So slightly apprehensively setting off to Novosibirsk, Siberia, for the Solar Eclipse on August 1st. A partial eclipse will be visible in the UK early in the morning. I was outside Edinburgh Zoo, on my way to the festival, for the 1999 eclipse. I think the animals were making strange sounds but that could just be the perversion of memory. I took a photo- would probably have burnt my retinas out if it hadn't of course been cloudy. But the light still made a very strange effect through the clouds, streaks of light. I can't find the photo of course....
