The shortest day!

[MacB]

Yeh I would love to have light evenings all the time. How do we get the powers that be to stop messing with our time?

I'd go even further and have an hour the other way for longer Summer evenings

 

[XmisterIS]

Yeh I would love to have light evenings all the time. How do we get the powers that be to stop messing with our time?

The best solution, IMHO, would be to ditch the pound in favour of the Euro and adopt European time!

The trouble would be in convincing the majority flag-waving, xenophobic British morons public that it is a good idea in the long run ... (you know, the ones who harp on about keeping the pound and the Great British Empire and us being the best country in the World and all that ... I want to say to them ... it's all CHANGED!!! Get with the program already!).

 

[MacB]

The mighty sterling, BST, driving on the left...you know it all makes sense, the rest of the world will eventually come around to our way of thinking

 

[BrumJim]

Of course it is all a bit deceptive.

Whilst today is the shortest day, the nights have been drawing out since 10th December, and the mornings are going to continue to get darker until 4th January.

Also, not half as much fun as seeing people's faces on 22nd June when you tell them that the nights are drawing in, and winter is on its way...

 

[Globalti]

It certainly winds Mrs RR up!

 

[XmisterIS]

The mighty sterling, BST, driving on the left...you know it all makes sense, the rest of the world will eventually come around to our way of thinking

Noooo! Lol!

Out with the pound! In with the Euro!
Out with BST! In with BST + 1
Out with feet and inches! In with the metric system for everything!

Etc ...

P.S. When I went to school, everything was taught in the metric system, I have no idea how to work in feet and inches!

 

[Davidc]

Why, oh why, did my ancestors decide to come and live on a cold, damp, windy island with stupidly short winter days, full of xenophobes, off the north coast of europe, when they could have chosen somewhere a bit nearer the equator?

Couldn't they have managed Greece or Italy or the south of France or Spain or the Canary Islands?

 

[ChrisKH]

It's been dark here in the City for at least half an hour. Roll on summer!!!!!!

 

[ColinJ]

Up and posting on CycleChat at 06:25 on the Winter Solstice...!

I enjoyed the summer sunrises when I worked a year on night shift but one season of winter sunrises was enough to last me a lifetime! (shudder)

Back to the original point though - I've been hanging on for today. Psychologically, I feel that the worst is now over even though the bulk of winter still lies ahead. My biggest problem with winter is the lack of light later in the day. I don't care what time the sun rises because I'm always asleep then, but I hate gloomy days followed by sunset before 16:00.

 

[Saddle bum]

Yeh I would love to have light evenings all the time. How do we get the powers that be to stop messing with our time?

Vote the Scots out of our Parliament. It's only the sweatties that want
GMT in Winter.

 

[Headgardener]

I thought the shortest day is tomorrow. If it is today then. Soon be able to get the tourer out without getting it mucky.

 

[XmisterIS]

Listening to R4 in the car* going home today ...

The solstice is an instant in time rather than a whole day; it is the instant at which the sun is Southernmost with respect to the plane of the Earth's rotation and this year it occurred at 17:47 precisely.

*I know I said the "c" word, but it was sleeting and -1 degrees centigrade and the sleet was turning to ice when it hit the road, so that's my excuse!

 

[Night Train]

I made the decision to celebrate the winter solstice instead of Christmas as few years ago.
This means I have a week of feasting to get on with now!