Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Martin Baxendale]

David you can always get out an hour earlier mornings

Derek

Spoken like a true masochist. 

[Lvandelft]

David you can always get out an hour earlier mornings

Derek

Derek, those young gardeners need their beautysleep in the morning 

[David Nicholson]

Too right they do, I gave up 'earlies' on the day I retired and these days, having read the paper over a leisurely breakfast, and had a nice leisurely shower, I'm usually seen in the vicinity of the greenhouse around 1000 hours before a break for coffee and biscuits at 1115. As I've said many times, retirement's a wonderful institution; the money's not as good, but boy oh boy the hours take some beating

[ranunculus]

I too gave up 'earlies' on the day I retired David ... I now lie in until 6.10am EVERY morning without fail!

[David Nicholson]

Cliff, I'm a couple of hours later than you-do you have trouble sleeping?

[Lesley Cox]

So that means we're now THIRTEEN hours ahead of you lot, and the Aussies are ELEVEN.

[Anthony Darby]

Why do we in the UK continue this archane practice of putting back the clocks by one hour earlier today-what on earth does it acheive? Apart from, that is, the odd day I'm able to get out in the garden I have to pack up at 1630 or earlier

It's so my kids don't have to go to school in the dark!

[David Nicholson]

OK Anthony, I can accept that. So, let me amend, slightly, my original assertion. Why do we in England continue this archane practice...........................?

[Maggi Young]

Why do we in the UK continue this archane practice of putting back the clocks by one hour earlier today-what on earth does it acheive? Apart from, that is, the odd day I'm able to get out in the garden I have to pack up at 1630 or earlier

It's so my kids don't have to go to school in the dark!

But the children still have to come home in the dark through winter... what's the difference... in most of Scotland it is dark at both ends of the school day in winter.....I wonder the kids aren't evolving to be born with headlamps on....( which is, of course, why famers wear such large caps.....

[mark smyth]

Do you think our emerging bulbs are enjoying the brighter mornings?

[Anthony Darby]

But the children still have to come home in the dark through winter... what's the difference... in most of Scotland it is dark at both ends of the school day in winter.....I wonder the kids aren't evolving to be born with headlamps on....( which is, of course, why famers wear such large caps.....

Ah, but they come home at an earlier time than the rushhour traffic, unlike in the morning.

[Maggi Young]

Ah, but they come home at an earlier time than the rushhour traffic, unlike in the morning.

Well, yes, I do see that if they walk  ..... but  with the number of kids being driven to school around here, the bulk of the traffic is the schoolrun anyway.... masses of Mum's with chelsea tractors
When school hols are on, roads are amazingly quiet. 

[Anthony Darby]

Today, for the first time, James accepted a lift to school from Vivienne! Normally he walks or cycles the two miles. Unless he has something on after school, he walks home. I find it bizarr the number of primary school kids, who can have no more than a mile to walk, get lifts. At least in Dunblane, unless your kids are nice but dim and go to private school to keep them away from the hoi polloi, there is only one secondary school.

[Michael J Campbell]

There is a play school a few doors down from where I live. One morning my son was coming to visit and he saw a woman put a child in a 4 x 4 and driving it two doors down to the play school. Just 35 yards. He was shocked,but I wasn't

[Lesley Cox]

The rationale for driving modern kids to school, even very short distances, is that if they have to walk or cycle on their own, they're certain to be molested/kidnapped by the millions of nasty people who live or prowl in the neighbourhood.

I walked when very young, about 2 miles then cycled when old enough. My mother walked two miles from the age of 6 then rowed a boat across a river then walked more miles to get to her school but that was back in the 1914-1920 period. Then she went off to boarding school and lived in.

Re daylight saving, I know an elderly lady who each year, as DS starts, says "more sunshine for the dear flowers."