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he/him • Doctor of Physics • Worldbuilder & Conlanger • Fan of Fantasy • Whovian • Amateur Enthusiast of Linguistics, Archaeology, Classics, and many other things
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It's just started raining on me and I'm actually quite content
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"Scarlet cassimere, faced with scarlet silk" okay Cersei Lannister!
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Once again heard a racket from the greenhouse, and entered to discover another one—this time an elephant hawk-moth!
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Thank you—I thought so initially, but was told it was a mouse (by people who, in all fairness, hadn't looked closely at the video and probably didn't listen to me 😅😅😅)
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Nonetheless very excited (and still planning on eating some popcorn). And to be clear, no judgement on anyone who is going to see it alone—more power to you! I probably would be if I still lived in Durham, but the logistics from here would be so awkward that I'm giving it a miss
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My guess would be you're remembering him as Radagast from Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy?
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Yup, 1987, and that's the Seventh Doctor freshly regenerated in the Sixth Doctor's costume!
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* Serious Dunkage™
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Tbf the birds are named as such because they're the colour of the cardinals' cassocks, right? So you're not far off etymologically
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Looking at a star map to confirm the above, it looks like the two over the Moon are just stars: Iota Aurigae (named Hassaleh) on the left and Beta Tauri / Gamma Aurigae (named Elnath) on the right
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I can recognise the little V of stars over the trees as the Hyades of Taurus, and I (apparently correctly) guessed that the bright planet between them and the Moon is Jupiter, because Jupiter was hanging about near the Hyades a lot around the time of this post
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Well that's grim