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They sell for serious money now. A nineteenth-century American weather vane in copper - a horse, a cow, a rooster, an Indian, a locomotive, an arrow - is…
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Out in the yard, twenty or thirty steps from the back door, there was a mound.
It had a slanting door set into one side, usually wood, sometimes…
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There is a particular kind of notebook that turns up when an old farm changes hands. Page after page of dates, each with a few figures beside it:…
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It was stuck to the outside of the glass with two rubber suction cups, or screwed to the frame, and it had a dial with a needle and…
It is not where the rain fell, it is where the water could not leave. Here are eleven.
1. It Marks a Low Point, Not a Wet Spot
Water standing…
A few metres can be worth a couple of degrees and three weeks. Here are fourteen.
1. A Wall Facing the Sun Is a Storage Heater
Masonry absorbs heat through…