h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

 The eclipse has come and gone. I wonder what I should do with my eclipse glasses ?
I viewed the eclipse from London.
At 11:00 (19 mins before greatest eclipse) the sky went cloudy.
After a lovely sunny morning when I had seen the "bite" out of the sun get bigger and bigger from around 10:30 onwards.
Pinhole camera worked well too.
At 11:19 it got about as dark as a very big storm.
I have heard from a chap in Totnes where the weather was cloudy.
In Edinburgh it was a lovely day and they had the best view but the least "missing".
Another guy in Stuttgart saw the diamond ring but then a rain cloud covered the rest of totality.
All in all it was great fun but I just know that if I'd gone down to Cornwall I'd have been dissapointed and been desperate for a cloud break.
On Saturday the family and I went to Kirby hall for a great series of battle re-enactments.
Really good and very interesting.
An all day history lesson.