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December 21st, 2006

Lighten our darkness

sad in church

Churches are making efforts to provide services for those for whom Christmas is a difficult time, says this Guardian report. What a good idea. I have seen other churches with ‘longest night’ services to mark the longest night (and therefore shortest day?) of the year, but mostly in the USA I think.

Actually I am not sure whether today is the shortest day of the year or not. I heard on the radio that it is, but the internet is divided on the matter. The winter solstice is tomorrow, the 22nd. Perhaps someone can explain.

Whatever, I have heard that now is a good time to see the International Space Station zooming across the sky if you are in the UK. Try typing your location into this page and see what happens. Note: You will not be able to see it if it is foggy.

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This is a single Cartoon Blog entry, posted by Dave on Thursday, December 21st, 2006 at 11:41 am.

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  1. Sarah B says:

    Foggy here unfortunately and I’m supposed to be going to a fireworks party too :o (

    December 21st, 2006 at 12:40 pm
  2. MB says:

    I’ve always used my mum’s birthday as a way of remembering when the shortest day is – so if today’s the shortest day then it must be my mum’s birthday.

    Which it is.

    I just hope no-one tells me it’s tomorrow because otherwise my whole system for remembering anything will fall down!!!

    December 21st, 2006 at 12:49 pm
  3. Ruth says:

    No fog in Edinburgh – just glorious sunshine. So sunny in fact, that you can’t see a thing when driving. So it might as well be foggy.

    December 21st, 2006 at 1:34 pm
  4. robert marshall says:

    The date varies because the year isn’t an exact number of days long – see http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.3843 for explanation and dates – short answer being that this year it will be tomorrow (just!)

    December 21st, 2006 at 4:06 pm
  5. Larry Day says:

    a wonderful cartoon of what it must feel like to come to church when severely depressed. There is huge power in the way you have drawn the black cloud.

    Merry Christmas Dave. Happy 2007 :-)

    December 23rd, 2006 at 12:15 pm