The clocks have gone forward...

[????]

...admin, hint hint

[Kells]

I know now. I missed the grand prix:'(

[charliecharlie]

oh sh*t... you mean it's lunch time!! I haven't even had breakfast yet...

[Moos]

I know, tricked Moosling into staying in bed till a reasonable hour, neh heh heh.

[citizenED]

Leap forwards into spring! then put on hat a scarf and froze me blooming brass monkeys off watching the little nippers run around in a playground on a hill. Charmed.

[SteveT]

How many more times must we participate in this fruitless round of clock changing?

Why are we not on 'eurotime' like the rest of our European trading partners?

Was it really caused by a handful of Scots farmers?

We haven't changed the dialling codes for a couple of years either, isn't it time we changed them too,

if only to make trading more difficult for the long suffering exporters.

No! No, I'm not cynical.

[Huguenot]

Apparently nothing to do with the Scottish or farmers.

Instead it was implemented to lower demands on fuel for lighting and heating during wartime.

It was invented by one of those English whackos who thought everybody was wasting the best part of the day in bed, but only enacted initially by the Prussians with their teutonic quest for economic efficiency. Then we thought it was a smart idea, so copied them copying us.

[Brendan]

Still it?s nice to,

a)not get woken up by the sunshine at 4am.

b)have longer evenings

in the summertime.

[????]

"When the weather is fine"

*lapses into Mungo Jerry mode*

[brum]

For some unexplained reason, I completely forgot to change my clocks - all day. Result? I missed my 5pm train to Lincoln and ended up on a later - and much, much slower - train that took me to Grantham then Nottingham (where I waited for an hour). Now this is, I assure you, a minor lapse so please don't think I'm just a stereotypical Benny-from-Crossroads-type Brummie.

Has anyone seen my woolly hat?

[woofmarkthedog]

Woke up early as usual............headed to the bathroom.....ahh bliss...slowly slipped into a glorious "after pee" sleep & the boys were at "nana's"so drifted deeper into paradise..........Lahhh

ZZZZZZ phone rings.......and I answer .....F*CK I am meant to meet the fitter on site an hour ago, forgot to adjust clocks. This guy never works on a sunday & now I'm late..........SH*T

Worked from 9.00am through to 1.00 am. next day

Still happy client today

ZZzz

W**F

[Mick Mac]

I DID adjust clocks but guess what - my 3 and 6 year old human alarm clocks for some reason did not wake up at their normal time and guess what the whole family slept in - late for work (through no fault of my own of course).

[woofmarkthedog]

exactly

[Moos]

I'd much prefer to go onto the same time as the rest of Europe, and have the sunset in mid-winter at 5pm instead of 4pm. I don't mind getting up in the dark when I know that the daylight is coming, but seeing dusk fall in the middle of the afternoon is just too gloomy.

[Mick Mac]

Agreed Moos - the winter evenings are depressing.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

No Mick Mac. All one needs is a roaring fire, a wolfhound at one's feet, a bowl of crisp cox's orange pippins, a bottle of burgundy and a Walter Scott.

That's my fantasy anyhow.

[Mick Mac]

Absolutely PGC, but I presume thats not your 4pm winter routine. Sounds like a nice way to spend an evening though, perhaps replacing the dignified Burgundy with a malt whiskey.

[Mikecg]

Moos Wrote:

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> I'd much prefer to go onto the same time as the

> rest of Europe, and have the sunset in mid-winter

> at 5pm instead of 4pm. I don't mind getting up in

> the dark when I know that the daylight is coming,

> but seeing dusk fall in the middle of the

> afternoon is just too gloomy.

Maybe one day your dream may come true, with the ever increasing mid atlanic ridge and continental drift. You will have to wait a few million years tho'.......

[Moos]

I'm a patient woman, but still I'd rather just change the time...