The Sun is back !

the sun goes behind the hill in the middle of december , so we get no direct sunlight on the house  until it reappears. 2015 was so wet and miserable that we didn't notice. And it came back on the  25th  January  in 2014  .

We can track it as it moved round to the West












And it hits the house as well

and it brightens up the inside of the house




And this time the sheep have noticed as well . The sun just catches the northern bit of the field

BEFORE 

AFTER 

Shortest day

 
The days are appreciably shorter here than in 'the deep south' ( ie London)  and when we have it , the sun doesn't get much higher than this, looking south.
And the data to prove it

Sunrise in London is 8.04 am. Here it is 9.04 am
Sunset  in London is 15.53 and here is 15.15

So that is an hours' less potential sunlight in the  morning and 38 minutes in the afternoon.

But if you were in Unst, the most northerly Island in Shetland , its even shorter