The Velvet Curtain
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This one makes me misty-eyed for my time living in the UK:
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Ironically that is actually something I miss. We do get quite a varied sunrise sunset times here, but not as much as the north of the UK...
So in summer, it is going dark at 8:30pm and getting light around 5am... compared with Scotland 11pm and 3:30 am (summer solstice)
These are official times for where I life now and where I was born in Scotland.. these are for the solstice.
Scotland, winter (sunrise, sunset)
Scotland, summer (sunrise, sunset)
Where I now live, winter (sunrise, sunset)
Where I now live, summer (sunrise, sunset)
I miss it very much. It was one of those totally unexpected things that I just loved about the place.
I worked in an interior office with no windows, and I’d get to work usually before the sun was up, and I’d stay until after it went down, and I frequently didn’t leave for lunch, so I could sometimes, if I was very lucky, go an entire workweek without seeing the sun at all.
Everyone else in the office would gripe and gripe about the super-short daylight hours, but I thought it was fantastic. Summer, OTOH…not so much.
I worked in an interior office with no windows, and I’d get to work usually before the sun was up, and I’d stay until after it went down, and I frequently didn’t leave for lunch, so I could sometimes, if I was very lucky, go an entire workweek without seeing the sun at all.
Everyone else in the office would gripe and gripe about the super-short daylight hours, but I thought it was fantastic. Summer, OTOH…not so much.
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Yep, the closer you get to the Equator, the less variable your daylight is throughout the year. I just looked at my globe (yes, I have a globe -- a very good one), and you are a lot closer than we are in Texas. You are even with Southern Mexico.
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I've lived in Singapore so I'm no stranger to days and nights being the same length throughout the year.
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Yeah, been there and done that. I actually took to photographing some fungi I found growing on my track using my car headlights for illumination because they would perish before the weekend...
I would have driven to work (+2hrs) and started work (7:30am) before the sun rose and would leave after/as it was going dark (4:30pm) only to repeat 5 days a week. No windows inside the warehouse Vodafone operated, and only time I saw daylight was if I was lucky enough to find a few minutes at lunchtime after a canteen lunch (also no windows)... I was so glad when they agreed to me working 1 day a week at home. 6 months was hard, but I was also very lucky to get a contact in Aberdeen are the height of summer for Marathon Oil... long long hours of daylight with almost no total darkness. It was twilight between 11:30pm & 3am.
I did enjoy the few occasions that we cycled in the midnight sun in Norway & Finland. That was great to do once or twice, but not too often. It made getting up in the night easier but I do distinctly remember the first night we had finally cycled far enough south that it actually went dark for a short period at night. I distinctly remember it because I hadn't taken a torch to the toilet block with me for months (literally) and on the way back I couldn't find our dark green tent in the dark... cute having to wake up hubby (and likely half the campsite) because I was afraid of tripping over the guy ropes in the dark!
Posted while I’m sitting in McD’s! 
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