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Hellllllo, LJ! (or at least all six people that are left here)
A very happy almost-Yule to you all, my gentle readers! I hope that everyone is having a spectacular holiday season! Huzzah!
In just over an hour, the sun will set in Oxford, starting the longest night of the year. Our coven, Dreaming Spires, will light a candle -- as we always do -- to carry the Light through the longest night and into the new dawn. Tomorrow morning, we will greet the new Sun at Stonehenge, as has been our tradition for several years now -- this will be our fifth Winter Solstice spend amongst the ancient Stones.
I shan't dare to hope that we will see anything nearly as breathtaking as the dawn that greeted us last year. That was my eighth Stonehenge sunrise[*]... and the first where I actually saw the Sun make more than a cameo appearance through the clouds. This is England, after all! The temperature is to remain above freezing, so there's no chance of snow on the Stones, either, like we enjoyed in 2009 and 2010.[**] Still, the chance of precipitation is between zero and 20%... so we are likely to stay dry. Unlike, for instance, at Summer Solstice 2008, where the sky leaked down on us all night.
Of course, some also say that tomorrow will be the end of the world. Well, if the world is going to end, I think that Stonehenge is an excellent place for us to see it off! May just climb the Stones to get a better view for the final farewell. I know you aren't supposed to but, really, who's going to stop me if armageddon is in progress??
The one burning question I have, dear friends, is precisely the same one that I had the last time the world ended, about a year and a half ago:
No one ever seems to know the precise time of these things. Always the day; never the time. For something so important, you think they would like to be precise! Do I have time for one last cup of tea, or don't I?
If somebody could provide me with a little more precise timing information, I would be much obliged. Otherwise, have a fantastic End-of-the-World tomorrow, everyone, and I shall write more on Saturday...
[*] Summer Solstice in 2007, 2008, and 2009; Spring Equinox in 2011; Winter Solstice in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
[**] 2010 saw us experiencing a snowball fight inside of the Stonehenge circle! Now how spiffy is that?!
A very happy almost-Yule to you all, my gentle readers! I hope that everyone is having a spectacular holiday season! Huzzah!
In just over an hour, the sun will set in Oxford, starting the longest night of the year. Our coven, Dreaming Spires, will light a candle -- as we always do -- to carry the Light through the longest night and into the new dawn. Tomorrow morning, we will greet the new Sun at Stonehenge, as has been our tradition for several years now -- this will be our fifth Winter Solstice spend amongst the ancient Stones.
I shan't dare to hope that we will see anything nearly as breathtaking as the dawn that greeted us last year. That was my eighth Stonehenge sunrise[*]... and the first where I actually saw the Sun make more than a cameo appearance through the clouds. This is England, after all! The temperature is to remain above freezing, so there's no chance of snow on the Stones, either, like we enjoyed in 2009 and 2010.[**] Still, the chance of precipitation is between zero and 20%... so we are likely to stay dry. Unlike, for instance, at Summer Solstice 2008, where the sky leaked down on us all night.
Of course, some also say that tomorrow will be the end of the world. Well, if the world is going to end, I think that Stonehenge is an excellent place for us to see it off! May just climb the Stones to get a better view for the final farewell. I know you aren't supposed to but, really, who's going to stop me if armageddon is in progress??
The one burning question I have, dear friends, is precisely the same one that I had the last time the world ended, about a year and a half ago:
The world ends tomorrow. Fine. I buy that. Who am I to argue? But... at what time will it end?
No one ever seems to know the precise time of these things. Always the day; never the time. For something so important, you think they would like to be precise! Do I have time for one last cup of tea, or don't I?
If somebody could provide me with a little more precise timing information, I would be much obliged. Otherwise, have a fantastic End-of-the-World tomorrow, everyone, and I shall write more on Saturday...
[*] Summer Solstice in 2007, 2008, and 2009; Spring Equinox in 2011; Winter Solstice in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
[**] 2010 saw us experiencing a snowball fight inside of the Stonehenge circle! Now how spiffy is that?!
