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Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:20am

Argh, aye - now be time for more light to fall on Ozpol cellar dwellers.... those lucky souls who live in the fortunate times of having wiser heads to belay their rampant thoughts with reason....

On top of that - it's the Summer Solstice - and from now on our light will fade slowly while the frozen North's light rises and maybe less snow will fall in Britain.

Jesus - this DNA thing is amazing - they've now narrowed a third of my ancestors down to the Orkneys - I feel privileged.... not even the mainland of Northern Europe or Scotland but a Nordic mix as we all know... sea wanderers ...

Arhhh - be Orcadian.... and a few other things.... I have got to be a ring in given that my grandmother's father was pure Irish...

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15426 Armidale Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #1 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:52am If there was 2 hours daylight saving for solar panels, there may be no need for Dutton's gold-plated fusion con.
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 56770 Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #2 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 7:10am
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 56770 Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #3 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 7:11am They've narrowed me down Grapps, to Homo Erectus. Aussie Summers are harsh like Winters for Russia
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Reply #4 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 7:33am

Jasin wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 7:11am:

They've narrowed me down Grapps, to Homo Erectus.

Aussie Summers are harsh like Winters for Russia

Yes - you don't bog down in the frozen mud - your tyres break on the hot ground.

Bloody hell - same strains as Norway (again), Greenland and such....and migrated Scots.... Orcadians... what happened to the predominantly Irish? They can't even see my grandmother's line - the only Irish they give me is the great-granny on the other side.... from Killarney .... I have got to be a ring-in ...

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15426 Armidale Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #5 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 8:43am 'Russia's winter temperatures are warming due to climate change with heat waves. In 2020, Moscow was 7.5 degrees C above average'. The Russian government has approved plans to adapt to climate change, mostly caused by Ukraine ammunition worth $Au200 billion.
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 119225 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #6 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 12:34pm yes - the longest day today. You can see the astronomical twilight beginning at 4.45am. More times here: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/australia/melbourne
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 119225 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #7 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 5:57pm There should be more comments. People have lost their spirituality.
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 56770 Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #8 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:09pm Spirituality is fashion Bobby. Are you saying those who haven't posted are all naked?(Living in sin)
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 119225 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #9 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:12pm Jasin wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:09pm: Spirituality is fashion Bobby. Are you saying those who haven't posted are all naked?(Living in sin) They are infidels and heretics - the summer solstice marks the birth of Christ.
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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15426 Armidale Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #10 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:14pm In winter. 14 June 1946
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Re: Summer Solstice
Reply #11 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:43pm

chimera wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:14pm:

In winter.
14 June 1946

You are mixed up:

What happened on 14 June 1946?

A total lunar eclipse took place on Friday, June 14, 1946. The northern tip of the moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow. This was the first central lunar eclipse of Saros series 129.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1946_lunar_eclipse

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Reply #12 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:47pm

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-20/australia-summer-solstice-2024/104745932

Here's how many hours of daylight our capital cities will get:

Adelaide: 14 hours and 31 minutes
Brisbane: 13 hours and 52 minutes
Canberra: 14 hours and 33 minutes
Darwin: 12 hours and 51 minutes
Hobart: 15 hours and 21 minutes
Melbourne: 14 hours and 47 minutes
Perth: 14 hours and 14 minutes
Sydney: 14 hours and 24 minutes

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Re: Summer Solstice
Reply #13 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 7:09pm

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Perth: 14 hours and 14 minutes

Yep, and we've felt every minute of it today.

38 degrees and there's more to come.

Perth Forecast

41 tomorrow and Monday!

Hey, look... 23 degrees forecast for Christmas Day. We have to go to Mindarie (36km north of Perth City and right next to the ocean) at 5pm that day for a catch-up and meal with friends.

Could be a bit cold. Might have to take a jumper. Grin

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Reply #14 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 7:15pm

Carl D wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 7:09pm:

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Perth: 14 hours and 14 minutes

Yep, and we've felt every minute of it today.

38 degrees and there's more to come.

Perth Forecast

41 tomorrow and Monday!

Hey, look... 23 degrees forecast for Christmas Day. We have to go to Mindarie (36km north of Perth City and right next to the ocean) at 5pm that day for a catch-up and meal with friends.

Could be a bit cold. Might have to take a jumper. Grin

Here in Melbourne -

It will be 38 degrees for the first day of the Boxing day test.

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15426 Armidale Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #15 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 7:17pm Bobby. wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:43pm: chimera wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:14pm: In winter. 14 June 1946 You are mixed up: What happened on 14 June 1946? Your messiah and world savior was born.
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Carl D Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10913 Rivervale, Perth Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #16 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 7:23pm chimera wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 7:17pm: Bobby. wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:43pm: chimera wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:14pm: In winter. 14 June 1946 You are mixed up: What happened on 14 June 1946? Your messiah and world savior was born. (Let's see if Bobby knows). Edit: Yep, he got it!
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 119225 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #17 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 7:23pm chimera wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 7:17pm: Bobby. wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:43pm: chimera wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 6:14pm: In winter. 14 June 1946 You are mixed up: What happened on 14 June 1946? Your messiah and world savior was born. Donald John Trump was born June 14, 1946.
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 56770 Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #18 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 10:13pm Bad people were sent from Europe 'down under' to burn in hell
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Re: Summer Solstice
Reply #19 - Dec 22^nd, 2024 at 6:20am

'The best known quarries are Paradise, Purgatory and Hell Hole, named by the stone masons who worked them'. https://pyrmonthistory.net.au/quarries1

'One of the first quarries in Sydney was established on Bennelong Point by Samuel Peyton, a 19-year-old stonemason who had been convicted of stealing 200 shillings in 1784 and sentenced to deportation for seven years. He arrived with the first fleet on the Alexander in 1788 as the only stonemason in the Colony.'

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Reply #20 - Dec 22^nd, 2024 at 12:39pm

I was thinking this last night, when I was walking home. I queried whether I had passed the longest day of the year. I got in bed and fell asleep a few times. Then I woke up to the sun coming up at 5 in the morning. I fell asleep and woke up at 9 in the morning, thinking that it was midday.

I did not have much of a winter to enjoy. Hope it will be a cold winter this year. It seems like it will be cold this coming year.

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Sophia Gold Member Offline Posts: 9601	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #21 - Dec 23^rd, 2024 at 11:55am Mad Melbourne weather! It’s weird. It was 12 deg this morning, cold winds, and now at lunchtime raining! No wonder my bones were aching! Change in weather from one extreme to another! Hubby got the fireplace going.
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Reply #22 - Dec 23^rd, 2024 at 12:04pm

Sophia wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2024 at 11:55am:

Mad Melbourne weather! It’s weird.
It was 12 deg this morning, cold winds, and now at lunchtime raining!
No wonder my bones were aching! Change in weather from one extreme to another!

Hubby got the fireplace going.

Early this morning I had 2 jumpers on a and a beanie.
It's weird weather indeed -
the other day it was nearly 40 C. Shocked

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25201 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Summer Solstice Reply #23 - Dec 23^rd, 2024 at 12:12pm "...got the fireplace going"??? 37°C today. 41°C tomorrow. Going to be doing the lawn this afternoon. And then I will have that rusting clothesline taken out of the backyard. I bought 45L of water to consume over the fortnight. I am more than halfway through the packs.
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Reply #24 - Dec 23^rd, 2024 at 12:17pm

Very weird how southern states have their southern weather. Up here, it gets to March before you even consider putting the hot water system on. It can get around to anywhere from late August to early October before you even consider having cold showers.

I did not experience a hot day until October this year. I was still using jackets until September. The only way that I would experience a cold night in summer would be if we had a hailstorm and then follow up rain for a few days. I actually use the hot water system on those days. But, usually, I have cold showers anywhere from September to March.

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