I had asked if anyone had seen Venus low in the SW around sunset but for some reason the question didn't appear. Well? The moon's there now as well.

[Rosie] I have seen it peeping through the trees the last few chilly nights.

(Boolbar) Bright, innit. You can see it in broad daylight with binocs and even with the naked eye under the most favourable conditions.

Is it the thing shining diretly under the new moon right now? I can see it from the sofa. It's going to be a chilly one tonight.

(pen) It is, or was. The moon moves on, unlike Ars?ne Wenger. Venus gets higher and higher until mid February. Cue UFO reports.

Why has my carefully crafted grave accent come out as a question mark?

Jupiter beaming at me this morning. Still visible as the sun was lurking just over the horizon. [Rosie] Try using the html string è

[Rosie] I dunno, but I wish you'd stop ending every question with an 'e' sporting a jaunty grave accent.

(Boolbar) Normally alt0232 works but not this time. Something is slightly amiss because on doing "Preview" the text disappeared from the box and after several severe blows with a club hammer this is what came up. ??? lad.

It's done it again. I dunno.

[Rosie] I never use that because absent a numeric key pad I have to use the numbers up top and it dun't wurk. Boolbar's suggestion should work as it is broswer rendering character set immune (a quick test: è).