Article: The Eclipse: Amid all the hype, nobody told me a solar eclipse smells of fried onions

A DEATH notice in a national newspaper a couple of months ago went something like this: "Martha Jenkins passed away peacefully on June 12th, surrounded by family, and greatly cheered by the prospect of missing both the eclipse and the millennium."

Ms Jenkins went to rather extreme lengths to escape the fuss, but many of us will applaud the sentiment. Rarely have two dates - 11 August and 31 December 1999 - been so tirelessly and tiresomely hyped.

And now, one of them is over and, actually, I have to say that the late Martha Jenkins missed a treat.

At 10.30am yesterday we left the Treglos Hotel near Padstow - spurning the management's generous offer of complementary champers for those who ...

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