I've been watching Jupiter and Venus slowly part. It's weird to notice the sky change so much each night. How did I never notice that before?

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I came home from work and put my bike in the shed. No sooner had I opened the door, a huge black bumblebee flew inside. Probably a queen that just woke up from hibernation. I tried to chase it out, but it was resolute in its efforts to land in a pile of old cobnut shells on the floor and crawl under the freezer. I found a...