{"id":2727,"date":"2013-09-03T11:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T10:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2013-09-03T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T10:40:19","slug":"eagthyrl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/eagthyrl\/","title":{"rendered":"eag\u00feyrl"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The light looks good on the Pennines….”<\/p>\n

I look up from my iPad, pausing a game<\/del> bookmarking the quantum field theory article for later, and look out the window. Julie was right, the last rays before the Sun started to set were hitting a small patch of the Pennines and I pushed my digital distraction aside and pulled out the camera bag all the while glancing at the view out of the window.\u00a0 As I open the camera bag the light changes, and the hills are almost lost in shadow, but knowing how quickly it can change I carry on.<\/p>\n

No wait a moment, I’ve the wrong lens on the camera, I quickly open the camera bag and change the lens. The light has changed again, now there’s just a thin point of light catching the summit of Knock which looked quite impressive.<\/p>\n

The camera display flashes -E- when I turn it on, then I remember I’d left the memory card by the computer earlier. Card inserted I turn back to the window, the light has gone and the Pennines are in shadow. So I stand by the window and wait…..<\/p>\n

….and wait<\/p>\n

…….and wait<\/p>\n

…………and wait, until the cloud breaks and enough sunlight escapes to illuminate the distant hills.<\/p>\n

A few hours later and I was looking at the photographs when I started to wonder about windows, not the operating system as I have better things to do with my days than think about Microsoft products \ud83d\ude09 (though I did get a phone call this morning from a nice chap who wanted to help clean my Windows computer as it was badly infected with a virus).<\/p>\n

The etymology* of window (n) says, early 13c., literally “wind eye,” from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr “wind”. Replaced Old English eag\u00feyrl, literally “eye-hole,” and eagduru, literally “eye-door.”<\/em> Eag\u00feyrl and Eagduru conjour up excellent mental images, and I’m they’ll haunt my dreams in the near future. Anyway this is what I took through the eag\u00feyrl –<\/p>\n

\"Last<\/a><\/p>\n

And this is what I took through the eagduru this morning –<\/p>\n

\"Morning<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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