The nights are getting lighter.

[Leicesterbaggie]

Today, at 3.59, was the shortest day of the year. From tomorrow, the days are getting longer. Small crumb of comfort!

[mickd1961]

Yes but the evenings have been getting a tad lighter for the past 3 or 4 days! 😏

13 weeks on Saturday the clocks move to British Summer Time.

After tonight we have 94 nights of Winter Time left but in all honesty, by the time another month goes by it feels like such a longer day.

21 weeks of darker nights and 31 weeks of BST yet a lot of people think it’s split 50/50!🙄

It’s a nonsense anyway and should be scrapped in the winter and moved to double Summer Time at the end of March.

I go to bed around 2.00am and rise about 10.30am so I’d prefer it to be like that.

[phild]

Never bought in to the 8hrs a night. I tend to retire around midnight and usually up and about around 5.30/6.00 am.

[baggieal]

Never bought in to the 8hrs a night. I tend to retire around midnight and usually up and about around 5.30/6.00 am.

Same with me Phil. Six hours sleep is more than enough as one day you will be asleep 24/7. That said, I don't sleep well anyway but certainly don't keep awake worrying about Omicron coming to get us - for f uck sake!

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

In bed by 10.30, asleep by 11, awake at 6, up at 7.

Not sure I want to know the answer to this but what does anyone find to do after midnight that is better than getting some sleep in?

[mickd1961]

In bed by 10.30, asleep by 11, awake at 6, up at 7.

Not sure I want to know the answer to this but what does anyone find to do after midnight that is better than getting some sleep in?

For me it’s my work life that changed my sleeping habits.

My internet business takes a lot of managing and I have a team of staff who cover the regular working day but I do the “out of hours” stuff.

I spend a couple of hours each late evening from around 10.45pm until 1.00am checking the platforms we sell on to make sure everything is in good order.

I also like the solitude of late evening and find it very relaxing.

If I go to bed earlier than 1.00am I just can’t sleep nowadays so there’s no point anyway.

I’ve never got this early morning rising lark.

For years I had to be up at 5.45am to 6.00am for the jobs that I did and then catching trains around 7.00am or driving for two or three hours to get to customers, absolutely hideous knowing you have to be up at that time every day and having to be in bed for 10.00pm.

I much prefer the way my life is now.

[mickd1961]

I need a good 8-9 hours per night.

Then again, I run 4-5 miles most days whilst most of you lot are watching Countdown and fiddling with your colostomy bags!

[SCOOP115]

I retired (early) about 6 years ago fed up with getting up at 5:30 every morning to drive to Coventry for a 7:00 start. Even after all this time I'm regularly awake about 6:00am At least now I can turn over and try for another hour or so.

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

Just off to bed now but tonight has been a party night and a good party it was. Night all💤

[WBA1955]

Today, at 3.59, was the shortest day of the year. From tomorrow, the days are getting longer. Small crumb of comfort!

Not until December 25th. A lot of people think it gets lighter after December 21st, but that's not correct. The Sun reaches it's lowest point of it's trajectory on the 21st, it stays like that for three days, and then starts it's return projectory on Christmas Day.
And so the Sun died on the ( southern) cross, remained dead for three days and then rose again.
It's the winter solstice when the ancients brought greenery into their homes, and lit fires to try and return to spring.
The Christians stole it with their fairy tales.