Today marks the shortest day of the year, apart from March 16th in one particular small village in North Yorkshire that you’ll no longer find on a map or stumble across, as no roads or paths now lead to it.
On March 16th in 1641, local sorcerer, Thomas Blake Allan, got his words rather wrong. As a result the sun went down like a child’s ball dropping, and has not come up ever since. Most of the villagers left within two days, leaving only an old blind man who said it made no difference to him, and the corpse of Thomas Blake Allan who they’d hung from an elm tree.
You’ll know if you find it. Unless you’re out at night, when of course you won’t notice any difference. You may even have found it already, and have never known. Just don't sit under any elm trees.
Happy Solstice everyone.
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