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Not just Labs, WN - this one's as greedy as any Labrador and would eat all day if I let her. I can guarantee that I will be getting the 'stare' from those big brown eyes at 3.30 this afternoon.
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It's playing havoc with my circadian rhythms.
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It's probably just me but why is it so difficult to align the wall hook with the right bit at the back of the the clock?
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We would not need this malarky of changing clocks if people would just get up earlier when there is more daylight.
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Enjoy your glow of smugness
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I'm surprised your cars don't automatically reset themselves? Ours do.
What about any clocks in the caravan?
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Our qashqai alters automatically BUT it does have a habit of being an hour out sometimes! Most annoying and ocassionally causes a panic 😱
Automatic changing is great but we still have to do 4 clocks to do plus watches. Don't bother with microwave but do with the cooker.
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Deep joy😁 Our new CH unit has automated change. It was always the fiddly one.
Dog needs resetting though........
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Ignore him CS. I struggle sometimes too.
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Hope he's ok now, Robsail. I would think it is a coincidence if he didn't have one when the clocks went back in the autumn.
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I was actually thinking of primary/junior school children. I see lots of secondary pupils walking home in groups too in the afternoon, but there are still many cars parked around waiting to pick up some of them.
However as this is far from the OP I guess it's best left as the last comment from me on the subject.
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It depends where in the UK you live.
Here in Scotland it is almost dark for them to go to school in the mornings and almost dark for them coming home.
If you live in a rural area the children have to set out earlier to get to school on time, not all children get lifts in. Our village has buses to take the older ones to school but its not unusual for them to have to walk a mile or more with no pavements to get to the bus stop.
The younger ones go to the primary school in the village, again the majority of them walk to school.
When OH was working he had an hours drive each way, in winter he left in the dark and got home in the dark. If he didn't go out for a walk at lunchtime he never saw daylight during the week.
I wouldn't like to not change the clocks, it doesn't matter to me as I rarely get up before 9am and I think I can count on one hand (and have spare fingers left) how many times it is warm enough to sit out in the evening past 8pm.
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I find it so puzzling, you look at the wall hook, look at the hook receiver bit think you have them lined up, it should be so easy but it takes me a few attempts!0
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Personally I would like to see the changing of clocks done away with. However if that is not possible I think they should seriously think about the time they are changed for. Somewhere in the region of 1st December to the end of February?
David
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Best wishes from us as well RS, hope he is ok.
Winter work days always seemed longer and harder somehow. Barely light as you left for work, dark when you came home some days. I was always fortunate enough never to work more than three miles from home until the last few years of my working life, it stretched to five miles in the later years. But I can recall school mornings barely light in Winter, and nearly dark as you headed home at 4pm. We never had a car as a child, so it was a bus ride or walk.
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I used to hate the dark nights in winter when at school because I had to catch a bus and spend the fare instead of walking the 3 miles and pocketting it.
Mind you my mother always knew as my shoes wore out more in summer. Mothers generally knew more than you thought they did.
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Same here, I usually walked to school in Summer. Mind, my school day seldom finished a 4pm, every evening bar Friday was sports practice😁Hockey, Netball, Lacrosse in Winter, Athletics, Tennis, Rounders and occasionally Cricket in Summer. Some evenings I went straight from school to our local Harriers Club..........kept me out of mischief😁 Saturday morning fixtures as well. I was never bored as a teenager, never had the time😂
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