Winter Solstice

Today is winter solstice, new candidate for my favourite day of the year, because it means now the sun will start coming back...

This is sunrise, at 9am this morning...

And this is sunset (3pm) ,which you can't properly see, because too much cloud...

Nathan Pyle brilliantly expressed what the sun does to us at this time of year:

This is SO bloody accurate.  It never goes above the horizon now...

BUT, today is solstice, so now it is going to come back..

We had a little bonfire this evening to welcome the sun's return...  (no bones were burnt...)