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[Limpy]

Finnish suicide rates have always been renowned for being high.

[Taz2]

Yes but the suicide rates are not due to the weather as Finland does not normally have long spells of grey and dull weather - that's what I meant in a roundabout way.  The situation there is improving though.

Taz x 

[babypink2807]

Its count down for me to lighter nights and I can leave the horses out and it's easier for me to manage them rather than fumbling in the dark!

[Hurdity]

 

.....only just catching up

Lovely poem Taz.

The winter solstice always gives me a thrill because the year has turned and begins to wax, but I also love this time of year - the deepest part of the darkness when it gets dark early and you can curl up in front of the fire with all the lights and greenery brought in for Christmas, and the clear cold sunny days like today, with the sounds of the fieldfares chattering away as they eat the fallen apples in the orchard....

Hurdity x

[bramble]

Yes but the suicide rates are not due to the weather as Finland does not normally have long spells of grey and dull weather - that's what I meant in a roundabout way.  The situation there is improving though.

Taz x 

Suicide remains a fairly common cause of death in Finland. According to the most recent figures from Statistics Finland, dating back to 2007, suicide is the fourth most common cause of death of men of working age, and the fifth most common for working-age women. The most common causes of death both for men and women are related to the use of alcohol.
      In 2007, 995 deaths in Finland were determined to be suicides. The number has declined by one third from the record year of 1990, when 1,520 people in Finland took their own lives.

In Greenland, which has the highest suicide rate in the world, most of them occurred in the summer - the long days leading to more insomnia.

Bramble

[Hurdity]

  Well I was trying to cheer the mood of this thread

Hurdity 
 

[Taz2]

We haven't had any fieldfares yet - apart from the ones flying high overhead.

I have a really good friend who loves Spring and Summer so as she goes up as Spring approaches I go down and then as Autumn arrives she goes down and I go up. It is our "friendship seesaw" 

Taz x