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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    8:50 for us and 17:26 for sunset.  Tomorrow, sunrise will be 9 seconds later but sunset one minute later so longer days are on their way.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My absolute favourite time of year is when the clocks go forward. Now there's a night for a party! Who needs a New Year party?
    In London. Keen but lazy.

  • Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    edited December 2020
    @ Ben Cotto
    It didn't get dark at all here last night!
    When I went to bed,  the nearly full moon was shining on the snow and you could see everything as clearly as at midday at this time of year. At 3.30 still the same, though the cloud was by then obscuring the hills. It's even lower now, but I can still see the garden, if not the fields beyond.
    From our window yiewpoint the hills look like gentle steps dropping down. On the shortest day the sun rises in the middle of the third step. I missed seeing it this year (that darned cloud again!) but watched it on the 22nd. Every day it moves a little bit further left, and back up the 'steps', until it eventually disappears behind the trees and farm buildings beyond the house. It's a lovely way to mark the turning of the year :)

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  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @Dovefromabove this could be the best RTBC I have had in living memory, total game changer if all reports are true. My mother's 1st treacle sponge is also up there. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2020
    Indeed ... there’s a great deal to be said for the curative powers of a good treacle sponge @Wilderbeast 👍 

    How’s your poorly hand?

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  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @Dovefromabove well maybe the Christmas Day treacle sponge was my major curative, hospital yesterday and all the dressings have been removed as the wounds have all dried up. I have some splints on for another 2-4weeks. I keep saying it's a miracle they do look very mangled but really pretty normal, and can do a V for victory again ✌️ Still lots to do to get the movement back but I'm so happy 😃😃
  • That too is very good news @Wilderbeast 😀 👍 I’m very pleased to hear it ... and hope you’re soon able to put them to good use 🍻 😉 

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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I saw about the Oxford vaccine on another post, yeah, a nice New Year Present!!!
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