[Magdalen] a little weather story
Scott Knitter
scottknitter at gmail.com
Mon May 27 19:08:39 UTC 2019
I forgot to mention that this visit to Cambridge was during the first week
of December that year...hence the early darkness (helped by thick cloud
cover).
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 2:07 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:
> During a short visit to Cambridge, UK, for Evensong at King's College
> Chapel, I remember arriving by railway around 3 pm, basically in the dark.
> So while I've been to Cambridge (a wine shop, a bookshop, and the Chapel),
> I can't quite say I've *seen* Cambridge.
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 1:12 PM Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> I had friends who lived in England, and they said it started to get light
>> around 4AM in the summer. I also remember reading in Dickens that the
>> street lights went on at 3PM in the winter.
>>
>> I have been abroad I was always awakened by the church bells at 7AM and
>> don't remember anything earlier==it was always the summer.
>>
>> I\ve visited the Maritimes a few times in the summer, I guess I just
>> slept fairly late and didn't notice. I know it stays light later here in
>> Georgia and I was from Chicago. It was more than getting dark around 9 in
>> the summer. Here in mid to late summer it can be light well after 9\\
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com>
>> >Sent: May 27, 2019 1:32 PM
>> >To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> >Subject: Re: [Magdalen] a little weather story
>> >
>> >Astronomical twilight begins here at 3:08,
>> >nautical twilight at 3:57
>> >
>> >The author lives two hundred miles north of here,
>> >and then another two hundred miles to Caribou,
>> >-M
>>
>
>
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> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>
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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
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