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20 Jun 08 - 05:00 AM (#2370509) Subject: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Bryn Pugh Joy, Health, Love, Peace and Blessings to all at the time of the Solstice. So mote it be. |
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20 Jun 08 - 05:06 AM (#2370514) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Paul Burke Downhill from now on. JHLP to all of you today and the rest of the year too. I've never worked out what "bless" means. |
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20 Jun 08 - 05:29 AM (#2370524) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Liz the Squeak Only 6 months til Christmas!! LTS |
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20 Jun 08 - 06:54 AM (#2370567) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Catherine Jayne And same to you Bryn. Liz...you always look on the bright side *G* |
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20 Jun 08 - 07:03 AM (#2370574) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Mr Red Now according to Wiki it is today not the 21st, mind you - for the sake of one minute!, must be all those leap seconds we have missed. |
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20 Jun 08 - 07:32 AM (#2370582) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: billybob It is my birthday on June 21st, my mother says it was the longest day! |
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20 Jun 08 - 07:39 AM (#2370586) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Jack Blandiver Rudyard Kipling - A Tree Song (Oak, Ash & Thorn) |
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20 Jun 08 - 09:44 AM (#2370674) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Mrrzy Happy Day! |
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20 Jun 08 - 10:35 AM (#2370712) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: lady penelope Cool bit of Kipling there. I wonder if anyone's stuck a tune to it? Wotcha! Merry Solstice...tide! What I can never figure out is that May is supposed to still be spring but we hit MidSummer's Day not even a month later....!?!?! |
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20 Jun 08 - 11:01 AM (#2370737) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Bill D Ah, yes...Peter Bellamy put a lovely tune to "Oak & Ash & Thorn" |
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20 Jun 08 - 11:14 AM (#2370750) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Def Shepard Joy, Health, Love and Peace, be all here in this place..... |
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20 Jun 08 - 12:38 PM (#2370839) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: lady penelope But of course Bill D. I wish I could get hold of the albums (in a format I can play!!) |
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20 Jun 08 - 12:44 PM (#2370845) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: katlaughing Merry Solstice! |
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20 Jun 08 - 12:57 PM (#2370858) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Marilyn Lady Penelope said: "What I can never figure out is that May is supposed to still be spring but we hit MidSummer's Day not even a month later....!?!?! " That has bothered me for nearly 60 years and the grown-ups never give a proper answer!! |
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20 Jun 08 - 06:32 PM (#2371070) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: katlaughing Here's MY Merry Solstice: Click!! |
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20 Jun 08 - 06:53 PM (#2371091) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: skarpi hear hear , hohoho merry chri.......... I mean solstice :>) ATB Skarpi |
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20 Jun 08 - 08:22 PM (#2371141) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: topical tom |
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20 Jun 08 - 08:53 PM (#2371164) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Bobert Man, it's been a long day... |
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20 Jun 08 - 10:50 PM (#2371190) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Bill D Lady Penelope...can you play YouTube videos? here's a version |
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20 Jun 08 - 10:56 PM (#2371194) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Bill D It can, I'm sure, be obtained from Folk Legacy...as a tape or perhaps a CD. Or Dick Greenhaus at CAMSCO will have it. John Roberts and Tony Barrand...Dark Ships in the Forest, Folk Legacy FSI65 |
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21 Jun 08 - 03:02 AM (#2371258) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Liz the Squeak Shame on you Lady P... were you not at Hastings when the Spirit of Summer, the Jack in the Green was released? Part of the problem is that the calendar does not exactly match up with the lunar phases. If we start the calendar year on Monday January 1st, week 26 (half of 52) begins 25th June, more or less Midsummer. If the Spring Equinox is around March 22nd, that falls in week 16. The Autumnal Equinox is around September 21st, or week 38. Therefore, if Summer begins on May 1st, there are about 8 weeks til midsummer. Taking that as the central point, summer ends about 8 weeks later in the middle of August. Midwinter's day, Dec 21st is in the calendar as week 51, 13 weeks after the Autumnal Equinox. Add 13 weeks to that and you come around to the beginning of March. Therefore, Spring is actually 3 weeks at the beginning of March and Autumn is the 4 weeks between the middle of August and the Autumnal Equinox... See, it's easy! |
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21 Jun 08 - 08:40 AM (#2371348) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: skarpi bobert you had a long day ?? there is no night here so its still daytime so I sleep very well thank you , went up early this morning to have some 30 km bike ride tomorrow 50 km . so we dont say good night here now . blink blink |
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21 Jun 08 - 01:09 PM (#2371474) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Cats Blessings all. |
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23 Jun 08 - 08:39 AM (#2372429) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Mr Red I will go and find-out the facts but the longest day, earliest sunrise and latest sunset are not the same as solstice. The longest day is midway betwwen the sunrise/sunset days. Solstice refers to the day and time we are nearest to the sun, given the Earth's tilt, but becuase it rotates the sunrise/sunset thing are about a week apart. Not sure what happens with longest day & soltice but given the criteria it is inevitable they are not automatically the same date. I once visited the Rollright Stones just to see the sunrise on mid-summer's day (to prove I was a real Englishman according to the saying). Problem was I did it on the longest day, Solstice was another day and anyway the revellers that always congregate had been there on the Saturday so they could sleep-off the hangover on the Sunday. And there was a mist so sunrise was indetermninate. Am I still a proper Englishman? Go figure. |
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23 Jun 08 - 09:06 AM (#2372449) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Mr Red Looks like Wiki dates for the Solstice and the longest day shown on sunrise calculator follow. Maybe the year (1986) I go it right but the websites don't go far enough back to pin it down. This year the longest days wer 20 & 21st. Given the Solstice at almost midnight I would need a few decimal places in the seonds dept to separate them. Which I don't have. |
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20 Jun 20 - 12:27 PM (#4060345) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Mrrzy I hope for your next season to be full of whatever weather, health and luck you desire. Stat well, stay sane! |
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20 Jun 20 - 12:55 PM (#4060352) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Donuel Too soon too soon but niice. |
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20 Jun 20 - 02:11 PM (#4060357) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Steve Shaw Solstice is a point in time, not a day. This end, it's at 10.43 PM today. It may call for a dram of Ardbeg 10... |
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20 Jun 20 - 02:28 PM (#4060359) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: keberoxu By all means, let us all rejoice to have endured to see this solstice, and let us all take good care so that we are all here to rejoice in the next solstice. |
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20 Jun 20 - 03:33 PM (#4060375) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Mrrzy Solstice is both the time at which the sun peaks/troughs, and the day on which it peaks/troughs. This is the longest/ shortest day of the year. Today is the summer or winter solstice. Have a happy one. The pedants can worry about my verbing Trough. |
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20 Jun 20 - 06:01 PM (#4060420) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Steve Shaw Mrs Steve hates malt whisky but she bought me a bottle of Ardbeg Uigeadail for my birthday last week, the genius. I cannot say that it's the world's greatest malt because I haven't tasted every malt in the world, but, begod, it must be right up there. So we clinked glasses at precisely 10.43 PM, me with my malt and she with a glass of classy red. Shit, the nights are drawing in... |
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21 Jun 20 - 09:20 AM (#4060536) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Dave the Gnome I stayed up till 10:43 anyway but I suspect it was a bit different here in t'frozen North :-) |
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21 Jun 20 - 12:03 PM (#4060576) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Steve Shaw It isn't nitpicking to say that the solstice ("sun standing still") is a point in time some time during the longest/shortest day. It's a bit like a pendulum's instant of stasis at the extreme of its swing. Immeasurably brief, I should say. |
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23 Jun 20 - 09:13 AM (#4060944) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Mrrzy Neither is it nitpicking, but rather incorrect, to say that it doesn't mean the longest or shortest day. It's like saying You is only a plural pronoun. But I'm just in a bad mood. Why hasn't this thread been renamed just Solstice like my Happy Juneteenth one getting renamed just Juneteenth? Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb! |
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24 Jun 20 - 04:03 AM (#4061127) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Manitas_at_home It doesn't say if it's a Happy or Unhappy Solstice, it just sends greetings. |
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24 Jun 20 - 10:36 AM (#4061167) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Stilly River Sage Get over it Mrrzy, that thread was restored to its trite recognition of the date on the calendar. The OP doesn't own the thread, but your constant whining certainly made an impression on everyone. |
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24 Jun 20 - 10:53 AM (#4061170) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: Stilly River Sage My son has been in the Pacific Northwest for a few years now and has grown accustomed to the lovely long spring and summer evenings that we didn't have in Texas; I imagine he isn't so pleased with the really early dark afternoons of winter. |
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27 Jun 20 - 06:49 AM (#4061650) Subject: RE: BS: Solstice Greetings From: JHW Forgot all about it. Thanks. Have been singing June songs (alone) while walking walks, noting many sheep sheared in best tradition of Rosebud in June. |