Fly me to the Moon!

Look! Isn’t this beautiful? This is my own particular view of the moon from my bedroom window!

(video uploaded onto youtube by Beanz2u)

I have just learnt that Frank Sinatra’s version of “Fly me to the Moon” was played for the Apollo 10 astronauts during their lunar mission. I shall always think of the astronauts singing along in their rocket when I hear that song now… and of this piece of film which never fails to astonish me.

This week, item no. 2 on my ‘Castle Coop Good Things’ list is:

 As yet, no-one has put up any street lamps. 

When it gets dark, you can sometimes see a little bobbing light waving about outside; it will be a neighbour finding his way around by torchlight for the only other sources of light to see by come from the moon, the stars and the lighted houses. I love looking at both the night sky above the fields and at the houses lining the village street, with their illuminated windows .

On clear nights, I can look up at the sky, admire the moon and see hundreds and hundreds of stars. The agent has bought a telescope which he sets up sometimes in the middle of the garden; we look through it and he tells me how to identify the constellations.

It is absolutely fascinating.

Yours starrily,

LLH