In the Highlands today we're welcoming the light. It's the start of British Summer Time.
We spend half the year wishing it would get light, and the other half wishing it would get dark.
In December and January daylight starts after 9.00am and finishes just after 3.00pm. But you wouldn't describe it as daylight. The sun, when we see it, never rises much above the horizon, and quite often the clouds hide it anyway.
After the Spring Equinox the change is dramatic, because we also switch from GMT to BST?
As if somebody turned on the light, the sun is now high in the sky, and its proper daylight from 7.00am till 9.00pm. By the end of of June it will barely get dark.
That's great news of course. Except for the next several months we'll be woken by the seagulls announcing the dawn at 2.00am.
But it won't last long.
By the end of August the dark will be descending again:.
