The eclipse trip, and the bread that came with it
A hillside in northern Spain, 93% of the Sun covered, and a baguette bought that morning from a bakery that opened at six.
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Perseids from a field with no name
Forty minutes of driving to get two magnitudes of darkness, a thermos, a tray of focaccia and 61 meteors.
Someone else's Milky Way
Full Moon, street lamp and a thin haze have cancelled the week, so here is a four-and-a-half-minute Milky Way time-lapse from Japan that I did not film.
A frying-pan flatbread for a hot week
When the kitchen is at 29 °C and the oven is unthinkable, a yoghurt flatbread with starter discard, cooked in a frying pan in four minutes a piece.
What's up in July, and what is up from here
NASA's three-minute July sky guide, with my notes on which parts work from a European back garden with a street lamp and which ones need a car.
Short nights
Mid-June, the sky never gets properly dark, the telescope stays in the cupboard, and two bright planets make the best of the twilight anyway.
Overnight focaccia, or how to use the waiting
The dough that takes twelve hours of nothing and twenty minutes of work. It happens to be exactly the shape of an observing session.
The first proper loaf from the new starter
Ten weeks after starting a culture from rye flour and tap water, it finally made a loaf I would give to someone else. Notes on what changed.