The clocks go back...

Owl-Light · #1 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 06:36 PM

...this Sunday (29th October ).

Can't believe it's that time already!

Boddie · #2 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 06:59 PM

Crikey, I am glad you told me. I have a Christening on Sunday

nightshade · #3 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 07:32 PM

I have the day off ,phew!

John · #4 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 07:54 PM

I will be in Norfolk and sleeping in my car Saturday night. I just hope I remember to change my watch as I will be meeting a few others Sunday morning.

John

jennyb · #5 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by John

I will be in Norfolk and sleeping in my car Saturday night. I just hope I remember to change my watch as I will be meeting a few others Sunday morning.

John

I am looking forward to an extra hour in bed. However, you probably won't appreciate the extra hour sleeping in your car, John!

I hate winter especially the darkness

Jenny

John · #6 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by jennyb

I am looking forward to an extra hour in bed. However, you probably won't appreciate the extra hour sleeping in your car, John!

I will as it means I get to start birding an hour earlier. unfortunately it also means I stop birding at 5 instead of 6pm.

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Originally Posted by jennyb

I hate winter especially the darkness

Jenny

It has its compensations, especially in places like Norfolk. Cold crisp mornings. Wintering Geese and wildfowl and in your own garden many feeding birds, some of them winter specialists like Brambling and Siskin with the odd Redpoll thrown in for luck.

John

eeyore · #7 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 09:07 PM

i thought the clocks went back sunday as in sunday night , not saturday night

Garden Carpet · #8 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by eeyore

i thought the clocks went back sunday as in sunday night , not saturday night

I think the change is made at about 2am sunday morning.. most folk refer to it as being saturday night. Could easily be wrong eeyore.
Jaki

wildone · #9 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 09:17 PM

Eeyore they usually go back at 2am on the Sunday morning. The same in the spring they go forward at 2 am on the Sunday.

Lincs Yellowbelly · #10 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 09:18 PM

I hate the clocks going back, its really depressing when it gets dark at 3-30

its about tme it got changed

eeyore · #11 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 09:20 PM

so what your saying is that when i come in from a night out on the town on saturday night / sunday morning I need to alter my clock -

sounds a bit technical to me

so which way does it go - in terms a donkey can understand , say the clock is reading 2am do i alter it to 3am or 1am - it don take a lot to confuddle me

PMG · #12 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 09:21 PM

You'll be in for a surprise Eeyore if you wait till Sunday night to change your clock!!!! Talking of redpolls and siskins - I've seen and heard both species today at work - Leigh Lancs - and noticed a female goosander yesterday . . . winter is coming even if it doesn't feel like it yet. The biggest surprise for me was seeing at least 7 or 8 bramblings feeding in a solitary rowan tree in the Trough of Bowland, Lancs last Sat 21st - I've never seen so many together before and hadn't expected to see them plucking rowan berries off the tree!

Pauline

PMG · #13 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 09:24 PM

I remember it this way - you gain an extra hour in autumn and lose an hour in spring - so at 2am you would set it back to 1am this weekend Eeyore and in spring at 2am you would wind it on to 3am - sounds easy just now - but could be a problem after the amber nectar?!!!!

Pauline

wildone · #14 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 09:28 PM

2am will become 1am Sunday morning. However should you decide on an early night you could alter the clocks at say 10pm to be 9pm on Saturday. It means that this time round you get an extra hour of night, (I will not suggest sleep)

Garden Carpet · #15 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 09:28 PM

spring forward, fall backward...easy, even after the A.N. lol

speckled wood · #16 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by PMG

I remember it this way - you gain an extra hour in autumn and lose an hour in spring - so at 2am you would set it back to 1am this weekend Eeyore and in spring at 2am you would wind it on to 3am - sounds easy just now - but could be a problem after the amber nectar?!!!!

Pauline

Very good but where do I take my clocks back to?

eeyore · #17 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by PMG

I remember it this way - you gain an extra hour in autumn and lose an hour in spring - so at 2am you would set it back to 1am this weekend Eeyore and in spring at 2am you would wind it on to 3am - sounds easy just now - but could be a problem after the amber nectar?!!!!

Pauline

heres a plan - change it before i go out

does this mean the club (which has a 2am licence) will stay open for an extra hour - result

cherrybee · #18 (**permalink**) 24-10-2006, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by eeyore

heres a plan - change it before i go out

does this mean the club (which has a 2am licence) will stay open for an extra hour - result

you'll be lucky hehehe

Wild-Woman · #19 (**permalink**) 25-10-2006, 05:12 AM

Trouble is my body clock is programmed to waking up at 5am. Now I'll be waking up at 4!

Urgh!

henrya · #20 (**permalink**) 25-10-2006, 11:30 AM

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spring forward, fall backward...easy, even after the A.N. lol
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Lots of people say that, but I've never understood why it's supposed to be more memorable than spring backward, fall forward, especially considering the number of branches that spring back at you when you're out with a group, or the way you fall forward when you trip over a hidden bramble. Am I missing something?

henrya

Wild-Woman · #21 (**permalink**) 25-10-2006, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by henrya

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spring forward, fall backward...easy, even after the A.N. lol
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Lots of people say that, but I've never understood why it's supposed to be more memorable than spring backward, fall forward, especially considering the number of branches that spring back at you when you're out with a group, or the way you fall forward when you trip over a hidden bramble. Am I missing something?

henrya

Now if you were a crab Henrya that would be even more confusing for you.Sideways sideways.

Susie · #22 (**permalink**) 25-10-2006, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by henrya

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spring forward, fall backward...easy, even after the A.N. lol
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Lots of people say that, but I've never understood why it's supposed to be more memorable than spring backward, fall forward, especially considering the number of branches that spring back at you when you're out with a group, or the way you fall forward when you trip over a hidden bramble. Am I missing something?

henrya

Arrrgghhh! Don't confuse me - I had it all nice and tidy in my mind "spring forwards, fall backwards" and then you come along and ......

I tried pursuading the management in a nightclub once that I was in law entitled to another hour but for some reason they didn't accept my point of view. lol

I just wish they would leave the clock alone, I don't see that it is relevant in this age to muck about with it.

henrya · #23 (**permalink**) 25-10-2006, 01:05 PM

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Don't confuse me
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Susie, just as well I didn't point out that 'fall forwards' is more memorable because the two 'f's go together!

henrya

Rainbowmum · #24 (**permalink**) 26-10-2006, 09:01 AM

I can't believe it is that time of year already. For some reason even though the dark seems to come so quickly right now. My body tells me it's time for sleep just because it's dark even though it mayl only be 7pm!
I have never really understood why we bother moving the clocks around like this. Anyone care to enlighten me?
Louise x

Tormentil · #25 (**permalink**) 26-10-2006, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Lincs Yellowbelly

I hate the clocks going back, its really depressing when it gets dark at 3-30

its about tme it got changed

This was tried many years ago. There was a hue & cry about kids going to school in the dark and other sundry objections, especially from people in Northern England and Scotland.