Forty Years Ago This Morning...

[Gangster Octopus]

I saw and photographed the sun appearing at Stonehenge.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Forty Years Ago This Morning...

When's it expected to appear again?

[Paul S]

Forty Years Ago This Morning...

Not necessarily today. It's all a bit to complicated for me to explain in my rather pissed state, but basically a lunar year is one and a quarter days long. Hence every four years we have a leap year to get back on track. A few years ago all the druids and hippy's turned up at Stonehenge on the morning of the 21st and found they had been locked out. Nobody round, nothing. This was racism, prejudice and volition of their rights, so they said. Unfortunately for them, the longest day of the year was the next day - i.e June 22 June - due to to the lunar year. As a spokesman for the National Trust said: "You would've thought they would have known". Wouldn't you? If you were a druid?

[Janik]

Forty Years Ago This Morning...

Paul S wrote: It's all a bit to complicated for me to explain in my rather pissed state, but basically a lunar year is one and a quarter days long.

Yep. You meant solar or sidereal year and 365 1/4 days long, rather than 1 1/4 (where day = unit of 24 hours duration). Or 366.25 (give or take some rounding) revolutions of the Earth.

The lunar 'year' is better known as a month.

Was it a good night?

[Paul S]

Forty Years Ago This Morning...

Yes, very enjoyable evening after a very good game of cricket.

[Benjm]

Forty Years Ago This Morning...

Gangster Octopus wrote: I saw and photographed the sun appearing at Stonehenge.

Hippy.

[Gangster Octopus]

Forty Years Ago This Morning...

Forty years ago? Probably.