#clock changes

November Darkness

Now that the clocks have changed (they did so here on the 23rd of October), it is worth remembering how EARLY it gets dark in the UK.

Fic writers beware! London's latitude is 51°30′ N, further north than all of the USA apart from Alaska.

Today, the sun will set in London before four-thirty. By the end of the month, it will be before four p.m. So twilight begins about 3:30, and darkness falls quickly once the sun sets.

Calls to Abandon Daylight Saving Time Grow Among European Lawmakers This weekend, as the clocks across Europe fall back an hour, a coalition of 67 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) is advocating for the abolition of this longstanding practice. Lawmakers are expressing serious concerns about the “outdated” effects of clock changes on sleep patterns, traffic safety, and even heart attack…

Orphaned Oracle (c) Karen Sealey 2020 This morning got off to a miserable start. The clocks shifting forwards from GMT to BST always leaves me feeling churlish, a feeling not improved by a lazy wind, the kind of wind that cuts through you rather than go around you, that made 10°C feel like 2°C at best. My first batch of passengers arrived silent and attempting to rub sleep from their eyes before…

Here too, and I know that also in Italy, so I'm guessing a big bunch of Europe is having a party tonight! Or going to sleep now cause back to work tomorrow :(

OhEmGee!

I was up all night last night! I got maybe an hour and a half of sleep! I had to work at 7am this morning and I didn't want to be late so I stayed up to make sure that the clock on my phone would change - and when it did I spent another hour just trying to figure out if it was the right damn time! So come work I was so dang tired! Turns out one of the staff members was an hour late today cause she didn't know that the clocks went back - can you say "put out a memo work?" 

So again I was working by my self! Which was kind of in a way hectic - but not excessively - despite being tired. The one client has OCD and just kept slamming the door all morning - didn't even get dressed and when this person did want to get dressed - well let's just say my shift was done at three and this person still wasn't dress - this person was STUCK! Poor Gaffer! Oh well - not my problem anymore. I did happen to get out though and walk to the store - it was absolutely lovely out! It was a great walk - no matter the shortness of it.

Again - not going to BASICS tomorrow cause of this STUPID DAMNED COLD! I solemnly swear to go on Friday! Sick or Not!