22st June after the shortest day.
That’s winter solstice (21st of June). Winter officially starts here on the first of June (yesterday).
I think there is the general 3 months of winter thing, starting on 1 June for June, July and August, but technically the meteorological definition is that winter starts at the shortest day and summer at the longest day.
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I’m for anything that shortens it. 
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…and a few moments later…
Another sunset in the Otter Estuary, Budleigh Salterton, East Devon. This time last Tuesday evening.
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Another sunset looking towards the Camel Estuary in Cornwall. Those sheep appeared today and they are very noisy!
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A quiet evening at the ‘Sham recently
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I wonder how many in this forum know or can guess what this structure was originally used for and why the strange geometry?
Nuclear testing and then Radar systems. There is a fair bit about it now on the internet.
Testing parts of nuclear weapons, ballistics testing, developing parachutes, proving that RDF could detect and show a moving aircraft (the team went to Bawdsey Manor almost immediately to develop it further.) So radar then nukes.
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Chesil?
Wide area radar still being tested with the ‘mericans right up to closure in 1973. (Backscatter project or somesuch)
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Aaah, the Cobra Mist building, over-the-horizon radar, yes, that had slipped my mind. I think in practice it was almost all RCA personnel. Currently houses equipment for transmitting Radio Caroline?
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And a great place name. Seem to also remember going to a town called Pahrump when we drove through Death Valley many years ago !
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Sunset looking North from a small island near Helgeroa, Southeast coast of Norway. 11 o’clock.
IPhone.
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Yes it always gets a laugh and is actually pronounced Peeless which is what I do more and more frequently as I get older
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There’s a band new to the scene called ‘Peaness’ and it amuses me every time I hear a 6 Music presenter trying not to laugh whilst saying their name
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