START OF BST- CLOCKS FORWARD.

[Cleoriff]

Tomorrow at 1am sees the start of British Summer Time. This means we have to put our clocks FORWARD an hour. An hour less in bed! 😂

Lighter nights ...thankfully.

Best of luck remembering. 😊

[pgn]

Again. On Saturday night. You get your hour back. Minus interest, of course - if Time is Money, why does Inflation not apply?

If I had to choose one of these annual time-warping events, I'd take the October "blip" - here's why: Each of us gets the opportunity, once a year, to re-live an hour of our lives - and the powers-that-be make us wait until 02:00 to do it!

Why couldn't the hour go back when I was enjoying a particularly good moment in my life, and I'd get to go through it all again, in the style of Groundhog Day. Or give me a chance to rectify that particularly bad choice of words I used with so-and-so in the pub, I'm sure I'd get it right the second time around. No, they have to go change it at some ungodly hour when I am too far out of it to notice.

The hour going back wreaks havoc with the central heating, your PC tells you that "Windows has auto-adjusted your clock, is that ok?", and the bread you put into the machine to be ready at 9am is now a sweaty lump instead of a crusty cob. Worse yet, that late-night bit of phwoooar TV program you thought you'd set the video to record from 00:45 until 02:15 has half-recorded and then caught 45mins of "get your ringtones here" adverts, or similar (!), if anything.

How do factories handle it? Automated production lines churning out dongles that have to be baked for exactly 98.25mins - which have had their cooking-time extended by an hour as 01:59:59 came and madly reset the thing back to 01:00:00...

What about hole-in-the-wall cash machines/auto-tellers? I wonder if I withdraw £20.00 at 01:30 in old currency, can I go back to the same machine and withdraw another £10.00 an hour later at 01:30 and only get £10.00 deducted from my account?

Ah well. Whatever. Remember, though!

[Enlli]

@pgn Now there's a good 'Victor Meldrew' post.1😉

At least now the only clock I have to struggle with is on the cooker, not like in the past when I was always bound to miss one of the clocks in the house.

[Cleoriff]

I have to do the cooker and microwave.

I wonder if the FIA remembered this, when they gave out the times for the F1 race calendar?

Mexico this weekend which is a late race start in the UK.

Mind you, it will only effect the race start...so I'll make sure I watch pre race gumph (and hear for the millionth time how Lewis Hamilton lost his 2nd position in the US GP, due to a technical infringement on his car!!)

LH (Plank checks) Pfffttt. 😂

[TallTrees]

THANK YOU @Cleoriff 

Good news onward to Spring

Like the clock springing 

[Cleoriff]

Sadly @TallTrees , the clocks go back. Lighter mornings and darker nights.

I always remember it by the old saying:

Spring Forward

Fall Back....😉

[TallTrees]

True @Cleoriff 

I am not a fan of darker nights.  

Although I am an early bird the some of the early light is a bit early!

[TallTrees]

I have a sympathy with you there @pgn 

[Mi-Amigo]

Thanks for the reminder folks.

If it`s like last year I`ll be up earlier than normal and looking out to see if my carer had remembered to put her clock back and will arrive at usual time....