Could there have been a better place to see the recent Perseid meteor shower than Patrick Moore's back garden?  Conversation was a little on the difficult side, since invariably the person you were talking to would suddenly shriek and look over your shoulder at an impressive shower that you had just missed because you were looking the wrong way.

It was quite heart warming to see Brian May adjusting his camera tripod along with the other watchers.  I'd always wanted to meet him, ever since he wrote the first rock number about the relativistic time dilation effects of faster than light travel ('39').  He really is a gentleman and it was a pleasure to view the night sky with him.

A certain amount of nerdy lust was caused by the equipment of the radio astronomers that were there with a set-up that allowed us to hear the meteors coming through the atmosphere.  Taken together with the extremely good chilli, known to the local takeaway as Astronomers Chilli, it was a grand night out.

Terry's Autumn Making Money tour has been confirmed as follows;

Monday 24th September
7:00pm : Borders #86
3700 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503

Tuesday 25th September
7:30pm : Kepler's Books
STE 200 1010 El Camino Menlo Park, CA 94025

Wednesday 26th September
7:00pm : Powell's Bookstore
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97004

Thursday 27th September
7:30pm : Tattered Cover Book Store
1628 16th Sreet, Denver, CO 80202

Saturday 29th September
TBA
The National Book Festival at the Mall, Washington DC

Sunday 30th September
1:00pm : Chester County Book Company
975 Paoli Pike, West Chester, PA 19380

Monday 1st October
7:00pm : Barnes & Noble Union Square
33 E 17th Street, New York, NY 10003

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Saturday 6th October
The Cheltenham Festival   

Monday 8th October
Plymouth : 12.30-1.30
WHSmith
73-75 New George Street
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 1RP
                      

Tuesday 9th October
Bath : Evening
Topping & Co
The Paragon
Bath
BA1 5LS


Friday 12th October
Cambridge : 1pm
Borders
12-13 Market Street
Cambridge
CB2 3PA


Saturday 13th October
London : 1pm
Forbidden Planet
Shaftesbury Avenue
London
WC2H JR