Circles

Pallas' Warblers at Berry Head. Yummy. Or not, as hours of work, plus roadworks, plus rush hour, plus lack of daylight, plus weather equal no light to see them by. Rats.

Edit: At this point I previously launched into an impassioned [but highly justified and borne out by science, logic, and philosophy] rant about those who desire us to adopt continental time [or worse]. Thinking on it, I've decided posterity doesn't need me foaming at the mouth any more than I already have on this blog, so I've deleted it. Suffice to say, I consider the only rational course of action is to go the other way and abandon BST; living entirely on GMT and accepting the cycle of the year for what it is. Those who want 'more daylight' are of course free to simply get up earlier.

Ahem.

At work there have been up to three Little Grebes on the river [All together now- "Awwwww..."] and a young female Sprawk livened up the otherwise dull wait to get off the Berry Pomeroy road one morning.

That's it - quiet week! Not even a sighting of Derek the Dane... Saying that, I've been hearing a lot of LTTs, but not seeing them, due to intervening scenery. There could be anything with them. Maybe not....

Getting back to the title, it's all to do with circles. The year is a circle - waxing and waning daylight, which in turn affects everything else - and now we're into the darkest deadest part. Come the solstice it'll turn the corner and things will start looking up [though the coldest stuff will be still to come], but until then it's too dark before work, too dark after work, live for the weekends! :) If every day was the same it'd be boring. Embrace what you're given, I say, and spend your extra time indoors writing stupid things on the internet!!! ;)

Getting back to weekends, I may have to go look at some trees on this one. As you've no doubt noticed we've been treated this year to an autumnal feast of colour - the wind-blown leaves on the Dart today were, I think, better than a Kingfisher [which is saying a lot]. Go on, before they get blown away - go out and look at some trees! You know you want to....