Well, that picture would attract anybody's attention I reckon. But, strangely, it was that sun that interested me. I was yet another confirmation of something I've noticed over the years. Whenever I've seen the sun next to an article in a newspaper , there's never any sunspots on it.... unless, of course, it's an article specifically about sunspots. And it's usually true for TV images too. So ..why is that ? Is it just that I've "missed" the ones that do show them ? Maybe. Or are there other reasons, with greater or lesser significance ? Maybe there are algorithms that think they are defects on the print and rub them out. Maybe. But remember ..when Galileo saw spots on the sun, and wrote about them, he got shoved in prison. The sun was deemed to be "immaculate" ..literally, "spotless" ( macula=spot,blemish in Latin) and anybody saying otherwise was therefore blaspheming. So ...who knows ? Is this immaculateness still a force in the World ? I know not. Maybe the very next sun-I-see-in-the-newspaper will have sunspots. But I'd stick a few quid on it not doing. Plus ... this morning I "got" 2 Waxwings ... really close-up too. Sod's Law kicked in though .... the batteries on my camera conked out. My "first ever" Waxwings were remarkably typical .... high up in the trees around the supermarket car park in Windermere. Classic site. And the first I found for myself I "got" on call as I was cycling to work. I was chuffed. But today's Waxwings hammered home the same old nail ... I can't hear them any more. And that means it is much more difficult for me to find any more of my own. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Away with Glum ! Here's one of my favourite Welsh songs ... filmed on a pier not 100 metres from where me and The Significant Otter first met. There ought to be a Blue Plaque . Huw M .... Seddi Gwag ( Empty Seats)( I knew that without the caption)...so there. Atgoffa fi os fyddai byth yn bod yn gas
Am seddi gwag y trên i Baris Montparnasse, Atgoffa fi os fyddai byth yn bod yn flin, i drio camu nôl i chwerthin ar fy hun. Yn y byd 'ma - tynna fi yn ôl, Yn y bywyd hwn - na'i dy dynnu di yn ôl. Na'i ddeud 'tha ti os dwyt ti ddim yn bod yn deg, A deud 'tha fi feddwl cyn agor fy ngheg, Na'i ddeud 'tha ti i ymdawelu gyda'r nos, A deud wrth y bwganod i adael ti fod. Yn y byd 'ma - tynna fi yn ôl, Yn y bywyd hwn - na'i dy dynnu di yn ôl. Atgoffa fi os wyt ti'n trio estyn llaw, Na fyddai byth yn lân yn golchi yny baw, Atgoffa fi os fyddai byth yn bod rhy saff, Fod angen mentro'r gaeaf er mwyn gwled yr haf. Yn y byd 'ma - tynna fi ymlaen, Yn y bywyd hwn - na'i dy dynnu di ymlaen. Geiriau hyfryd ! ( Lovely words)
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