Well.... when we went to bed last night it was totally 8/8 cloud ... and bloody cold as well. So I thought .... Lunar Eclipse ... forget it ! That's Spode's Law that is. But .... I just happened to get up around 4am ..... and there it was. Woo !! I took some terrific photographs of it too ! ... but that wasn't one of them .. no ..that was on the morning news. Here's one of mine ..... or rather .... here's one of mine ... ..but ... fair do's .... it was taken with a tiny tiny camera in the freezing cold in my pyjamas (23 pairs)* and socks without any of those fancy-pants long lenses. Not the socks .... the camera. Getting all the proper stuff would have woken The Significant Otter. That wouldn't be a good idea. It was well worth seeing. And you can always blow it up by holding down the CTRL thing and whizzling the mouse-wheel .... well, it works on mine. I'm not sure about "macs". ( I've never had one since the moment I noticed it was "scam" backwards.) Alternatively, you could buy one of those huge ginormous screens and mount it on the wall and then the moony bit would be a lot bigger. Well worth it. Here's a "top astronomer" who was on't news as well ... I'm not surprised that she's got such a silly name ... but who would call their daughter "Minnis Bay" ? .... but the presenter-bloke referred to her as an "astrologer" which didn't go down very well. You can see she's a bit pissed off. One important rule of life is ... don't annoy anybody wearing a pointy hat. Oh no ! Here's another, completely different picture taken by me ! Enjoy !!!!! But ... it was all very serendipitous. And now, here's French "Bad-Boy" Damien Saez with " Jeunesse leve-toi "one meaning of that is " young people, awake" which is probably some sort of attempt to get them out of their sordid pits to see that moon wot I saw. Obviously. * You can easily work out the number of pairs of pyjamas you should wear ... just before going up the Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire, you check the thermometer in the garden. Then you subtract the temperature from 25, and that's how many pairs you need. Last night it was 2° ... so 25-2 =23 ... and that's why I was wearing 23 pairs. Simples. This is a good way of reminding yourself that - - 2 = +2. So if the temperature was -7°, you would need to wear 25 - - 7= 25 + 7 = 32 pairs. I don't why why they don't do it that way in schools.
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