Well I just looked at my little sunrise and sunset chart and today's the
earliest we get sunset. From now it's getting later. The day length does
continue to shorten though for another 10 days or so because the sunrise is
still getting later.

Another bit of strange but useless information! (You can tell I'm itching
for January and the start of the sowing season :-)


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!

jane wrote:

Well I just looked at my little sunrise and sunset chart and today's the
earliest we get sunset. From now it's getting later. The day length does
continue to shorten though for another 10 days or so because the sunrise is
still getting later.

Another bit of strange but useless information! (You can tell I'm itching
for January and the start of the sowing season :-)

Thanks for that Jane - cheered me up a bit :-)

Now let's just get that awful event (Xmas) over with and I'll be a very
happy doggy - looking forward to seriously getting back into my garden.
--
Regards,

Troy the Black Lab.

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:50:56 +0000, Troy wrote:

Now let's just get that awful event (Xmas) over with

You might feel better if you look upon it as a celebration of Yule,
the changing of the seasons and the birth of the (real) new year. Or
so I try to think.........

Regards, VivienB

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:49:11 +0000, VivienB
wrote:

~On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:50:56 +0000, Troy wrote:
~
~Now let's just get that awful event (Xmas) over with
~
~You might feel better if you look upon it as a celebration of Yule,
~the changing of the seasons and the birth of the (real) new year. Or
~so I try to think.........
~
~Regards, VivienB

I don't think there's anything wrong with Christmas as an event. It's
the commercialisation and terrible telly and overindulgence that's the
problem. If you take it as it was meant to be, the celebration and
giving thanks for the birth of a very special baby, given as a gift to
earth (hence we give gifts), then Christmas is beautiful. As usual, we
humans have ruined it...

Just don't put on the telly. We have a cupboard of board games and
usually get out a couple. Just no Monopoly. My SO cheats! (I can
recommend a hilarious card game called Fluxx - the rules are that the
rules change, constantly, as do the conditions for winning, and it's a
hoot.)

I personally loathe New Year, and tend to go to bed about 10pm.


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:46:35 +0000 (UTC),
(jane) wrote:

Well I just looked at my little sunrise and sunset chart and today's the
earliest we get sunset. From now it's getting later. The day length does
continue to shorten though for another 10 days or so because the sunrise is
still getting later.

Very interesting. Is this true at all latitudes? It does seem unfair
that we get hopeful about daylight when the worst of cold weather is
still ahead. Who invented February anyhow?

Jane

We also have a large collection of games and are looking to expand it. I'm
going to lookout for the Fluxx game. I don't suppose you could recommend any
others?

We can recommend:

Pit
Balderdash
The Great Game of Britain

Sorry for the OT post.

~K~

More sunsets - look quick or wait until tomorrow.
--
Martin

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:27:28 +0100, martin wrote:

More sunsets - look quick or wait until tomorrow.
Whoops! Posted at half cock as usual...
http://home.wanadoo.nl/verdienen/wee...moverzicht.htm
--
Martin

"jane" wrote in message
...
Well I just looked at my little sunrise and sunset chart and today's the
earliest we get sunset. From now it's getting later. The day length does
continue to shorten though for another 10 days or so because the sunrise
is
still getting later.

Another bit of strange but useless information! (You can tell I'm itching
for January and the start of the sowing season :-)

Sunrise?
Sunset?
What is this strange 'sun' thing of which you speak?

Still, I suppose the garden is making up for the summer drought :-)

Cheers
Dave R

MallowKat wrote:

Jane

We also have a large collection of games and are looking to expand it. I'm
going to lookout for the Fluxx game. I don't suppose you could recommend any
others?

Boggle keeps us happy for hours.
--
Nick Wagg

In article , Frogleg
writes
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:46:35 +0000 (UTC),
(jane) wrote:

Well I just looked at my little sunrise and sunset chart and today's the
earliest we get sunset. From now it's getting later. The day length does
continue to shorten though for another 10 days or so because the sunrise is
still getting later.

Very interesting. Is this true at all latitudes? It does seem unfair
that we get hopeful about daylight when the worst of cold weather is
still ahead. Who invented February anyhow?

It works the other way later on - summer solstice is end June, but
there's still lots more summer to come.

--
Kay

The message
from Frogleg contains these words:

Very interesting. Is this true at all latitudes? It does seem unfair
that we get hopeful about daylight when the worst of cold weather is
still ahead. Who invented February anyhow?

Some bloke called Filldyke, I understand.

I'll refrain from voicing the obvious crudité.

--
Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm

Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano,
iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03)

David W.E. Roberts wrote:


"jane" wrote in message
...
Well I just looked at my little sunrise and sunset chart and today's the
earliest we get sunset. From now it's getting later. The day length does
continue to shorten though for another 10 days or so because the sunrise
is
still getting later.

Another bit of strange but useless information! (You can tell I'm itching
for January and the start of the sowing season :-)

Sunrise?
Sunset?
What is this strange 'sun' thing of which you speak?

Still, I suppose the garden is making up for the summer drought :-)

Cheers
Dave R

We've had a couple of really weird moon rises - soon after dark this
gibloominnormous dull red disk hanging just over the lights of the Wirral
--
Rod
http://website.lineone.net/%7Erodcraddock/index.html
My email address needs weeding.

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:18:33 +0000, Kay Easton
wrote:

Frogleg writes

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:46:35 +0000 (UTC),
(jane) wrote:

Well I just looked at my little sunrise and sunset chart and today's the
earliest we get sunset. From now it's getting later. The day length does
continue to shorten though for another 10 days or so because the sunrise is
still getting later.

Very interesting. Is this true at all latitudes? It does seem unfair
that we get hopeful about daylight when the worst of cold weather is
still ahead. Who invented February anyhow?

It works the other way later on - summer solstice is end June, but
there's still lots more summer to come.

I forbore mentioning this. In my area (SE Virginia) the statistically
average temperature rises 'til the end of July, and *actual*
temperatures are often sauna-like well into September.

I knew about solstices, but not the relative advance/retreat of
twilight.

"jane" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:49:11 +0000, VivienB
wrote:

~On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:50:56 +0000, Troy wrote:
~
~Now let's just get that awful event (Xmas) over with
~
~You might feel better if you look upon it as a celebration of Yule,
~the changing of the seasons and the birth of the (real) new year. Or
~so I try to think.........
~
~Regards, VivienB

I don't think there's anything wrong with Christmas as an event. It's
the commercialisation and terrible telly and overindulgence that's the
problem. If you take it as it was meant to be,

That was not what it was meant to be at all. It originated as a heathen
festival long before the Christians hijacked it.

[snip]

Franz