southern and eastern coastlines. However, this is not happening along western coastlines, which seem instead to be rising slightly. And now international scientist Dr Sheema Enshake is rocking the world with her break-through research on the 'see-sawing' Costas.
Dr Enshake has always been interested in tectonic and seismic tremors and shudders (according to her three ex-husbands). However, she's also fond of wearing high heels when she's at work - and some scientists reckon she doesn't always take that into consideration in her measurement calculations.
Nevertheless, her recent observations are interesting, and the 'tipping' theory she proposes has a lot going for it - according to her colleagues in the Department of Theological and Physical Geography. They also reckon the 'tipping see-saw' effect is the most likely explanation. In which case there must be, under the middle of Spain, some huge 'fulcrum' over which the peninsula plate see-saws. And hence, as is often the case, we end up with a theological/architectural explanation.
"God left His big pencil underneath the width of Spain when He was designing Earth," said one of the religious geologists. "That would also explain why Norway is such an odd shape," added an even more religious architect. "Having lost His pencil, God never did any rough sketches first: He just made it up as He went along."
According to some very old, local geologists, there were, in previous centuries, extensive lead mines right across central Spain. So I took a trip out to the middle of the country to have a look. Sure enough, recent excavations have revealed many samples to be engraved with the symbol '2B'. So there may be some evidence for 'God's Pencil Fulcrum' - and hence further support for the 'see-saw' effect.
Farmchair Filosophy - being a harvesting of my ponderings from my wanderings over the hills, including re-workings of philosophy and ancient wisdom within an agricultural and bucolic paradigm, axioms, hammerisms, maxims, minims, aphids and aphorisms.
