The sun sets at 4 o'clock, exactly what I'm dreading ...

[tamaranth]

Sunset won't get earlier than this, and from Saturday it'll start getting later again.. Though I will still be getting up in the dark for a while ...

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[sushidog.livejournal.com]

I Often Dream of Trains, Robyn Hitchcock (covered by Firewater).

It's only since my self-diagnosis of mild SAD that I've found out that my grandfather always knew lighting-up time, to the minute, every day throughout Winter, and he counted down the days to the solstice (although not for religious reasons!).

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

On the basis of 'know thine enemy', it's useful information to have. Mine is usually sunrise, in that getting up before it is quite unpleasant. (It'll be a while before I leave werk in daylight -- er, apart from the whole leaving-werk thing -- but on lie-in days I could be rising after dawn by early Feb.

Boo to winter. Except pretty frost etc.

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

Your comment has made me remember that my Dad counted down to the shortest day as well. When I was a kid I never understood why, but I certainly do now.

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]

Ha, we're getting sunset three minutes before you. Take that, London!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

aha, the Frozen North! Six months of night! Does that start at Watford, or is it the Scottish border?

[p0wdermonkey.livejournal.com]

"It's not a cormorant; it's not a shag. It's only something in a plastic bag."
Let's hope I never find a post to go with that quote.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I've had quite a few somethings in plastic bags ... hmm, must add you to my dating filter :)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

also, v. impressed that you know other Hitchcock songs!

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Spooky isn't it? I have a whole bunch of Hitchcocks on vinyl. Must do something about transferring them to something more playable.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Why did I think 21 December was the shortest day? Or is that the solstice? Confused...

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

The solstice (22nd Dec this year) is the shortest day ... the mornings are still drawing in.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Ah - misread the table. And winter officially begins on the 23rd. So it's not officially cold yet.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

The winter solstice is the shortest day overall, but 'latest sunrise' and 'earliest sunset' usually occur a few days either side of it because of the Earth's slightly elliptical orbit around the Sun. (This is the same reason that sundials run a few minutes slow or fast throughout the year.)

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Oh wow I never knew that! In fact looking at the table was the first I knew that it didn't automatically happen around the shortest day.

Ah well, we're nearly there...

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

if you had a clepsydra... it would be frozen

just reading the water clock description in David Wishart Last Rites - it has ducks that you turn to adjust the length of the hour as the year turns.

It is dark and cold and *night* here *already*. bah.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Sunlight-soaked southerner! Up here latest sunset is 3.38, and for the week between Xmas and New Year (sorry, Hogmanay) it rises at quarter to nine.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

are there polar bears?

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

latest sunset is 3.38

Eek! That must be (even more) depressing.

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

Remind me to talk to you about solstice-celebrating tomorrow. I was thinking along the lines of a country walk (subject to weather), followed by feasting of some description :)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

My thoughts almost exactly! If it's nice weather like today, it'd be so good to get outdoors. If it's grey and slanty and wet like the weekend, I moot we skip straight to the feasting!

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

Good plan, I like that one :)

[fishlifter.livejournal.com]

I always feel a little bit sad when this happens. I am affected by a different season...

It's really remarkable we manage to find places to co-exist, isn't it?