Entrance walkway at Port Lympne 27/11/09

By twilight - British winter daylight being how it is this was about 4pm.

I'm still on the school bus at 4 o'clock. I couldn't even imagin eit being this dark by then.

It's currently 8.45am and it's only just really got light. Apart from an hour for lunch I'm now in the office until 5.30pm, by which time it will have been dark for an hour.

Hence the emerging trade in 'light boxes' emitting sunlight-like wavelengths to prevent people from suffering what is (genuinely) known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (yes, SAD...), in which lack of exposure to sunlight can lead to depression in winter months.

What a coincidence 'cos I just hopped on here and it's exactley 8.46am and the sun has been up for a good hour and a half although it is summer now.

yes it is kind of depressing how dark it gets so early in the united kingdom , it sometimes made me feel pretty gloomy when i lived in London