Saturday, 12 May 2012

When Sunbeams Tell the Season.

One of the things I like about the period between the winter and summer solstices is watching how different bits of my living room are lit by the afternoon and evening sun. The window in that room faces west, so in December it only gets a bit of weak sunlight high up in the north west corner at about 3pm. Now, the south wall is being bathed in golden light at 8.30. Between June and December, of course, I have to watch the process working backwards.

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I knew somebody once who found an old sundial in the garden of an abandoned Victorian house.

‘Look at this,’ she exclaimed. ‘It’s that old, and it still works!’

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