Evening sky

Evening in St Neots

St Neots during the evening twilight on 22nd November.

The sky is clear with just a few grey clouds; overhead is a deep, deep blue becoming paler and brighter towards the western horizon. And the last hints of light from the setting sun provide a pinkish tinge.

This photo is taken from Cambridge Street looking towards the Market Square.

There are signs of life in this scene too. The nearly bare branches of a tree are the most obvious of these, but the lights and buildings are clear evidence to suggest that people cannot be far away. In fact, the streets were still bustling at the time the photo was taken.

What a beautiful world we live in!

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A white ceiling!

Progress in the new kitchen

The kitchen looks loads better with the new window fitted and a couple of splash coats on the ceiling. Compare this photo with the one taken on November 20th.

At last we are beginning to see things getting slowly better rather than slowly worse! And the new space is going to be really useful with several internal walls gone.

We're still hoping everything will be finished before Christmas, the critical date for that is 5th December when the worktop templating has to be done for pre-Christmas fitting.

Any later and the fitting will roll over to the end of December or even early January.

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Jupiter over St Neots

Jupiter in the eastern sky

Jupiter has been low in the eastern sky over St Neots in the early evening. It rises higher and heads south as the night draws on.

It will look much the same anywhere in mid-northern latitudes, a very bright star-like point of light to the naked eye. But steady, unlike the stars that shimmer and twinkle.

It's hard to imagine that this little point of light is actually a planet big enough to hold a thousand Earths! It is roughly ten times the Earth's diameter.

If you could visit Jupiter and look at the Earth we would appear less than one hundredth as bright and would be very hard to spot in the glare of the nearby Sun.

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Getting plastered

Plaster drying in the kitchen

Here's the current state of our kitchen.

Much of the plastering is done now and the ceiling is getting quite dry. Soon we'll be able to get on with the decorating.

As you can see, the window opening is still boarded up, but we expect the new window to be ready any day and things will look much better once it's fitted.

Donna's even starting to get a little excited about progress now. It looks like a brand new room!

Darryn has worked extremely hard; he's managing the entire job and bringing in other trades as necessary. When the work is done we will be so glad to get the house tidy and get back to normal!

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Half and half

Maple leaves falling

Right now some of the trees have half the leaves still on the tree while the other half are lying on the ground.

This sycamore in Eynesbury has deposited leaves in a circle on the grass. They are such a lovely, luminous, summery yellow.

We are at last stating to get frosty nights and it's only a matter of time before all the leaves will be on the ground.

Then winter will start in earnest. But so far it still feels like autumn, and very nice too.

This year's leaves will decay and act as a mulch for next year's spring flowers. There is absolutely no waste in the natural world. And that's more than can be said for human technology.

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