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For a week or two during the year, make a point of witnessing the sunrise and sunset. During the summer, you may have to keep longer hours to do this, whereas winter days are shorter. Any time of the year, though, offers its rewards – from June mornings veiled in mist to the fiery skies of a December dusk.

Make a note of where the Sun rises and sets in the sky, as this will give you your east and west.

The old weather saying goes: ‘Red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning; red sky at night, shepherd’s delight.’ (Or ‘gasworks are on fire’, according to my grandad.) There is some truth to this, as most weather systems arrive from the west, and a red sky at night is often a sign that high pressure is on its way, bringing fair weather with it. However, a red sky in the morning means the weather system has already passed through, and rain and wind might follow on its tails.

As well as discovering how dawn and dusk act as bookends to shore up a day, see whether they offer you any clues about what’s to come in the hours ahead.