blakeyboy

Sadly, no. I heard my wife laughing ( She works with me on audio electronics) from the office and I thought I would share the horror!

Very good -my wife sent me my original post, but you've spent all this time knocking this together!!

Some tradesmen are having to postpone jobs....... For example, we were supposed to be getting some wiring done, but the electrician called the other day to say he has a bug that he thinks he caught from his last customer while he was fitting their garage lights. He suspects he has car owner virus and has currently gone to earth, resisting the temptation to carry on circulating by staying ohm, grounding himself and in the main switching off. He doesn’t know for sure watt the bug is but is confident it’s not terminal. However, he says he doesn’t want to be a conduit for infection, so he’s decided to conduct himself responsibly and self insulate to avoid giving anyone a nasty shock. I think that’s a positive, so I’m happy to give him a plug.

I remember the South African Police being asked about integration in the late 1970's, in those dark racist days there. The Police Chief said there was nothing to worry about, since: "our boys are up all night integrating suspects"... Must get a snack - all this talking has given me quite an apartheid.....

The solutions on Wiki are under 'Recreational Mathematics'. I glanced at them and had to go and lie down.

Ooh...there isn't a 'like' style for " blimey mate hope all is now OK..." (Poinciana seeds in pots in greenhouse! )

Yes, it did rather wander off- passion in different areas leads to this quite often. How about anyone, as soon as different topics are 'popping up' could say " meet me in the **** area" ? (I was going to type "meet me in the xxxx area", but i felt that that would have some strange connotations...:) )

Meade ETX90 with solar filter, photo par focal, down the eyepiece. About 3 out of 50 were reasonable! I took pictures of my feet, the sky, the car park.....

None of them look seaworthy.....!

Agreed. More please, Danelaw!

I always check on my video system in the big workshop what's on that channel. I recorded off that channel a 10 minute wartime public information film on how to deal with incendiary bombs that fall through your roof. Very interesting- made much more so for me, since it starred Will Hay!!!

Staying sober. Pretending I haven't seen this Midsummer Murder before. Not eating yet another packet of crisps. These are real daily challenges.

And relax....deep blue ocean, deep blue ocean....:)

I went upstairs today, and had a look around. Good exercise, and it's nice to get out.

Yes- in Munich it was overcast, then a big hole of blue sky opened up ten minutes to go. Did you see how bright Venus was??? It was amazing- so much so it makes me want to search for it in daylight....

I was in the OU Astronomy club for some years, and photographed both the Transits of Venus and Mercury. Photos somewhere. Digital hunt in progress. We did the limb timings that confirm that Einstein was cleverer than us, apparently.

I just asked my wife to put on a nurses uniform. She said "Are you feeling frisky?" I replied "No, we need bread."

Yes..clear as clear. Amazing......! On the way up the interstate from Vegas we stopped to fill up, and I got talking to a Japanese tourist who'd come over for the eclipse. He asked me whether I was worried about the crowds. I said no, since we were going to be in a field in the middle of nowhere, and he replied " No...not crowds - crowds!!! Crowds across the sun.." Honest. I genuinely misunderstood.... I was at Munich Observatory for the 1999 one, and I took a small medium wave radio with me, and the night before I tuned it to a music station a long way away. I switched it on before the eclipse, and it was just producing quiet static, but when we got totality, the music blasted out!! A nice little experiment that the science-minded Germans around me liked.

It's actually called Atomic City, but when you go there, 'Gonad' seems better.

Me, the day before the 2017 total eclipse, waiting for service at the gas station in Gonad, Idaho.

I got bored this week, and made this, and posted it to a mate, and he was rather concerned at first...