Last night I went mad and attached the tripe-hod to the Jelly-scope for the first time in ages. I don't normally do it, because the whole arse-jumbly weighs about 8 tonnes and I'm much too old and deep-crepit to carry the blasted thing. That's why I don't arsejumble it very often. I can just about manage it with the monopod, as the bishop must surely have said to that actress ..whoever she was. Anyway, why doesn't she do the talking ?Eh ? But .... but ...why ? Why did I tackle this cone-scraption ? Well, it was 10:15 post-Marillion and it was just dusky enough to spot Jupiter, everyone's flavourite planet, low darn in the Sarf-East. And The Significant Otter showed some faint stirrings of interest. Blimey. So .... 8 mins later, the assemblage was carted outside and stood standing at the ready, adjusted to Otter-Height. BUT ..... in that 8 minute "minute" inter-mini-val the clouds had rolled in like a tragic carpet and ob-scoured the bloody lot. Spode's blasted Law had won again .... whenever there's something up there ..... ......... the clouds roll in... and/or rain, thunder, fog ........ grrrrr. And we didn't even hear any birds either. The only other interesting thing is .... it's the Longest Day. I've never spotted a rare bird on the longest day ..... you would think that with all that extra daylight it might be one of the very best sort of days for "that sort of thing." Maybe the interminable heat gets in the way. The only thing of note is .... 15 years ago on this very day, me and Mike Flower flew to Lithuania .. so there. You'll be fascinated and surprised to hear that I've written all about it on here, in four gripping/griping inthrallments...... 288-when-i-was-in-lithuania-part-1.html 293-when-i-was-in-lithuania-part-2.html 389-when-i-was-in-lithuania-part-3.html 486-when-i-was-in-lithuania-the-final-installment.html I've read them all, and was tho-roughly squoggled.. ... and yes, I know we've had this bit of music before, but it's very "appropriate" and bloody gorgeous ...... like me, in fact .... on a good day ....
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