The Shortest Day

Happy Solstice Everyone!

Last week I went to visit Newgrange which is, among other things, the site of a megalithic passage tomb. It was built some time around 3200BC and is only ever fully lit on the sunrise of the winter solstice. Today, that happened at 9:08am.

Except that the sun didn't actually rise this morning. It sort of just misted into daylight. As I walked to work after taking the kids to school, I congratulated myself on not being one of the three hundred people freezing their asses off in a former cow field to mark the occasion.

And now, I plan to take advantage of the longest night and sleep for hours.

All good things...