Summer sun

[svend]

Don't get me wrong.
I love the summer sun, a lot more hours of daylight to do things, but I also hate it, when one of those things is trying to sleep.
It's 9:30pm and this is how light it still is.

I need to be up in four hours but my brain is saying, 'WTF are you doing, it's still daylight', it also knows I don't have anything to do or needs doing but hey.
It's payday tomorrow, so tomorrow after work I'll be treating myself to some footlong sausages (will wrap one in streaky (US style) bacon) and footlong kebabs, maybe a couple of steaks, etc...

then come home and shop for car cleaning products.
Should be a good day.
Good night all

[Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist]

@svend You need to invest in some black out curtains, I did that when I was doing overnight shifts. Helped me greatly getting and staying asleep.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/search/products/?q=blackout curtains curtains

[ForSweden]

@svend that's the problem with England. Too much sun.

[svend]

@Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist
Did nightshift for 17 years, not an issue.
As I'd sleep when ZI got home, eventually, but 3am starts mean different sleep pattern that is only affected in the summer.
My current blinds do great for blocking out most of the light, it's just my brain knows it's still light.

[svend]

@ForSweden
.... In the summer. In the winter, you wake up, it's dark, go to sleep, it's dark. Maybe six or so hours of decent light.

[ForSweden]

@svend that's why you move to Australia from September to March

[ash78]

@ForSweden It is eerie, though. Summer trips to the UK, even in the southern regions, it feels like the sunset is an hour later than anywhere in the US.

I guess it's God's way of throwing them a bone for the 300 days of rain each year

[svend]

@ForSweden
I'd love to move to Australia or New Zealand for the winter.
Just need those lottery numbers to fall in the right place.

[ash78]

@ForSweden said in Summer sun:

@svend that's why you move to Australia from September to March

As one does, naturally!

/pleb

[svend]

@ash78
This is god's country, ask anyone from Yorkshire.
Lol.
Just don't disagree with them in person, if you do and if they start chanting, 'white rose, white rose....... white rose, white rose', with arms outstretched above their heads, RUN!!!

[Jarrett]

@ash78 Based solely on the latitude of UK versus US, this is almost certainly a thing.

@svend @ForSweden Instead of a second home in AUS/NZ, just move to the equator and enjoy 8pm sundown all 365 days of the year!

[ash78]

@Jarrett Yeah, it physically makes sense, it's just something people usually associate with Alaska or Sweden.

Because of the Gulf Stream, it's hard for most people -- American or European -- to realize how high those latitudes really are.

Furthest north I've been was Iceland, but it was in March when the days were semi-normal. Seasonal affective disorder rates there (in winter) are really high.

[svend]

@Jarrett
Yeah, nah. I'm still British.
I'd melt. Living on the equator year round. Lol.

[svend]

@ash78
SADs can be quite common here in the U.K. with Vitamin D supplement tablets, and supplements into food and special lamps encouraged for those that suffer from it.

[Jarrett]

@ash78 Last few years I've been really bit by the SADs, brought on entirely by the boy. Very glad it's summer now and we can chill outside.

[Jarrett]

@svend As long as you're right on the coast of somewhere, it'll be okay. As soon as you move a couple miles inland you're screwed.

[farscythe]

@svend yeah mate....going to bed early is impossible at mo....just about dark by 11pm...light again by 4:30
its really fucking with my lack of sleep....lol
i vote for banning daylight.....no one needs that shit anyways

[siennaman]

@svend said in Summer sun:

@Jarrett
Yeah, nah. I'm still British.
I'd melt. Living on the equator year round. Lol.

I'm not British (sadly), but I'd also melt. I think New Zealand or carefully selected parts of Australia 1/3 of the year makes more sense.
(I say selected because my understanding is there are parts of Australia that are also a bit toasty too..)

[Nauraushaun]

christ. is this an issue of no daylight savings? or not enough of it? we get some late sunlight in summer but not that late

[svend]

@Nauraushaun
Nah. We have daylight savings time. But like @farscythe says, it's daylight from 4:30am to 11pm.

[annoying_salman]

@svend said in Summer sun:

It's 9:30pm and this is how light it still is.

Damn, it's like the time around 3 to 4pm here, on an overcast day.

[svend]

@annoying_salman
In the winter it would be here at 3-4pm.

[pip bip]

@svend even during summer months for us it's dark out then

[svend]

@pip-bip
Really? I can't imagine early nights in the summer.

[pip bip]

@svend 9-9.30 it gets dark in January. compared to now where it's getting dark by 5.30pm