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shiney · Dec 23, 2014

It's a peculiarity of the sunrise/sunset scale that although we have passed solstice we shall continue to have a later sunrise each day until 31st of December. But the days will be longer because sunset is later.

In January the length of the day will increase from just one minute per day to three minutes per day and will roar away to almost four minutes per day until the March equinox. From then on the days will continue to lengthen, at a gradually slower rate, until the June solstice.

Those are the figures for Shineyland . The further north you are the larger the increase in daylight per day. So, in Yorkshire, the increase in March is almost four and a half minutes per day.

103. Whose obsessive about day length?

Scrungee · Dec 23, 2014

shiney said: ↑
It's a peculiarity of the sunrise/sunset scale that although we have passed solstice we shall continue to have a later sunrise each day until 31st of December. But the days will be longer because sunset is later.

In January the length of the day will increase from just one minute per day to three minutes per day and will roar away to almost four minutes per day until the March equinox.
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There's a difference between 'daylight length' of a day and 'day length' as a 24 hour average clock day length (Mon to Tue, Tue to Wed, etc.) does not match an actual 'noon to noon' day length where the days are actually longer around this time of year despite having the shortest amount of daylight. The shortest days (noon to noon) for this year, 2014 have long gone,

shiney · Dec 24, 2014

Anyone can easily see what the length of their day is going to be (or was) by using this chart.

http://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/London

Just enter your nearest town in the search box.

Scrungee · Dec 24, 2014

shiney said: ↑
Anyone can easily see what the length of their day is going to be (or was) by using this chart.

http://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/London

Just enter your nearest town in the search box.
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I get error 404 using that link.

But I know from many years of experience it will be pretty close to 24 hours.

shiney · Dec 24, 2014

Sorry! Try this

http://www.timeanddate.com/

Then go to the 'Sun and Moon' tab and click on 'Sun Calculator'. Type in your location in the Search box.

You can have fun looking at all the other functions on the site.

Sheal · Dec 24, 2014

That's quite interesting Shiney. My local forecast says sunset today was 3.59pm, on the web site it says 3.57pm.

shiney · Dec 25, 2014

Although it doesn't really matter exactly when sunset is I'd be more inclined to believe the website. If they were inaccurate they are likely to be inundated with complaints - and they provide too much information throughout the site to want to continue to be wrong.

That's just a feeling, not a statement of fact

wiseowl · Dec 25, 2014

Good morning all just as long as I see the sunrise the sunset can look after its self

To day the sunset for yours truly is said to be 5.53 pm

JWK · Feb 23, 2015

104. You start working out the volumes of buckets at different supermarkets to get the best deal when looking for £1 buckets.

HarryS said: ↑
Mrs H has just rolled here eyes , when I said I was reviewing bucket pricing !
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http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/£1-bucket-pricing-crisis.91414/

Lolimac · Feb 23, 2015

105. When you open your compost bin ,camera in hand,in anticipation of some delicious ,gorgeous ,sweet smelling muck dropping out the bottom and if by magic there it be

wiseowl · Feb 23, 2015

When you wake up every 2 hours in the night because your always thinking about your next gardening project,and when you walk past a garden with neglected Roses in it you knock on their door and asked if you could prune and tidy them for free of course,and I never go out without my secateurs in my pocket

Val.. · Feb 24, 2015

wiseowl said: ↑
When you wake up every 2 hours in the night because your always thinking about your next gardening project,
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Oh definitely, do this all the time!!

LyndaG · Feb 24, 2015

JWK said: ↑
1 … you come home from work and first thing you do is water the plants before you feed the kids.

2 … you eat on your lap because the table is full of plants.

3 … you don’t take long summer holidays anymore because you don’t trust the friend/neighbour who offers to water.

4 … you go out for walks but stand and stare at people’s front gardens or purposely take a ‘short cut’ through the allotments to compare with your veggies.

5 ... you have too many pots in the windowsill, your greenhouse is bursting and you’re spending so long on freecycle/ebay searching for cold frames or an extra greenhouse that your OH thinks you’re on dating sites.

6 … you keep asking the kids if they want a yoghurt/custard just so you can have the pot.

7 … you keep a spreadsheet of all your seed packets, plant purchases, sowings and garden plans.

8 … your work colleagues come to rely on you bringing in your spare tomato plants so you have to grow even more and add their names into your seed sowing spreadsheet.

9 … you ask friends, family and neighbours to save you their cardboard loo roll inners to use as plant pots.

10 … you read the latest posts on GardenersCorner about some plant you’ve never heard of before and simultaneously search ebay and bid for daylilies and brugmansias.

11 … you get all your ebay garden purchases delivered to work so your OH doesn’t discover your new found love of brugmansias.

12 … you have to plant your secret ebay purchase at night and rehearse excuses why your OH hasn’t noticed the 7 foot Torbay Palm next to the front door before.

13 … you nearly strangle yourself walking into the garage by the pairs of tights strung up storing onions and plant pots.

14 … you take photos of bags of compost and post them on GardenersCorner thinking someone else will be interested (sadly they are!).

15 … you move your seedling trays around the house at various times of the day to catch the best sunlight.

16 … colleagues at work poke fun at your dirty fingernails but go strangely quiet when you get out your swiss army knife to scrape them out.

17 … you set up a webcam in the garden with a live feed so you can check your plants from the office.

18 … your internet favourites are GardenersCorner and all the weather channels.

19 … you are the only person that looks happy when told the office is closing and everyone is being relocated again after only 6 months, because it means you can take home the office plants.

20 … your dinner party friends politely stifle yawns as you lecture them on which home-grown veg you are proudly serving up.

21 … you open the shed door and dozens of 6 foot bamboo canes fall out.

22 … you go on holiday and drag your reluctant OH into garden centres on the pretext of lunch but really just want to check out the plants.

23 … you holiday abroad and waste half a day in a nursery failing to arrange shipping of some totally unsuitable massive palm back to the UK.

24 … you buy your OH an iphone so they can take photos of your plants and put them on facebook for you to look at while you are away on business.

25 … you bring spare seedlings that you can’t bear to throw away into work and keep them on the office windowsills.

26 … you go in to work every day to check on your seedlings, even though you have two weeks off.

27 … you’re in the garden and it’s too dark to see anything and your OH comes up with a torch to tell you dinner is getting cold.

28 … you start being nice to the horsey colleague in case you can get some free manure.

29 … you have no shame in wearing one of those plastic headscarves Granny used to wear and grabbing a torch to check your seeds before you go to bed and you are a bloke.

30 … you spend a whole weekend cleaning out and stacking into size order your old plant pot collection.

31 … the amount of lawn in your garden gets smaller and smaller by the year until you consider not having one at all and changing it all over to beds and borders.

32 … your colleagues can name every plant you're growing, but haven't got a clue what your OH is called.

33 … you buy food at the supermarket because the packaging looks like it will make a useful small propagator.

34 … all your work colleagues have screensavers of their kids/grandkids on their PCs, you have a comprehensive slideshow of your garden/allotment.
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Absolutely brilliant - well done x

JWK · Feb 25, 2015

106. You drive around with the back of your car full of chitting potatoes because you've run out of room indoors (no names mentioned on this one )

TurnedThespian · Feb 26, 2015

107. Your other half goes away for work for a few days, and while you claim that you will miss them in their absence, you are secretly delighted because it means you can arrange delivery of more plants, purchased online.

108. You spend several days dreaming up elaborate excuses for the sudden appearance of a large delivery of new plants, ranging from 'they grew overnight,' to 'a farmer friend was giving them away, free.'

109. You never, EVER admit to your total plant expenditure. They were all on clearance. Honest.

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