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fluffymarkOverheard the neighbours while in the kitchen this morning:
`I want a pair of big goth boots!!'
On hearing this, I looked outside and saw the teenage girl nextdoor in full babygoth outfit. Her mum was taking photos of her in the back garden with a polaroid camera to treasure the moment of this sudden babygoth transformation. I was in fits of giggles. But she was right, she did need the boots to go with it - i considered offering some of mine, but i doubt she was a size 8. I wonder if she was inspired by living next door to us? Does gothness spread like a domino effect?
And now some astronomy news - Tomorrow morning, at 10:51AM, Mars will be the closest it's been to Earth for the past 60,000 years. This means that tonight it's going to be the brightest its been in that time. Not a moment to miss, surely? So please, everyone, take a few minutes to go outside late this evening, and look for the red planet, low in the south/southeast sky. It may not be spectacular, but to say it's a once-in-a-lifetime event is a little bit of an understatement.
Of course if anyone can get me access to a telescope, it'd be fab, but i suspect that would be too much to hope for (this is london, theres usually not much to see in the sky at night!).
`I want a pair of big goth boots!!'
On hearing this, I looked outside and saw the teenage girl nextdoor in full babygoth outfit. Her mum was taking photos of her in the back garden with a polaroid camera to treasure the moment of this sudden babygoth transformation. I was in fits of giggles. But she was right, she did need the boots to go with it - i considered offering some of mine, but i doubt she was a size 8. I wonder if she was inspired by living next door to us? Does gothness spread like a domino effect?
And now some astronomy news - Tomorrow morning, at 10:51AM, Mars will be the closest it's been to Earth for the past 60,000 years. This means that tonight it's going to be the brightest its been in that time. Not a moment to miss, surely? So please, everyone, take a few minutes to go outside late this evening, and look for the red planet, low in the south/southeast sky. It may not be spectacular, but to say it's a once-in-a-lifetime event is a little bit of an understatement.
Of course if anyone can get me access to a telescope, it'd be fab, but i suspect that would be too much to hope for (this is london, theres usually not much to see in the sky at night!).
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Date: 2003-08-26 07:57 am (UTC)I've never actually even looked through a telescope.
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Date: 2003-08-26 08:12 am (UTC)Despite the astronomy PhD, I've only looked through a sizable telescope once. The astronomical society in cambridge has access to a 24inch diameter telescope, and I had a lovely time looking at Jupiter's belts, spots and moons one evening.
Hope the nasty clouds go away.
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Date: 2003-08-26 01:13 pm (UTC)As far as I've heard, looking through a sizeable telescope is not for the many. Even astronomers have a hard time elbowing themselved up to one. I consider you a lucky fluffy thing.
Belts and moons! Waaah!
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Date: 2003-08-26 02:48 pm (UTC)Am about to head out and have a looksee myself. No telescope for me tonight, unforutnately. :(