We get up with the Sun, and go to bed with the Sun, over this sacred time.

Hardly worth getting up, Bryn - especially up in these latitudes! Solstice Point in the UK this year is 17.47, on the 21st - by which time you'll be safely tucked up in bed!

As a SAD suffering atheist I'm quite happy to celebrate the Solstice, Christmas, Xmas, Hanaka, Winterval, Festivus (for the Rest of Us), or whatever other nonsense humans have come up with over the years to cope with the savage realities of winter. Shame hibernation wasn't one of them...