Daylight saving ended on the weekend. We ran along the riverbank on Sunday then came home for coffee and biscuits and suddenly realised that it was only 3.30pm and getting dark. What! It’s properly dark by 4pm now. People dread this time of the year as the days get shorter and shorter. Actually, it’s quite interesting to wonder if we will be negatively affected by the darkness, or whether it will remain as a novelty. We’re travelling inland this weekend with friends to their holiday home at a place called Arjeplog (pronounced Ur (like us but with an ‘r’)-i (as the ‘i’ in ‘in’) – ay – ploo- g (a hard ‘g’ as in ‘garden’) where there is sure to be snow and temps down to -11 degrees. Actually the cold feels good, one can dress for it and it’s not cold and miserable inside. The frost makes for interesting cycling and it’s fascinating to watch things freeze over and stay frozen despite the sunshine during the day. We have joked that we need sunglasses as the sun is so low that it’s blinding!
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