December the 21st is the shortest day in Britain.
It will be dark by 3:30 in the afternoon, after it never really got that bright to start with. I have had the lights on in the house since I got up at 8 am, and the SAD lamp is cranked up to full power.
The Beetley weather is marking the occasion with torrential rain that started during the night, and is set to last all day.
Oh joy!
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Our torrential rain comes Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, along with high winds. Oh joy, indeed. The good news is we’re now gaining more daylight every day. Best to you, Pete.
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Sorry to hear that, Jennie. We are supposed to have a cold and clear day on the 25th. Fingers crossed for that. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes, fingers crossed.
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Wishing you a warm and cozy winter, Pete! ❄️
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You too, Snap. Rain and thick fog today, but at least it isn’t snowing. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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It only gets better from here though, a couple of minutes of extra light every day and before you know it it will be spring 🙂
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I know, and I hate wishing my life away. At least I have my birthday in March to look forward to. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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My friends and family are telling me it’s raining and miserable …I’m the same as John (77)degrees…But the days should be getting longer now albeit by only a smidgeon each day but come early next year you will have nice light evenings 🙂 x
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Thanks, Carol. Bright and sunny this morning! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Good to hear, Pete sunshine makes you feel so much better 🙂 x
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The weather and the COVID is not making anyone feel joyous Pete. It’s downright depressing.
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Yesterday was one of the gloomiest I can recall. But today is sunny! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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We are having lots of fog here Pete. And we can’t see the stars… (Happy Christmas to you and your wife)
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The same to you and your husband, dear Lara. 🙂 x
Best wishes, Pete.
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We have turned the corner, Pete. It may take time to notice it but the days will start to lengthen from now. Really 🙂
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‘They’ must have heard you, Mary. Brilliant sunshine today. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Same here up in Edinburgh 🙂
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77 degrees here in LA Pete…sorry!
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Absolutely dank and miserable here, John. You had best stay in California. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh rain! The naked Wicca dancers will not have to take showers after their solstice rites.
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Not if they are dancing in Beetley, Don. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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You certainly get a lot of rain, Pete. We’ve had a fair bit this year, but nothing like you get.
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I think Beetley is in a micro-climate, Robbie. Mostly rain… 😦
Best wishes, Pete.
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Same here! Only good thing is tomorrow the days start getting longer!
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Yes, but it’s hardly noticeable until later in January. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Gotta start somewhere! 😉
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I am in for the night now, so the horrible day is behind me. I can go and get dinner started soon, and relax. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Although the airport recorded a trace amount of precipitation recently, breaking a 240-day dry streak here in Las Vegas, I’m still in the dark as to what rain looks like. And if I don’t get out of the house soon, I’ll be in the dark as to what sunlight looks like. I haven’t been outside in a week.
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But busy writers only ever see daylight through the cracks in venetian blinds, so I believe. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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It is a beautiful sunny day here, Pete. I am enjoying the heat of the sun pouring theough the window. I wish the same for you.
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Thanks for wishing that for me, Maggie. It did stop raining at 3pm, so that’s something. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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The rain here stopped long enough for me to get the dogs out to meet their friend, Harper, so we’re tucked up now for the shortest day.
l ook on the bright side. Tomorrow will be a smidgeon brighter.
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Hopefully, we should have a dry 25th at least, Cathy. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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“Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.”😞
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Many a true word written in a song, Kim.
Best wishes, Pete.
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But the long summer days make it worth it. Kind of…
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I would prefer a more equal division of the year though. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Same here Pete, also just managed an hours lunch at work to pop to the supermarket, It’s mad. The Brexit stockpilers are out in force.
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Dreading the Tesco run later…
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hey Pete! Look at the ‘bright side’, tomorrow will be a longer day! 😀
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Thanks for that, Shaily. 🙂 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Whoa! I never knew it dark that early!!
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Always is here, GP. Feels like we have no daylight to speak of.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Shortest day of the year in Canada 🇨🇦
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Thanks for letting me know. I think it is the same all across the northern hemisphere. I wrote ‘Britain’ for the benefit of followers south of the equator. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Poor you! 😉 If it’s any consolation [Schadenfreude, maybe? 😉 ] it’s also raining here, a hundred odd miles north of you, and set to last the rest of the day. At least my frustration at not being able to have a walk in the fresh air is tempered by the necessity to give my foot another day or so before venturing out for more than the odd hundred metres [sorry 😉 ], but it definitely feels like it is on the mend: slightly less swollen and tender, so I should be back to my normal quite soon. Cheers, Jon.
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Glad to hear your gout is subsiding, Jon. No need to get your feet wet today.
I have no choice, because of my dog. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks Pete 😀 I do have a pretty new pair of waterproof walking shoes, but they don’t ‘give’ much, yet anyway, so I don’t think I’d be able to get the right one on until the swelling has subsided some more, and I’m not about to try! 😉 I’m sure Ollie appreciates you, whatever the weather.
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The one good thing about today is that it marks the start of lighter evenings!
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Yes, after January begins, we will start to notice those. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Finally something to look forward to!
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Grey and wet here today too. Sigh…
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A suitably miserable start to a long week, Jude.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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And I need to go to the supermarket, keep putting it off but running out of the basics. Just hoping there won’t be too many tourists from the south-east.
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Monday is my Tesco big shop day! x
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The rain you love my dear . .
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Seen enough to last me the remaining years of my life, Ro. 😦
Have a good week. x
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Ollie’s walk will be a wet one…..chuq
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And very muddy too! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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