Take care of yourself in the transition from summer into autumn
The human body always starts experiencing distress (not to be confused with stress, which is the basis of a healthy life) during the transition from summer to autumn, from the summer heat to the cool of autumn. As a result, the queue illness with a runny nose, cough, laid his ears, aching joints and muscles, with all other forms of multi-variant of the disease, as they like to call it in Albion, soaked feet.
It is not a negative emotions about leaving summer, but the tension that is beginning to experience a cold snap it (the human body), physiological systems, and when their resources to resist that meter (voltage) is not always sufficient.
Healthy lifestyle, healthy food, clothes for the season is very important.
Take care of yourself. Eat needs more vegetables and meat. Find beauty in warmer clothes.
Before others wearing it and opening the new season of fashion, more likely in cold and wet weather will enter without loss of health.
Otherwise, the legs will soar, and this is not the last concern.
Good luck.
Venus transit at sunrise from West Kennet Longbarrow 6th June 2012
It would perhaps have been difficult, given our frequently cloudy skies, for the people who built Avebury to observe a transit of Venus across the sun. Being keen to demonstrate that it was possible, I dragged myself out of bed at 4am this morning and looked for any sign of a hole in the sky. It didn't look too promising with the only potential clear patch being very small and directly above while the horizon was wrapped right around in a dense blanket of grey.
Oh well... Judging by past experiences at WKLB I trudged slowly up the hill anyway, watching the advance of a thin patch in the cloud.
All anticipation of a red lightbeam.shining from the horizon onto the wall of the South East chamber and containing a small black spot was now clearly pointless, and since a meditation exercise was already underway inside the long barrow just as the sun was due to rise, I positioned my tripod on the top above the chambers and pointed the camera at an azimuth of 51 degrees.(i.e. towards the grey horizon just to the right of the bronze age round barrows which mark the direction of the Summer Solstice sunrise).
Taking care to include the thinnest patch of cloud I could see, I switched the camera on in a resigned manner and let it run.
This is the resulting video. I have condensed and speeded up the first half - from the time of sunrise to the eventual thinning of the cloud to the point where it became a useful filter instead of a blockage. From about the middle it is real time video and sound (wind, swallows and skylarks).
Of course I could have cut the video down much more but I think this enables you to share the experience of perseverance against the odds finally paying off. Also, it makes it clear where I am filming from and ends any dispute about whether this could have been seen from Avebury by its architects.
