Blow, blow, thou winter wind

Blow, blow, thou winter wind.
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude (...)

from "As You Like It", William Shakespeare

As for winter winds, listen also to Sandy Denny, one of my favourite songwriters of the nineteen seventies/eighties :

Winter Winds- Sandy Denny

the long polar night

Since the last days of November , the arctic regions are in polar night season. They have to say goodbye to the sun. It will shine back again in about two months. Until then, welcome Polar Night!


Twilight is at noon, the sun trying to peak over the horizon - not succeeding though. But it never gets really dark. In fact there is a kind of permanent twilight, and in full moonlight , the "polar night" days are more enlightened than a dark night at the tropics.


Christmas night is all along the day...