Plenty to buy, plenty to read about, plenty to browse through!

Our new Forum is there for you to ask, advise, discuss, buy, sell - it's yours! Beginners ask 'What have I got?' and Experts reply 'Hmmmm'.

On this site are collectible sundials for sale, affordable sundials to collect, books and kits to learn and play with. As time digresses (?) there will be interesting extras from you, links will be added - who knows? Sundial alarms actually exist and there's even one sundial sort-of-joke, and a poem. There are sundials (?) that work at night, and one that works on Mars. Be part of the Earthdial project.

These are not garden sundials (I don't care if you can lug them with you). Nor are they the little brass plates you can buy to set on some concrete plinth. These are fully portable from the most minimalist one (!), to one that will fit into your pocket or case. And even some that sit on a windowsill.

Browse through and add to my database of the different types of portable and pocket sundials that exist. Some ingenious designs tell far more than the time! New designs are still being thought up. There is also a database of makers.

Although there are articles and guides I have made no attempt to duplicate the fantastic sites that are out there. They will be linked to wherever relevant and given full credit on my links page

If you have ideas, articles or experiences to add to this site, please contact me. I am happy to link to sites too.

Portable or pocket sundials will be of use wherever there is a light in the sky - from the planets Mercury to Neptune (arguably) to a walk in the country. No reliance on modern technology, no one to blame if you're late.

Anachronisms

Well, are they? An anachronism is a thing out of time. A digital watch in the Mesozoic period. A battery in Baghdad made 2000 years ago (thank you, von Daniken). People watch modern films closely for Romans wearing wristwatches. Strange people, but they do.

A sundial is way out of time. Or is it? As mobile phones cause tumours, power lines cause leukaemia, sonar deranges dolphins - (I'm only scaremongering) maybe sundials will return to their, simple to use, silent, battery and virus free place.

Explore

I meant the site - but explore sundials, time, your relationship with the sun or moon, or our current Pole Star (there isn't one - but Ursa MInor's tail, Polaris, is pretty close). Invent a Braille sundial...it's being done!

Look through the clouds...

PS I have a lovely Flash intro page, with very apt music too. It'll only take a few seconds.