Aye me too. But it's odd.

I am not putting myself as the proponent of those theories, by the way. They are bollocks but they don't bother me much.

As for the animals thing... stop keeping them locked up every other night of the month. I'm not surprised the poor things go nuts when they're let out for the evening.

They're fucking cool, though, full moons, and that's the main thing.

I've been listening to too much Coil recently, and they basically got good when they decided they made "lunar" music, in the 90s. They made four records inspired by equinoxes, one of which includes a track called 'Amethyst Deceivers' (they're anything but the dippy new agers any of this might suggest though). Turns out some people used to swear that if you put an amethyst in your glass of wine you wouldn't get drunk.

Nah. No contrast or shadow, so you don't get to see much. When there's only a slice, the shadows show up all the craters, mountains and "seas" beautifully.

I was at a dinner party with my parents many years back which Malcolm Gluck was also a guest at. After a while he started expounding the glories of biodynamics. It was really hard to suppress the urge to rant about evidence, but it's not like I knew anything about wine myself.

You know me, Hobbes, I'm all about the full-on glare and superficial effect; no time for subtle details.

Ginger Yellow wrote:


Jesus, what a twat.

Wyatt Earp wrote:


What the fu....

Sam Kelly wrote:

My cat is allowed out to come and go. I just prefer him to come in around 4 am so I can settle, and as he's got older and mostly retired from hunting he's easier to entice in. But on full moon nights he definitely has somewhere to be.

Lucia Lanigan wrote:

They are very beautiful. Especially over the sea, but anywhere.

Whatever time biodynamic wineries are spending burying manure in cow horns at midnight is time they're not spending spraying poison, or supporting "The" Arsenal, or [REDACTED]. So just STFU and enjoy the goddamn wine already. Or don't, more for me, no worries.

You can enjoy wine and not talk out your arse.

I had a bad wine once. It wasn't words that came out my arse.

I must admit though, when at full glow, unencumbered by cloud cover, the moon is a compelling sight. There's an unlit path that connects the estate I live in with another, and has only the one lamp at the end to illuminate it, and if I need to get anything from the shop in the evening in the other estate I take it. Dark as fuck. On full moon nights, though, it's as if a television production unit has supervised the lighting for a night scene. Everything is illuminated.

Not sure about the moon's glow having a beneficial effect on the hard-of-sleeping, although, if that's the case, if Neil Armstrong was an insomniac he'd have had twice the cause to celebrate when landing on the moon. 'One small step for man...one giant leap for mankind...IN YOUR FACE, OVALTINE!'

You should try it through a small (or indeed large) telescope.

I did not too long ago, and a rewarding sight it was, too. Froze my bollocks off, but worth it.

that's what happens if you join a naked astronomy group.

Wyatt Earp wrote:

Speak for yourself.

I know that OTF is very good at challenging orthodoxies and questioning everything and very bad at finding people no-one here hates but I sense we are taking it too far. Last week, I was questioned about relief at that schoolgirl not coming to physical harm and now the phrase



is questioned

ian.64 wrote:

Yes. Some refer to this as "moonlight".