Lift in!

A long day, but once again, we’re blessed with some decent weather though there was a nippy easterly wind. And lift in went swimmingly - by 11:30 we were already two and a half hours ahead of schedule. How did that happen? 
So quickly that the boat was in the water and over to the mooring before my nephew arrived to give a hand, poor lad. So we mooched about awhile; I showed him the ropes before we both legged it home to catch the second half of the cup semi - in time to see Hearts take control and ease past ICT to the final. Here we come... gulp. Please may it be Aberdeen. 
Back to the yard awhile to assist in some minor tasks and show willing. 
But what about the big news of the week - that blurry picture of the black hole. Just when you doubted mankind, something amazing like that is done - the mind boggling statistics, the data equivalent of one and a half tons of hard drives, an estimated mass equivalent to that of 6.5bn of our suns, condensed into a tiny speck. "Creating the image was the equivalent of focusing on a teacup on the moon." All done by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — an array of eight ground-based radio telescopes. And yes, international collaboration. 
Sometimes you just stop and think what bloody marvels we are. We’ve surveyed the universe from the smallest sub-atomic particles to distant galaxies and back to the start of time. All just standing here. No other animal comes close. They don’t need to. They live, they eat, they reproduce. We could be like that if it wasn’t for some switch inside us, some restless enquiring spirit that drives us on. Hooray, I say.