How did you celebrate the Solstice?

[Milims]

As its our anniversary its quite a special day for us - next year we are actually hoping to get married on the Solstice - thats if we don't have any other happenings like 10 hour exams (me) or major RA flare ups (Chris)!. So we went to our local seaside town and played tourists and had fish and chips then we had bbq for tea, then we put the kids to bed and sat out on the garden swing with the chimnera burning and watched the sun go down and the swallows, swifts and bats make their evening flights. Ok so no wild bonfire party - but it was pretty cool anyway - and mother nature puts on a much better show than the telly!! lol

[Stonehead]

As its our anniversary its quite a special day for us - next year we are actually hoping to get married on the Solstice - thats if we don't have any other happenings like 10 hour exams (me) or major RA flare ups (Chris)!. So we went to our local seaside town and played tourists and had fish and chips then we had bbq for tea, then we put the kids to bed and sat out on the garden swing with the chimnera burning and watched the sun go down and the swallows, swifts and bats make their evening flights. Ok so no wild bonfire party - but it was pretty cool anyway - and mother nature puts on a much better show than the telly!! lol

I was mowing grass with a scythe under a heavy overcast until gone 10pm. After that, I just collapsed!

[Martin]

deep in the arms of Morpheus!

[red]

unloaded 16 8ft posts (destined for the hen run one day) from the car, in the pouring rain, found a huge branch had come down out of a really big ash tree in the hedge during the stormy weather of the day before, - it had flown some distance from the hedge, but luckily did not land on our veggie patches, fruit trees or sheep, but conveniently on the un-scythed very long grass of the bit of field we have not go to yet. Decided we needed to survey all of the hedges, as our Devon hedges have been allowed go before we moved here - and there are many vulnerable trees, and wet + windy weather usually brings us a casualty . Luckily found nothing else wrong, but got completely soaked in the rain and long grass.

shivered alot and muttered things about it being mid summer. went out for a curry, then went to the pub to join in a folk session thingy.

[pskipper]

Long day on a work training course, slept

[Millymollymandy]

I didn't even know it was the longest day yesterday until I looked at the calendar today! Is it officially summer now? You could have fooled me!

[vixnpips]

was celebrating our anniversary.. won't mention how!! LOL..

spending the rest of the day preparing for the arrival for our chooks! tomorrow (sat) Yippee.. oh also looked at the late planted veg patch and saw green stuff in lines YIPPEEE!!! oh and deciding which preserves to make... hubs wants alcoholic type ones.. !!

[Meredith]

I had a little bonfire with my garden rubbish on Tuesday night and then I got up to see the sun rise. Fortunately the weather was clear. I spent all yesterday feeling pretty tired though.

[Silver Ether]

Well I spent the morning at Rattle N Rhyme time with a gang of pre schoolers shaking my sillies out ..
Then telling off a woman who was supposed to come for an interview in the afternoon, she changed her plans and told me 10 mins before she was supposed to arrive(second time she has done this) ...I asked how she could be so thoughtless, and does she have no idea that childminders have other things to do other than waste their time.
So we made cakes ... then the rain stopped and the sun came out in time for bed ... So I went and talked to the plants ...

[Thurston Garden]

Taking advantage of Hospitality at the Royal Highland Show. Subsequently, not much has been done today.....

[Magpie]

went to a 4YO's birthday party ( the Mum shifted the day to co-incide with the solstice) then awoke to snow this morning - yay! Can't wait for the children to wake up now!!

[Cornelian]

Well, it was the winter solstice for meat precisely 4.07 am yesterday ... so I celebrated by ...

a) having heat in the house for the first time in over 6 weeks. I love fires.

b) on another forum it was my task to set the weekly photography task (lots of us there like photography) and so I chose fire as the weekly task.

c) generally grinned about the garden as the year now grows back into light and life.

(All this attention to fire because of the ancient custom of marking both solstices with fire rituals.)

[Wombat]

worked

Nev

[Milims]

Cornelian - ain't fire great!! Glad to hear that your heating is sorted. We burned the last bit of the log we started to burn on the winter solstice - seemed appropriate somehow - kind of like our own personal Yule log!!

[baldowrie]

head stuck under a caravan and up to arm pits in grease getting ready for my hols