28 October 2006

The longest day

Early tomorrow morning the clocks go back an hour making Sunday the longest day, at twenty five hours, the longest day of the year. So it's time for my annual whinge. Allegedly the change is to provide light in the morning which it does for about three weeks and then it's dark in the morning and the evening. The other rationalisation, generally from the agricultural community, is that changing to European time will upset the cows. Somehow, I think, they will get over it.

So why do we bother? Portugal is west of England but they are on European time so why not us?

Well it won't change this year so tomorrow at five PM it will be dark and depressing. Is this worth it so that it is light at half seven in the morning for a few weeks? I think not.

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