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General => The Shed => Topic started by: betula on October 26, 2008, 17:13:41
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and it's nearly dark.
Don't you just hate it?
I do :(
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Get used to it, its only going to get worse :'(
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didn't the same thing happen last year too?
where's me SAD Lamp ???
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didn't the same thing happen last year too?
where's me SAD Lamp ???
I left mine in Spain. Might have to go'n get it soon...
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Ah but its only 8 weeks until the days start getting longer again!
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and there's halloween, bonfire night and Christmas to look forward to, don't let it get you down ;D
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and there's halloween, bonfire night and Christmas to look forward to, don't let it get you down ;D
Thanks for that it's cheered me up no end. :'( :'( :'(
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I don't hate it, actually I love it. Once winter comes, which is lovely in it's way, all wrapped up and all that comfort food and snuggling down under the duvet at night and hurrying home to get into the warm and the promise of Spring just round the corner, what could be nicer, apart from the sun ;D
It gets a plus from me.
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Same here - come home from work, draw all the curtains around the house, a little more time to spend creating a different meal, to have folks staying over, planning the Christmas menu knowing I can pop up and pick or dig lots of the veg needed, and knowing next spring is nearer than the last :)
Ninnyscrops
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you two are bonkers.
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Each to their own - it's what makes the world go round ;D
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I am OK till Christmas ,all the organising is a distraction.
I think the last few winters have been murky and dank,so depressing.
What has happened to those bright ,crisp winter days.So much more tolerable. :(
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I am OK till Christmas ,all the organising is a distraction.
I think the last few winters have been murky and dank,so depressing.
What has happened to those bright ,crisp winter days.So much more tolerable. :(
i agree
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Blagh @ the winter >:( I don't care for it one bit! It's cold, it's dark, it's just plain miserable. On the plus side I do love fireworks and I do LOVE Christmas so much - it's my favourite time of the year.
Thankfully not dark here until just after 6pm this evening.
Anyway, why the complaints, [sarcasm]it's not like we haven't had the most beautiful English summer to keep us going, eh? [/sarcasm]
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I'm glad I'm bonkers then ;D
I feel sorry for all those that aren't ::)
Hate to say it was my kind of summer too.
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This used to be my most favourite time of year in the lead up to Xmas. Now I really just can't be bothered with it all. ::)
And yes walks with the dogs in the clear cold sunny air with the crunch of snow underfoot would be great but it's just wet, windy and miserable all the time. And cold. I went to the lottie for the first time in 3 weeks today - it's been too wet to go before. Picked what I imagine will be the last of the courgettes and the last of the tomatoes, shivered a bit and came back home. Amazingly it was still light but then in the space of 5 minutes it was dark.
Still there are logs burning in the grate and the two dogs are snoring gently beside me so it's not all bad! ;)
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I'm with those who hate this time of the year. Too wet to go to the allotment today and Sunday is the only chance I get at this time of the year so I feel quite cheated. Now it's just weeks of going to and coming home from work in the dark.
Still, glad I didn't take any time off over the summer as I have now got holidays in November and January to look forward to. Can't wait!
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I will really miss the dark mornings now that the clocks have gone back.
Hubby and I car share to work, he drops me off on his way.
We leave the house at about 6.30am when its nice and dark, hardly a soul around, we listen to the radio on our trip and laugh are heads off with the crazy couple of DJs that run the morning show, and its so snug and dark and cosy and romantic ;D
Won't have the same feeling now its a big lighter :)
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How lovely to be so romantic at that time in the morning.
I can hardly focus at that time ;D
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Hate the winter except for Christmas. Love going next door to watch Joshua open his presents. (and the excitement when I open mine :)) I do like fireworks but not for the past 9 years due to the fact that my dog is terrified of them
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Blame the continuence of this stupid clock change on the 'Scots!
After all, at the last 'referendum' they scotched it!
'Oh my little darling can't see through the windscreen of my 4*4 with her sunglasses on in the dark & in the rain to see her poor wee f*****g friends walking to school.
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Been on the electric soup, Tel?
;D
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I'm just glad I wasn't working nights last night........ ;)
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Hey, clock change is the start of party season.
This Tue its Diwali;
Then Halloween on Firday;
Next week its bonfire night.
Then there's the championship 'who can have the most garish outdoor decorations in the street'.
Not forgetting the 'Who can fit the most boxes of mince pies into the cupboard in case the shops sell out'.
And the 'see who can have the highest number of overflowing trolleys in Tesco/Adsa/Sainsburys' even though the shops are only closed for nearly two and half days.
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In my opinion for what it's worth it's just plain daft changing the clocks.
From now on it'll be dark when I get up and go to work and dark when I come home. I reckon in the depths of winter it gets light here about 9am and dark again at 3.00-3.30 so children go to school in the dark and come home in the dark except for the very youngest.
In the summer it's light when I get up and light when I go to bed. The birds are singing by 3am. You can sit outside with no artificial light at 11pm or even later.
The further south you go the less difference there is between the two.
So why? ::) ::)
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I do hate the clock change - would rather eke out the daylight in the evenings, than in the mornings, when I'm either asleep, or in a zombie-state where I would barely notice the difference. (Mornings are not, and never have been, my strong point...)
There are things I like about the winter - and I do hope our chimney is OK in the new house so we can have coal fires, will be lovely! But I *hate* being cold, and then I get too over-heated with the heating on; whereas, in the summer, I seem to be magically the right temperature all the time. I'm not a big fan of Christmas, the over-long buildup period drives me nuts, and all the Christmas stuff in the shops already - it's OCTOBER!! And perfume ads on the TV already, and all that nonsense... sigh... On the other hand, I like going through the seasons and would find a tropical climate monotonous, I think.
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An hour ago I was reminded that children's internal clocks take a bit longer to change than the one on the wall... ::)
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Got to go and close our holiday caravan up for the winter today.
This is always a sad day for me and marks the oncoming of winter. :'(