The demise of a street light.

Posted on November 30, 2011 by grebrynod

Here’s the fate of one street light near me. For a few moments I thought
the council had installed an oil lamp.

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Cairns more expensive than Cannes!

Posted on November 16, 2011 by grebrynod

An exchange of emails with a travel company throws up an interesting reply.
Remember this is $8640 per couple and would probably pay for business class travel from the USA!
More here

—–Original Message—–
From: Gerry Bond [mailto:gerry@ryhill.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 1:57 PM
To: Lisa Ralph
Subject: Cairns – land only

Is it a mistake? Are you asking $4320pp to stay in a hotel which can be booked for 138AUD per night (for two)?
(16 Nov – The price is now up a bit at $376 for a double room)
Gerry

Gerry,

Thanks for your question.   The 4,320.00 per person is for the 5 nights stay in Cairns.
This is 3 nights in the hotel and 2 nights at the eclipse site.  Also included are all transfers, meals and two days of sightseeing.
Here is the itinerary:
http://www.spearstravel.com/astronomy/australia12/aus2012cairnsitin.htm

I don’t disagree with you that you could probably book that hotel for that price but not during this eclipse.

The hotels are talking FULL advantage of everybody traveling to Australia for this eclipse.  I have been doing these trips for 20 years and it seems like the markup on the locations keeps getting worse every year.   There isn’t anything I can do about it.  They ask for big money upfront and minimum stays.

I hope you understand?

Thanks again.

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Stargazing Live

Posted on November 10, 2011 by grebrynod

Dear old BBC – again.
Can we drop this ‘stargazing’ epithet?  I can remember a time before I was a ‘stargazer’ and really would not have been inspired by the word.
Here’s a bit of their trawl for help with this programme.

Hold your own Stargazing event and let people know with Things To Do!
Dear Partners,
You may have already heard that Stargazing LIVE is returning for 2012 and how you can be a part of this celebration of astronomy by putting on events in your local area. If not, then please read on find out more about how we can work together to entice a new audience to learn about stargazing and start looking up!
 


Dictionary.com

star·gaz·er

[stahr-gey-zer] Show IPA
noun
1. a person who stargazes, as an astronomer or astrologer.
2. a daydreamer.
3. an impractical idealist.

 

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