anybody got a loose plotbunny?

Ages long ago I started to try to drabble for thirty fandoms. I didn't get that far, but I'm thinking of going back to it. I need the mental exercise.

I just can't think of which fandoms to try, at least not this late at night. Any suggestions?

anybody got a loose plotbunny?

Ages long ago I started to try to drabble for thirty fandoms. I didn't get that far, but I'm thinking of going back to it. I need the mental exercise.

I just can't think of which fandoms to try, at least not this late at night. Any suggestions?

Yes, I am a librarian...

Okay... I can't just assume that the hours of daylight at midsummer and Christmas are different in Shrewsbury and Jerusalem for a Cadfael drabble, I've got to go mucking around on the net for more exact info...

But I'll admit to goggling at what I figured out.

For June 22:

Jerusalem, 14 hours 14 minutes between sunrise and sunset
Shrewsbury, 16 hours 52 minutes ditto.

For December 25:
Jerusalem, 10 hours 4 minutes from sun up to sundown
Shrewsbury, 7 hours, 40 minutes...
The sun isn't above the horizon for even eight hours! Granted the twilight is a lot longer in Shrewsbury, forty minutes at midwinter to Jerusalem's twenty minutes, but wow, that's a lot of hours of dark!

Now, considering that medieval clocks set the hours by sunrise and sunset, dividing day and night each into twelve hours, and the monks had to get up in the middle of the night for at least one service... *wanders off in a fit of geekishness*

...er... there may be a drabble, eventually. I've got to go research medieval church services now.

Yes, I am a librarian...

Okay... I can't just assume that the hours of daylight at midsummer and Christmas are different in Shrewsbury and Jerusalem for a Cadfael drabble, I've got to go mucking around on the net for more exact info...

But I'll admit to goggling at what I figured out.

For June 22:

Jerusalem, 14 hours 14 minutes between sunrise and sunset
Shrewsbury, 16 hours 52 minutes ditto.

For December 25:
Jerusalem, 10 hours 4 minutes from sun up to sundown
Shrewsbury, 7 hours, 40 minutes...
The sun isn't above the horizon for even eight hours! Granted the twilight is a lot longer in Shrewsbury, forty minutes at midwinter to Jerusalem's twenty minutes, but wow, that's a lot of hours of dark!

Now, considering that medieval clocks set the hours by sunrise and sunset, dividing day and night each into twelve hours, and the monks had to get up in the middle of the night for at least one service... *wanders off in a fit of geekishness*

...er... there may be a drabble, eventually. I've got to go research medieval church services now.

Fandom Number 17 -- Cadfael

Hours

In the Holy Lands the days and nights had been more equitable, Cadfael had decided within a month of his return. And he had grown used to it, he had to admit, to sleeping nearly as long in summertime as he did in the midst of winter. Not that he had slept through the night since he'd entered Shrewsbury Abbey. The offices broke the night into pieces, and in the short summer nights those pieces were small indeed. Even the abbot yawned sometimes, midverse, as they sang Lauds.

But on winter nights, even a monk had time enough to dream.

Fandom Number 17 -- Cadfael

Hours

In the Holy Lands the days and nights had been more equitable, Cadfael had decided within a month of his return. And he had grown used to it, he had to admit, to sleeping nearly as long in summertime as he did in the midst of winter. Not that he had slept through the night since he'd entered Shrewsbury Abbey. The offices broke the night into pieces, and in the short summer nights those pieces were small indeed. Even the abbot yawned sometimes, midverse, as they sang Lauds.

But on winter nights, even a monk had time enough to dream.