Carol thanks for the screen link - I have seen various ones about here but not that one. It is rather tricky because I am balcony based and that restricts my viewing angles already, but I do tend to use my rotary airer and a sheet to screen the lamps from up the road! (I won't attach any pics!

) But it is slowly getting worse - thank heavens Christmas is over and all the festive lights have gone at least (and I no longer have to listen to the constant repetitive jingly music they play either!). The sour cherry on the cake came when the local council came to fix one lamp and it now shines seemingly straight at my balcony which it never used to

. So now I have no vision towards NNW-NNE. My view to NNE-SSE is totally blocked by our building and McNaught has been currently sat behind a tree in the evenings! Oh the astronmer's woes!
We are planning to move house but I have a tough time convincing hubby to include the criterion for telescope use in the house hunting!
Terry the meter looks excellent placed there and neat idea with the level - I must do something like that.
Keep all the great ideas coming folks - how much better can it get?!