I remarked a little while ago about one of my very first twitching experiences ... but what I forgot to mention was the totally crap telescope I had at the time. It was really an "astronomical telescope" that my dad had bought ..he'd seen it in a tatty advert somewhere .... and it was basically a long grey metal tube with a tiny tiny tinky-winky eye lens and a not- big - enough objective lens and ... this is good ... a rubbish mega-hefty wooden tripod that looked as if it was made from an old clothes-horse, if you know what one of those is. But the best and really top thing about it was ... being, as it was, an astronomical telescope the image was upside-down. umop-episbn . See what I did there (rather badly). Try turning the screen over. Oh dear. But, it was all I had, and,temporarily ( about two years) I had to put up with it. But what I really needed was ... wait for it ..can you guess ? While you're thinking about that, here's the music ... the remarkable Spanish band Love of Lesbian ( don't ask) and " Mi Primera Combustion " and here's the "con letra" version for those of you who want to sing along ... Now, as I was saying, what I really needed was ..I'm sure you know already ... there has been a bit of a clue ... an upside-down bird book. That is, one with all the pictures upside-down, and the descriptions the right way up. Or the other way round, come to think of it. Terrific. It meets a need. A bit of a niche market, but a market nevertheless. The other way to do it would be to get a normal bird book, carefully cut out the picture pages, and sellotape them back upside down. The third way would be to wander around upside down for however long it takes to make you brain turn the images round, which I believe it would, and then carry on as normal . There's a few problems with that but sometimes things can't be perfect. The 4th way would be to have a special upside-down chair with straps like in an aeroplane, so you could sit at the scope upside-down. I did try hand-standing but, to be honest, it wasn't good, and doing those drawings of mine was, er, tricky. .... right ... you've had your artikul, you've had your mew-sick, there we go .... this could be another solution actually ...
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