Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Sky

We saw two monstrous red kites (the bird sort) circling over the house yesterday. They were gone before I could fetch the camera, so you will have to take this on trust.

After the barbecue we sat on the terrace and tried to identify some stars with the help of the fine website at Heavens Above, which offers realtime sky maps from your choice of location. We found Jupiter (yes, not a star, I know) and Arcturus (Bootes).

Today the house is remarkably quiet because two of the children have gone off with our visitors to see the Cité at Carcassonne. I have been watching the final edit of the new Seaview demo DVD, complete with live video footage of Sambuca and the Chuckerbutty Ocarina Quartet, which is looking pretty good now.

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