Why are there Mother of Pearl clouds in the UK?
Were you thinking “that must be the sky over Mary Rose’s kilns?” How rude you are. No they’re in Scotland this week they’re very rare and apparently they really look like this, mainly because they’re made up of ice crystals. Or perhaps somebody at NASA has been checking out the iridescent section of our website and the next thing we’ll see is Jewelled Clouds encrusted with bees! Everything in nature is beautiful in its own way but that shimmering “colours of the rainbow” iridescence, whether it be a rainbow or the sun on a fountain, never fails to amaze us all. And when painted onto the surface of undulating hand made pottery, as we all know, it’s stunning