We have always had enjoyable holidays on islands, usually a good source of shells and shell sand, but when we decided to strike off into the unknown in 2005, we met with problems.

Purely by chance, as she happened to be on holiday in the South

We were amused to read about H. cinctella occupying a bollard in a supermarket car park in Alton (Chatfield, J., June 2009; Mollusc World, Issue 20. p.7).

The Conchological Society partnered publication of Land and People; papers in honour of John G.