Have determined (we think) that the produce truck comes on Tuesday and Friday mornings. So postpone mini trip out to grocery store in order not to miss it, despite also thinking that it is possible to trigger truck arrival by first buying groceries. Noon comes and no truck. Eat lunch. Go to shop to buy water, bread, cheese, eggs, olives, wine (their second last bottle) and minimal veg. Come back and begin cleaning purchases. Produce truck arrives. Questions: a) could truck have been triggered earlier by earlier shopping trip, and b) is there a minimum purchase of unnecessary fruit and veg that must be acquired at the grocery store in order to have the truck arrive with duplicates? Truck’s offerings usually both cheaper and nicer.
Discussing our perception that the twilight period here seems shorter than it does at home, and decide it must be down to two factors. One is our assumption that when the temperatures are consistently in the twenties the days will be much longer. The other is that the more northern latitudes do, of course, have longer days as the solstice approaches. But how much more twilight? Fortunately, it’s easy to tell, as the second last Muslim prayers of the day are at sunset and the last ones when the last bit of light disappears from the sky. And it’s possible to look up prayer times for virtually any location in the world. So today the relevant times for Famagusta are 7:33 and 9:02 PM - an hour and 29 minutes. In Sioux Lookout the times are 8:34 and 10:29 - an hour and 55 minutes. So not only is the twilight period longer at higher latitudes, but it ends, of course, much later. Hence our frequent observation that we’ve barely finished eating and already it’s getting dark.
Current read aloud book (well, one of them) is Defying Hitler, a truly remarkable memoir of life in Germany between early childhood at the beginning of World War I and young adulthood in the 1930’s. It’s an insightful and compelling view of German society in a tumultuous period written entirely from a civilian point of view.
Discussing our perception that the twilight period here seems shorter than it does at home, and decide it must be down to two factors. One is our assumption that when the temperatures are consistently in the twenties the days will be much longer. The other is that the more northern latitudes do, of course, have longer days as the solstice approaches. But how much more twilight? Fortunately, it’s easy to tell, as the second last Muslim prayers of the day are at sunset and the last ones when the last bit of light disappears from the sky. And it’s possible to look up prayer times for virtually any location in the world. So today the relevant times for Famagusta are 7:33 and 9:02 PM - an hour and 29 minutes. In Sioux Lookout the times are 8:34 and 10:29 - an hour and 55 minutes. So not only is the twilight period longer at higher latitudes, but it ends, of course, much later. Hence our frequent observation that we’ve barely finished eating and already it’s getting dark.
Current read aloud book (well, one of them) is Defying Hitler, a truly remarkable memoir of life in Germany between early childhood at the beginning of World War I and young adulthood in the 1930’s. It’s an insightful and compelling view of German society in a tumultuous period written entirely from a civilian point of view.
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