Well, There Went The Shortest Day.......

Wooooo and yay! (What’s the pedantry..?)

Hooray, day by day we can move towards the light I m with you all the way Cabbage

Did you post this in Pedant's corner on purpose? I nearly scrolled past.

The pedantry comes when some clever b*gger points out that the 21st December was 24 hours long, just like the remaining 364 days of the year...

Shortest number of daylight hours...

Yay! Thank Goodness. Bring on the Springtime it's been dark too long. I've been looking forward to this day for months here in deepest, darkest Scotland.

MaizieD

The pedantry comes when some clever b*gger points out that the 21st December was 24 hours long, just like the remaining 364 days of the year...

Shortest number of daylight hours...

😂

It was so dark and wet here that the daylight only seem to last for a couple of hours.

Correction: seemed not seem (as it's Pedants' Corner)

It was the Astronomical start of Winter at the Solstice too!

kittylester

Did you post this in Pedant's corner on purpose? I nearly scrolled past.

Ooh, picky, picky, picky!

'Tis the season of goodwill 😀

Sorry, cabbagewars, I look at the thread headings before I look at the thread. I am probably the only person in here who does.

Are you new - i don't recall seeing your name before - anyway welcome.

CabbageWars13

kittylester

Did you post this in Pedant's corner on purpose? I nearly scrolled past.

Ooh, picky, picky, picky!

Not really. You wouldn’t expect to find your teapot in the freezer or the bread in your knicker drawer would you?

Oh, I don't know. I sometimes try to put the washing in the microwave...

I keep cashmere jumpers in the freezer over the summer to avoid moth holes. Were a strange lot on Gransnet.

Casdon

I keep cashmere jumpers in the freezer over the summer to avoid moth holes. Were a strange lot on Gransnet.

As it’s Pedants’ Corner, maybe you were - but are you still?

Yes, and an unreliable grammar checker to boot!

A pedant replies: Casdon was referring to GN's being a strange lot. Or had been....

Although the days have been dark, let’s not wish our lives away?

Wyllow3

A pedant replies: Casdon was referring to GN's being a strange lot. Or had been....

Unusual to find a pedantic reply in Pedants’ Corner you mean?

Wyllow3

A pedant replies: Casdon was referring to GN's being a strange lot. Or had been....

Perhaps the forum could be labelled No SOH corner?

What is a SOH corner?

My Dad used to love it when the days got longer and used to say “you can have your tea in daylight by Valentine’s Day”. He was right as he always had his tea at 5 o’clock. We think of him every year.

Wyllow3

What is a SOH corner?

Sense of humour.

RosieandherMaw

CabbageWars13

kittylester

Did you post this in Pedant's corner on purpose? I nearly scrolled past.

Ooh, picky, picky, picky!

Not really. You wouldn’t expect to find your teapot in the freezer or the bread in your knicker drawer would you?

Well, I did once buy some school socks in Sainsbury's for one of the DC, the till operator very kindly helped me to pack. I got home, packed the shopping away but couldn't find the socks so thought I had left them in the shop.

A couple of weeks later I found them in the freezer at the bottom of the poly bag containing bread.