Here comes the sun

Today is the winter solstice, shortest day of the year and I'm pretty glad that we've arrived at this point. I feel like the past week or so has been near perpetual darkness; leave the house in darkness, get to work in darkness, leave work in the dark, head home and hibernate.
I've got a few weeks of holiday now and I'm hopeful that when I start working again in January it'll at least be light at some point.
A friend of mine is moving to Finland indefinitely just before new year's eve, I hope he gets to see the sun too.