Long time no blog! Sorry about that. The longer you wait before updating, the more daunting the task appears. Sort of like cleaning behind the cooker...
Anyway this is just a quickie to mention that there was an annular solar eclipse in Spain today. We didn't quite get the full thing here, but it was still pretty spectacular, with just a little rim left on the left-hand side of the sun. Funny thing was we only found out it was coming yesterday! There has been none of the hype and hysteria which surrounded the 1999 total eclipse. I tried looking for our old eclipse viewing glasses but with such short notice I couldn't find them anywhere. So we made do with 4 dark ski sunglasses on top of one another, and then only when the sun was behind a cloud.
The pale sunlight when the eclipse was at its maximum was rather spooky, made me think of the video of Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden.
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