Happy Solstice Everyone

We've made it half way through the dark again.

And as a special thank you to all our members, here's a really boring slide show going back to mid summer.

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Will try to do better next year:DOH:

Big thanks to all our members and best wishes for a happy Christmas

 

Thanks Ziggy, hope you have a good Christmas too mate, All the Best :thumb:

 

It's tomorrow Zig, the 22nd this year.

This date is one i look forward to more than xmas .... light mornings :yess:
Being a real morning person as soon as i notice them getting lighter earlier it gladdens my heart !!!!
I hate dark mornings !


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I don't mind if it's today or tomorrow - what it does mean is about 15mins of extra daylight a week and Spring just around the corner. :happydance:

 

Yep, solstice tomorrow. Which also happens to be pay day for me, and also day 1 of my christmas holiday leave.

 

That catches loads of people out, and thousands regularly turn up at Stonehenge a day early, but English Heritage normally let them in. Still a whole 4 months too early for Martians.

And it's Happy Summer Solstice for anybody in the Southern Hemisphere. If you stood astride the equator you could do both at once.

 

Happy Christmas Ziggy, I always remember when the solstice is its youngest daughters birthday, so not allowed to forget

 

Happy Solstice Eve Ziggy, have a good one mate.:santa-snowman:

Harry

 

I'm afraid we still have the darkest mornings to come - the latest sunrises fall between Boxing Day and January 4th, before they gradually start creeping forward again.

Sunrise and Sunset for United Kingdom – England – London – January 2011

But, heyho, the overall shortest day will soon be over, and the afternoons are already drawing out!

Sunrise and Sunset for United Kingdom – England – London – December 2011

 

There is that odd anomaly Bit like the Planet doing a handbrake turn I suppose:D

Main thing is though, back down hill towards another growing season

Oh, don't forget to keep the Solstice fire burning throughout the night, otherwise the Sun won't come back next year

 

Yeah, no worries, I'll leave the Christmas tree lights on in the cave.

 

You have a cave?

I've only got a pill box.

Luxury.

 

Happy Solstice everyone!
As someone who works outside all day, I'm always happy to see the passing of the winter solstice. :yess:

Slightly off topic....at our work Christmas 'do' a couple of nights ago, the subject of the approaching solstice came up in conversation.

My boss told me of a former acquaintance of his, a 'Sir' who was also a fellow of quite diminutive stature.

Apparently he was known to all in the company as '22/6', because he was said to be the shortest knight in the realm! :D