Mr B dusted off his sextant. (He must be seriously out of things to do in lockdown.) Every cloudless day, as the sun reaches for the 'yard arm' he can be found on our balcony lining up a sight on the sun and the piece of horizon immediately below it. I'm in the office supervising F when I hear the shout: 'get that *** ship out of the way'. What does he think I'm going to be able to do about it? Call in the aliens to beam it up? He has done a couple of months of these noon sights now and fairly conclusively established that our balcony hasn't moved anywhere - and we are stuck here right along with it. At least we know exactly when the sun has passed over the yardarm. Not that it's not doing them any good, they are both on their 'dry February' (because if you are going to have a dry month, it makes sense to pick the shortest one). The sun is getting higher in the sky each day and I am having to chase it across the balcony - my winter sunning...
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