Believe me, I look forward to this day!
Ok, the lengthening daylight hours are going to be miniscule atm but at least it’s going in the right direction!
I look forward to May/June/July and to the 10pm walks with the girls with waders calling and on a still, sunny evening it’s utterly magical.
Pah, that’s nothing. You want to hear the gentle engine spooling up of a Boeing 737-800, while watching the sun set over the Vauxhall plant.
Now, that’s magical.
Horses for courses
just checked here and sunset is about 30 seconds later per day through the next month
Actually I got out yesterday - south to Hampstead Norreys and back. For the last hour, or maybe 90 minutes, before sunset I had still air, low sunshine and a clear blue sky. It was very quiet, and very beautiful. Then as the light started to go and the temperature really dropped I had to crack on up through the woods above Banterwick Farm - remembering all those warnings about getting lost at night (OK, not really a worry in Berkshire 
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Really ? By the end of Dec it’s a minute a day here and a minute and a half by mid-Jan Sunrise and sunset times in Didcot, January 2022.
day length is about a minute and a half longer
Sunrise time will hardly change over the next 2-3 weeks, so almost all the change will be in the sunset time which started getting later around Dec 12th (equation of time).
Of course this only applies to ‘time’ as indicated by a mechanical or electronic clock. If you’re taking ‘time’ from a sundial then the solstice has both the latest sunrise and the earliest sunset.
What a fantastic story!
Thanks
Lovely 
Damn the long lasting effects of the onions I chopped two days ago.
Oh balls. It’s not true.
The real story is pretty good.
BBC News - Map drawn from memory helps reunite kidnapped Chinese man with family
He made it up after reading the guy tweet about his dad getting wrong number calls.
Shame, it was a good story.
Years ago a mate of mine had a number one digit different from the service number for the local cable company and he got quite a few wrong number calls.
At first he used to explain and give the person the right number.
After getting a load of shit from people who started shouting as soon as he answered he use to wait until they finished speaking then say. “Sorry about that we will get an engineer round within 30 minutes” and put the phone down.
For a while we had one digit different from an Oxford taxi company. It was a completely different STD code of course, but drunks in Didcot could easily dial the local code then make a ham-fisted attempt at the Oxford cab number. Some of them listened to the explanation, apologised, put the phone down, then repeated the whole chain of mistakes. Anyone who did it three times in a row got the “Sorry mate, we’ve got no cars available for 3 hours” treatment. We didn’t answer further calls. I think the taxi firm went bust.
I’ve spent many hours talking with a nice older lady whose son was studying at Bath Uni IIRC.
How the heck she managed to dial a number in London every time I don’t know. I think she was a little bit confused.
Once we’d got past the “it’s me in London again” bit we’d talk about any old shite.