As a place of gossip, where better than the net? So hear this. Several thousand trees are to be planted for the millennium in the National Arboretum at Alrewas, near Litchfield, Staffordshire, England. Each tree will represent a (British?) merchant ship lost to enemy action during the 1939-45 war. Somewhere in this forest is to be placed a sundial, an analemmatic sundial. Money for this dial has been subscribed by members of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners of London, a City Livery Company, descended from the medieval guilds.
A source tells us it is inconceivable that such a dial should be put in place without the attention of Chris Daniel, sailor, member of the Honourable Company and Chairman of the British Sundial Society. We await confirmation of this well-sourced piece of gossip. And what a nice idea. -- Frank Evans
