Coldwaterjohn's photos with the keyword: Sundial

Someone asked me how a sundial copes with British Summer Time...I restrained myself from responding like McEnroe - "You cannot be serious!"

Courtyard and Sundial

Who needs a watch when you live somewhere so sunny?! Made from a spare floor tile, and an old slate from the dairy roof, obligingly cut to the size of the template I gave him for the gnomon, by Mark Kemp, an excellent local Tiler, and Plasterer - he is NOT responsible for the wavy line at the top edge of the tile!

Who needs a watch when you live somewhere so sunny?! Made from a spare floor tile, and an old slate from the dairy roof, obligingly cut to the size of the template I gave him, by Mark Kemp, an excellent local Tiler, and Plasterer - he is NOT responsible for the wavy line at the right edge of the tile!

Having always had a shadowy(!) interest in sundials, when looking into commissioning one for the dairy, it occurred to me there was no reason, with some research, I couldn't make one myself. An hour or so's googling found a program that told me what angle my gnomon had to be set to (equal to your latitude), and a further program which provided the timelines for your longitude and latitude. The cows are courtesy of Caroline Bury, the artist - this tile was for her draft doodles for a large kitchen tile in the dairy.