And spade, didnt we . If its a nice night you can pack a picnic and go to the beach. On a nice night when the sun is still shining then sometimes bedtime does get pushed back a little bit. The lighter evenings can make it a struggle for her to get her three and seven year olds to sleep. You dont want to go to bed . Trying to get them to understand it is bedtime when it is so light, how difficult is it . I think because they were born here it isjust normal, its what they are used to. It is just a reality. They know that in the winter it is dark all the time and in summer it is light all the time. You go from 16 hours of daylight in the summer, to barely six in the winter. Whats that like . House gets trashed. When they go to school in the morning it is dark, when they get home in the afternoon its dark. So, really, there is no opportunity to get outside, so they are just bouncing off the walls inside. Wintertime can actually be worse. Which is better, summer or winter in shetland . Summ