...it's nearly 9.30am and it looks like the middle of the night out there!! 😬 💡 🌚
Grim, just grim!
Try moving to Aviemore. The sun doesn't rise above the Cairngorms until 10 and disappears behind Craigellachie around 3 😂
(OTOH, summer nights it barely gets dark.)
Blaaaaaacccckkkkk, it's all blaaaaaaacccckkkkk
It was 34c at 1030am! I don't do dark/cold any more. 😀 Although it was 55c getting in the car this arvo, which is a tad warm.
Above zero and damp today. I put the fire on this morning to try and drive some of that away, but it's still a grey, crappy day. Daylight came at some point after 0800 and it will start getting dark again at about 1500. Later in the season, I full expect not to see the sun unless I am forced out of the house.
Yes, I have thought about either hibernating till March or moving to Spain for the winter.
I did wonder if the clocks had changed again, grim working at home with lights on. Only 3 weeks till days get longer, hang in there
I did wonder if the clocks had changed again, grim working at home with lights on.
It's one of those days when I light the stove in the kitchen/snug just to make it nicer.
Yeah, the dark mornings are tough, just a few more weeks until longer days!
I see that sunset in Fort William will be at it's earliest by the 12th of December, but sunrise keeps getting later till the 21st. Personally I find that is when winter and the dark really begins to bite. Mind you a good Burns night fairly cheers me up at the end of January and by then you can see the days stretching out.
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/fort-william
Our central heating kicked in at lunch time, set at 17°.
1521 here now and it's heavy dusk.
A few years ago some numb nuts decided to put tinted window film on our office windows. It can look gloomy enough outside in high summer, but this time of year it's dusk at lunch time.
yep virtually dark all day here today with this gloomy old weather :-/
looking at the sunrise / sunset times for us:
| Dec 1 | 08:22 | 16:02 |
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| Dec 31 | 08:46 | 16:07 |
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| Jan 31 | 08:14 | 17:00 |
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mornings just keep getting darker til the start of Jan, and only at the very end of Jan are we back to around where it is at the mo!
the upside is the evenings start getting a tad lighter after the solstice, but again not til end of Jan does it begin to look like the corner has turned...
ho hum, I guess I need to try and learn to love winter, not easy though 🙁
It's cold in the office, riding home is going to be rubbish, although some sections may come with a tailwind, maybe, please, pleeeeease!
The last few years I've been treating the winter solstice as the end of the year, rather than the 31st. It's had a big effect mentally and I actually feel 100% better about the winter months now.
We have a little celebration on the solstice, then have another on Christmas day, then new year. It's much more fun
^ I like the sound of that, may have to join you
Still some people not that far from me who celebrate the "old "new year.. About the 8th - 10th of January
Edit It's the 10th - 12th of January
Yeah, the dark mornings are tough, just a few more weeks until longer days!
They were when I was leaving for work at 05.45, and leaving work at 18.30, and spending the majority of the day outdoors. Now I get to go to bed when it suits me, and get up when it suits. 😁
Thankfully someones flipped the switch back up on the fuseboard today!* 😀 ☀️
(*in mid-Derbyshire anyway).
Thankfully someones flipped the switch back up on the fuseboard today!* 😀 ☀️
(*in mid-Derbyshire anyway).
Ridiculous isn't it? Gorgeous day here (in southern Mid Derbyshire)
I don't mind the dark days so much as long as we get a couple of bright/sunny days a week like we are getting at the moment (north Notts). Being retired, I can have those as my riding days and soak it up. I feel much less resentful when it's dark the rest of the time