This week I'll be mostly watching sunsets

Sun, sea, and ... volcanic dust.

West is best.

Our house looks mostly south and east, depending on what window you look out, obviously. During the winter if you've seen the sun rise, you've seen it out the lounge window. During the spring if you've seen the sun rise, you've seen it out the kitchen window (and it's burnt your retinas so you can't see anything else, like, for example, the cupboard to get a plate out to put some toast on). But you never see the sun set in this house. Yeah, there's something going on over in the west, but there's stuff in the way, like, for example, some trees, and St Helier.



This week we've been house sitting on the west side of the island. Nothing between us and the sun but a few hundred yards of dunes, St Ouen's bay, the sky, then 93 million miles of vacuum.

So we've seen the sun set every evening. And it's not been bad. I've just been through the photos and the sunsets at the start of the week were definitely the best. Unfortunately I still had the camera in 640x480 mode (from that 8fps bit of stop-motion animation with the Creme Egg) so although the sunsets were pretty good, the pictures are total pants.

And just for the record, Jersey sunsets aren't improved by Icelandic volcanic dust clouds.