Latitude

As befits a bank holiday weekend, it's raining. The weather hitherto has been very pleasant, in the twenties with a mild breeze and strong sun. That's the thing - with all the talk of Boston's freezing winters I forget that with a latitude of 42 degrees we're actually reasonably far south here - comparable with Rome's 41 degrees - so when the sun does come out it's quite intense. Another side-effect is the fact that the transition between day and night is earlier than back home, and occurs very fast indeed. Tonight in Boston the sun will set at 7.15pm, compared with Leicester's 7.49pm, but well before 8pm it will be pitch dark. So no lazy late-summer evenings sitting in a beer garden drinking G&T then. Another curiosity is that the 'bite' out of last night's waxing moon was much lower than I'm used to, but I'm sure no one else cares in the slightest.