Mr Friendly, you have been very slow with your SOTD presentations of recent and it is about time you made some form of an effort and scribble some useless, uninformative rubbish together.
And so here it is then, my past two visitations to the bathroom sink complete with the theme, 'Total eclipse of my shave'
Saturday
All eclipsing razor - Stainless Mongoose
A passing object - Schick Proline
Bonnie Tyler brush - AP Shaving 24mm Cashmere
Luna Lovesoap - Signature Condate
Mooning cream - Simple
Penumbral perfume - Floris No.89
The instant of
greatest eclipse takes place on 2024 Apr 08. This is 1.0 days after the Moon reaches perigee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation
Pisces. The
synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a
Brown Lunation Number of 1253.
The eclipse belongs to
Saros 139 and is number 30 of 71 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s
ascending node. The Moon moves southward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and
gamma decreases.
The solar eclipse of 2024 Apr 08 is a relatively long
total eclipse with a duration at
greatest eclipse of 04m28s. It has an
eclipse magnitude of 1.0566.
| 2024 Apr 08 at 18:00:00.0 TD (=t0) | | | | | | |
| n | x | y | d | l1 | l2 | μ |
| 0 | -0.31825 | 0.21976 | 7.5862 | 0.53583 | -0.01027 | 89.5912 |
| 1 | 0.51171 | 0.27096 | 0.0148 | 0.00006 | 0.00006 | 15.0041 |
| 2 | 0.00003 | -0.00006 | -0.0000 | -0.00001 | -0.00001 | -0.0000 |
| 3 | -0.00001 | -0.00000 | - | - | - | - |
| | | | | | |
| Tan ƒ1 | 0.0046683 |
| |
| Tan ƒ2 | 0.0046450 |
In essence. It goes dark. But it is so close to sunset this year it'll go dark afterwards anyway. We call this night.
I called this celestial bathroom activity 'shaving'. A total eclipse of the face created by passing a non-celetial body (the razor) across the surface of a large moon like object (the face). Quite the antithesis to a solar eclipse whereas one creates a period of darkness this one creates a big beaming light of a face. And removes a few hairs along the way I guess
A heavenly body of a shave and certainly brought a massive smile to Mr Satan. Unfortunately I don't do light and don't do happy. It is against my religion.
The Mongoose? A true God of a razor and I really rated this shave as one of my 'Shaves of the year' to date. Stonkingly brilliant.
'Unfortunately not the same for this chap thanks to some over enthusiastic beer can throwing'
Anyway, if that didn't make any sense to you then we'd better have some Japanese ladies who make even less sense.....
Sunday
Right accession razor - Ikon B1
Blinded by the lack of light - Super Iridium
And all shall turn black - Zenith dark synthetic
Corona cream - Floris Elite
Besselian balm - Collagen
Saros's scent- Floris Elite
'Oh my God! The sun has gone, it is the end of the world. Quick, jump out of the window'
They need to live in the NW where the question is 'What's the Sun?'
A shave to eclipse the previous? Not quite as another blade demonstrating how to tug when knackered. A semi-acceptable shave and enough for me to say 'shaved'. Albeit in a fashion.
The only thing I gleaned from this particular bit of me time is that IMO the Penhaligons Bayolea is a better soap. Not quite sure the Floris matches it on the quality front and I find the Penhaligons gives a generally better shaving medium.
I also found out that across the board, I'm a daft twat.
Thank you.
Enjoy your evening of eclipse spotting. We are fortunate we live a 10 minutes walk from an unobstructed west facing seafront. So we shall venture out around 7ish and just in time to watch more grey clouds roll in. So what's the bloody difference? It'll probably be a little darker, but I'd be surprised. Good job there is a seafront bar so one can observe the total eclipse through the bottom of a pint glass. Or just study the bottom of a pint glass anyway.
With this weather there is no spring time and those Drinking boys and girls choir utterly agree......
And I do. Love you all that is
