Gradually, day by day, we are starting to emerge from winter here in the northern hemisphere. And yet the nights remain stubbornly long. We are aware that just round the corner there could be more ice and snow before springtime begins to truly win out in late March. There's a long way to go yet. This current night - January 3rd - will last for some sixteen hours here in South Yorkshire.
When you live at or near The Equator, there's little variation in the length of day and night throughout the year. They remain roughly equal - around twelve hours. Never to know the lengthening of winter nights as in northern latitudes nor the summer shrinkage. Never to require much psychological adjustment nor the necessity for seasonal wardrobe changes.
The lives of those who of us who live well north of The Tropic of Cancer and way south of The Tropic of Capricorn are deeply affected by annual cycles of light and season that are of little relevance in tropical regions.
I am not sure why I followed this train of thought when my main intention was just to post a few photographs from my time in Thailand which just gets further back in the history of my life. It was exactly ten years back when I set out for a second six month teaching stint in Bangkok at the tender age of fifty nine. I spent my very last week in Thailand on the island of Koh Lanta in the far south of the country and that is where all these pictures were taken. In the entire Kingdom of Thailand you could not get much closer to The Equator than this.
from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/lbegpVI
