Will you be staying up all night to welcome the dawn?

marshlander · Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:46 pm

23.59hrs on the 20th (Not 21st as it's a leap year) is the Summer Solstice (Winter in Southern Hemisphere). What are you doing to celebrate?

It's the time to count our blessings and each other.

Will you be staying up all night to welcome the dawn?

mrsflibble · Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:53 pm

I'd love to be at stone henge, but don't think we can afford the diesel. don't know if I can be bothered to welcome the dawn in Basildon!!

edited 'cos of a typo which made me look like I wished to turn into stone and stand on a wiltshire plain forever more lol!!

Silver Ether · Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:51 pm

Well I wouldn't want to be at stonehenge ... shudder I am hoping to go to a local hill and weather permitting will get some sunrise picture ... weather not permitting .... I will get wet.

I have just been and checked and been told that is is the 21st ... now I am confused

danndans · Post: # 110362Post **danndans** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:04 pm

will be stood on our hill and watch it coming up over the mountains then watch it going down over the sea

Brij · Post: # 110365Post **Brij** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:27 pm

Wow, I will stay up now I know!

Bluemoon · Post: # 110374Post **Bluemoon** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:49 pm

Will do what we do every year (weather permitting) and have a barbie. A friend and I take it in turns to play hostess. Then we stay up till daybreak......except there's usually been far too much red on offer and we fall asleep long before dawn. Still, it's the thought that counts.

Post: # 110380Post **MKG** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:01 pm

Silver Ether wrote:Well I wouldn't want to be at stonehenge ... shudder I am hoping to go to a local hill and weather permitting will get some sunrise picture ... weather not permitting .... I will get wet.

I have just been and checked and been told that is is the 21st ... now I am confused

Marshlander's right - this year it's the 20th.

ocailleagh · Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:48 pm

I'll be staying up the night of the 20th to welcome the rising of the Sun on the 21st, up a hill somewhere in Gloucester (since that's where my coven is based). And then will possibly be visiting the Rollrights (wherever they are) for a public ritual hosted by some local Druids, though that depends on room in cars etc.

I did Stonehenge one year, the year they started letting people back in...2000 maybe? The Druids were lovely, and so were the police. The problem was the 900 crusties that thought it would be fun to try and disrupt everything and clamber all over the stones! Missed the sunrise however, thanks to the oh so reliable British weather!

Magpie · Post: # 110394Post **Magpie** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:09 pm

It's mid-winter here, so I am watching the sun rise right now, at 8.08am... much more civillised!!

snapdragon · Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:18 pm

I'll be in Sussex to greet the sunrise with friends

But I shall most probably sleep and wake early (sort of 3am ish) to get out there

I live near Stonehenge and wouldn't want to bother being there really, If I were staying here in Wilts then Woodhenge or the sanctury near Avebury would be my choice of venue I think.

AXJ · Post: # 110432Post **AXJ** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:53 pm

Milton Keynes is a place to be.. the whole town is built on the same axis as stonehenge.

Keynes has Midsummer Boulevard, originally there was going to be a replica of the henge, but for some reason they opted for fibre glass cows.

possum · Post: # 110439Post **possum** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:37 am

This will probably sound pretentious, but we shall be going out into the clearing in our woods where we built a mini stone circle, surrounded by garden torches, however probably won't stay long as it is a bit nippy here at the moment.

ina · Post: # 110446Post **ina** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:16 am

Seeing that I'm having trouble sleeping at the moment anyway - light never used to bother me, but at the mo it seems to - and it's light here until 11pm, and again at 3am at the latest - no I won't try and stay up, I'll be glad if I get any sleep at all!

circlecross · Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:00 am

will be dancing on Friday, poss going to Castlerigg to see what the druids are up to, then dancing on Saturday! Recovery Sunday (as much as one can with two monsters and a husband).

Silver Ether · Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:13 am

ocailleagh wrote:I'll be staying up the night of the 20th to welcome the rising of the Sun on the 21st, up a hill somewhere in Gloucester (since that's where my coven is based). And then will possibly be visiting the Rollrights (wherever they are) for a public ritual hosted by some local Druids, though that depends on room in cars etc.

I did Stonehenge one year, the year they started letting people back in...2000 maybe? The Druids were lovely, and so were the police. The problem was the 900 crusties that thought it would be fun to try and disrupt everything and clamber all over the stones! Missed the sunrise however, thanks to the oh so reliable British weather!

Rollright stones is near Oxford ...flower and its lovely ...