Equinox - :)

stoneill · 20-03-2012 6:29am #1

Spring Equinox today.
From now on until solstice the days will be longer than the nights.
Grand stretch in the evening!

Ellis Dee · 20-03-2012 6:37am

Isn't it actually tomorrow, 21st? Anyway, what does a day matter? You are right about the stretch in the days. The worst part of winter in northern Europe is not actually the bitter cold and mountains of snow, but the darkness and gloom that seem to get everyone down. Now it's bright well before seven in the morning here in Helsinki and until after seven in the evening. In three months' time it will be bright from around 2.30 am to nearly 11 at night, and even after that it will be a "White Night", as the Russians call it. And the women, who all look like the Michelin Man right now, will be wispily clad beauties.;);)

stoneill · 20-03-2012 6:42am

No - it's today. 20th March for 2012.
And it's still Yay!

Jagera · 20-03-2012 7:03am

The exact March Equinox was at 5:14 this morning.

I have a sun calendar app.

AskMyChocolate · 20-03-2012 7:10am

Jagera wrote: »

The exact March Equinox was at 5:14 this morning.

I have a sun calendar app.

Jaysus and I thought BrummyTom was my only serious competition for most celibate man on boards. Another piranha in the tank.

Jesus Wept · 20-03-2012 7:33am

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Jaysus and I thought BrummyTom was my only serious competition for most celibate man on boards. Another piranha in the tank.

Tom gets plenty of gamey lasses throwing their vag at him though, he just tends to somehow find a way to let them down gently.

Jagera · 20-03-2012 8:35am

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Jaysus and I thought BrummyTom was my only serious competition for most celibate man on boards. Another piranha in the tank.

I use it to know how many daylight hours I have for ridin'.

:-|

Potential-Monke · 20-03-2012 8:40am

Oh yay, i can't wait to go to work while it's bright, it gets dark, and then bright again before i go home and attempt to sleep!

Fooks with my system it does!!! Time to root out the blackout blinds!

AskMyChocolate · 20-03-2012 8:55am

Jagera wrote: »

I use it to know how many daylight hours I have for ridin'.

:-|

And then feed the exact amount of time into your loneliness calculator app.:p

Ellis Dee · 20-03-2012 8:58am

stoneill wrote: »

No - it's today. 20th March for 2012.
And it's still Yay!

I've spent hours trying to figure out why that is - and it just hit me. We had an extra day in February, so in a way today would be the 21st in a non-leap year.:)

Anyway, the sun is now shining brightly here in Helsinki and I hope it is where you are, too.;)

Lando Griffin · 20-03-2012 9:19am

It was great walking around the estate with the kids, chatting to all the neighbours that I havent seen since last October whilest they tended their gardens etc. It felt like we were coming out of hibernation. The little one was out till 7 last night playing with all her friends, great to see, no more being bored around the house. I am going to go out an a limb here and say we are going to have a blaster of a summer.