Mr eclipse is heading for Cornwall and he isn't a pretty sight. He eats organic pasta and drinks French beer. The recent heatwave has been an ordeal and even the children are aware of the dangers of skin cancer, although secretly Mrs Eclipse is more concerned about the risk of premature wrinkles. The Eclipse family is in Cornwall to see a natural wonder. They left their home in Reading at two in the morning and were almost disappointed not to have encountered a single traffic jam.
Eclipses have a known correlation with an increase in earthquakes.
A stronger than usual gravitational force, generated by the combined tidal force of Sun and Moon exerted along the same axis, makes the Earth's crust restless. I don't find it's something that wildly excites me. I can't see what all the fuss is about. A bit like the millennium. Lewis Wolpert, biologist, on the eclipse.