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Was around 11am and before it happened all the birds and wildlife stopped making any noise ie they could senses unlike ourselves as the so called superior species...
Arent we meant to get some kind of meteor shower as well ??
All seems a bit suss - maybe get the authorities to look at Tonda Eckhart's mobile usage again. Even more elaborate than his previous efforts at scamming.
I was in Cornwall with my then GF and her dad, booked a hotel for a couple of days, booked a boat excursion that went about about a mile offshore and what happened..... bloody total cloud coverage.
I was listening to people on the radio saying they ordered the glasses on line but they're not arriving until tomorrow! Oh well, at least they can put them in a drawer for the next one in 2090!
In 1999 I was at the Dalmahoy Hotel and Country club. Robert Bosch Power Tools were having a full empolyee conference up there. On that day we were supposed to take in presentations and other stuff that had been arranged. 4 of us skipped all that and hired clubs to play the golf course which had not long hosted the Solheim Cup. Was on the golf course when it happened and you only saw a very small partial eclipse.
We were on Mont Ventoux in Provence Aug 11 1999. Couldn't see a thing for the clouds , which were below the summit.
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We were on Mont Ventoux in Provence Aug 11 1999. Couldn't see a thing for the clouds , which were below the summit.
Tommy Simpson, the British professional cyclist, died during the ascent of Mont Ventoux in the 1967 Tour de France. Sorry, not solar eclipse-related, but mention of the mountain took me back to one of the first news stories I remember as a child.
I was listening to people on the radio saying they ordered the glasses on line but they're not arriving until tomorrow! Oh well, at least they can put them in a drawer for the next one in 2090!
Looking forward to that one Bosh.
Put a wager on myself being there for the next one. i will be 123 years young.
Although will Ladbrokes exist at that time. Gambling will probably banned but am sure Loftforwords will still exist in some form !!
We will still be planning to break into the play off positions in the championship.
Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.
Very much reminded of a piece by the late Miles Kington about the 1999 one, where he said, yes it was amazing and all that, but you know what's way more spectacular? The sunset and then the night sky with moon and stars. And it happens every night, goes on for hours, but we don't bother noticing.
Pretty cool nightfall going on where I am right now.
There was a near total eclipse of the moon visible from Venice on my honeymoon, which I believe is more common but I thought looked more impressive, because (a) in bloody Venice on my honeymoon (b) you can look directly at it.
Tommy Simpson, the British professional cyclist, died during the ascent of Mont Ventoux in the 1967 Tour de France. Sorry, not solar eclipse-related, but mention of the mountain took me back to one of the first news stories I remember as a child.
There's a monument about 1km from the summit. Visited by loads of cycling afficionados. .
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime." (Mark Twain)
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There's a monument about 1km from the summit. Visited by loads of cycling afficionados. .
The monument is Simpson's silhouette on his bike, realised in granite, and I found it very moving. I cycled up the Ventoux donkeys' years ago. The view from the top is said to be the widest panorama in Europe.
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
Was around 11am and before it happened all the birds and wildlife stopped making any noise ie they could senses unlike ourselves as the so called superior species...
Arent we meant to get some kind of meteor shower as well ??
All seems a bit suss - maybe get the authorities to look at Tonda Eckhart's mobile usage again. Even more elaborate than his previous efforts at scamming.
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I remember standing in Blondin Park with my family with some makeshift glasses made of cardboard. Thought it was great.
I'm in Poland and we just went to the middle of a forest to watch a load of shooting stars. Far more exciting than this eclipse as I didn't have any glasses.
Never thought I'd say this, but front page of 'The Sun' newspaper this morning is brilliant! Hats off to them.
Followed up the eclipse by watching the perseides meteor shower. Very hard to find anywhere now to see a starry night due to light pollution, but got as reasonable a view as possible. Yet again the sheer volume of satellites you see is staggering. How much junk have we put up there?
Tommy Simpson, the British professional cyclist, died during the ascent of Mont Ventoux in the 1967 Tour de France. Sorry, not solar eclipse-related, but mention of the mountain took me back to one of the first news stories I remember as a child.
My old man was there. He was the cycling correspondent for the Daily Telegraph at the time and he was also a good mate of Tom Simpson. A tragedy that could have been avoided; they had the bizarre idea then that cyclists shouldn't drink too much water and most riders took amphetamines and nips of brandy to keep them going.
As for the eclipse, saw the 1999 one from the cliffs above Coverack on the Lizard (we had gone to the Lizard Festival) and watching the arc of darkness sweep over the ocean as an eerie silence fell was awesome in the true sense of that word. Saw last night's one from a field in West Wales. It may not have been as spectacular as the total eclipse, but I'm still glad I experienced it.
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