She finally turns round today and starts her long journey back to us!
c Jo Burt
Isn't it tomorrow (22 Dec) this year?
You’re right! 🙈
Yup tomorrow is the solstice, so she's not on her way back until Saturday really...
Not checked exact times, but basically.
Edit: checked it's 3.27am Friday
Whenever the exact solstice is, we seem to have reached it quickly this winter.
Damn you OP, I thought today was Friday but it's only Thursday. Best go to work I guess.
Postponed due to high winds
Whenever the exact solstice is, we seem to have reached it quickly this winter
Very much this
Holes in the sky…
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I look forward to the solstice for many reasons. Going a day early is a bit shit.
@matt_outandabout I dont remember that one. Made me smile. Wont be long 😀
I did once have exactly this moment - top of the climb up from Charterhouse onto Black Down on Mendip. I can feel the warm sun on my face, lying in the grass cooling off in the gentle scented breeze just beyond the fell gate. Mmmmm... Pint of Wilkins in the Hunters at Priddy and an afternoon drinking Pimms in a friend's garden in Draycott. Mrs Rhp always refers to these as Mint Sauce moments. Mendip does them well 😀
Wait, what?
I only rode my wife's Kona Coco down to the park to drink cans in the sunshine.
So not a wasted day then.
Mendip does them well
Cos they're all based on the Mendips, innit, Mr Burt being from dem dere parts
Mendip does them well
Cos they’re all based on the Mendips, innit, Mr Burt being from dem dere parts
I'd always imagined South Downs? Every day's a skool day.
It's been far too long my beautiful friend, my memory maker, have a safe journey back to us.
We are all waiting for you.
Roll on summer! But first I'll take this seemingly endless rain doing one!
I'd rather have rain than the wind heading this way. My hopes of a Christmas day surf aren't looking good.
Well I’m in NZ and I’m sad about this, as Summers barely started
Technically doesn't "meteorological" winter and summer start on the 22nd December, 22nd June?
Astronomical winter starts on the solstice; meteorological winter started on December 1st. Sauce
I thought this was about Ling!
Did she ever come back or is she still out there?
Her website is down.
Blog went to Croatia, then back for COVID jabs.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210616205411/https://www.lingsbiketrip.com/blog
^^ Last I heard they had to return to the UK from Europe as they were about to overrun their 3 months visa due to lockdowns...
She was a big supporter of Brexit.
Make of that what you will.
I'm sorry but at age 65 I'm in no hurry to celebrate the passing of time. Let me get some good riding, running, walking and swimming in before another summer is upon us.
https://www.iflscience.com/the-exact-moment-todays-winter-solstice-will-occur-72117
3:27 tomorrow morning, apparently.
Matt Out Anda Bout? I’ve been reading it incorrectly all these years… 😁
A lot of people ride moab so I just assumed he was, erm, talented.
😁
Matt out an dab out?
Mat tout and bout?
Ma ttou tand b out?
Anybody have a keyring I could borrow?
Just arrived in Avebury to be here for sunrise tomorrow. Not sure there's going to be much of one but I fancied doing something to mark the solstice.
www.thisiswhy.co.uk
Happy Yule everyone. On a hill in the cloud 😶🌫️
I don't think it's actually going to get light here today and the rain is biblical, I imagine we're due for some flooding. Roll on warm balmy days.
Yeah, I wish there was book of Mint Sauce cartoons 😉
Not quite the same but: https://www.thisiswhy.co.uk
We had Rainbow Cloudsin the sky this morning to mark the Solstice,which was nice👍😊
What I always wonder at this time of year is why does she take twice as long to reappear than she does to go away? Does she not like returning?
(yes I know about the thermal drag of our climate, hence why January and February are coldest and July and August are warmest. Still doesn't mean it sucks.)
Woohoo, winter solstice definitely passed, let's go bring back summer!
Sorry - too much Frozen being watched in my house, mixing up my genres...
Reluctant, do you mean why does sunrise keep getting later until early Jan?
More that the temperatures and weather lag behind the Solstices, so while it may well be the start of the run towards the summer it never feels like it until nearly Easter!
The "this is why..." phrase really has become part of MTB folklore. Noticed this tiny sticker this weekend on a trail I've ridden hundreds of times before.
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Solstice sunrise pilgrimage yesterday for work reasons. Sunrise not the best, but nacreous clouds excellent compensation
Just been for a sunset wassail at a local hawthorn tree of note on the river with my wife. Little song, couple of ribbons, and a glug of sherry.
We had nacreous clouds here the last two days, but none today. Been a fine day for a wander in the woods and a little spin down the lane.
This is why...I subscribed to MBUK this year so that Mint has a place to be. Got a really nice print from Jo's Etsy shop too.
