I just wish that the weather would get better then I can dig some of my leeks up whcih are at the moment (all 80 odd of them) frozen in the allotment. :
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Catherine
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Did anyone else see the beauty of the full moon this weekend. We actually drove up from our house to a hill nearby to watch it come up. It was so orange, huge and wonderful with a clear sky. On Friday I was up at 5am and watched it set behind Pendle Hill which we can see from our kitchen window, lovely.
I just wish that the weather would get better then I can dig some of my leeks up whcih are at the moment (all 80 odd of them) frozen in the allotment. :
I just wish that the weather would get better then I can dig some of my leeks up whcih are at the moment (all 80 odd of them) frozen in the allotment. :
It was quite spectacular here as well. There was some very high thin cloud that night and the moon had several magnificent halos around it.
Mars is also putting on a good show at the moment.
John
Mars is also putting on a good show at the moment.
John
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Yes, we've also had some fabulous sightings of Mars recently on clear nights. We also managed to spot the space shuttle whizzing across the sky recently just as the light was fading after discovering a website which tells you where to get a sighting.
We live in an area where there's a lot of urban light pollution so these sightings are a good reminder that there's a whole big world out there that we know very little about.
We live in an area where there's a lot of urban light pollution so these sightings are a good reminder that there's a whole big world out there that we know very little about.
Hello Geoff
This is a simple and easy to use site for satellite flybys:
http://spaceweather.com/flybys/
You can enter your area and you get the results in your local time.
Happy watching!
John
This is a simple and easy to use site for satellite flybys:
http://spaceweather.com/flybys/
You can enter your area and you get the results in your local time.
Happy watching!
John
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The Gods do not subtract from the allotted span of men’s lives, the hours spent fishing Assyrian tablet
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning Werner Heisenberg
I am a man and the world is my urinal
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning Werner Heisenberg
I am a man and the world is my urinal
I've learned.... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
It is a well known fact in the accident and emergency departments that a full moon brings out the 'lunatics'. This was certainly the case last Saturday night, the streets and A&E were heaving with them. 
Had I not been working I would have been able to appreciate the beauty of it rather more; I love moonlight.
Had I not been working I would have been able to appreciate the beauty of it rather more; I love moonlight.
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It caused an eclipse here in Bedfordshire. 
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
There's no fool like an old fool.
There's no fool like an old fool.