I will  

Although I may already be visually impaired as it's my dad's birthday.

What's being eclipsed?

Also, while I'm here....was that an eclipse in '97/98..?

I remember chasing the dog and trying to get her indoors.  The builders downed tools too and we had a tea break;  everyone commented how quiet it had gone (no birds singing).

I think it was '99. 

Thanks Joe.  I really am useless with dates/years

11 August 1999

• Total Solar Eclipse over Cornwall and part of south Devon, partial over the rest of the United Kingdom. Totality was observable from English Channel and the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands, but was almost universally clouded out on the British mainland. The clouds did clear in the Newquay area though allowing observation of full totality. A large partial eclipse was viewable in the southeast of England and south Wales, however. Observers in Cardiff noted birds falling silent, daylight colours turning shades of grey, and temperatures falling, augmented by a passing wisp of cloud at the moment of peak eclipse.

It was also clouded over in Northern Germany!

It was really weird up here. It was actually very sunny. As it got closer to eclipse time the light quality became that of a late summer's evening......but the shadows were too short!

I've always remembered the total eclipse in '99. I was in the garden to watch it and as the moon passed over the sun there was an eerie but fascinating light,at the same time I noticed all the birdsong stopped. Everything was so quiet even though I lived on a main road that had a lot of traffic I wondered if all the traffic had stopped to watch the event as it had been given so much publicity around the country where it seemed from news reports later that just about everyone had stopped wherever they were to observe it.

It's in the morning, the map, shows times and how much you should expect to see. Weather permitting.

I meant to say the map shows the eclipse at its maximum, I believe it will start around 8.45am and end around 10.30am.

This thread title reminds me of Bonnie Tyler 

Just run it through my astronomy package and it would appear that the moon is already eating into the sun at sunrise. The moon will remain so close to the sun all day that you'll never see it because of the brightness of the sun. However you might see a slight dip in light quality around 8:15 to 8:45 when the moon is at it's greatest coverage of the sun.

'Total eclipse of the sun'

This is a much better version - 

Minute by minute for tomorrow. 

DON'T LOOK DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN !!!!

Yes - we know 

it will be a waste of time: cloudy and miserable weather tomorrow here. It will be darker and gloomier for a while and that's it!

An eclipse in itself really 

100% cloud here just now, but it's light, so there's hope.

Bright and sunny here....  eclipse in progress... been out with the pinhole in a piece of paper.. 

Still very cloudy, but the place is distinctly dimmer.

Bright and sunny here too. Starting to darken now. 

As Brian Cox observed, the birds are all returning to the trees.

Oh well.. that's it past it's darkest..    didn't get as dark as I thought it might tbh..but still got the eeriness about it and distinctly chilly.

Cloud cover got very thick to the point that you couldn'teven get any indication of where the sun is. It's getting slightly brighter now.

Stupidly I did. 

Quick glances, but we had some cloud cover so I'm hoping it made it not so bad thing to do.

No. even when we had max coverage for our position it was a bit like we were about to get a snow storm.

What amazes me is that despite most of the sun being obscured it is still very light, just shows how powerful it is.

Took a few photos and put one of 'em in the other place, but essentially disappointing. I spent all morning setting up for the eclipse and at the last moment the moon got in the way and spoilt everything.

I was expecting to see it dropping into totality from their cameras in the Faroes, but they haven't shown it!

Luxor 2027 Apparently is going to be around a 6 minute eclipse. Sun overhead great visibility.

Booking tickets now...

Yay. They've finally shown it, but a rather truncated version.

Think we'll have to tighten the belts for the next few years.

We should organise a GGJJ excursion 

Is that a euphemism for him touching base with his latent homosexuality

closest way to describe it - was a funny light, I kind of 'dirty' light I thought