Winter Solstice

I look forward to longer days! We live on 54th degree latitude, so quite far north. Our sunset today will be 4:19pm, and sunrise 9:00 am. If it were sunny during the day it wouldn't seem so dreary, but it's been overcast and drizzly all week adding to the gloom.

Here's to brighter days ahead.

Allira

theworriedwell

Hopefully this will cheer DH up. He has SAD and I dread the dark nights as he is so miserable. Not to mention all the bright daylight lights he has on which hurt my eyes.

Thank you for a bit of cheer.

Has he got a therapy light box?
A friend's son uses one and I think it helps.

He has several, hence our electricity bills are horrendous. He leaves every light in the house on just to top it up. Drives me mad. Then there is the central heating, we play a game where I turn down the thermostat everytime I pass it and he turns it up. I honestly think I am going to faint due to overheating. There goes the gas bill. Not sure how we've lasted 40 years as we are clearly unsuited.

Thanks for the suggestion, it might help others but I think my DH is a lost cause.

Not sure how we've lasted 40 years as we are clearly unsuited.
😂
I'm sure we are too!

He was in a t shirt yesterday evening, I was wondering whether to pull a crochet blanket over me. "It's 21C!" he said

Ps the sun's shining here 🌞

Lovely reminder paddyann. Happy Solstice to you and yours.

Happy Solstice everyone. I welcome the return of the light every year as it always lifts my spirits.

Sunrise Edinburgh yesterday 8.42, sunset 15.39 (but at 14.00 it was so dark I had to put on the kitchen light to fill a kettle)

Today sunrise was at the same time but sunset will be at 15.40. Hurray! www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/edinburgh?month=12 Year's light map for Edinburgh, sunrise/sunset and day/night lengths.

For light maps for other UK places, put your own town? in place of edinburgh? in the URL. For instance, www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/york?month=12

It was a glorious dawn this morning, too - only saw it because we were up so early in order to hit M&S when they opened at 7, to get the turkey.

DH bought me a solar light as I get rather down in the winter. Well I have to say I think it has worked 🤞

Happy solstice to all