5p Friday!!
Celebrating the end of the week with tiny things

I would like to tell you that there is purpose to 5p Friday but I can't. It was a Friday, I found something small, and needed to show just how small it was for a photo. All I could find for scale was a 5p coin.

Tiny wentletrap shells. 

An extremely small cushion star - it makes a 5p coin looks enormous.

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How many pieces of beach glass can you get on a 5p coin I wondered. After about an hour of trying, the answer is not many at all...

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I love these little shells but have only ever found them on one beach. They are pheasant shells (tricolia pullus) and are covered in beautiful red swirls and lines.

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Not one shell but two!

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Tiny little sea snails.

What a party!  A pink chiton, a top shell, cushion star and spirorbis worms

A small sea urchin...

and then (below) an even spikier one!

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Ten shells on a 5p coin. Quite the achievement. I had to go for a lie down after this.

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A very small crab - too small to see what sort of crab he might be.

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A pair of cockles shells.

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