Anyone skipping this eclipse thing then?

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Didnt know it was happening until yesterday

Broke until payday - cannot buy the glasses

Autistic 7yo will not understand nor care

Will just stick it on the telly and call it a day

Have LOVED saying 'full moon, half moon, total eclipse' to myself though 😄😩

I “made” a projection viewer with a piece of card and a piece of paper. You don’t need to spend money but you do need to be able to face west without too much on the horizon - we are walking about 20 minutes to an elevated position over the water

This time last year i was watching Mayfair Witches on bbc i player One of the lead characters powers was to change the weather. If i got to choose a superpower thats the one id choose.

We are both expecting them to be quite disconcerted and scarper back to their hen house rather confused because it will feel very early to then for bedtime and it will happen quite quickly compared to how the sun usually sets - plus chickens are rather silly animals who are easily quite freaked out, anything new appears in their area and they all bunch up together, not wanting to go anywhere near it in case whatever it is kills them - even when it’s something fun for enrichment or FOOD!

Sometimes I wished it was the end of the world tbh. This summer has shown me the future and it’s not good at all ;(

I will be buying some Jaffa cakes on the way home, thanks for the reminder of that delightful advert 😂 other than that, no, my kids don't seem to be interested in fucking about with a colander in the garden so we shall be giving it a miss!

My friendship group gets together most weekends and we love an excuse for an extra meet up. None of us have the glasses but looking forward to sitting outside and enjoying the occasion!

I don't think it's possible to completely just 'skip' the eclipse, since it'll randomly get pretty dark for a bit a lot earlier than usual... So you don't really get to opt out of it altogether

Remember the last one. It wasn’t any great difference, just went a bit dull for a bit

My 11yo would rather go to his athletics club, i even made him a pinhole viewer, but he's not interested. He understands it's a very rare thing but he'd rather get ready for a competition. He will be outside, so he'll experience the getting darker, but they won't be stopping to view the event.

I remember Halleys Comet in the 80s, but my parents had no interest so they didn't take me outside in the dark to see it. I don't feel deprived at all. I do remember the last eclipse in 1999 as i was in london at the time and the whole city stopped and fell silent. I will be watching the eclipse today with the viewer i made, but it's just something to do, it's not a massive deal if you don't want it to be.

I will be at pilates for most of it

I’m just hoping that the temperature drops so we can all cool down a bit…….all this excessive heat is brain rattling!

I don’t know what to do (I’m always in the dark)

Definitely watching. I saw the total eclipse in 1999 in Munich.

That's my abiding memory of it too. Disappointment. And then having to explain to the DC that,yes,that was it.

I'll try and be positive today, and if the sun disappears for a while, it'll be a relief (never thought I'd think that).

Turn around bright eyes

Nice. Did the whole city stop? I saw it in london, and it was so weird how everything fell silent, no busses, no sirens, no shouting, just murmurs. Then all suddenly sprang to life again the moment it was over. The city stopping was in a way more impressive than the ecplise itself.

The weather is perfect for the sun to be obscured as it causing mayhem for the farmers and the water companies and it doesn’t care :(
Deserves everything it gets

I thought it was a picture of her autistic son and she'd missed the 3 off 37

The sun is behaving like a complete knob just lately.

My child is a girl 😄😩

I'm not bothered about it tbh.

In a full eclipse it has been known to get quite dark, and all the birds go quiet as they think its night!
Last partial one I was working in school, we made a pinhole in a piece of paper and put another piece below it so that you can see the shadow there. I like the colander idea ! Sadly all the kids were seriously unimpressed which was a shame.

Why are you giving people incorrect advice that can damage their phones?

I thought you weren’t meant to do that. You could wreck your camera and/or phone.