I went in to town this morning. I had a couple of things that I needed to do, not difficult. They were dispatched quickly, I felt able to carry on to the waterfront. Just in time to see this little fishing vessel come in. I used to see them going out very early in the morning, nice to see one come back in, I hope it had a good, profitable catch.
There was a professional unit doing a job on one of the trees on Stokes Road. That time of the morning, they were trimming the higher branches. When we went past again, later in the day, the whole tree had been reduced more or less to a stump. I do hope that this is the only tree affected, on the avenue, although small, barely 70 or 80 yards long is very nice, and offers welcome shade in the summer. More on trees later in the week.
I had ordered a chair off Amazon, a chair with a special purpose. It is a hunting chair. I guess it will be used for hunting. Stars. It’s my star gazing chair. It took a little bit of assembling, but luckily that went fairly smoothly.
The main thing about it is that it swivels, which is really useful when I want to look at the different parts of the sky that I can see from our back garden. Another really useful feature is that it folds up, which is very handy. Sadly, it doesn’t tilt, but I can get over that. I’ve stowed it with the summer chairs, under the awning of the main shed.
For three successive nights now, I have been able to do some star gazing. I’ve done more in the last three nights, than I have for quite a while. The lovely thing was being able to see the Moon and Jupiter quite close to each other. Another star caught my eye, and guiding Stellarium towards it told me that it was Procyon. Very nice it brought back science fiction stories that I’ve read featuring that star.
I also had a good look at Capella, which was nice.
Bills Posts 