Planet Ruby Starrs

  A night out on the Toon....  @gostargazing  arranged for Dr Fred to give a series of astronomy lectures in Durham Cathedral under the Moon... Luke Jerrams stunningly beautiful installation of the Museum of the Moon - a 7 metre sphere hanging as if rising in the nave of this rather magnificent building. I saw it at the Natural History Museum but the lighting and location were not as effective as amongst the gothic Romanesque arches... It looked amazing... the lecture was good too.... All Dr Freds talks are sold out but the moon is there for anyone to look at until mid November.

Another star weekend is underway at the Ninebanks Youth hostel hosted by myself and Dr Fred.  the weather is not being kind to us, rain mist and more rain and the only stars visible are the people who rock up almost every weekend on offer to enjoy not only the educational aspects of Dr Freds lectures about the universe and its vastness but also the food, cakes and chat of long term friends and colleagues with like minded interests. These interests range from the obvious astronomy through to local history, knitting, travel, walking in the rain and cake eating... I add cake eating as this has become a massive requirement of the weekend and today is no exception as we seem to have gone a bit overboard on the cake front.  - these are just the cakes - this does not include the cheesecake, meringues and crumble we offer for desserts - lemon drizzle, carrot cake, fairy cakes, date and walnut and double chocolate (with moon icing) Eating cake makes up little bit for not gettin...