I'm the author of Sunshine, One man's search for happiness. You must forgive my inability to punctuate properly in this profile, as I'm writing this from Spain, using a Spanish keyboard and I don't have a clue how half of the punctuation marks are achieved. The book's title says a lot about me. I am pretty much obsessed with sunshine, but then I'm not alone in this. It is a passion that grips us as a nation, profoundly affecting so much of our lives. My book set out to understand this. To explain how much of this is down to biology, how much down to cultural association, and how much down to history. There's much much more to the sun than meets the eye. I'll be blogging away on this for all I'm worth. But now I need to get back in the sun.
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In response to my last posting, whinging about the usual non-appearance of the sun on what's supposed to be his big day, the summer solstice, a friend wondered why I had personified the sun as male. I remarked that I was following accepted, and near-universal, convention, as formalised in the Greco-Roman deities Helios and Apollo, or the eastern Shamesh, ...