Low Key

I expected two events to vie for today's headline but both turned out a bit low key, little more than adjuncts to a couple of minibus drives: first, this morning, the near total eclipse (90% up here in the north) was obscured by cloud so it just got a bit duller, requiring side, but not headlights, on as I drove out to Burn Wood; second, this afternoon, my last meeting as a school governor (after thirteen years) was just a brief cameo to say my goodbyes, hand round a tub of Cadbury's miniature heroes (even here I was upstaged my another retiring governor who presented the school with a bird table, and bird feeders, and a cleaning brush, and some seeds and some nuts), and receive a few kind words from the Chair and Head, before getting back in my bus to go and pick up my passengers.