Facing south on Bowness Common

 We walked across Bowness Common on the Solway and came across this. I took the photograph at 12 noon so my shadow should be lined up with due north. It's not perfectly aligned but not bad.

 My classes seem to have lost the idea that you can tell south because it is the direction you point if you face the Sun at midday in the northern hemisphere. People think that compasses define the directions but the Sun defined the geographical directions first before compasses were invented.