It's that time of year again. This was the sky at 4am, already well into the daylight hours. The 'pale fingers of' start creeping over the horizon at 1.30am all lemony and lovely.
Unfortunately it means I don't sleep much and am turned to stone by mid morning like the trolls in 'The Hobbit' (Trolls in the Tolkien universe turn to stone when exposed to sunlight.)
Many, many moons ago when travelling with the three children and listening to a BBC recording of the Hobbit we all joined in with Gandalf's triumphal shout of 'Dawn take you all and be stone to you!' Rousing cheers as Bilbo was saved from being put in a pie by Tom, Bert, and William Huggins..
Ah, it takes me back.
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