Whilst we get an extra hours sleep on Sunday, spare a thought for the National Trust Volunteers who work tirelessly through the night to move the stones back 1 hour at various stone circles around the country side. This is done twice a year to make sure the stones align correctly with the sun.
I get cross when people talk about getting an extra hour’s sleep. Being a raving insomniac, I always wake at about 4a.m. Now that will be 3a.m. It’s just an extra hour of being awake. Hate these time changes, so unnecessary.
Thinking at 6 yesterday evening that it's going to be like at 5 next week, I thought as I always do at this time of year: it's just Not Right!! Then a few uncharitable thoughts about Scottish farmers enter my mind..
I really don't mind whether I'm on Greenwich time or Central European time but I really wish I could stay on the same time all year. It takes a week to 10 days each time for my body clock to adapt to these silly hour changes.
Well they needn't move them on my account I hate this messing about with time and count down relentlessly till shortest day so I can watch the evenings start pulling out again- is it 20th Dec? Makes it a short day on the golf course too.
I hate the earlier dark evenings too as I don’t drive in the dark now. I love it when the evenings start getting noticeably lighter again, some time soon after X**s.
I hate this time of year . Dark when I go to work, dark in my office. (needs a light all year round) and dark when I get home . It's like being a bloomin' mole .
Be creative Gillybob e.g. work 4 hours in the early morning and again 4 hours early evening when it is dark anyway and have your freetime say 11.00 till 15.00.
I hate this clock change and love the spring one. I'm always impatient for the next thing (next meal, next bedtime, next getting-up) and I don't like having to wait longer. This change takes me about a week to adjust to, whereas the spring one I can absorb within a day or so.
My SinL would like us to adopt Zulu time all year round. Apparently we are in the Zulu time zone I had to look it up because I had no idea what that was. It appears that it is the military term for GMT!
I read the following on The internet this week! It’s a quote from a Native American.....”Only a white man would cut 2” off the top of his blanket and sew it on the bottom in order to make it 2” longer” How true is that!
With the clocks and which way they should be moved in spring or autumn is a nmenomic.
Spring forward. Fall (autumn) back. Quite helpful I have been uncertain at times . I like this post, it is just full of crazy British spelling Autumn and Mnenomic. in one sentence. The Americans must despair of us.
I wish I could granny23 but I need to work the "usual" hours to fit in with the phone calls, deliveries etc. Dark days make me feel quite miserable or as DH says "more miserable than normal"