Sunday 28 October 2018

Clocks

I rarely sleep well and normally wake up and stay awake, from 3.30ish in the morning (sometimes earlier) and then read until getting up at about 5.30.
Lat night, with British Summertime ending, I put all my clocks back an hour in order to be in Winter Time when I woke up, a daft idea but that's what we have to do. Anyway, this morning I woke up with rain lashing against my windows in a very cold and strong NE wind (such rain is a rare event lately and worthy of noting). The clock was showing 3.15 and I groaned, that would of been 4.15 yesterday but we'd gone back an hour, that meant even longer laying in bed this morning and it was still four hours until the paper shops open. OK, it means that it gets light an hour earlier, the dog and I can get down to the reserve earlier but of course it was lashing down with rain this morning so even that was out of the question, it was clearly going to be a long day
The dog was also pacing round the kitchen when I got up at 5.00, which would of been 6.00 yesterday, not able to understand why her breakfast was an hour late, it'll take both of us until we retire tonight to get back into sync. with normal timings again and in the meantime I'll spend all day thinking, "this would of been an hour later yesterday".
So here I am, it's 6.20 as I write this, it's getting light enough outside to see angry black clouds rushing across the sky, dropping icy rain at regular intervals - winter has arrived at the same time as Winter Time, I feel depressed already but glad that I planted my last lot of tulip bulbs yesterday.

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  1. Like you, I always feel "out of synch" for this first day of Wintertime and also my dog is similarly confused as she has a time clock stomach and wonders where her food is.
    Still, the rain has stopped and she is gagging for her walk, so she is getting it "early" it now says 7.15, but that is really 8.15.
    Why can't we leave the clocks alone, as they were before 1914?

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    1. Perhaps after Brexit we can have British All Year Round Time.

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  2. Our clocks went the other way a few weeks ago but I always feel extremely tired for the first week whether the clocks go back or forwards.

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  3. Eating my breakfast and watching breakfast TV an hour ago I saw you had a big area of blue over you. I thought you would be glad of the rain.
    I try not to hark back to what it would have been yesterday as far as the time is concerned. I had to sit in the kitchen last evening and finally went to bed just after nine. As I put the clock back to 8 before I went I was not pleased but slept well in spite of doing nothing yesterday.
    Hope it clears up for your walk.

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    1. Of course I'm glad of the rain Pat and have just been out on the reserve for a brief walk in a bitter cold NE gale. We had a superb rainbow as well because a sunny spell now looks to be heading this way.

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  4. Since Belize is pretty close to the equator and therefore day length doesn't vary too much throughout the year, we don't change to "summer time" or "daylight saving time". I really like not having to adjust twice a year to a new time. But we do have to adjust to being out of synch with our more northerly neighbors who do change time. Surprisingly, the main way it affects us is through airline schedules for flying to the US. Connections that work part of the year don't work after the time change.

    Glad you are getting some rain. Hope you can stay warm and dry.

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    1. Always nice to hear from you Wilma, I must check on your blog.

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  5. Rain - how I wish we'd have some proper, substantial rain wall-to-wall for at least 3 days!
    Well, winter time is actually the "correct" time; of course it is all man-made and as far as I'm concernced, we could easily scrap the entire changing-the-clock back and forth. When I still had pets, they always insisted on having their breakfast at the - for them - usual hour until a few days later, they adjusted to the new rhythm.
    In your previous post, you mentioned a book about E. Nesbit. She was/is one of my favourite authors. There are several reviews of her work on my blog. Now I want to read the biography you've shown.

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  6. Well it's raining now as I write this Librarian, but like you we have a long way to go to replenish the stocks. I knew nothing about E. Nesbit before reading the book but found it an interesting read.

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  7. Changing the clocks puts people about. It's about time we scrapped it. The reasoning behind it is very shaky.

    P.S. I hope you won't mind me pointing out that "could of" and "would of" should not exist. It's "could have" and "would have". Happy to be of service sir.

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  8. Gawd, the times that I get picked up on that YP and yet I never remember the next time that I write it.

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