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What a day! I am shattered up at 4. Interviewed live for Radio WM (twice), interviewed for BBC Midlands and BBC One, interviewed by the Birmingham post. Countless photographers about 1,000 people about. Oh and not to mention Venus Transiting the Sun, what a day! Absolutely unbelievable. It went far beyond my wildest dream, I am so happy. I am also so glad we managed to get so many people to view it. It was wonderful. One of the best memories I have at the moment is of a young boy obviously not knowing what was going on but you know his mother at some point in the future will tell him that he saw the transit - a once in a lifetime (even his) experience. Wow!

One final thought - this time not from me:

Oh! then farewell, thou beauteous queen!
Thy sway may soften natures yet untamed,
Whose breasts, bereft of the native fury,
Then shall learn the milder virtues.
We, with anxious mind, follow thy latest footsteps here,
And far as thought can carry us;
My labours now bedeck the monument for future times
Which thou at parting left us. Thy return
Posterity shall witness; years must roll away,
But then at length the splendid sight
Again shall greet our distant children's eyes.

Jeremiah Horrocks (1618-1641)