This was last night's sunset, seen in a view from our house which looks out across the town's graveyard and primary school, at four yesterday afternoon, and....
We have the first view from both our small snug, a room we retreat to on cold winter evenings, and, more extensively, from the sun room at the southwestern end of the house. The dawn view is only visible from indoors from the stair landing, which is where the picture was taken, though the sun also pours in through the frosted glass of the upstairs bathroom. That we don't really benefit at all from the morning sun is a quirk of the history of the house. When it was built there was a working garage and repair shop on the southeast side of the house - now it's the graveyard car park - so only three windows 'look' out that way, the landing, the upstairs bathroom and the downstairs toilet.
Aspect is such an important factor in a house, one which estate agents seem to ignore since, in our experience, very few plans of houses for sale have any indication of their orientation, such as a north-south sign.
I have live in houses whose living areas faced the sunset but three times I have lived in houses which had views eastwards - the Hoey and third Cliff Avenue houses when I was a boy in Mombasa, and Matenderere - and they taught me that to be able to start each day by watching the dawn is one of life's great privileges.
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