Tuesday 21st December, The Winter solstice, the shortest daylight hours of the winter - so to speak - from now on the days will grow longer in daylight, minutes a day but slowly at first, take until mid January before you start to really notice it. It is a more important time for myself than the Summer solstice - that marks the start of the busiest month of the year being a Greenkeeper and The Scottish Open Championship, a month of longer hours and early mornings, rewarded after with some Overtime that pays to keep the van on the road so worth it...
Back to today and sunrise is 08.40, sunset is 15.36, however the weather was as forecasted overcast and cold and so this year we did our cycle on Sunday as I was also working Tuesday… here is how dark it can be at this time of year with low cloud and no sun…
This was Tuesday 9am…
Back to Sunday and It was nearly 10am before the sun was up casting a long shadow on the melting frost lifting off the cars and we headed out on out Surly Pugsley bikes for a cycle east of the town...
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