It's summer, a few days before Christmas and a little event that happens at this time every year has gone by. It's the Summer Solstice i.e. the day with the most number of daylight hours. Of course in the Northern hemisphere it's the opposite and the day with the least number of daylight hours.
For some reason when I was growing up my Mum in always made a point of mentioning this and it has stuck with me. She used to say it was the longest day of the year. Of course being an impressionable child I thought it meant the day was actually longer than any other. Talk about taking things literally. It took a long time to really understand what it meant.
Brings to mind another saying Mum used quite a lot. If one of us asked what day it was she would tell us the day of the week than add 'all day'. It was years later I found out my brother thought that meant there were days in the week that changed half way through. Hilarious! He's really very clever but that had him confused for quite a while.
Brings home how trusting children can be and how they can take things literally. Talk to your family and see what weird stuff they thought you were referring to with crazy sayings.
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