Summer Solstice

Do any of you like to get naked around a bunch of old rocks like me ?

 

No.....ya ****in' weirdo!

 

Does the hot tub on the patio count?

 

Is it today...I know it's around the 21st but didn't know if it was exactly that date everytime.

 

No but it's my birthday in a couple of days.

 

National hug a rock day.

 

Show them you care.

 

Yep today. Longest day and shortest night. Also sun is highest in the sky today. You can look forward to the nights drawing in after today.

Posted this thread tongue in cheek obviously, but it’s funny how people scoff at hippies celebrating solstice etc when the same people celebrate Easter and Christmas etc, which are all Pagan festivals linked to the cycles of the year.

 

I did know it was today, thought about it yesterday and now slowly the day light hours lesson again, but just didn't know if the calender changed slightly around the exact date. Don't think myself i have ever scoffed at hippies, I've probably scoffed more at the Christmas festival where people have become all materialistic (spelling!).

 

You like to get naked around inflatable animals instead. You ain’t in any position to be calling me a weirdo bruv.

 

I was kidding, but thats still less weird than rocks

 

You and me
In a field
Naked
Think about it

 

Yeah I didn’t mean anybody on here, just in general. And yes I think the actual solstice can occur anywhere between the 20th / 22nd June depending on which latitude in the northern hemisphere you live in, but for us in the U.K. it’s always the 21st.

That said the Earth’s rotation is slowing slightly every year due to tidal friction, so astronomers have to keep adding a leap second every few years, so eventually I suppose you could have a longer solstice that went on until the 22nd.

Anyway the wider point is, this is the **** we have to talk about when there’s no footie on.

 

Midsummer's night was last night I think. Not sure if yesterday or today are the longest day. Probably not much in it.

The druids will probably make a weekend of it. I might sacrifice a pigeon.

 

Yeah same. And it ain’t

 

Nothing odd about hippies celebrating solstice mate. Mankind has been looking at the stars and planets and **** for millennia - it's part of what makes us human.

 

I never tried ****ing a rock, doesn't sound pleasant though

 

Likewise mate. I’ve never tried ****ing a blow up sheep either

 

Hey, at least it wasn't a real sheep!

 

I’m gonna go out on the bike tonight and cycle up to an old stone circle up on the moors down here. Watch the sunset, have a **** and then cycle home again.