It had been a gloomy and busy time. I had high hopes of tracing this part of it but the weather wasn’t playing ball. The 16th started like much of the rest of the last couple of weeks, cloudy, and the brief bursts of midday Sun there were occurred while I was working. With theContinue reading “16th March 2021 12:02”
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24th February 2021 12:00
Having tracked the shadow on the View from the Shard and consulted the plot too, I thought I knew pretty much exactly where this was going to be. But despite the second half of February basically being a northward move with a bare quarter-degree swerve to the west, I still went to the wrong sideContinue reading “24th February 2021 12:00”
13th February 2021 12:00
Finally! It’d been a long cold winter watching the shadow sweep across tall buildings, it at last it appeared again from ground level, just where I expected after the shot on 11th. It was a more fortuitous capture than that dry prediction implies though. I’d arranged to meet a friend for outdoor lockdown exercise (aContinue reading “13th February 2021 12:00”
5th December 2020 12:00
I didn’t expect anything different four days later. Here’s the narrow gap, goodness knows where the Sun is there. This was going to be a recurring problem with the Sun this low and the buildings so high. I’d resigned myself to a winter not bothering. Despite vapid promises to save Christmas we locked down againContinue reading “5th December 2020 12:00”
1st December 2020 12:00
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”
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”
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