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This is my attempt with my cheap scope and my mobile phone camera. 👍

Having mine tomorrow (Thursday) and pleased to be getting the vaccine.

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Just had mine done was painless and the flu jab is worse.

They've started group 5 in our area so hopefully we'll be summoned soon. Hope it cures stir craziness too.....

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The roads you find when you haven't got you Westfield. Today we drove from Sukhothai to Chom Thong 156 miles. When we got here we visited a Temple and a waterfall. and found this road.

My parents had their first shot 2 weeks ago on Sunday, dad is 81, survived cancer, fit as a fiddle otherwise played golf when the courses open 2-3 times a week with a single figure handicap, and it hit him like a train really bad flu like symptoms mum in her late 70s waiting for a heart and lung transplant! no issues at all

You are making me cringe with cold looking at that pic I would have never got home and been layed up for a week Good pic ian Its a good job you have a pink front and back end! Or your car would have melted into the scenery

+ single figures or -ve? We get both in the Peaks 😆 Pic was taken 3yrs ago today (Thanks to FB reminding me). Outside the Cat'n'Fiddle Pub

Actually, @SootySport if you wanted to ‘dip your toes’ into this for next to nothing, I bought a ‘travel scope’ some years ago to take on holiday. It’s only a 90mm Newtonian reflector but it’s surprisingly decent given how cheap it was. If you’ve any interest, I’ll dig it out and get some details.

Fantastic artist and a lovely sentiment Simon.

Hi, I was bought a Skywatcher 130M a few years ago with a few different filters and lens adapters. Very much an amateur and it can do far more than I know what to do with it (same as the westy on track!) Next would be a camera mount but with the scope and a mobile phone you can get nice and close to the moon

Ah right ok. I knew there was a difference in engine. TBH i would be in the 16/17 plate region for one of these at a push. but useful to know.

I lack the skills... I can’t commit to the time this year, but I’d like to get out at some point, hopefully next year.

Obviously still too much for you! 😆

I'm full of admiration for you Richard and everyone else who has contributed their stories to this thread.

Hi all, I have wanted to post on this thread for quite sometime now, actually since Adam first started this thread. As others have said it a credit to Adam and the forum members for this awful affliction to become as normal to talk about as the weather. My own issues started way back in 2002 ( actually was instigated in 1970 !!) when I tried the most stupid thing of trying to end it all, fortunately all that happened was a night in hospital and a stomach pump, I tried counseling immediately after this as my GP fast tracked me to the correct department. Sadly however, the guy I was given ( as I found out later) was just out of training and I simply could not connect with him , I was learn that he left the NHS shortly afterwards. This put me off getting any further professional help for quite sometime. Then another rather sad affair saw me in hospital again wearing an oxygen mask after trying to do the same trick using my car exhaust ( actually, it is rather embarrassing to see those words in print here for me !) Fast forward to 2014 and I had enough of feeling like this all the time and went to my GP again, I was once again given some help in what they now called CBT, and I have to say after many many sessions over two years, it really did help. There really isn't one session or one thing I was told to think about that did the trick, I think it was perhaps the opportunity of just simply telling 'my story' to someone who not only listened , but understood - and the most important aspect was that they had empathy, a word that is lacking these days ( or was). So an an ex 'service user', PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do get help should you going down the slippery slope of self harm or worse. I never ever thought I could be cured as it were , but the brain really is just a rather wet computer and as such can be reprogrammed with new instructions, it may well take time to delete those unwanted files but once done you end up with a nice organised system, capable of dealing with any problems that its given without crashing all the time. All I need to do now is start working again, as that all stopped in 2002, this Covid has somewhat delayed that as I finally felt able to cope with a work environment again , but I will get there. When we can all meet up again Adam, remind me to buy you a beer at the Green Man for starting this thread, yes we have met before at a Lancs meet once. Richard