So tomorrow is the longest day of the year! Or to put it another way it's the shortest night of the year! I've never quite understood why people celebrate this event. Why would you want to dance around a pile of ancient stones stark naked to mark this annual occasion? Certainly I can't think of many things that are less appealing, and having looked in the mirror this morning I don't think anyone else would want to see me doing that either! And all this to celebrate the fact that the sun will start to sink a little sooner and will come up a little later. Once tomorrow is over, in the words of George Martin, "winter is coming", so save the celebrating for December 21st, when it's too cold to jump around outside with no clothes on and the celebrating can be done with something drinkable and alcoholic in front of a log fire, with a significant other (and you have a very long night of celebration!), because that's when the days start to get longer and it starts to go the other way again!
Cheers, Ed Halliday

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author of:Burnt Toast and Bent Noses, The Almost Perfect Plot, The expected demise of Bernard Fish, The Grinning Dog