On the Q I programme last week there was the debate as to when 12th night was, the 5th January or the 6th January. We have always seen it as the 6th January and the Sunday service is known as Epiphany so we were hopeful that there would still be lights tonight.
Every year there is a big "Switch on" of the lights at the end of November heralding the start of the Christmas season. I usually take pictures but this year I kept putting off the photo shoot. The result was the sudden realization today that if I did not take the photos today, they would never happen.
It was dark by 17h00 so we took a quick drive into town to take the pictures only to discover that some had already been taken down or switched off. I have learnt an important lesson, "strike while the iron is hot" because if you"snooze" you "loose".
All the houses in the neighbourhood had already switched off their lights so I will have to depend on pictures taken in previous years to fill my memory bank. This is of course something that we never see in SA so is yet another difference that I can add to the long list of things that are different in the UK. I am beginning to wonder how we could ever have said that there was not much that was different when we were asked the question in our first year here. "You live and you learn". Old dogs can learn new tricks......
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