Summerdan

After the runaway success of Winterdan I have decided to go ahead with the extended fast next year one month before the official Ramadan month begins…and I have given this the rather crap name of “Summerdan”. Sorry! Anyway, this time it’s going to be tougher, much tougher as the table below highlights, a number of days will have at least fifteen hours of daylight up to day 13 when we get sixteen hours and this continues to grow until the end when we peak at sixteen hours and forty minutes. Now as a former cluster headache sufferer I am fully aware of the need to keep yourself hydrated through the day…and as this is going to take place during the start of summer then I feel that to attempt this dry would be not appropriate for me – I don’t wish to offend anyone, I am fully aware that the guidelines for those observing Ramadan are “Nill by mouth”, I am not following those guidelines to the letter and instead will be observing the one guideline “no calories”. I can drink water during daylight…but that’s about it. Also as trying to find and calculate sunset and sunrise times (without bugging poor Faz at the shop) has proven to be a complete pain; I am using the table below obtained from Time and Date .com.

So, that’s what I am going to be up to at the start of next summer, thankfully the inclusion of water means that if Karl says to me “Let’s do Sca Fell” I can respond in the affirmative and take a gallon of water with me!

Wish me luck.