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

Midnight

The sun sets late in this part of the world at this time of the year -  not quite a day without a sunset, but very nearly. Last night   was a clear night - the first i think we have had since the longest day , so I went outside with a camera and took are series of photos , starting looking over the Bay  of Isbister  with the Island of Shapinsay  behind it and the light of the Shapinsay lighthouse, with in the distance  the receding lights from the ferry on its way from Kirkwall to Lerwick .

 And then as you look round to the North towards Rousay, the sun is just  starting to become visible. It won't officially rise for another couple of hours

Of course the corollary of this is that at the end of December its dark until  after 9am and the sun sets at 3pm.