It had been misty for a week and the Sun had slipped eastwards unseen. Finally a new month brought a break in the weather and I huffed and puffed out from my kitchen desk to the corner of Lombard Street. This time, though, there was no sign of the Sun. Looking west down Lombard StreetContinue reading “1st December 2020 12:00”
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18th November 2020 12:00
In true autumn fashion it had been a wet and windy week, with no clear middays at all. Even this one was chancing it as clouds massed from the west, but it stayed clear enough to see the Sun. The alignment had moved a surprisingly long way both north and west in 11 days, andContinue reading “18th November 2020 12:00”
7th November 2020 12:00
Another so soon? It’d been such a miserably overcast October that any hint of Sun was a joy, and I was out anyway this day, a long walk west to St James’ Park to wander around with my mum and drink wine and gawp at pelicans. I’d timed the lockdown-permitted meeting to be here atContinue reading “7th November 2020 12:00”
4th November 2020 12:00
Yes, 12:00 – this is the first one out of British Summer Time, so back an hour we go. The Earth’s orbit doesn’t care for such things, and GMT is the real time – the Sun’s highest at actual midday. With a second lockdown freshly in place and a month of inactivity looming, I decidedContinue reading “4th November 2020 12:00”
16th October 2020 13:00
The next day though was a bit brighter, the cloud a bit higher and more transparent, and I arrived by the river to find the Sun much much lower than two and a half weeks previously. There’s no denying it changes quickly at this time of year. So this was the first one on theContinue reading “16th October 2020 13:00”
15th October 2020 13:00
This was basically the inverse of the last one. I left the flat in bright sunshine, arrived in gathering gloom with the Sun obscured, got drenched in a downpour on the walk home, and arrived back at the flat in bright sunshine again. Well. Even worse, there was a tease of a chance on theContinue reading “15th October 2020 13:00”
29th September 2020 13:00
This was last chance saloon for a while. The forecast for the rest of the week was dire, and then I was meant to be away for a few days. I woke to rain but the forecast said the cloud would break. I left the flat under heavy skies and tried to find value inContinue reading “29th September 2020 13:00”
25th September 2020 13:01
The first opportunity for an orange autumn tag came and went. I wasn’t planning on walking down this afternoon but I had errands to run so headed here on the off chance. No luck. As a tease a tiny patch of blue drifted southeastwards approaching 1 o’clock, but it didn’t pass the Shard and itContinue reading “25th September 2020 13:01”
22nd September 2020 13:00
This was a day on which I really wanted sunshine. The four days in the year that I care about more than others are solstices and equinoxes, and today is the autumn equinox. I started when the Sun was at its northernmost. And today, and hour and a half after these photos, the Sun wouldContinue reading “22nd September 2020 13:00”
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