Colombians are often fascinated by tales of Scotland’s cold weather and what it is like to live in a country that has seasons.

On Sunday I was explaining to a friend in church what it was like to have very little daylight in winter and almost no darkness in the summer.

Well, it’s very different here, he responded. Night and day are almost exactly the same. We don’t have social equality here but at least we have…he groped for the right expression…

Solar equality? I suggested, and we agreed that was a good way of describing it.

I don’t miss Scotland’s winter solar inequality but sometimes I crave those magical light summer nights in the north of Scotland when it hardly gets dark at all.