A2K time zones: What's the time where you are & what are you up to?

Same here, cicerone, except that we saw only half of the eclipse - the marine layer rolled in and it was too overcast to see anything. Nonetheless, it was
spectacular watching it....

7:55 pm here in San Diego

15:37 in Poole/Dorset. Left rainy and rather cold France and arrived here after a very pleasant ferry voyage in beautiful sunshine

Welcome to Wessex.

I, for 1, have no idea what kind of sex THAT is.
Maybe its best to keep some things private.

Hardy's Wessex. Real place names are sometimes different.

After a wonderful morning tour along the Jurassic coast, a rather good drive on the A30, we arrived at 15:00 in our b&b, a working Cornish farm with dozens of cows/calves and sheep.
At 17:25 ready to explore the surrounding area ...

Just on the off-chance that you're serious, in some sense, David, the name of "Wessex" is a shortenng of the older name "West Saxony." In the Fifth Century c.e. this section of the land of the Britons was conquered and settled by people who hailed mainly from Saxony in what today is Germany.

Similarly, "Essesx" is the short form of East Saxony, "Sussex" Southern...etc...etc...

Thank u, Andy.





David

Did you find any fossils?

There were quite a lot of older people than we are - easily to be found on deckchairs





Ooops, you perhaps were asking something different: no, we didn't look for those.

I lived near Walton on the Naze for about a year, they have a similar rockface. A lot of prehistoric human bones used to turn up, and the police had to be informed each time.

Yes, and the Angles lived in East Anglia, which was divided between Norfolk and Suffolk, the "Nordfolc" and "Suthfolc" of the Angles--the northern people and the southern people.

And the Jutes lived in Kent. Which comes from the Latin "Cantia (regnum)" ...

11: 02 am, Saturday 26th May, Melbourne ....

Has the weather bureau got it wrong?
We were promised (threatened with? ) this:


.... a whole weekend of it. And cold, cold, cold, too ...

BUT I've just been outside with my cup of tea & the sky is blue, just a few clouds floating about ....
Fingers crossed things will stay this way.

I'm hoping this means I can get get stuck into some much-needed weeding (which will be a lot easier with the soil being so wet at the moment) plus some more pruning. I'm about to go out & collect my pruning sheers, which I left for sharpening a couple of days ago ... perfect timing!

iT'S 6:25pm in Silicon Valley, and the sun is shining, but it's only about 60 degrees!

That sounds pretty good to me, c.i.!

As to Melbourne:

Damn. The weather bureau got it right!
Almost 3 pm & cooped up inside as it pours down ....
Best laid plans & all that ....

2.30pm Adelaide time and they got it wrong here sofar! Intermittent sunshine but no rain. Wouldn't want any rain for the big football clash between the Adelaide Crows and your Melbourne Magpies msolga. 50.ooo spectators were ready to give Eddy Everywhere a rousing welcome, but he decided to stay in Melbourne, didn't want to face the Adelaide ferals.

What a coward!
Sounds BIG, Danny!
(Go maggies! )
Sounds like a much nicer day there, too!
Eddy will regret not going.

08:03 in Cornwall, sunshine, 15°C

High winds with gust to 55 mph today in Albuquerque. It's now almost noon and it is 80 degrees F, supposed to get to 90 later (32.2C).