Originally Posted by
Bedlam_maid:
“I love and hate this day!
Day length 7:49:40 and it's all uphill from now even if it is only a few seconds a day to start with..
I hate the short days and long nights and on this day I always feel we're turning a corner and moving upwards towards Spring.
It's something I'd rather celebrate than Christmas although I know Christmas was hijacked from the pagan festival of the WInter Solstice.
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When it comes to celebrating the solstice, a couple of years ago we went down to the 'Burning the Clocks' parade in Brighton and it was a great evening.
We had friends down there and their children had made their lanterns so we joined the parade through the streets with hundreds of others with lanterns of all shapes and sizes, dancers and street entertainers.
The culmination of the evening was on the beach and passing all the lanterns on to a huge pile for a bonfire where they were all burned.
Obviously a bit late for this year, but this event seems to have become a huge success going by the photos and news items I saw on it last night.
http://www.samesky.co.uk/