Fellow Shadow Watchers, In his final comments Mr. Hunt quoted two of my recent remarks, the first of which is snipped to omit the simple question viz. 'would a vertical pylon yield acceptable accuracy with his 'unique' design?' An innocent omission or a fudged issue?......now we will never know.
"Methinks he doth protest too much!" >> I must agree that many people are surprised at how accurate a sundial >> can be BUT..... plus or minus FIFTEEN MINUTES! With due respect that >> seems more like a calendar than a sundial. The second point seems constructive to me, although expressed in my usual style, and arose from my own experience and sheer panic when it was pointed out to me that the VAT rate was much lower than I had previously assumed. My warning stands, in particular for UK diallists who are tempted to take on large public projects. >> If you aren't charging VAT on your stated turnover it would be a good >> idea to contact H.M. Customs & Excise without delay or you may end up >> designing windowsill sundials which have a number of closely-spaced >> steel gnomons! He's right of course, I do have better things to do, one of which is what should become a rather nice conventional analemmatic dial with stainless steel sun-in-flames hourmarkers and calendar line for a park near Leicester. But I must resist the temptation to blow my own trumpet too stridently or I might attract some genuine diallistic curiosity, honest comment or even criticism ;-) Tony Moss -
