Spring forward, Fall back
Tonight is the night when officially the clocks turn back. British Summer Time ends and Greenwich Mean Time begins again. Turning the clocks back is good it means gaining an extra hour.
Most people look forward to this extra hour as it means an extra sixty minutes in bed. For me this seems like a bit of a waste of the gained time. A whole extra hour...why waste it sleeping?
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How to use this extra hour...that is the question?
Of course one could stay up for an hour later than normal, watching a film, perhaps playing Yahtzee or drinking wine and staring at the moon.
Or one could get up an hour early and spend it making a nice breakfast, drinking coffee and reading the Sunday paper, or perhaps a brisk walk in the woods.
Most probably across the country the majority of people will spend the hour changing the various clocks in their houses to ensure that they are all reading the correct time. Changing clock times is not as easy as it sounds. I have had a quick look round my house and I have found; 3 bedside digital clock radios, 5 watches, two mantelpiece clocks, bathroom radio, wall clock, two digital clocks in the cars, microwave, cooker and central heating controls. I'm not really sure how do many of them. I might even have to refer to manuals!
Luckily phones, iPads and computers seem to do this themselves.
So by the time these have all been changed that extra hour is looking a little short.
However good that extra hour might be it surely is depressing to find it getting dark at half past five in the evening.
Batten down the hatches everyone. Winter is upon us!
Most people look forward to this extra hour as it means an extra sixty minutes in bed. For me this seems like a bit of a waste of the gained time. A whole extra hour...why waste it sleeping?
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/images/products/pugg-wall-clock__13080_PE040801_S4.jpg
How to use this extra hour...that is the question?
Of course one could stay up for an hour later than normal, watching a film, perhaps playing Yahtzee or drinking wine and staring at the moon.
Or one could get up an hour early and spend it making a nice breakfast, drinking coffee and reading the Sunday paper, or perhaps a brisk walk in the woods.
Most probably across the country the majority of people will spend the hour changing the various clocks in their houses to ensure that they are all reading the correct time. Changing clock times is not as easy as it sounds. I have had a quick look round my house and I have found; 3 bedside digital clock radios, 5 watches, two mantelpiece clocks, bathroom radio, wall clock, two digital clocks in the cars, microwave, cooker and central heating controls. I'm not really sure how do many of them. I might even have to refer to manuals!
Luckily phones, iPads and computers seem to do this themselves.
So by the time these have all been changed that extra hour is looking a little short.
However good that extra hour might be it surely is depressing to find it getting dark at half past five in the evening.
Batten down the hatches everyone. Winter is upon us!
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