Solstice

So its Winter Solstice here today, and I am rather pleased that the Earth has made almost all the way around the sun again, not that I did not think that it would not happen, but hey let's not give it any ideas ah?

So summer is coming shorter nights

 This is always good.

Me (2021)

The above is still go with me glad that I have spent another year on Earth being carried around the Sun, can't believe how many times so far I have managed this feat, long may it go on.....

Me getting a trip around the Sun that is....

Last Night of the Proms

So its last night of the proms, this means that winter is now on its way, still its nice to see it in HD for the very first time.

Sunrise

Sunrise just before 6am, winter is on its way in, wish I had the money to now fly to the southern hemisphere and get to enjoy the spring and summer.

Winter Solstice

So the mid winter day will so be with us I am not sure if it is the 21 st or the 22 nd but which ever day it is one thing that is for certain is that the nights will so start to get shorter which means summer is coming!

This is some thing that I can say I am very happy about, as I think one the whole I like summer more, not for the sunshine and the warm days and nights but for all the daylight and the blue skies which is something that I miss in the winter.

I do wonder if at the winter solstice there will be any one at Stone or wood henge at 8 in the morning, which I suppose is far more civilised than the summer solstice which I think sunrise is at 4 am!

Any way I am looking forward to more daylight and blue skies!

Winter again

I think the season has changed and that it happened in the last 7 days as the light levels and the wind have both changed and some how or other I have even noticed this event.

I have so far lived through more than 40 season changes, but I think that this is the very first one in which I am aware of the exact week and I think day that I noticed the changes that herald the fact that here in the northern hemisphere winter is on it's way.

Now in some ways winters nice, by that I mean that without winter you would not know what summer is like, would you?

I know that there are folks who live in climates where it is almost the same all year long, I don't think I could cope with that, having been brought up in a country where the weather at nine in the morning can be completely different at twelve mid day.

So welcome winter, may you be short sweet and with no snow!

Low Light

I have noticed over the last few days when it was sunny that the intensity of the light when we get some is now much much less than it was just a couple of weeks ago.

Now I know that this is not to be unexpected as we are here in the northern hemisphere rushing towards the winter solstice or winter, but it's the fact that this year at least I have spotted it and have decided to record it here as a reminder to myself of this fact.

Winter 2

I think that for once the weather men have got it right and that winter is on its way the temps around here are dropping.

In fact I am starting to find it hard to believe that this day last week I was in a tee shirt and it was hot! no really it was nice and warm and the sun was so bright and all that, sunglasses were need, and not just to look cool.

Sunrise

Today I saw a nice and interesting sunrise, it makes me just a little sad as it means winter must be on its way as it was only 7ish when I saw the sunrise.

It was interesting sunrise with some light clumpy clouds which all light up in some interesting ways, the colours and hues of the clouds changed as the sun rose, I must admit that I sat looking out of the window for a good 10 minutes or so

Williams Audio Challenge 7

So this is the seventh audio challenge in the series, and I must come clean and state here that I do not know how many of these challenges their will be, as I suspect that as time passes that will have ideas that I think will make a good challenge.

This challenge is to create four linked audio programmes of 30 minutes each. the four audio programmes will be called the following;

Spring Equinox

Summer Solstice

Autumn Equinox

Winter Solstice

Each programme should link to each other, each programme should have both fact and trivia and there is nothing to stop the addition of humour if it will help the programme be entertaining and fun for the listener.

I think that this is an easy challenge to complete, as it would require only some basic research, the hard bit is making this series different from all the other programmes that there has been before, all with that most listeners will think that they have heard it before so the core of this challenge is to get the listener interested in what many may think is an over done and stale subject.