Virtually Office Friday - happy eclipse!

[byslantedlight]

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 -

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[solosundance]

Oh yay, excellent pics! I thought to myself as the eclipse nothing much was happening here oooh I hope slantedlight gets some shots of this down there in westcountryland :D And you did! Thank you!

And you are officially an archer, how cool is that? I think you may need a special cloak, hat, and horse now :D

[byslantedlight]

I just wish I'd had my fancy camera with it's zoom lens up and running - I'm kicking myself now for not saying sod it to work and going out to find the wee wee screwdriver that I need... But yeay - glad you liked the mobile-phone camera shots - phones are quite impressive these days, really... *g*

And yeay for officially archering!

I think you may need a special cloak, hat, and horse now
Oh, yes!

[ali15son]

Those are beautiful photos . We had a wonderful view of the eclipse in wigan but sadly I didn't capture it on camera .

[byslantedlight]

Thank you - glad you had clear enough skies too!

[caffyolay]

The eclipse was huge fun wasn't it? Not easy trying to iron and watch that at the same time. *g* Great photos.

Carl's Once Upon a Time post is up in case you haven't seen. Here: http://www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com/once-upon-a-time-ix

[byslantedlight]

Heee for ironing and eclipse-watching at the same time - now that's multitasking! *g* I'm quite chuffed with the pics - camera phones are pretty impressive these days, aren't they (actually even mine is more a 'those days' one at this stage...)!

I've been meaning to go and check Carl's page ever since I saw that today was the 20th (already?!) - yeay that the challenge is up! I nipped over earlier, and found myself in a dilemma again... I was trying to keep book posts separate, but yet again I've ended up mostly making them here after all. I think I may just have to revert to my lj for it again after all. There's only so much time I can spend online these days, it turns out, and it's nice when people talk back, so... *g* Ooh, I'm quite looking forward to picking up one of the fantasy books from my shelf now! Although I'm wondering how I'll manage the categories this time, I've not got that far yet!

[snailbones]

Yay! You got photos - fabulous! We had cloud here too, and I reckon it was better because of it, because you could see what was going on every so often.

And now you're officially an archer! Do you get to wear green tights, grow a pointy beard and rob the rich to give to the poor? Um, no, probably not, now I think about it. But still. You get to do the pointy stick, don't mess with me thing - cool!

[byslantedlight]

Yeay photos! I'm quite impressed with my camera phone, actually, it did much better than expected, especially under the conditions! I totally agree about the cloud though - you could actually see the eclipse, and there was added where is it? excitement... *g*

Ooh, it's been years since I wore tights, and even then I preferred stockings... robbing the rich doesn't sound bad though - the buggers rob us easily enough... And had - yes - pointy stick thing! *g*

Ha - that was supposed to say ha pointy stick, not like having pointy stick and then losing it... *headdesk*

[loyseofverlaine]

Lovely eclipse pictures. I'm not on the right continent for this one, so I'm glad people are posting some shots.

[byslantedlight]

It was nice to be on the right continent for once - there's been far too many things that I looked forward to for years when I was a kid, only to be in completely the wrong part of the world when they happened after all..!