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Sunday photos: Chai and a shopping bag

  I just keep chugging along, doing a bit of work on updating the book every day. Sometimes it’s a tiny baby step, but it is adding up. I’m on the 21st of 23 telescopes. There is light at the end of the tunnel. I just hope it’s not a train. Meanwhile Chai Latte is as entertaining and photogenic as ever. We start most mornings with a brief snuggle together…

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Sunday photos: seed heads

I’ve had two photo sessions at the observatory this week, trying to finish up illustrations for the third edition of “A Breathtaking Window on the Universe“. Last Sunday I had permission to take sunset photos around the MAGIC telescope. I took five minutes out from that to photograph these backlit seed heads. They aren’t dandelions, but i think they must be in the same family. After I got the photo…

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Two left feet

Yay! The laptop’s fixed. That is, I’ve reinstalled windows, replaced files from backup and reinstalled a bunch of stuff like Dropbox and recovered most passwords. I still have a few bits to replace here and there, but I’m up and running. I went to the solstice party at Rivendell which included a laughter therapy session and a belly dancing class.. It’s a lovely palace, but one of the few downsides…

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My laptop died

Luckily I’ve been able to backup all my personal files and then re-install the operating system so it could have been much worse. It was still time consuming and there’s probably still more to sort out. I hope to post photos tomorrow.

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