1st March Are the stars out tonight?

A 70 year old man from Pontefract, Yorkshire is today reported to be almost as incandescent as the night sky after the BBC's Tomas Schaffenaker revealed that most parts of the UK would be in for a celstial lightshow over the next few evenings. 

Bob Tanner, who is well known in his local area for having long pockets but very short arms, broke the habit of a lifetime only last month on a once in a lifetime trip north of the Arctic circle in order to see the world famous Northern lights. Now according to the BBC's weather watch he could just as well have stayed at home and watched it from his garden.

Booked to coincide with his long delayed retirement from a job at the local Whippet breeding sanctary, Bob had been putting a litte bit aside ever since he first caught sight of the Aureala Borialis on some program featuring Brian Cox back in the early 2000's. Adding the trip to his bucket list of things to do before he himself kicked the bucket, Bob had been going without many of life's little luxuries in order to fund the trip upto Tromso in Northern Norway. 

Bob finally setting off on his great adventure in late Jan 2023, a period of time that coincided with unprecedented blanket cloud cover over all Scandanavia for the best part of a week, meaning that Bob and his equally frustrated wife Shirley saw bugger all.

Speaking to Grace Under Pressure's very own heavenly body, Bob explained, "If I’d just have stayed at 'ome I could have seen it for free from right here rather that fork out a fortune to sit and look at cloud.  And as fer the cost of a pint in Norway. By heck I've never seen my Shirley make half a lager and lime last for so long. Glaciers have moved quicker that she sucked on that straw!"



 

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