Fill the darkest night with a brilliant light

Today's blip comes to you seconds past midnight. 

We had all just retired to bed, about 1045, and I was settling down under the duvet when my phone pinged. 

"Aurora Alert".   And it was in the RED. 

I got up, put my clothes back up and slipped out into the garden. 

I messaged Boy and Said "look out your window towards the north". 

It wasn't long before he stumbled into the garden, in his Jammies, and bare feet.  

As we watched the sky and waited, wondering if we were imagining the glow, we said, "how about we go somewhere really dark". 

And so at 1130 the two of us, got a bit warmer dressed and headed out in to the car.  We drove up the hill and approached from the rear. 

Surprised to find many cars dotted about the peak of the hill we pulled into a little parking space, and worked out which way was North.   Then we had to figure out how to do Long Exposures whilst chittering. 

How excited were we, when slow release photographs showed us the Aurora in all it's glory.   We were high with excitement.   We snapped and snapped, and growled when new drivers appeared, blinding us with their headlights. 

As it faded we headed for the shore.  We found a little space at the harbour and tried to hide from the harbour wall lights.  

Boy scrambled onto the rocks - too dodgy for me with my ankles.   He did a time-lapse shot and got a fabulous, moving image of the aurora along with a shooting star through the middle, all the while looking to his left, where a rustling at the water's edge was making us both a bit uneasy.     We think it was a fox, but it was very, very dark.