Here’s my humble attempt to capture the current Lunar Eclipse given the excellent conditions outside! Using my EOS 350D (Rebel) and a measley 700mm Lens (Correction - 70-300mm) I took the picture on a time delay exposure of approx. 18 seconds, hence it doesn’t look too sharp, I’ve enhanced it as best i can for now, but I am still impressed with the results!

Just before totality >>

And this is a picture at the point (more or less) of Totality which will last for the next 20mins or so >>

I am no expert at photography by any means, but given the level of light pollution where I live, I am over the moon with these pictures….literally!

Since I managed to rip the laminate floor when replacing my washing machine, I have been faced with the daunting (I thought) task of replacing my kitchen floor.  I ripped up the remaining flooring and this is what I found underneath >>

Now the red terracota tiles looked really nice but only cover half the kitchen floor, and since I don’t have time or money on my side (despite getting 4 numbers on the lotto on Wed!!!) I had to replace the laminate flooring as best I could, I decided to go for a budget slate effect self adhesive laminate tile, which I have nearly completed, I just have all the fiddly bits left to do, but the progress looks somthing like this >>

In this picture you can clearly see the old tiling halfway across the kitchen, this is most likley left over from when the last occupiers extended the kitchen back in 1997, which (shock!!) was ten years ago…

Anyways, the washing machine is everything I hoped for and more, and at last I have some clean clothes to wear!  Oh and it lives up to it’s ultra silent name too!  As you hardly know it’s on, even when it’s at full spin?!

Ok, first of all, yesterday evening, I was tired and worn out after spending two days in Basingstoke on “Company business”, so I return home thinking, I’ll have an early night and chill out to recover…I rent Clerks II (Anything with J and Silent Bob in is a must in my book - silly boyish humour ensues!)

Then I get a txt off my mate, and so I reply and phone him up, basically I am being asked to go out and “socialise” on a Friday of all days, well…I’m in need of a little persuasion as I have a migraine etc…so, “K” (look back in the blog if you don’t know who this is) comes onto the phone since she is already out, and pleads with me to join her, for fear she will be like some sorta lemon etc…

…Being a typical pushover; I crumble and agree….we head to Nantwich, and straight away, I realise I may as well have stayed at home.  Don’t get me wrong, I made sure I had a good night ;P but as far as “K” was concerned I may as well have been on a different planet, I keep forgetting all I am is a meal and drink ticket whilst said “friend” spends the entire evening off flirting with some other “bald” guy, all of this barely 5 minutes after she announced to me she was single again!  I swear I will never understand women….

…I’ll think twice before going out again next time, because I was in all fairness taken advantage of yet again.  Cheers “K”…

In other news, my new washing machine STILL hasn’t arrived…