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River Otter’s Ice Circle

A perfect giant circle of ice 3 metres wide has been seen rotating slowly on the river Otter, near Honiton in Devon.  

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Scientists are bemused as such circles are normally only found in the Polar region.   The Metrological Office estimate that the disc was spinning at 360 degrees every 4 minutes.  An official admitted to being stumped at the rare find but suggested that the circle may have formed due to the extreme cold and a circular water eddy set up in the river.

All very curious as Charles Lamb’s journal features a water eddy in the Nimley Bourne present when Lucy Ebbs revealed the hidden magic of the contents of her locket on him.  The journal also records his venture to Royston Cave and the bizarre spinning circles revealed before surprised eyes!  

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What’s more, the River Otter runs through Ottery, St Mary - the birth place of Samuel Coleridge - author of the famous Rime of the Ancient Mariner.  The poem and the poet are prominent in Charles Lamb’s journal.  The ice circle follows the appearance of an Albatross on British shores within a stone’s throw of Samuel’s home town.  What does it all mean?  It’s illogical…

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pBAasek8NR4

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