Greetings fellow dialists,

May I share this extract from an email sent me by a recently discovered
cousin of mine in New Zealand. He had learnt of my interest in dials.

Quote: Am I correct in assuming that a sun dial made in England would
be round the wrong way in New Zealand? I know that some early buildings
designed in England and built here in New Zealand had the windows on the
wrong side and as a consequence are very gloomy. Unquote.

The wrong way round buildings remind me of the sundial still to be seen
on a church in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The dial had been removed, I
think in the last century, from a church in England and set up, in a
spirit of hope, in Cape Province.  Some hope.

Frank 55N 1W
-- 
Frank Evans

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