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My problem is !!!!!!!!!! I will still wake tomorrow at 5am but it will only be 4 am!!!!  Make any difference???? YES - be totally knackered one hour earlier tomorrow evening!!!!!!!!!!

For those of you who are able to enjoy a long lie in - ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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[quote user="raindog"][quote user="Chris Head"]

Me too raindog; I kinda find the dark quite comforting.

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those long winter nights in front of an open fire roasting chestnuts - what could be better?

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Long summer nights out on the terrace!
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Yeah...why not Zeb! The Norwegians have a saying "There's no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing".

I so often hear people moaning about the weather and the seasons, I believe it affects the way people think & feel more than they know? Learning how to change and adapt to the varying climates we experience in this part of the world could change the way people live their lives and perhaps even feel about themselves?

Take winter...OK it's going to be dark and cold for the next few months, I wonder how many folk will just be "treading water" and waiting for the spring to arrive until they can properly venture outside again?

I personally have spent all my working life outside (and a wrinkled up face at 42 to prove it!), even working in a barn it can often be colder inside than out (that reminds me, heating specialists check out renovations section please) but the bills don't wait for warm weather so life & work goes on....preparing & equipping in advance both mentally and with good clothing helps life go on. 

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Winter !........You cold weather lovers can have it ......after years of standing on a station platform waiting for the 0519 .....yes  0519 to London and watching the sparks off the frosted  live rail from about two mikes away.... and wishing the warm carriages would get to you faster ....stuff the winter ! 
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This may be a daft question, but I thought Europe (incl. France) and UK changed their clocks at the same time these days.  Has the UK changed back to GMT.  My PC (in France) changed time automatically overnight and I had to do watches etc. by hand.  However, switched on my TV with Sky (i.e. as in the UK) and the time on that was still BST (i.e. now the same as in France).  Wondered if it was a slower update but no, the programs being broadcast are as per BST (i.e. the program I was watching started at 14:00 and in France it is currently 14:25).

I remember there used to be a week difference between changing clocks (so Europe and UK were on teh same time for a week) but I thought that had been got rid of these days.

Am I going mad, or have I missed something ?

Ian
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[quote user="LyndaandRichard"]After spending 8 years in sunny Queensland where every day is sunshine and it gets dark every day between 5pm and 6pm, coming back to the northern hemisphere makes me really appreciate the seasons now. Change is good.

R.

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I second that, every day sunshine gets very very boring after a while.

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[quote user="LyndaandRichard"]After spending 8 years in sunny Queensland where every day is sunshine and it gets dark every day between 5pm and 6pm, coming back to the northern hemisphere makes me really appreciate the seasons now. Change is good.

R.

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Exactly - I'd go barking mad living somewhere where it was sunny with blue sky everyday.

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[quote user="Deimos"]This may be a daft question, but I thought Europe (incl. France) and UK changed their clocks at the same time these days.  Has the UK changed back to GMT.  My PC (in France) changed time automatically overnight and I had to do watches etc. by hand.  However, switched on my TV with Sky (i.e. as in the UK) and the time on that was still BST (i.e. now the same as in France).  Wondered if it was a slower update but no, the programs being broadcast are as per BST (i.e. the program I was watching started at 14:00 and in France it is currently 14:25).

I remember there used to be a week difference between changing clocks (so Europe and UK were on teh same time for a week) but I thought that had been got rid of these days.

Am I going mad, or have I missed something ?

Ian[/quote]

What was the channel Ian?

I have some recollection of being confused by the Sky EPG as some programmes like Eurosport were on CET.

Its Monday 10am and I thought it was 11am!

Last year was embarrasing when I visited a friend on the Sunday at what I thought was the socially acceptable time of 11.30 only to find that they were about to eat, I got a surprise lunch, they got to eat smaller portions and I still did not work it out till the Monday[:D]

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