It arrived about 8pm this evening – The Winter Solstice that is
The half way mark of the year – for us in the Southern Hemisphere ‘the shortest day’
From now on the days will become longer – the hours of daylight will lengthen
Look – this week it goes from 9.32.28 to 9.33.19
We gain 16 secs of daylight 😊
Just wish it would get warmer 😎 
Information source
Cathy @ Still Waters 
And we love our long days of light! I live closer to the center of my time zone, and have light year round. Our worst winter days end at five; in the Atlantic states they end at four.
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Us Northern Hemispherians (?) are celebrating the longest day of the year…and some of us are going to ignore that the days will start getting shorter tomorrow. 😉
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Happy Winter Solstice to you!!!!!!
Here, we are celebrating Midsummer’s Eve…
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I’ve decided I like the spring days best with the longer hours of daylight. Hope you get some warmer temperatures though 6 degrees looks good to me for a winter day.
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Yup. It arrived. And brought winter with it. Finally. We are in the minus figures as I type.
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You are a veritable font of knowledge, Cathy!
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could we also have less of the cold and dismal…
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Enjoy your winter. We have had some nice days but we had a lot of rain in June and therefore the mosquitos. Weather is funny sometimes we do not give what they are predicting.
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Oh, boy! That is cold in comparison to up here in Qld, Cathy. I’m struggling to think of a Winter day in the past few years that’s been down to that temp here. I think I’d have to roll myself, sausage-roll style, in layers of blankets, wear two pairs of hubby’s footy socks and pull my beanie all the way down to my chin! Stay warm! Meg:)
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