Where is our winter skies

OK,
I am going stir crazy. I have spent the last few weeks with very windy and wet weather and then the forecast said a high pressure was coming in for a week. I thought, Great at last clear weather WRONG. Completely fogged out. Our cat is sitting outside my front door and I konw this even though I cannot see him because I keep hearing him banging his head off the door.
I was bored so wrote the following:

The skies over Ireland are usually dire
And its not what astronomers really desire
Only the foolish, persistent and completely insane
Would keep using a scope again and again

The cloud and the rain are never too far
Especially when tracking a perfect guide star
And then it is time to pack up with haste
And another clear night has just gone to waste

Winters cold and clear days turn into night
We pray that the weather man has got it just right
The gears all packed and we’re ready to go
But don’t get excited its started to snow.

Once in a while as all of us hope
Conditions are right to take out the scope
We image all night although it is late
And tomorrow we see if the image is great

The skies over Ireland are sometimes just right
And imaging success goes right through the night
But
Only the foolish, persistent and completely insane
Would keep using a scope again and again

Please pray for clear weather or I may have to write another one.

Kieran

Our cat is sitting outside my front door and I konw this even though I cannot see him because I keep hearing him banging his head off the door.

You might want to get your cat looked at! Something doesn't sound right in the above sentence, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

Please pray for clear weather or I may have to write another one.

A novena to St. Jude (lost causes) is in progress!

Seanie.

Seanie,

I am thinking of upgrading the current F6 cat to one with fog lights and filters so it can see the door in this weather.

Kieran

Nice one Kieran

gr8 poem,even as a beginer astromer ive learnt to be a gentle man about the flippin weather here oppppps

Move over W.B Yeats.

Incidentally, the intense fog provided a fascinating opportunity to examine how light sprays from Irish streetlights.

Only a minute fraction of the light they shine actually hits the roads.

They must rank among the most badly designed and energy wasting pieces of technology in the world.

Put up by the ESB.

The very people who deign to lecture us about "Energy Efficiency".

Peter.