The Longest Day

[BSRU]

It's the longest day today, as from tomorrow the nights start to draw in, very slowly.

 

[ianrauk]

I was going to post this myself, but I thought I would wait to see who would be the first..

 

[Globalti]

Depression starts today. Where has the year gone?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

My son's birthday today - I always remember the lovely evening when he was born, nightingales singing when I got back home from the hospital.

Berkeley Square?

 

[coffeejo]

I woke up at three this morning for no particular reason - glad I didn't set the alarm to catch the sunrise as although the dawn chorus was spectacular, it was so cloudy that it simply got lighter, no pretty colours or vivid hues.

I always think the summer solstice marks the start of "proper" summer - the nights might start drawing in but it *should* start getting warmer. I hope. Pretty please?

 

[Beebo]

No need to worry until the clocks go back in October, then the dark months begin!!

 

[Sonofpear]

What I wanna know is when is summer actually gonna start

 

[BSRU]

What I wanna know is when is summer actually gonna start

It started and finished in April this year.

 

[lulubel]

I think the whole thing of the longest day being the turnaround point of summer (and not in a good way) is very deeply ingrained in some of us. I'm in my house in Spain, the aircon's set to 25 (outside is closer to 30) and there's wall-to-wall blue sky, and I'm still feeling something like dread - "Oh, no, the longest day, the nights are drawing in and winter will be here soon."

I'm not trying to make anyone jealous, by the way, just saying how ridiculous it is that I'm somehow "programmed" to react like that.

 

[lukesdad]

I woke up at three this morning for no particular reason - glad I didn't set the alarm to catch the sunrise as although the dawn chorus was spectacular, it was so cloudy that it simply got lighter, no pretty colours or vivid hues.

I always think the summer solstice marks the start of "proper" summer - the nights might start drawing in but it *should* start getting warmer. I hope. Pretty please?

Sunrise at 3, blimey where do you live ? I rode most of the width of the country at the weekend and never saw it before 5.

 

[corshamjim]

For us in Chippenham it's Midsummer Bike Night.

http://chippenhamwheelers.org/news/2011-05-13/midsummer-bike-night-2011-castle-combe-race-circuit

 

[Herzog]

For us in Chippenham it's Midsummer Bike Night.

http://chippenhamwhe...be-race-circuit

For us in Switzerland, it is too! Off to the Bernese Alps from sunset tonight to sunrise tomorrow.

 

[jayonabike]

Thats it, we loose 3 minutes of daylight per day now. Summer's over and before you know it, it will soon be Christmas.

 

[ianrauk]

Sunrise at 3, blimey where do you live ? I rode most of the width of the country at the weekend and never saw it before 5.

Yep, about 4.30ish is the earliest Sunrise in the UK.

 

[coffeejo]

Sunrise at 3, blimey where do you live ? I rode most of the width of the country at the weekend and never saw it before 5.

Lol, stand down! I woke up at three, read for ages and *then* the sun came up