No matter how long I live in the NE, I will never get used to light between 3.15am and 11.15pm, at this time of year. Even the four hours of ‘darkness’ aren’t really dark.
it’s very discombobulating, because if you go to sleep before dark, and wake up, you never know whrther it is still light from the day you fell asleep, or from the next day’s dawn.
It’s strange, because the nights in the winter in the NE never seem that much longer or darker, although I know they are as we had four and a half years of being able to compare the weather and day lengths of the two locations through remotely viewing the CCTV security cameras at Coven Sud.
The series finale week of Countdown is sadly marred by the guest being Not Johnnie Walker, Whispering Bob ‘The Teeth’ Harris. At least Colin Murray is taking the piss out of his bragging this time around.
Tim W.
I for one love the long daylight hours of summer, and hate the dismal darkness of winter. We have blackout curtains in the bedroom, so can achieve total dark in which to sleep even if it is light outside.
You will probably know that Countdown was the first ever programme broadcast on Channel 4. I don’t know what their first advertisement was for, but the first ever ad broadcast on UK commercial television was for Gibbs SR toothpaste!
Z
As early as I tend to go to sleep nowadays, I have that situation too, even down in East Angular.