Author Topic: 5 PM AND DARK (Read 2103 times)

betula · « **on:** October 29, 2009, 17:01:36 »

It takes me ages to get used to changing the clocks.

Keep thinking I should start my evening routine and it is too early........... ???

Digeroo · « **Reply #1 on:** October 29, 2009, 17:08:02 »

Its really grotty. I went outside for a bit of digging or as I like to think of it a bit of digerooing and found it had already gone dark.

SamLouise · « **Reply #2 on:** October 29, 2009, 17:12:35 »

I don't like it one bit! :-\ Watching through the window seeing the light slip away from about 4.30 onwards is miserable methinks.

saddad · « **Reply #3 on:** October 29, 2009, 17:28:00 »

OH e-mailed me from work to dig some leeks to make the pumpkin soup (8lb of pumpkin, 4lb of leeks) and I had to do it @4:20 before it got too dark...
:-X

Squash64 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 29, 2009, 18:02:37 »

It's horrible.
I have to feed the dogs an hour earlier than usual so Graham can go outside before it goes dark.
He doesn't like the dark...

betula · « **Reply #5 on:** October 29, 2009, 18:32:28 »

Yes I have to walk the dogs earlier cus I don't like the dark,the dogs expect me to take them over the fields in the pitch Black...!!!!

I say no way as they try to pull me in that direction............... ;D

cornykev · « **Reply #6 on:** October 29, 2009, 18:46:46 »

I don't like it either, I potter around in the garden, but when I got the washing in at 4.30 it was cold and gloomy. ;D ;D ;D

Psi (Pronounced 'Si'!) · « **Reply #7 on:** October 29, 2009, 19:43:46 »

i leave for work at 7.30 and get home 7ish - dark, dark, dark. I can feel he 'batten down the hatches for winter' mentality coming on - grrrrr

i'm hinking of an evening class to occupy me. not that the family dont already do that!

Duke Ellington · « **Reply #8 on:** October 29, 2009, 19:52:20 »

I quite like the feeling of slowing up in winter and being indoors all cosy during the colder darker months ~ ITS WINTER!! enjoy!!

Duke :)

betula · « **Reply #9 on:** October 29, 2009, 19:55:15 »

noooooooooo

I like the chestnuts roasting on an open fire bit around christmas.......but that is.......it :( ???

Flighty · « **Reply #10 on:** October 29, 2009, 19:57:59 »

Duke it's still only autumn! :)
I agree though, and I'll enjoy the winter evenings by sofa flying with a good book, a cup of tea and a couple of digestives!

Trevor_D · « **Reply #11 on:** October 29, 2009, 20:50:33 »

I think we ought to rebel and refuse to change the clocks.

OK, we can't do much about it getting dark earlier, but why should we all lurch our body-clocks forward & back twice a year just because the government decrees this is that is what the time is today?

taurus · « **Reply #12 on:** October 29, 2009, 21:01:09 »

when did this habit start and why? I hate these dark nights :o :o

Ninnyscrops. · « **Reply #13 on:** October 29, 2009, 21:34:18 »

Quote from: taurus on October 29, 2009, 21:01:09

when did this habit start and why? I hate these dark nights :o :o

Something to do with farmers in Scotland and children going home in darkness after school was what I was lead to believe.

Ninny

grawrc · « **Reply #14 on:** October 29, 2009, 21:47:40 »

Quote from: Ninnyscrops (downtoearth) on October 29, 2009, 21:34:18

Quote from: taurus on October 29, 2009, 21:01:09
when did this habit start and why? I hate these dark nights :o :o
It's dark when they go home from school here in winter and dark when they leave for school in the morning so I don't really see what difference it makes.

I don't know about the farmers but I have to either feed my dog an hour earlier or get her to shift her body clock by an hour too.

I thought it was introduced in war time although quite why eludes me!

Something to do with farmers in Scotland and children going home in darkness after school was what I was lead to believe.

Ninny

Ninnyscrops. · « **Reply #15 on:** October 29, 2009, 22:00:42 »

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/astronomy-and-time/time-facts/british-summer-time-(bst)#history

Have a read of this Grawrc - not all the long winded stuff at the top but the bit at the bottom.

Ninny

taurus · « **Reply #16 on:** October 29, 2009, 22:16:23 »

Thanks for that Ninnyscrops, at least now I no the why.

Digeroo · « **Reply #17 on:** October 29, 2009, 22:52:28 »

I have never understood why the clocks go back a 5 weeks after the equinox but don't go forward again until a week after it. Why can't we have the lighter evenings 6 weeks earlier.

Now we are becoming independant from Scotland why can't we do our own thing?

Slug_killer · « **Reply #18 on:** October 30, 2009, 02:23:05 »

I too hate all this time shifting around. My body is so finely tuned it takes 6 months to get used to the change, by which time its all changed again.

But it does explain why I'm always late. ;)

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