Yin and Yang

A very quiet day at home, the definite highlight of which was watching the Traitors, a rare foray into television. I said Yin would go first, even though I didn't see her as much of a threat and so it proved. Watched her later on the podcast and she was a delight - a great loss to the show- and hopefully will find somewhere to shine. The traitors have gotten off to a bad start and it only looks like the Liverpudlian girl has a chance of pulling through based on the first episode. It seemed to me that most of them missed a trick not jumping off the train. Surely those three who got off will be back? The series has somewhat lost the element of surprise by pulling a similar trick in series 1. Unless it is a double bluff? I think they really need to shake it up this year. It is getting a bit samey in some respects. Some of the challenges dragged a bit last year but overall the show turned out to be every bit as good as season 1 and perhaps a bit more so.

In other news I was able to test my Christmas present Celeron Firstscope because we had clear-ish skies. It was kind of spoilt by my neighbour, who I swear come winter, summer, rain, wind or shine lives in the outhouse attached to his house, keeps the door open and has a direct line of sight to my bedroom window. When I came back from the Traitors plus the podcast and bonus podcast he was still there with the outhouse door open in the cold miserable weather doing I don't know what. It wasn't like he was building something or crafting something. I think he was chopping thin air with a butcher's knife. Actually, I'm going to try and answer that question seriously in a future post because it's annoying me. 

They are a loud family at the best of times and we had a howling storm yesterday and he was still somehow screaming outside at someone in the midst of it. The confines of their house is just not enough for them and they seem to really inhabit the plot of land, rather than retreat inside the house like we do.

Me being quite useless I couldn't tell what I finally managed to get the telescope focused on. Venus, Saturn or even a star, I wasn't quite sure. The magnification was crap, anyways but when I get the hang of it and I can finally see the rings of Saturn or the moons of Jupiter I will then have a telescope I don't really have any further use for in my possession.

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