Hilary Forbes
@nightowlhils.bsky.social
Drinks a lot of Yorkshire Tea... 🫖☕writes on https://medium.com/@hilary.forbes20 about astronomy, ancient astronomy, maths, ancient maths, teaching maths, being autistic, theology, random things, also blogs at https://theclassicalastronomer.wordpress.com.
My brother is in a Christmas movie today, he plays the King of Fredonia, the father of the Prince in the image below... It's a lovely movie...it's on at 1:40pm, on '5Christmas' , which you find by going to 'liveTV' on Channel 5.
December 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
My brother is in a Christmas movie today, he plays the King of Fredonia, the father of the Prince in the image below... It's a lovely movie...it's on at 1:40pm, on '5Christmas' , which you find by going to 'liveTV' on Channel 5.
I planted this acorn around the end of October just over 6 weeks ago... emerging as a teenyweenytiny Oak Tree.
December 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I planted this acorn around the end of October just over 6 weeks ago... emerging as a teenyweenytiny Oak Tree.
After 2 days of major upheaval with a new boiler and one radiator replacement, (courtesy of a gov scheme for which I am grateful beyond words), I treated myself to a little book haul from visiting my go-to place along the road, Little Morton Hall...a little foray into cryptic crosswords 😃
December 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
After 2 days of major upheaval with a new boiler and one radiator replacement, (courtesy of a gov scheme for which I am grateful beyond words), I treated myself to a little book haul from visiting my go-to place along the road, Little Morton Hall...a little foray into cryptic crosswords 😃
Local bin I walked past today - hope everyone takes heed and doesn't try to force it to do more than 23 mph...
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Local bin I walked past today - hope everyone takes heed and doesn't try to force it to do more than 23 mph...
My reading over the last couple of days...and Aristophanes Wasps...these were all my Dad's books...
September 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
My reading over the last couple of days...and Aristophanes Wasps...these were all my Dad's books...
Happy International Kittykat Day. Here I present a legal dispute over ownership rights of my garden. two most exceptional local orators. (both cats much loved by their hoomans). Cats never actually fight, they just have these polite legal court cases - usually in my garden often around 5am 😹😻😹😻
August 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Happy International Kittykat Day. Here I present a legal dispute over ownership rights of my garden. two most exceptional local orators. (both cats much loved by their hoomans). Cats never actually fight, they just have these polite legal court cases - usually in my garden often around 5am 😹😻😹😻
Back at my fave library today... A little detour for a cuppa and treat first in their cafe... @gladlib.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Back at my fave library today... A little detour for a cuppa and treat first in their cafe... @gladlib.bsky.social
This is my neighbours' cat, he lives up the road with his two cat brothers and dog brother. They are all so close, and border collie is so protective of them all. This one, however, apparently owns my garden...he tells me of all his adventures...actually he owns the whole neighbourhood... 😂
August 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This is my neighbours' cat, he lives up the road with his two cat brothers and dog brother. They are all so close, and border collie is so protective of them all. This one, however, apparently owns my garden...he tells me of all his adventures...actually he owns the whole neighbourhood... 😂
Our beautiful Moon as it was setting earlier... (refractor telescope, 600mm focal length, 90mm aperture, 10mm eyepiece and phone camera)
August 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Our beautiful Moon as it was setting earlier... (refractor telescope, 600mm focal length, 90mm aperture, 10mm eyepiece and phone camera)
My garden has produced this...
July 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My garden has produced this...
Well done Joe Root...
July 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Well done Joe Root...
For sale at Congleton Museum... I managed to resist - this time 😂
July 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
For sale at Congleton Museum... I managed to resist - this time 😂
On this day 56 years ago, Apollo 11 crew wake up and see this view - all known life, home, family, friends, childhood, birth... Receding at nearly 2500 mph...
www.apolloinrealtime.org
www.apolloinrealtime.org
July 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
On this day 56 years ago, Apollo 11 crew wake up and see this view - all known life, home, family, friends, childhood, birth... Receding at nearly 2500 mph...
www.apolloinrealtime.org
www.apolloinrealtime.org
That time of year again... One of my favourite fortnights...
June 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
That time of year again... One of my favourite fortnights...
This little hen (Tinkerbelle)who keeps escaping from my neighbour's hen home...I've taken her home 5 times now...(my car is parked up here on my drive...)
June 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This little hen (Tinkerbelle)who keeps escaping from my neighbour's hen home...I've taken her home 5 times now...(my car is parked up here on my drive...)
This is all one plant apparently and it's called a Geranium Purpureum Vill, but commonly referred to as 'Little Robin'...it has made a very cheery appearance in my garden this year...
June 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is all one plant apparently and it's called a Geranium Purpureum Vill, but commonly referred to as 'Little Robin'...it has made a very cheery appearance in my garden this year...
The partial Eclipse of the Sun, from South Cheshire, 20mins north of Stoke...
March 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The partial Eclipse of the Sun, from South Cheshire, 20mins north of Stoke...
@corabeth.bsky.social This is going to help my Latin hugely... Love the illustrations...
March 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
@corabeth.bsky.social This is going to help my Latin hugely... Love the illustrations...
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24
Which Star Trek Character would people of Ancient Greece and Rome be? Day 21...Marcus Atilius Regulus alias 'Data' perhaps...
Which Star Trek Character would people of Ancient Greece and Rome be? Day 21...Marcus Atilius Regulus alias 'Data' perhaps...
October 21, 2024 at 9:11 PM
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24
Which Star Trek Character would people of Ancient Greece and Rome be? Day 21...Marcus Atilius Regulus alias 'Data' perhaps...
Which Star Trek Character would people of Ancient Greece and Rome be? Day 21...Marcus Atilius Regulus alias 'Data' perhaps...
October 6, 2024 at 12:43 AM
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24, Day 4, Cleopatra Selene... One of the Moon's many names is Selene...
Today is a crescent Moon...
Today is a crescent Moon...
October 4, 2024 at 7:40 PM
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24, Day 4, Cleopatra Selene... One of the Moon's many names is Selene...
Today is a crescent Moon...
Today is a crescent Moon...
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24,
I'm behind a day... 🙋🏻♀️
Thucydides War Trap in a different guise 😂
I'm behind a day... 🙋🏻♀️
Thucydides War Trap in a different guise 😂
October 4, 2024 at 6:56 PM
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24,
I'm behind a day... 🙋🏻♀️
Thucydides War Trap in a different guise 😂
I'm behind a day... 🙋🏻♀️
Thucydides War Trap in a different guise 😂