Extra Hour in the morning.

[Pippa]

Don't forget to put your clocks back an hour tonight, back to good old GMT and short days. How will you be spending the long evenings?

[Crocus]

When am I going to chat with you people? There's 2 hours difference from tomorrow and when it's 11 pm here, its only 9 pm over in the UK! I'll have to have forty winks in the afternoon to keep up with you girls! Otherwise I'm going to fall asleep in front of the computer!!!! Help!! :eek:

[sheddie]

Go easy on the Brrrr then crocus we want your input, not falling asleep.X

[Oola]

Ah yes, except my hens don't know the clocks have gone forward so I'll be up at half six!

[eleanor2]

let grandson stay up a bit later tonight.hoping he will sleep in in the morning.what are the chances.i was thinking today actually.i am going to start reading more in the evenings now winter is here.oh and next month is november it takes me about a month to write all my christmas letters.i will be sitting by my log fire with a glass of wine.nice music writing letters.i love it.

[dinger]

Oh crumbs that means I will be awake even earlier I wake at 5 30 every morning .

[Crocus]

I'll go very slowly on the BRR. I'll keep a drop or two for you!
I remember on the 'other site' someone once mentioned "slower than a slow thing going slow". That's how I will go. :eek:

[dinger]

morning Crocus The time difference has got me up so early but guess you are up and about .I am creeping around so I don't wake my O H and son up .Will be glad when I see it start getting light .

[Crocus]

IMorning to you Dinger! I actually woke up at 4 am this morning and could'nt go back to sleep! And as you say, creeping about not to wake hubs. The boys are not here - they're on a camping trip organised by our vicar. He's a wonderful person, having 3 little ones himself and knows how to work with the youth. So we were "orphaned parents" this weekend!

[lily]

But do we still need the clock changing thing? I see on one news site that it is the cue for increased burglaries, and was after all introduced in the war which is a very long time ago.

[dinger]

I don't think it is needed now can't see any real reason for it at all .

[Crocus]

Isn't this extra hour for you guys to have an extra daylight hour?

[lily]

Still pondering the bit I read about increased burglaries- didn't know burglars kept regular hours!

[Oola]

I think it might make the mornings lighter earlier...if it was changed the evenings would be lighter.

[jazzactivist]

I think that the whole clock changing thing is really odd, and although I have lived in the UK for 20 years I don't think that I will ever get used to it. It is just fooling ourselves, and for what? I think that it is perhaps time for the Government to forget about it.

[CountryLady]

I really hate having to drive home in the dark and it's so sudden when the clocks change.

[Oola]

I think I remember my mum saying that when she was at school, one year they experimented with leaving the clocks as they were. People complained though because their children had to go to school in the dark or something?

It always feels a bit odd to me too - in fact this morning I had to get up an 'hour early' to let the hens out, as far as they were concerned it was half past 7, the sun was up (behind the clouds) and it was time to start the day. Now we are back to getting up at half past six until it gets lighter later again. Seems all very odd to me. I think people would benefit much more if they were to actually leave work whilst it was still relatively light. When I worked long shifts last year I was in work when it was dark and out just as it was getting dark - I think it's really bad for general health and wellbeing. But then I suppose that's just working full time indoors with no natural light anyway.

[sheddie]

I think it takes a bit of getting used to and I'm always surprised at the amount of clocks we have to change ie - house, kitchen,watches, mobile phones, car clocks, bedroom clock etc.

[CountryLady]

..and aren't some of them complicated too?

[Crocus]

.........and I can't chat along in the evenings, because 10 in the evening when I usually start to get ready to go to bed, you girls are just beginning to chat! :eek:

[eleanor2]

putting grandson bed an hour later didn.t work he had me up at 6 o clock the new time...

[Crocus]

Hi Girls, we are on our way to the UK in about 4 and half weeks. We are watching a webcam in Exmouth to see how the daylight hours are like. Being in that vicinity in about 5 weeks' time, can you perhaps tell me what the daylight hours will be that time of year?

[eleanor2]

morning crocus.we now get lighter earlier. this morning the sun was shining on a golden autumned leaf tree out side my window.it looked like it was glowing.i think that was about 7.30.the nights are darker earlier.so hope your cottage has a log fire.nothing like it to cheer the dark evenings up. oh dear i need some wood.were can i get some wood from.there is a certain bonfire piled with it.oh dear i will be in my posh suit. i will have to smile at whiskers .maybe he will put some in my car boot for me.

[Crocus]

According to a weather chart we found on Google, the sun rises at about 9 in the morning and sets again at more or less 4 in the afternoon during December. We'll have to do our 'shopping' during the 'dark' hours and the rest for sightseeing and all the other stuff we want to do.