Time and time again
While I never quite remember which way round the clocks are meant to be moved (this morning C helpfully reminded me that it's spring forward, fall back, but I will definitely have forgotten again by the time we have to move them forward), I have to say I am very pleased with the extra hour we have been given. What am I going to do with it? Sleep? No, because there is never enough time in the day, and if I have an extra hour, you can be sure that I am going to put it to good use! Not that sleep isn't useful... I just don't want to.
Now I just have to decide what 'good use' means. It will probably mean 'moving half the house around again after the electrician turned it upside down, and doing other things on the neverending Just Moved In-Style Tasks list' sigh.
And which hour is the bonus one anyway?! From 7-8am? Do we have our 7-8am period as usual and then another one after it, so that the time is 6am, 7am, 8am, 7am, 8am, 9am etc? Or is it completely random, with a secret mysterious hour shoved in somewhere between 12.15am and 8.53pm, quietly so that no one notices? Wherever it is, it's all great with me. I like more time!
HOWEVER - for there is nearly always a however to every story - all of this time shifting is a bit of a pain. Darker evenings mean we have to walk the dog earlier, which, erm, interferes with his bowels (although he does get over it, don't worry - and yes, I know that was too much information). Darker evenings also means more electricity and whatever. Darkness also has a weird affect on some people, though thankfully I'm not one of them - I'm just weird.
[Who decides about all of this time saving anyway, does anyone know? OPD, you probably know!]
Am off to use my extra hour now. I think I will use it to eat breakfast. Maybe it can be my secret extra hour, so if I eat too much, it won't count. Nice.
Comments
Parliament! Daylight Savings Time Act or whatever its called.
I believe there was a trial ~1968 - 1971, to abolish GMT time, and to stick with BST. However, those north of the Scottish border complained, thus not acted upon.
- meant that it didn't get light til after 9am;
- more accidents as kids going to school;
- farmers having to work in mornings;
... etc.
Now we have devolution, can't Scotland be on its own time and we join the rest of Europe or something?
Re environment, the media picked up on the link between daylight savings / electricity a couple of weeks back. National grid has a surge when everyone comes home from work, and its in the interests of all things green not to put clocks back.
Re that extra hour, I just see it as whatever time I got up in the morning ... con myself into thinking I woke at 7.30am on a Sunday, wow.
Posted by: Alison | October 28, 2007 10:02 AM
I thank you for that. Good point r.e. extra hour... this morning I was VERY pleased with myself for feeling so awake, and then realised we were an hour back (!)
Posted by: j | October 29, 2007 10:45 AM
ah the old sage is beaten to it, you young puppy Alison! But isn't it a bit chicken and egg, isn't it the BST clocks going forward that is the probpem and out of step with things? I dunno I just like being about to find my little darlings deposits in the mornings! (again, too much info!)
Posted by: opd | October 29, 2007 12:40 PM
Tip of the day: Take a torch! We do!
Posted by: j | October 29, 2007 1:01 PM