Two questions
1. Just finished making one of a pair of these bought at the weekend:
Pleasingly solid bit of kit. Step one in getting the kids' rooms sorted out in preparation for the arrival of "Opus" (womb-name of soon-to-be fifth member of family).
So: if you say a piece of IKEA furniture is well made, are you being immodest?
2. Were Sausage and I completely tripping on Friday night, or did anybody else in Toronto see the most spectacular, short-lived aurora borealis display at about 10:45 p.m.?
So far, no one we've asked seems to have noticed it. Starting to wonder what was in that teriyaki we were eating...
Grim, stormy night - very high winds and extraordinarily low base of altostratus cloud covering the entire sky. All of a sudden the whole north-eastern sky lit up with the characteristic livid green of the Northern Lights.
Stepped outside onto the back deck. Awe-struck: garden as bright as day.
It came in three short bursts, each only about 5 - 15 seconds long. The cloud was so low you could almost lick it.
Thirty minutes after the last short burst, all the cloud had cleared to reveal one of the darkest, clearest nights we've ever seen from this close to the city. We live in eastern Toronto - in the Beach. Still close enough to the downtown core to have the sky bleached out most nights by the appalling sodium glare.
Mighty winds Friday night (side-effect of Hurricane Lily, no doubt) swept the firmament clean of the last shreds of wispy cloud, giving us Joyce's "heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit..."
Beautiful. Only the second time we've ever seen the Lights. Powerfully moving & eerie experience.
Blake: "When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?"
1. Just finished making one of a pair of these bought at the weekend:
Pleasingly solid bit of kit. Step one in getting the kids' rooms sorted out in preparation for the arrival of "Opus" (womb-name of soon-to-be fifth member of family).
So: if you say a piece of IKEA furniture is well made, are you being immodest?
2. Were Sausage and I completely tripping on Friday night, or did anybody else in Toronto see the most spectacular, short-lived aurora borealis display at about 10:45 p.m.?
So far, no one we've asked seems to have noticed it. Starting to wonder what was in that teriyaki we were eating...
Grim, stormy night - very high winds and extraordinarily low base of altostratus cloud covering the entire sky. All of a sudden the whole north-eastern sky lit up with the characteristic livid green of the Northern Lights.
Stepped outside onto the back deck. Awe-struck: garden as bright as day.
It came in three short bursts, each only about 5 - 15 seconds long. The cloud was so low you could almost lick it.
Thirty minutes after the last short burst, all the cloud had cleared to reveal one of the darkest, clearest nights we've ever seen from this close to the city. We live in eastern Toronto - in the Beach. Still close enough to the downtown core to have the sky bleached out most nights by the appalling sodium glare.
Mighty winds Friday night (side-effect of Hurricane Lily, no doubt) swept the firmament clean of the last shreds of wispy cloud, giving us Joyce's "heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit..."
Beautiful. Only the second time we've ever seen the Lights. Powerfully moving & eerie experience.
Blake: "When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?"
