Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Can’t find anywhere selling them - anyone found a source?
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I was asking ChatGPT about how we look at the eclipse now that we don’t have x-ray film readily available anymore. It told me off for using that in the first place 
showing my age.
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We’ve previously created a pinhole projector thing with a cardboard box and it worked great.
Our plan for tomorrow is to go down to the beach (we’ll probably get a chance to borrow a pair of glasses for a short while off of someone) and just watch the sky go a little dark and watch any highlights/lowlights on TV later.
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I used my welding mask last time.
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BBC News - Three ways to watch the solar eclipse safely without glasses
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Interesting @buzz but be careful not to strain you’re eyes if using the colander method.
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That joke is very cornea.
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blinding humour, the pair of you…i can see what you’re doing…
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We’ve taken an unorthodox approach to avoiding damaging our eyes while looking at the eclipse by booking tickets for a 7pm showing of The Odyssey
We had no idea that it clashed with the eclipse until last week 
I remember going out of the office to see the last full eclipse and standing in the street
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I remember it, just. 
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1999 is was 99.8% here.
I made a in hole camera at work. It was cloudy though and it cleared a little so you could just see it for a few seconds when it was at its maximum. It was like dusk but a dull orange and all the birds went silent.
I used it again 16 years later for the on in 2015 that was in the 80 - 90% range, it didnt really go dark, just like a bit of wispy cloud over the sun.
2021 or 2022 and March 2025 were very underwhelming less than 40% here I think in the 20-50% range anyway.
2090 is the next full from the UK (I have to live to be 118) although there is a full from Gibraltar 2nd August 2027 (so next year.)
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Same here, I was working for Oracle at the time and we were building a new website for The Labour Party and were based at Millbank Tower (party HQ) just down the road from Big Ben. We all went outside to watch it. It was strange as all the birds went quiet for a while when it got “dark”. The London Eye was being constructed at the time and was on its side.
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I drove to Cornwall with a big group of friends for that. Very cloudy, but my sharpest memory was the vast shadow racing across the surface of the sea. Very strange.
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The advice that it’s ok to look directly at The Sun has had its fair share of knockers.
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I totally stole that one!
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We went to Torquay in 1999, it was cloudy
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I used to work John Islip Street many, many years ago
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I was working for PolyGram in 1999 - a fantastic location to view
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Remember the hype around 1999, but also the slightly underwhelming clouds. Remember being told some of my generation might be only people to live through two total eclipses, but thought it was ~2080. 2090 seems a stretch too far, not sure I still want to be around to see it unless in great health!
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A bunch of us rode to Cornwall for the 99 eclipse, 5 minutes before the eclipse there was 100% cloud cover but just moments before the eclipse the clouds parted and we got a perfect viewing.
The clouds parting for us is my overriding memory and that the ride home was horrific in biblical rain.
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