In August 2012, Bean appeared as cross-dressing teacher Simon in the opening episode of the second season of UK television series Accused, a role which would earn him a Royal Television Society best actor award. [37] He starred in Soldiers of Fortune and the 2012 film Cleanskin, in which he plays a secret service agent faced with the task of pursuing and eliminating a suicide bomber and his terrorist cell. In 2012 he also appeared in Tarsem Singh's Snow White film, Mirror Mirror, which was released in the U.S. in March. He also reprised his role as Christopher Da Silva in the Silent Hill film sequel Silent Hill: Revelation, [38] and co-starred in the ABC drama series Missing, which premiered in early 2012. [39] On the surface, so far, so familiar. However, Huband’s debut stands out in several ways. The most immediate is its acute focus on the art of beachcombing. Huband’s passion flows through the prose as she breathes life into this lesser-known pastime, revealing its purpose and significance in careful detail, placing it in the historical context of the North Atlantic, and showing what the study of coastlines can teach us about marine pollution. This is no simple ‘cypher’; for Huband the landscape of Shetland – rendered in beautiful description aided by use of the Shaetlan language – is as much a thing to study and conserve as it is a mirror by which to better understand ourselves. Her writing is frank, learned and lyrical, bending effortlessly between hard science and allegory. Neither does the book ever threaten towards navel gazing. Huband is as interested in the peopled landscape as the natural one, providing sympathetic, memorable descriptions of beachcombers she meets along her way, while the rich local histories she weaves into her journeys provide an essential context to the ecological crises she encounters. Harrison, Ellie (14 August 2022). "Marriage: BBC viewers divided over slow, realist Sean Bean drama". The Independent . Retrieved 14 August 2022.

We learn within the first chapter this is about a sea change on multiple levels — Huband speaks candidly of the adjustments she must make in her move to Shetland from the mainland, the complexities involved in miscarriage, the fear around sustaining pregnancies, childbirth and subsequent chronic illness and how, once her previous life and career seemed to be cast adrift, she navigates her way through the haar to construct a new way of being. There are some sour paragraphs on breastfeeding and contamination of human milk which I felt should have been rounded out (although the (almost certainly deceptively) simple and abrupt words "I didn't enjoy it" perhaps explain why that was not the choice that was made in the writing or, apparently, the research). I was surprised too at the gaping hole where the controversies around the grindarap should be in the section on the Faroes (I don't think the word is even mentioned). This book feels important — not only is its author incredibly skilled, but she offers a wider discussion around disability, mental health, motherhood, and how we are as humans no less vulnerable than our counterparts in “the wild”. Perhaps a timely reminder of how you occupy your time out there in the world, and crucially how we adjust our focus towards others outside of our own frames of experience. As Melissa Febos writes in Bodywork of her own biographical writing, it too feels here as if Huband’s writing is ‘ an act of resilience’.

Drift seeds (also sea beans) and drift fruits are seeds and fruits adapted for long-distance dispersal by water. Most are produced by tropical trees, and they can be found on distant beaches after drifting thousands of miles through ocean currents. This method of propagation has helped many species of plant such as the coconut colonize and establish themselves on previously barren islands. Consequently, drift seeds and fruits are of interest to scientists who study these currents.

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a b "Famous family trees: Sean Bean". Find My Past. 22 July 2013. Archived from the original on 23 March 2018 . Retrieved 23 March 2018. Aligned with the British left, in 2015 Bean expressed support for Jeremy Corbyn and for " old Labour", the era before Tony Blair rebranded the party as New Labour; Bean also spoke of his admiration for Tony Benn. [78]

Sea beans (Drift seeds)

From 2015 to 2017, Bean starred in the ITV Encore drama series The Frankenstein Chronicles. [42] In that time, he also starred in multiple notable films including Jupiter Ascending, Pixels, and The Martian. In 2017, Bean starred in the BBC series Broken as the troubled priest Father Michael Kerrigan, which earned him a BAFTA award for Best Actor. [43] In 2019, Bean played a damaged veteran in the TV drama World on Fire, basing his interpretation on his late paternal grandfather. [44] Some call it asparagus of the sea while others refer to it as sea bean or samphire. The truth is salicornia goes by many names but this sea vegetable can be cooked just like any other - boiled, steamed, sautéed with garlic and olive oil, or even as a filling for seafood thanks to its natural salty flavour. How do you recognise salicornia?