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Exactly the same here, Elle.
Very eerie and all the birds stopped singing and hid in the trees. At the moment, there is strange yellow glow, but dark at the same time, triggering the street lights to come on.
. I looked at this earlier


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/eerie-orange-green-hurricane-sun-11349554

Yes, Jazzy, our street lights are on, too!
And the second picture of the sun shown in the link you sent, was just as the sun appeared over here when it was finally disappearing!
Almost pitch black now....the yellow glow is fading..........eerie.....

It was the atmosphere when we had the Solar eclipse

We had a very strange light this morning, but it's lovely now (a bit windy, admittedly!) Just fished what I hope will be the last grass cut of the year.

Rusty - I love the expression "Norn Iron" - it sounds just right! Is it yours, or is it in general use?

To clarify, I've finished the grass, not fished it!

I'll believe anything this afternoon, Chris!

I fished mine earlier too :0)

More photos have now been added to my link

Hello, Elle!
Yes, you appear to have very strange skies indeed.
Not so colourful here.
It is getting windier.
The storm centre of Ophelia is now over Sligo and South Donegal.
Another two folk killed.
One young man was attempting to clear a fallen tree in Tipperary with a chainsaw and had a fatal accident.
Another lad was crushed in his car in Dundalk by a falling tree.
Terrible!
How are you and the aliens getting on?

No, Chris, I can't claim Norn Iron, I'm afraid!
Think it originated in Belfast.
That's how they pronounce NI anyway!

Hi, Rusty!
It is terrible hearing of these deaths......who knows what will happen when one gets up in the morning.....
Let us hope that there are no further accidents or fatalities.
Those poor people and their families.
The happenings here were very weird and rather scary.......but I think ET has gone home!
It is gradually lightening again now.....
Returning to the more prosaic , rather than the Supernatural.........
I have done all bar three of the crossword clues.
I cannot do 9a: D?A?A?O?
and 20d: ES?E?E
Es is French 'art'
And I am stuck halfway with parsing 8d?
I have "shoetree" = one doing a stretch in Oxford (shoe)
ho -house
SE - Kent
but "tree"?
I especially liked 5a, 3d, 14a and 19d
and I also like the homophone in 7d...... I think "turmeric" is a good one!