Of course, spring varies according to your location ...

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Graeme wrote:
30 Mar 2023, 16:36
I thought you meant with Mercury at the right angle of a right angle triangle. So from Earth we are looking perpendicular to a line from the Sun to Mercury.
That's what I did mean, but I was wrong.
:pup: :question: Perhaps we should just agree to agree?
You just tilted your head to one side didn't you!
No. I was shaking it slowly from side to side, but only through ten degrees so as not to lose sight of the text, but stopped shaking it to type this.
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Graeme wrote:
30 Mar 2023, 16:41
...does your one go silent at night thus not waking you up all night long every hour on the hour?
No, it cuckoos on the hour and on the half hour, 24 hours a day** but we've had it since 1985 so we're used to it and it doesn't wake us up.

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**When I was working from home, I worked at the desk in one of the boy's bedrooms. I rarely closed the bedroom door so if I was in a Teams call / meeting when when the clock did it could be heard by the others in the call. Everybody got used to it.

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Graeme wrote:
29 Mar 2023, 19:19
The dot is actually a light sensor. When we go to bed and turn the light off, the cuckoo knows not to coocoo!
So does Sluggo recommence cuckooing when the morning sun is yet half an hour below the skyline?
That would seem to call for a mandatory change in sleep habits at daylight saving/spending time.
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ChrisGreaves wrote:
30 Mar 2023, 19:56
Graeme wrote:
29 Mar 2023, 19:19
The dot is actually a light sensor. When we go to bed and turn the light off, the cuckoo knows not to coocoo!
So does Sluggo recommence cuckooing when the morning sun is yet half an hour below the skyline?

No, because we draw the curtains.
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Anyway, back to Greatest Elongation, if you look at the diagram and draw a dot for where Mercury would be at 90 round it's orbit, as you did for Venus, you will see that it would appear closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth, than the position shown. Greatest Elongation is when an inferiour planet appears at its greatest distance from the Sun. For Mercury that's 19 ish degrees. For Venus it's 46 degrees.
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Graeme wrote:
31 Mar 2023, 12:35
No, because we draw the curtains.
You don't have real curtains?

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GeoffW wrote:
31 Mar 2023, 13:50
Graeme wrote:
31 Mar 2023, 12:35
No, because we draw the curtains.
You don't have real curtains?
Which makes me wonder, how come, way back in The Olden Days, when you went to a bank to draw money you didn't get arrested for forgery?

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GeoffW wrote:
31 Mar 2023, 13:50
Graeme wrote:
31 Mar 2023, 12:35
No, because we draw the curtains.
You don't have real curtains?
:grin: Funnily enough I wasn't sure if the correct spelling for the verb was draw or drawer!
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Now I'm worried about the pension that I draw... :sad:
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HansV wrote:
31 Mar 2023, 16:32
Now I'm worried about the pension that I draw... :sad:
Ooo, hadn't thought of that. Now I'm worried too :hiding:

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Graeme wrote:
31 Mar 2023, 15:52
:grin: Funnily enough I wasn't sure if the correct spelling for the verb was draw or drawer!
Only very rich people, who can afford lots of curtains, drawer them. :groan:
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Graeme wrote:
31 Mar 2023, 15:52

:grin: Funnily enough I wasn't sure if the correct spelling for the verb was draw or drawer!
Unlike Hans, I drawer* my pension. It gets shelved.

* Thus demonstrating that, contrary to my initial thought, even words which appear to be unequivocally nouns, can be verbalated.

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ChrisGreaves wrote:
31 Mar 2023, 17:34
Only very rich people, who can afford lots of curtains, drawer them...
While cheapskate people (like me and my wife) put old curtains in a bag and store them in the loft, in case they might come in handy.

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Thus demonstrating that, contrary to my initial thought, even words which appear to be unequivocally nouns, can be verbalated.
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GeoffW wrote:
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* Thus demonstrating that, contrary to my initial thought, even words which appear to be unequivocally nouns, can be verbalated.
... and by definition, produce a noun a process known as verbalation".
Neat!
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O was going to use the word "verbized", but I didn't know if I should spell it with a Z for the North Americans, or with an S for the rest of the world.

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GeoffW wrote:
31 Mar 2023, 20:17
O was going to use the word "verbized", but I didn't know if I should spell it with a Z for the North Americans, or with an S for the rest of the world.
Why not upset everyone at once, then it's none of your biznezz?
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Spring time in the Kentish countryside:

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Lovely weather!
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Meanwhile in Yorkshire today it's cold, wet and grey sky :sad:

Yesterday though was the opposite, warm, dry and blue sky.

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