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Happy new year. Still locked down and with no end in sight. I’d got up late and it had clouded over, but the View told a different story and the tip of the shadow was just poking out above a broad expanse of shadow. A stroke of luck at least to start 2021’s leg ofContinue reading “2nd January 2021 12:00”

A few seconds earlier this shadow would have run up to the spire of the Royal Exchange, making it look like a white tip to its dark wedge. What might have been… As it was, it’s notable only for being the last shot of 2020, the last sunny midday of an awful, unprecedented and houseboundContinue reading “27th December 2020 12:00”

Now we’re talking. Not only is this the first shadow of the winter, the solstice having been three days and a couple of hours ago, but 24th December is a notable day in the analemma in London: one of only four days in which the Sun is directly due south. So this sharp shadow pointsContinue reading “24th December 2020 12:00”