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[pedant]Winter solstice is tomorrow actually[/pedant]
soon enough for me anyway, and well worthy of posting some minty goodness 😀
Solstice tomorrow but never mind, close enough. Thanks for posting, I love Jo Birt's artwork.
Tell her to hang about a bit longer this time rather than just visiting for a week or so then!
My ex wife's birthday, I wonder if that's significant?
Rubbish, it's still barely dropped below 10 degrees here yet. Still waiting for winter to arrive.
yep, it's what christmas was originally about 😉
Ha! I was wrong, it is tomorrow at 5:30am
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice ]Wiki stuff[/url]
well whats a few hours ..... she's on her way back and that's all that matters!
I find myself looking at this for my town more and more...
http://www.gaisma.com/en/dir/gb-country.html
In a month's time there will be 42 mins more daylight 🙂
EDIT: and in 6 months time 9hrs and 59 minutes more! 😀
What is she reading?
[edit] found it, the joys of amazon
YES! 😀 it's great to think that the sun is slowly coming back again 😀
For us today was the "longest" day of the year - things go down hill now until turnaround on June 21st! It was 30 odd degrees and light until about 7:30. Jo'burg is far enough north not to have a huge difference in longest and shortest days - about an hour and a half (capetown has a bigger difference).
Def one of the biggest thing I miss is riding up on the south downs until well after 9 in the summer and it still being light!
Does anyone have a keyring of this I could borrow?
headfirst - MemberI find myself looking at this for my town more and more...
Ha ha I usually print this out on my first day back at work after NY and pin it to the wall as it cheers me up so much 😀 😀
No no no we only just got her or that's what it feels like. Beautiful long sunny day here today, stuck at work while all my mates are out on a 160km ride, wknrs.
Ahhhh thank goodness!
How fast a year goes!
I hardly remember her but I never stopped wanting her back.
I missed her this year. I hope she visits this time.
God I hate Mint Sauce 😡
Big fan of summer, though. Often turn up at the weekend, and cheer it on.
How much am I looking forward to actually getting some sunshine next year!
Who pee'd in your boots, then, Jamie? It's a cartoon, Mint's not real, although Jo's humour shows a level of sophistication way beyond a lot that's supposed to be funny.
Perhaps that's the problem... 😉
I remember this topic from last year! Thanks for digging it up, got Summer as the background now. Having like at the weather forecast for the next week Summer still seems like a very long way away
I love mint sauce, I could drink it neat 
Jo's humour shows a level of sophistication way beyond a lot that's supposed to be funny.
Perhaps that's the problem...
There was an interview in the Big Issue with the guy who created Mrs Brown's Boys. He made a good comment about comedy in the last few years has forgotten it's supposed to make people laugh, the worst being programs like The Office which were just trying to be clever but weren't going to make people laugh.
Thing is, Mrs Brown's Boys isn't as funny as The Office...
Perhaps that's the problem...
Possibly. Thing is I am a massive fan of cartoons and animation. Despite many naysayers it is a mature and grown up medium that is capable of [url=
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...Mint Sauce, IMHO, is trite simplistic rose tinted bullshit.
Just one man's opinion.
My birthday on the longest day. Took this a day or so before. Lovely dry trails. Heading out after tea for a 4 hour ride & still coming home in daylight. Once Jan is over & the DIY studded snow tyre threads have gone. That's a good time. 🙂
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Im actually really enjoying riding this winter, but as above, its the getting out after work, in the light that im missing
Isnt it more to do with the tilt of the earth and less about distance?
I love Summer, well Jo's version of Summer anyway!
There was an interview in the Big Issue with the guy who created Mrs Brown's Boys. He made a good comment about comedy in the last few years has forgotten it's supposed to make people laugh, the worst being programs like The Office which were just trying to be clever but weren't going to make people laugh.
The Office makes me laugh. Mrs Brown's Boys makes me cringe.
Lovely midsummer's day here. 30c and sunny. No idea what you're all complaining about 😉
Mint Sauce is very, very average as cartoons go.
Given the lead time for keyring production, I feel Mr Burt should probably have ample time to come up with something with less of a 'shoegazer' nature. Its the cartoon equivalent of music by Sleeper or Travis...
So the shortest day is gone. Lets have a celebration. What do you reckon,lets have a right old pig out and a few drinks.
Ooh the fun I have when people in my shop moan about the lack of religious Christmas cards. I have to point out the real meaning of Christmas.
Is there a better cartoon about mountain biking?
Above picture now set as wallpaper on the phone. Hope springs eternal...
There was an interview in the Big Issue with the guy who created Mrs Brown's Boys. He made a good comment about comedy in the last few years has forgotten it's supposed to make people laugh, the worst being programs like The Office which were just trying to be clever but weren't going to make people laugh.
I agree with him, so why didn't he do anything about it?
So where did she go this year cos it certainly was not west Yorkshire
Pretty please Summer come and spend 3 months in Yorkshire next year
so why didn't he do anything about it?
He made some people laugh.
Does anybody have that picture in poster form they can lend me?
I'd like to get some nice posters professionally done so need one to copy.
Oooooof!
Good luck with that one! I'm pretty sure you'll anger the Mint Sauce gods with that kind of talk... 😉
It was only ever a page in the MBUK calendar. They did one or two large posters of Mint, usually with something else on the other side, one had Mint chasing after a dropped ball bearing across all sorts of countryside, until ending up in a desert where it rolls underneath a fridge! Still makes me smile when I think about it.
The only problem I have with the scans that the one the OP posted comes from is that a sheet of black paper should have been put on top when scanning, because you can see show-through from the other side, the black boxes for each day of the next month. Just one of those things you pick up from having to scan magazine pages for repro. It irritates me, but most wouldn't notice it.
Holy thread revival.. just glad this day has come round this year.
It signals the end of a 7 week slog of hardwork and no play time, 4-5hrs sleep a night, 3 young children, my normal job, and packing assistant @ night for mrs cloudnine. Ive had a half built CX bike sat in the shed taunting me too. Torture i tells ya. Phew.
