pebbles

Initially she was worried about converting the driveway to rounded pebbles, but the change gave them more planting space and allowed the property to capture rainwater instead of it running off the concrete.

I played in the parks, which were often hard red clay with loose pebbles and stones, with two square goalposts fashioned out of wood and string.

With coastal erosion and the warming climate, he said the beach and nearby properties were at risk without the protective pebbles in place.

He said he had many moments over a two-week excavation where he thought he had discovered something, only for experts to tell him he had a knack for finding "shiny pebbles".

The post added: "The shell had been dug out of the pebbles by someone apparently, before someone else called 999 as they realised what it was."