Clouds and haze cleared here and the eclipse has just passed its"peak"(?) -a thin sliver like a smiley face! I remembered that thing about birds falling silent etc from the 1999 eclipse, but have to say it didn't happen here this time -still chattering away and flying around.
I wonder if it is a feature of the double glazing, but although the sun was clearly too bright to look at directly, I found that from a particular angle I got the crescent shape "reflected" as it were in the glass. There was a good website which gives an animation for your locality so I was able to check against the time.
Now feeling depressed as I wonder if I will see another one in my lifetime -oh momento mori.
Nicola Sturgeon’s husband re-arrested