Notes and links from 12 Aug

Partial-eclipse day today and since I had a bit of energy I decided to get the camera out and take some photos. Our local park has a bit of a hill and a decent view of the sky so we headed over to meet some chums, along with a decent chunk of the local community. Eclipses, even partial ones, retain their majesty and awe. Even though I was dicking about with the camera and explaining to people how to get a decent image with their colanders that magic was still palpable. I’m still working on the images I took which aren’t that amazing but were fun to get, so look for that tomorrow. Bill Paterson Remembers… The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil I could listen to Bill Patterson (the dour dad to both Prentice and Fleabag) talk for hours and this is a delightful reminiscence of his radical leftist theatre days as part of 7:84 and their 1973 touring performance of The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil about the historic Highland clearances and the then contemporary…