Here comes the summer ..

Right, that's it! The sun's gone down on the shortest day of the year and we're officially rolling our way back to summer. Yee haaa..

As it's the Solstice, I have followed statutory regulations and played Jethro Tull's 'Ring out Solstice Bells', which I promptly followed up with The Undertones version of 'Here comes the summer' ..

The sun's setting as far from the north as it gets - although I took this shot two days ago and it's just as well I did .. it's absolutely poured down all day long .. but it won't belong before we're back to drought conditions and all this water will be long forgotten ..

I think I'll just see if my shorts fit ..

Now is the solstice of the year ..

Ok, flute out and Jethro Tull on the turntable. Here we go two, three, four ...   "Now is the solstice of the year...." This song has been my 'go to' winter tune since I saw an animated version of it being introduced by Dave Lee Travis on Top of the Pops in 1976! (You can click the link to watch it!) Yay! It's the shortest day of the year so roll on summer and, even though we've got the worst of the winter to come, you can't help but get a lift from the thought that from today the nights will be getting shorter and good times are just over the horizon once again. I'm amazed a religion hasn't usurped the event and turned it to their own interests. What's that? They have? Oh, Christmas...