Hello!
A whole month has passed since I last wrote anything!
I spent much of last evening standing outside with my husband watching the fabulous Lunar Eclipse.

I am fascinated by eclipses.

I will share a few of my special eclipse memories...

1968/9
As a little girl, I remember being set homework by Mrs Piper (see you never forget a good teacher's name!) to observe the partial Solar Eclipse, with a serious warning never to look directly at the Sun. My big brother set up his telescope over some paper and I drew the shapes of the Sun spots and the passage of the Moon between Earth and the Sun...

1989
When our second child was brand new, I remember my husband asking her to wake him up at 3am in time for the predicted Lunar Eclipse, she duly obliged and he took a heap of photographs!

1999
Standing on Bodmin Moor, in August 1999 with my family. We had got up there very early and had taken a picnic breakfast. We had the place to ourselves for several hours until "zero hour" when suddenly we were joined by the townsfolk - some of whom were clearly taking an early lunch hour. It was amazing, how rapidly the darkness fell and the chill grew. It was a deeply spiritual moment. When the sun began to re-emerge from the shadows, most people went away again and we were left to quietly witness the Sun regaining its composure - it was such a joyful moment I felt like cheering and clapping!

I really wonder what it must have been like in the years before radio and televison could broadcast the forecast of an eclipse- how would you feel to be out in the fields and suddenly in the middle of the day the Sun goes black? or watching the sky at night and all of a sudden it is eaten up by shadows until it finally turns red?

Amazing Stuff!
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