I should be working this morning, but I have lost it to the partial solar eclipse. Where I live we had about 86% coverage at the maximum of the eclipse. It got very cold, and the birds started to roost in the trees. Our cats were also out of sorts, running around and behaving oddly.

Here’s the procession of the eclipse, as photographed on my not-very-good camera:

I also had the telly on, watching Eclipse Live with Professor Brian Cox and Dara Ó Briain, and they showed live footage of the total eclipse as experienced in the Faroe Islands—with a glorious diamond ring on the way out of the totality of the eclipse.

I also happened to snap some pics of the telly feed just as they were changing from a shot of Stonehenge (about 15 miles from where I live) to a closeup of the sun there, and got this amazing image:

Very science fiction!

The total solar eclipse of August 1999 was a bit of a wash-out here, as the cloud cover was so heavy I saw nothing of the sun. So even though it was a cloudy day here, it was great to see so much of the eclipse.