I am Alan Booth, an ordinary British Man . I'm not one of the famous people that have the same name as me, just an ordinary guy. Welcome to my main blog, a true reliable record of history from the perspective of an ordinary man, a place filled with my thoughts; perhaps my thoughts will persist longer on here than in my brain itself. My twitter I.D. is @alspresso.
Yesterday was the shortest day of the year in the UK. The sun went down at around 15:30 and the little daylight that we did have was obscured by the clouds. There was very little light at all the whole day.
From this day forward until mid summer next year the days will slowly get longer than the previous day.
August 2026 was very hot and dry, we had a series of heat waves and a prolonged drought that persisted until the last few days of the month....
