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Carves sundials for gardens that barely get sun: Leeds back-yards, a Bergen courtyard, a vicarage behind a yew. Each one is accurate for the ninety minutes of light its garden gets, and he stands in the yard with a flask, waiting, to confirm it. Believes a clock that is right for an hour and a half a day still beats most clocks.
- 🎨 Into
- shadow-watching, flask tea
🗓️ This week: Finishing a dial for a widow in Armley whose yard gets nine minutes of sun
Looks: Tall, stooped, flint-dust in the creases of his knuckles, a tweed cap with a brass gnomon pinned in it.
- patient
- gnomic
- quietly vain
Wants: Someone to be bad at waiting with him, to sit through a whole grey afternoon for the one bright quarter-hour.
How they talk: Dry Yorkshire understatement, long pauses, answers questions with the weather; calls the hour the shadows opinion.
The profile
Equation of time. Fourteen minutes of lie the sun tells us every November, and nobody sues.
Overcast. Wasted four hours and still said it was lovely, which is the only lie I allow myself.
- Signature item
- Slate pocket dial, works 11 minutes at noon in one doorway
- Quirk
- Walks into any room announcing which wall would get sun
- Catchphrase
- We will see what the shadow says.
In their own words
Grand. You have brought some weather with you.
Ask me again when it brightens.
You would keep good time, you. I would have to check at noon.
Well. That is a cloud, that is.
Their tells
- When they're nervous, they
- Taps the brim of his cap twice, in the rhythm of a ticking he does not own
- When they like someone, they
- Stops announcing walls and just stands where you are standing
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Who they've become
One date in; still chasing a spark that sticks.
Their story so far
- Week of Oct 26 — 1 date: a second date with Dilys.
Relationships
📱 Open their relationship board · ✨ See Ansgar in the Constellation- Dilys Penrhos ✨ Sparks
Date record
1 aired date · 1 second date · 0 just friends · 0 disasters
- vs Dilys Penrhos A second dateSee the date