One of my grand-dogs was diagnosed with heart disease this week, she's 9 years old.   It was found by a young locum vet, when he examined her for something else. My first thought was why wasn't it picked up by her regular vet ?   They had to take her to a specialist clinic in Northwich, but first - get this - a phone consultation with an animal cardiologist that lasted 7 minutes - £294     I couldn't believe it, the whole thing was itemised but cost in total £1,500     What a rip off !

Rain forecast for later here.

An eclipse especially for our wedding anniversary! 59 years.  Telegram from the king next year if we make it ☺️

I remember one day she asked me
To go make her a  cup of tea
But I got talking to Dot
And completely forgot
Which was quite rude, I must agree.

It's nice to see family now and again
All the time would be a pain
No peace to read or have a snooze

Its a bit grey and breezy, there's a huge music festival in our local park, it'll be sod's law for them if we get a downpour.  My plants would be happy though. 

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Taa.

Here you go, Klondie:


https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/uk

I'll need to take a walk to see it I think as it's quite late - somewhere about 7pm iirc so it's going to be low and my westerly horizon from home is probably going to be too cluttered with housing. I'll have to find a good spot up on the hill beforehand. There is a big open space around an ancient hill fort so hopefully there'll be somewhere with a viewpoint.

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/how-see-12-august-2026-partial-solar-eclipse

7:12pm maximum from London according to that running from 6:17 to 8:06 bit earlier the further North you are

Quote from: klondike on Yesterday at 05:59:57 PMAmazon is my backstop if the eBay ones are junk. Most of the Amazon ones seem to be multi pack and eBay is one pair with a better frame.

Yes, I ordered a pack of 5 ....famiy will want to steal mine no doubt