Eclipse, what eclipse?
Marvin, totally unimpressed by the unfolding astronomical event, had to wait while Jess was chased by a pony hardly bigger than her. Fortunately it gave up while all her bones were still intact.
Our walk took us up on to East Hill, just south of Okehampton, an area of open access land, which promised a good view, or rather experience, of the eclipse, since I did not have the requisite glasses or pin hole camera to view it. A brief period of grey light was pretty much the whole of it, so we headed back down the hill. The bracken had all been cleared leaving large areas of rough ground littered with those delights for dogs, rabbit droppings, sheep poo....
We came across this holly tree, surrounded on three sides with such high and dense gorse it looked more like a cave. The dense gorse prevents much growing underneath, leaving a forest of woody stems. The view across the town was great though.
Here's a design from the gorse stems:
