(And happy birthday to my no-longer-so-wee nephew. He's a teenager now...)

Today's walk involved a lot of looking up... (Does anyone else see the Great Sky Goose in the second pic? *g*)
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I should have been in London now, ready for the whirlwind of Job 2, perhaps having had a quick meet-up and natter with a London mate... Instead there is this, at least.

Monday Escape after work

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Right - catching up now so that I can keep up with the last two happy days out of a hundred!

Saturday
The sky made me happy on Saturday - look at that blue! I was actually trying to take a pic of the moon beside the church here - you can just about see a white smudge! And then in the evening, those fab swooshes of cloud...

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Okay, despite this morning there have to have been moments of happiness, and there were. How about glancing down the driveway as I went across to work, and seeing a huge moon hanging in pale pink over the horizon. Even though it was early, the parents (who were leaving early for work) had woken the girls, and although R was slumping in bed, A was ( Read more... )

Well that woke me up - my alarm went off, I spent a while working out that it was Sunday, went to find tablets I'd left in kitchen, tripped over music stand, music papers up in the air and everywhere, took tablet, clumped back towards bed, stubbed toes really badly on underbed drawer, hopped around for a few minutes, fell back into bed... *headbed ( Read more... )

So... which silly sausage decided she wanted to see the lunar eclipse last night, even though it didn't start 'til nearly 2am? And got an hour and a bit's sleep, then bounded out of bed, rugged up, and proceeded to spend the next three hours actually standing in the cold, camera in hand, just a bit mesmerised by it all? I may have taken 672 photos ( Read more... )

Morning - happy eclipse, everyone who was under it! This was going to be an entirely different post, about how it was cloudy, and my camera was broken, and I'd not sorted out glasses or even an old Pringles container... and then just as I was about to put out my porridge, there was a shout from the yard "Come and see this!" and I thought oooh - ( Read more... )

...that ended a bit more impressively.
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I love the NASA APoD picture for today
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Love this vid...

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From NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, of course...