G'morning David,

 -> Drove past the sundial yesterday after delivering offspring to a
 -> distant exam,  but the gnonom was not yet home....

 DW> I wonder what the problem is. Any blacksmith should be able to make a
 DW> gnomon in less than ten minutes.

Exactly ... but Auckland City Council have made their last 
blacksmith redundant years ago - now all such work is contracted 
out to some object fabrication service in China, answer-centred in 
India and supervised by a special subcommittee of ad-hoc 
maontenance and repair activities who liase with local librarians 
in their role of property and maintenance supervisors....

There's another exam next week - I'll stop off and enquire.

:-)

Miles 
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