We measure time in storms. We’ve maybe got three more storms.

On a clear spring day in north Norfolk, I meet Simon Measures, chairman of Save Hemsby Coastline, a community group. We’re sitting at a busy beach café where lifeboat workers chat and dogs chafe at leads. The village, a popular tourist destination, faces the powerful North Sea. “We don’t measure how long we have in years,” he tells me as we walk up to The Marrams, the street where he lives, named for the grass that grows on the dunes. “We measure it in storms. We’ve maybe got three more storms.”

By Katharine Quarmby – Read More HERE