Friday 9 March 2012

Coloured lights for an old queen

Last night did, indeed, produce a lot of coloured lights in the sky, but it was nothing to do with the solar flares, or the Aurora Borealis.

A specialist lighting company was bathing Victoria in it, as part - I guess - of a rehearsal for the Jubilee celebrations later in the year, maybe for the forthcoming Festival season? They started off ok with the above arrangement, but then...

... they started experimenting with the 'Dracula' look for Old Vic, and finally seemed to settle for an insipid and uncontroversial arrangement of pale blues, having climbed up and down the tower, standing in the street and dancing around with a bright green dot of a powerful laser-pointer. They packed up and left her alone, which was a shame. I was rather hoping that we were going to spend the rest of the year looking out on her in robes of many colours.

All the while, the real light-show powered down on the proceedings - a nice full moon corresponding with a show of the Northern Lights would have been good after the technicians had gone. Oh well.

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  1. I got up last night at about 3am, and the moon was so bright that I could see everything outside perfectly clearly. Not seen it quite like that before!

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    1. Yes it was a good one - not good for other light shows or stargazing, though.

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    All comments (apart from Chris saying "Ha ha, what a lot of money, my PC is fine, blah blah") gratefully received.

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    1. No reply needed now. I have - thanks to some online help forum (I am amazed at how altruistically helpful most onliners are).

      If you need to know how to do it, then you simply hold down the alt, cmd and space bar whilst launching iPhoto, and a little repair form will automatically come up. Tick the appropriate boxes, then start the repair and within about one minute, all the repairs are carried out and normal service resumes. Phew.

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  3. There was even a red alert from Aurora Watch last night, but a totally cloudy sky - sod's law- it is always the same.

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  4. I saw the Southern Cross the other night outside my daughter's house in Bondi. Wish to God I was there now.

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    1. It's good that we all get the same moon, eh? Shame we don't get an equal distribution of sun as well...

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    2. ... or rain - I've heard what's been going on in some parts...

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