The Summer Solstice Thread. (1 Viewer)

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I had a tea party with the kids, we have one every year for it.
It was a bit shit as there was kids having a water fight outside and I found myself saying "no you can't play with your friends. You're staying in and you'll pretend to be happy!"

 

[ann post]

Here, wait for me to come up and bring me too. Looks great! PS When should I come to LK?

no bother, is only down the road.
you were supposed to come last week but i didnt have enough things organised so nobody came. its probably going to be in august now, I'm away most of july.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

no bother, is only down the road.
you were supposed to come last week but i didnt have enough things organised so nobody came. its probably going to be in august now, I'm away most of july.

Yeah it only just occurred to me today that we hadn't talked about it since! Early August suits me way better than late August. Can't really get away between mid August and mid September.

 

[nooleen]

anyway never mind everyone, it'll be winter soon again

 

[ann post]

Yeah it only just occurred to me today that we hadn't talked about it since! Early August suits me way better than late August. Can't really get away between mid August and mid September.

i'll see what i can swing for then so.

 

[Space]

its this, its cool. but were not going because i already climbed errigal today so i just want to eat pasta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grianan_of_Aileach

and I went to the beach with my mum and had a lovely swim followed by food from the best chipper around.

 

[nooleen]

oedipal is certainly a classic motif.
i had no motif whatsoever.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

its this, its cool. but were not going because i already climbed errigal today so i just want to eat pasta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grianan_of_Aileach

thats very very cool,all i got was the reconstruction of a burial tomb on tibradden,still fun though.and a nice 3 hour walk for good measure.

 

[rettucs]

Seriously, this much light is just wrong. I was walking home last night around half ten or so and I swear I thought it was like 5pm. Birds chirp at like 2am. I'm instantly awake at 6:30am even with an eye mask on. How does anyone sleep? My body clock is so confused.

you can sleep in winter.

anyway, daytime today is approx 11 seconds shorter than yesterday

For Dublin;

Sunrise: 4:56 AM IST
Sunset: 9:57 PM IST
Length of Day: 17h 01m


I think Galway/Mayo get about 15 minutes extra before sunset. I'm sure places up north likewise, whereas the poor Corkies are probably getting darkness 5/10 mins before the rest of us, bless them.

 

[Anthony]

I was in Mayo on Sunday night looking out at the Nephin range waiting for darkness. It was beautiful.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

anyway never mind everyone, it'll be winter soon again

well,here we are,6 months on and what have we learned?
seems rte are showing the winter solstice live from newgrange on tuesday (weather permitting) if anyone's interested.once that's over summer is only round the corner,i can almost hear the birds singing and bee's buzzing...

 

[nooleen]

pretty sure i'll be spending the 21st travelling to stansted to confirm that my flight is definitely cancelled and then having to buy another bus ticket to get back to where i started

edit: maybe not, flights are going ok today actually

 

[ann post]

your supposd to plant garlic on the winter solstice. i will be testing this theory.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

really?might try it myself.is the fertile soil of donegal not deep frozen/buried under loads of snow?

 

[ann post]

its about 6-7 inches in the garden. I'm just going to dig through it for the craic, and then do a few in plant pots indoors.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

fuck it,im gonna do that too,i already got a couple of low voltage strips for my aloe plant,may as well whack a bit of garlic in there.might do some rocket if i can get the seeds,love chewing on that stuff.

 

[ann post]

I've found the common floor brush most effective in clearing paths around the house.

 

[ann post]

I was just checking my gardening book.

It says "plant them 2inches deep and six inches apart in march - apart from watering in dry weather there is nothing to until the foliage turns yellow in july or august'

I'm still planting them tomorrow.

 

[nooleen]

i thought you were planting them on the solstice

 

[ann post]

that post will work better tomorrow. a stitch in time etc.