I’ve been in the UK for 10 years, and I’m still not used to the short days around this time of year. It’s not light til nearly eight am and dark just before 4.
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December 18, 2006 at 3:39 pm
But do you get really long days in the summer? Rex and I watch a lot of British TV shows (through Netflix), and it always looks as bright as noon in scenes that are supposed to take place in the evening. Is this just lazy directing, or based in fact?
December 18, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Interesting article in today’s NYT about US citizens abroad renouncing citizenship.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/world/18expat.html
December 18, 2006 at 6:44 pm
Well, it could be lazy directing, but yes, we do have really long days in summer. Sunrise at long, long before VA-rise and it doesn’t get dark til about 10 around the summer soltice – and stays bright til quite late.
Or it could be that you’re assuming that it’s evening ’cause they’re all down the pub. Nah, Brits are quite happy to drink during work hours.
December 18, 2006 at 7:46 pm
The first time I went to England, I arrived the first week of January, and it took me days to get used to convice myself that it wasn’t already late in the afternoon when I woke up in the morning. It’s the oddest, eeriest experience to wake up in England in the depths of winter.
December 18, 2006 at 10:18 pm
It’s the oddest, eeriest experience to wake up in England in the depths of winter.
That’s why I try not to bother – and just go round in a permanent stupor from the 1st of November til the end of Feb.
December 20, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Was the sky that grey-gold or did you use a filter of some kind. It is hauntingly beautiful. VM
December 20, 2006 at 10:48 pm
Take it from an Englishman: winters here are usually just plain grey.