If you go, will you not just be infecting others? Civic duty time, stay at home for a few more days
joking obviously. We were there 10 days ago for a league match, along with around 50 other people. The amount of people coughing was shocking. To be fair, although we may well have caught it there the contagious period is the week before + around 3 days after. Mrs H, though coughing well, will definitely be clear and I’m 90% confident it’s behind me.
I've stopped looking. As @AmandaJR has pointed out, you only really get the stunning display via your camera on a night setting. The pictures you see are not what the naked eye sees. Give up the quest, I haveEveryone on our local Facebook page showing photos of the Northern Lights so I took the dog out for a walk and strolled around, even down an unlit path and not blooming light to be seen!
Funnily enough, my wife was out last night with some friends. We dropped off one friend who lives about a mile from us and she saw the lights as she was walking in the house took a photo with her phone and sent them to my good lady. I was out with the dog about 20 minutes later and not a thing to be seen. And if people can't see the lights, how do they know where to take the photos from their house?I've stopped looking. As @AmandaJR has pointed out, you only really get the stunning display via your camera on a night setting. The pictures you see are not what the naked eye sees. Give up the quest, I have
I believe you see a bit of a haze, but nowhere near the brightness or spread of colours that you see on the pictures. There is an element of guesswork when taking the picture, ie point in the general direction and keep snapping. They have been quite regular up here in the last 6-12 months and so I have seen a lot of stunning pictures, spoken to a good number of people who have taken the pictures. I'm not saying you can not see them clearly somewhere, it is just rare in the UK to be that clear and bright with your eyes.
Outside my place last night.
Yes, winter drawers on!
I went to Iceland a couple years back specifically to see them. Viewing conditions weren't good but we did go out. At one point the guide said "There! Up to the left over the bus." I looked and saw a scrawny bit of white cloud - but took a picture nonetheless. The picture turned out to be a lovely green colour. Guide did say that you see them much better in 'image' rather than direct and as often as not, you need to know what to look for before you can see them.
Look to the North
I did the full 360. Still no luck.Look to the North
I saw them clearly last night - as I do all clear nights. One of the benefits of living on the southern outskirts of London. The sky brightly illuminated to the north with the lights of London. Northern Lights? No chance.I did the full 360. Still no luck.
For those into skywatching, we are Bortle 6.
That is ridiculous. Train your dog so it has great recall before letting it off a lead.
That one probably belongs to your wife's boyfriend. Did she look sheepish at all when it was brought out?Random irritation (or concern?)
We have a cupboard under the stairs with a row of coat hooks, plus those on the back of the door (not walk in, bend over to get in and you can't straighten up inside).
Its overrun with coats that just get regularly bunged in and over each other.
My wife went in to declutter it yesterday and brought out every item.
Never mind hers - mine:
4 gilets - apart from the two in my golf bag, and another on the banister - two of which were identical and, I think, yet to be worn.
My blue Mountain Warehouse rainproof 3/4 jacket, regularly worn, followed by the identical jacket in black.
And .... the piece de resistance, a Barbour jacket, not the wax type, the padded type, of which I have no recollection of buying or ever wearing.
Im not a spendthrift and I don't flit through clothes shops.
So, a vain clotheshorse, or, just an absent minded twit?
How very dare you, sir!That one probably belongs to your wife's boyfriend. Did she look sheepish at all when it was brought out?
