Who peeked?

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Admit it who peeked, can't of just been me 🤣🤣🤣

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Did it affect your spelling?

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I peeked at the eclipse in 1999 sat next to my lovely Nanna in her beautiful garden and she hit me with her fan and told me I'd go blind and to use my eclipse box, I peeked again now in 2026 and promptly burst into tears because she wasn't here to do it again. So now I don't know if I have eye damage or just too many emotions.

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Nuts. It’s so dangerous.

I dld aodc there's nothog wroing with myyeyes

I was just going to mention The Triffids !🤣

I squinted a few times, no harm done!

I don’t think they will be able to find it 😳

Ok, so after the 1999 eclipse that millions of us (tens of millions...) of us watched in the UK, 70 people reported vision difficulties.

Of those 60% had viewed it for longer than a minute. I can't find details on how long the other 40% watched it for, but I'm betting that given it was just 70 people in total, and the amount of people that in reality take a glimpse (see this thread alone), the likelihood of damage from a fleeing glance is low.

I'm missing DH terribly. He would have been over the moon ...

We travelled to see an eclipse in 2017 and I recently found the glasses he bought all of us. Could I find them this week? Of course not! But he would have known right where they were and would have been prepping for weeks.

And he was always hoping for global warming b/c he wanted hotter summers ...

My husband did and now is panicking😂 luckily we already have 2 Labrador’s so perhaps tomorrow will be spent teaching them some new tricks!

I'll have to confess that I just couldn't muster up any motivation to even be bothered with it all....so no peeking in any form here.

Was naff for us, want from sunny d orange to dim storm and then back to orange 🍊

It's the odd but lovely moments that catch us off guard, isn't it? You will find them when you least expect it!

Oh wow I didn’t realise!! It feels like only last week we had the last meteor shower! So close together!

This from cornwall

I was driving and turned a corner into the sun. I had my sunglasses on and the sun visors down in the car but I still got some glare, though I didn't look straight at it. I had a big panic when I got home though as when I took my sunglasses off and put my normal glasses back on I noticed the vision in my right eye was really blurry. I was sure I'd fried my retina. Fortunately once I removed my glasses and wiped the greasy thumb print off the lens I seem to be cured!

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I did similar driving home with sunglasses on and also got a bit worried, but is it any different to catching sight of the sun when driving home any other night?! Because I don’t usually worry or care!

Yep. My eyes hurt

Nothing worth peeking at here! Very disappointing.

Now, THAT is funny 🤣