Posts Tagged winter solstice
Shortest day of the year
Posted by Peter Webb in News on December 22nd, 2011
Today marks that critical point in the northern hemisphere where the sun rises above the horizon for the shortest time. From here it gets better and better, SAD sufferers can look forward to better times.
We still have a lot of winter to go and we haven’t plumbed it’s depths from a sporting perspective, but I welcome this turning point in the year as we can start looking forward to longer days. Aside from disruption to sporting schedules, of which we have had little this year, shorter days mess up my schedule something rotten.
In the summer I can practically get a full days work in before the any sports starts. In winter I have barely woken up before I need to get my brain into gear. One positive effect is I get more time down the Gym, but no sooner am I at the Gym than the footy starts. It also limits the type of events I can run in the office. No point in dragging people in from miles around only to give them a couple of hours of my time.
So today I celebrate, ahead of Christmas, with the knowledge that I can look to more fulfilling days ahead.
Image courtesy of Astronomy picture of the day http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap071222.html
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Posted by Peter Webb in Bet Angel on December 21st, 2009
Today at this exact time we marked the winter solstice. It’s a day I look forward to as it is the shortest day of the year. From now on in we are counting down to Spring, not up to mid winter.
The weather looks set to continue to play havoc with the sports and with only one meeting on at Southwell tomorrow, it’s time to get festive. We had big snow fall this afternoon and it lay down some of the heaviest snow I have ever seen in the UK. It also set off some lighting, which is very rare.
The snow arrived with perfect timing. The children are at home and I made the sensible decision to work from home. As soon as I had done enough for the day, we went out and had a whale of a time in the deep snow. We also helped a few cars escape various gradients, fool on anybody trying to drive in that weather.
I think that’s me done on the trading front for now. A bit of last minute shopping maybe, more playing in the snow tomorrow, definitely!