I Spent The Morning,

trying to settle one of the last invoices from one of our suppliers, 

I am awaiting some information from the estate agent that oversaw the sale, hopefully in the next few days all will be completed, in the afternoon, a play with a couple of photographs, firstly a huge metal elephant, I saw this one when I visited Big Robot Pattaya, on our last visit to Thailand, 

the second photograph of a collection of living stones as they are called, Lithops to give them their scientific name, I saw these on a visit to a outdoor garden centre in Pattaya, 

then something out of this world, not one of my photographs I am afraid to say, but one taken a couple of nights ago by Lee, it is the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), if you are interested the galaxy it is our closest major galactic neighbour, a vast spiral galaxy about 2.5 million light-years away, visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge in the constellation Andromeda, and contains roughly a trillion stars, significantly more than the Milky Way, here it is, 

from the Hubble telescope, photograph from NASA, well Lee's telescope is not quite as powerful, but here is Lee's photograph after I played with it a tad, 

I tried to take away a lot of the background noise, but slightly over did the inner edge and lost some of the detail in the lower area,

a side by side comparison, I will play with it again over the next few days, all of this brought me up to when Diana arrived home from work, after our evening meal it was feet up for a couple of quiz shows before our film for the evening, 

 The Avengers, the 1998 movie, great fun in a surreal sort of way, also having seen Eddie Izzard in the movie it reminded us of when we visited Bexhill and looked at his model railway on display there, by now it was nearing the midnight hour, so we were off to bed.