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alan refail
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Greetings and best wishes to all at the Winter Solstice
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Thankyou Alan, we seem to have got there really quickly this year.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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I tend to pot up my shallots on this day.
Ah Monika! We turn the corner on Jan 4th at 15:00 hours when the Earth begins its next journey round the Sun - I can never understand why this doesn't coincide with the winter solstice - something to do with orbits and the tilt of the Earth I think.
John
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The Gods do not subtract from the allotted span of men’s lives, the hours spent fishing Assyrian tablet
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning Werner Heisenberg
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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning Werner Heisenberg
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oldherbaceous
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Dear John, i always find this subject very interesting, but for some reason can never seem to get to grips with it all.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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I'm sure it seems a little lighter this morning. 
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OH. The beauty of this site is it is also educational.
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I suppose in Australia the effect of the two soltices are just reversed and do mean something. But do the Winter and Summer Soltices mean anything to people who live on the equator?
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food - Frank A. Clark.
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alan refail
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garden_serf wrote: But do the Winter and Summer Soltices mean anything to people who live on the equator?
Work it out from here
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No wonder you said 'work it out' Alan, its not a straightforward answer is it. Interesting though.
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alan refail
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garden_serf wrote:No wonder you said 'work it out' Alan, its not a straightforward answer is it. Interesting though.
It looks as though the answer is "Yes - but not as noticeable as further North/South.