It takes me ages to get used to changing the clocks.
Keep thinking I should start my evening routine and it is too early........... ???
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.
I don't like it one bit! :-\ Watching through the window seeing the light slip away from about 4.30 onwards is miserable methinks.
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
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...
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
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
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!
I quite like the feeling of slowing up in winter and being indoors all cosy during the colder darker months ~ ITS WINTER!! enjoy!!
Duke :)
noooooooooo
I like the chestnuts roasting on an open fire bit around christmas.......but that is.......it :( ???
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!
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?
when did this habit start and why? I hate these dark nights :o :o
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
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
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
Thanks for that Ninnyscrops, at least now I no the why.
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?
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. ;)