Winter solstice! Yeehah!

[Davidc]

Just think of what will happen when winter really gets going

Oh the savings on my electricity bill - from putting the food from the freezer in the garden and turning the freezer off!

 

[Archie_tect]

Hot water bottles have become very popular in our house recently!

 

[Dayvo]

Only 180 days to the longest day - then it starts getting darker again.

My glass is half empty.

I'm of the same mind, Ventoux!

IF I'm lucky, I'll be in cycling shorts by the end of April (probably with leggings) and work shorts by the end of May.

Then it's just a few weeks until the sun heads south for winter again!

 

[Maz]

....and a lunar eclipse at 06:33 although as I type the moon is behind clouds.

I'm pssed off I didn't hear anything on the news last night along the lines of "look out for the lunar eclipse".

I would've made an effort to see it...

 

[Campfire]

We didn't see anything, although we were awake looking out for it. The cloud cover stopped us seeing it - damn, damn and more damn!

Winter Solstice
Lunar Eclipse
Our 29th Wedding Anniversary

A lot to happen in one day!

 

[Arch]

I'm pssed off I didn't hear anything on the news last night along the lines of "look out for the lunar eclipse".

I would've made an effort to see it...

It was mentioned on PM on radio 4...

I was up anyway, walking to work. Although I'm fairly certain that was at 7.33, not 6.33. It was just as totality occurred that I was able to spot it, very low in the sky behind some trees.

 

[heretic]

I was riding (!) to work, the first shadow came at 6-25, there was a flat top left hand corner by 6-45 and it sank into a bank of cloud above the skyline before 7-00. And it was -10C AGAIN.

 

[Maz]

Speaking of Winter Solstice...i was chatting with a Pagan when i was serving food at a homeless centre....interesting religion...plenty of traditions nicked from Paganism and adopted by Christianity...yule log, mistletoe and the timing of Christmas day, to name but a few.

Loved the volunteering too...never a dull moment at the homeless centre...fights, death threats, druggies. I was well out of my comfort zone!
The place is f'kin buzzin...and I'm volunteering for the Salvation Army next week!

 

[Maz]

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Davyo worked in a homeless centre last year.

Good stuff you two.

I'll get off my arse next year and try to get the generosity of heart to do something similar.


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Cheers, Crock!

 

[atbman]

The nights are drawing out, aren't they.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

We need seven virgins.

Go to your local station, you'll probably see some.