Category Archives: Astronomy

The eclipse

Close your eyes and grope around for some sunglasses, or, if you haven’t got sunglasses a bit of cardboard, ideally with two slits cut in it.  A cereal box would do, though, obviously do not try to cut the cereal … Continue reading

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Let us now praise famous men…

Though not all of them.  Fame is a tricky monkey, it can turn on famous people and claw them so badly that you cannot see them ever again without the scars.  It can lean down from the lofty heights it … Continue reading

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Thick knickers

Welcome to a new category- astronomy. At the outset, outside (of which more, shortly) let me be crystal clear.  This is not the one where if it is your birthday today you are a Libra and the forecast is for … Continue reading

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