I got up at 5 am to watch the solar eclipse this morning. It was a 91% eclipse where we were, which I thought was worth losing an hour’s sleep over. It’s a very odd experience, in a way, because it doesn’t actually go dark at all, but the light changes quality, becoming feeble and pale – a bit like bleak midwinter – which feels very odd when you’re standing about in sandals and there is green grass and flowers everywhere (actually, I suppose there was more heather than grass and flowers where I was).
The weather’s been gorgeous, so I’ve been lounging about in the sun this weekend – one more day of doing that before it’s nose back to the grindstone. I’m at my grandparents’ right now, connecting with the laptop and my mobile – a sort of connection which has not yet paled into familiarity – it seems like magic of sorts. If there had been more stable mobile coverage at the cabin, I would have gone into the woods with the laptop just to be able to feel the wonderment of it even more keenly. Kid in a candystore – me, a gadget freak? No…
Voice in my head: Eddi Reader in the Fairground Attraction version of the Beatles’ Do You Want to Know a Secret? (Well, do you?)