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Solstice

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jaywhat
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Solstice

#1 Post by jaywhat » June 21st, 2010, 5:07 am

Happy June Solstice everyone (11.28 today).

Sorry to remind people in the Northern Hemisphere that it is summer but that our daylight hours start getting shorter - but good luck to those in the South.

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Re: Solstice

#2 Post by Lifelinking » June 21st, 2010, 9:33 am

Ah, time to get all druidic and dance naked around the tree in my garden again.

Nothing to do with the solstice, I do it every Monday..
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Re: Solstice

#3 Post by Alan H » June 21st, 2010, 2:10 pm

:hilarity:
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Re: Solstice

#4 Post by jaywhat » June 21st, 2010, 4:46 pm

Lifelinking wrote:Ah, time to get all druidic and dance naked around the tree in my garden again.

Nothing to do with the solstice, I do it every Monday..


Only Mondays?

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Re: Solstice

#5 Post by Dave B » June 21st, 2010, 5:43 pm

LL, Monday is "Moonday"; does this urge get stronger once every 28 days by any chance? Say, when the Moon is brightest?
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Re: Solstice

#6 Post by Lifelinking » June 21st, 2010, 8:45 pm

Naw, any day can be moonday

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Re: Solstice

#7 Post by jamesjones950 » June 21st, 2010, 9:35 pm

Is it just me, or has today seemed to drag on forever?
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#8 Post by Dave B » June 21st, 2010, 9:38 pm

That blackbird in the tree outside my window must have a sore throat by now, he seems to have been trilling away for hours.

Yeah, long day ennit?
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Re: Solstice

#9 Post by Fia » June 21st, 2010, 11:08 pm

Happy solstice to you too, jaywhat, and the rest of you jokers too :)

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#10 Post by Alan C. » September 22nd, 2010, 5:34 pm

Happy Autumn equinox for tonight/tomorrow everybody, I await the severe gales that always accompany both equinox' here.
Although with a bit of luck the North Westerly force 9 we had all last week was maybe it.
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#11 Post by Dave B » September 22nd, 2010, 6:02 pm

Equinox? Excellent series. Got a sore throat trying to do the voice.
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#12 Post by Alan H » September 22nd, 2010, 6:19 pm

Alan C. wrote:Happy Autumn equinox for tonight/tomorrow everybody, I await the severe gales that always accompany both equinox' here.
Although with a bit of luck the North Westerly force 9 we had all last week was maybe it.
Good gawd! Is it that time of year already? Wasn't it the summer solstice the week before last?
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#13 Post by Fia » September 22nd, 2010, 8:13 pm

Alan H wrote:Wasn't it the summer solstice the week before last?
The month before last, Alan - probably because it's all warm and summery doon sooth as opposed to the driving rain we've been enjoying :sad:

Enjoy the perfect balance of light and dark - it's only 3 months till the winter solstice, when hibernation appeals enormously....

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#14 Post by Alan C. » September 22nd, 2010, 8:51 pm

Fia
it's only 3 months till the winter solstice, when hibernation appeals enormously....
I wish my family of hedgehogs would hibernate, the dog goes apeshit every time I let him in the garden, although at least this one doesn't pick them up and bring them into the house.
It appears we have mum, dad and four young uns each of which could sit in a tea cup, I'm going to make them a hibernation box and hope they have the sense to use it. :)
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Re: Solstice

#15 Post by Dave B » September 23rd, 2010, 12:30 pm

I once spent an hour tickling baby hedgehogs' private bits with a wet cotton bud to make them pee . . .
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Re: Solstice

#16 Post by Alan H » September 23rd, 2010, 1:56 pm

:puzzled:
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1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

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#17 Post by Marian » September 25th, 2010, 4:17 pm

AlanH,

That was a bit TMI, huh? :) I've also done that for baby squirrels, skunks and raccoons. When these guys are very little, they need help to urinate/defecate and the only way to do that is either have their mum doing it as is the best way or having humans manually do it. I volunteered at an animal rescue. Not sure what that has to do with the solstice.
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#18 Post by Dave B » September 25th, 2010, 4:22 pm

Yeah, but their mum's have to use their tongues, not a cotton bud!

[It was Alan C. mentioning the Solstice - baby hedgehog tickling is a seasonal thing in animal rescue units.]
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#19 Post by Marian » September 25th, 2010, 6:04 pm

Dave B wrote:Yeah, but their mum's have to use their tongues, not a cotton bud!

[It was Alan C. mentioning the Solstice - baby hedgehog tickling is a seasonal thing in animal rescue units.]
Ah, yes, the tongue treatment. I'll leave that to the mum!

I didn't realize that baby hedgehog tickling was a seasonal to the solstice. Learned something new.
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Re: Solstice

#20 Post by Alan H » September 25th, 2010, 6:09 pm

Marian wrote:AlanH,

That was a bit TMI
TMI?

ETA: Ah! Too Much Information.
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There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

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