It was with much relief that I learned my daughter’s troubled house move had finally taken place and she was in her new home with the much-loved house bunnies. They had travelled well by all accounts. The new crescent moon shone happily down on them all. It does beg the question as to how the whole moving process works. There needs to be much tighter deadlines and penalties for those holding up the process. The advice is not to exchange contracts and complete on the same day…yet this is what happened. Having to move out in the hope that all would be done by the end of the day is something that should not be allowed to happen in this age of instant money transfers and communication.
Life is very different these days it seems in more ways than one. It seems a ‘thing’ for young people, particularly those in their 30s, to disown their parents and blame their upbringing on any problems. If only babies came with a handbook according to their own individual needs! With many young people deferring or declining to start a family, all that hard won knowledge and experience gained by parents is decreasingly put to use at the grandparent stage.
I saw the whole of the moon…well, not quite, but I am fan of the Waterboys! I did see part of the moon in close up thanks to the Chief Astronomer at the NLO; it is fascinating to see such detail of craters so far away. I also used the Lockyer telescope to view sunspots (and show them to some visitors). This time there was one massive one on one side, with a semi-circle of tiny ones on the other. I tried to view the moon through my own telescope, although this proved challenging as the moon is very high up and the viewing lens quite low down.
A walk through the lower part of Round Ball Hill was a real treat with the bluebells out. It was on a path I had not previously explored, even though I have spent many moons walking up, around, and over the Hill. Having been the site of a clay pit, or spoil heap, the area is now a renowned ‘wet woodland’. I can certainly vouch for that.
Karen Hedges 