HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE CLOCKS GOING BACK?

We went to stay with some friends who had a smallholding in Wales. They had three dogs and seven cats - apart from all the animals outside. During the night the dogs had the lounge and we were told not to go downstairs when it was dark. We were only allowed to use the upstairs toilet.

The cats lived in the spare bedroom, which we were given. They didn't approved and tried to remove the door from the wall! They got locked in the kitchen.

We stayed there two nights and it was very cold. They told us it takes 12 hours for their boiler to heat up enough to warm the room so hadn't bothered to do so.

Needless to say, we turned down future invitations to stay with them.

 

Small rocks in the sea and booze don't count in the blame game.

 

It does tend to get complicated calculating things when travelling. Especially when you come to half hour time zones or when a country can't decide what time zone they want to be in. Back to the end of WWII Ceylon changed to a half hour time zone and then in early 1996 changed it to having a daylight saving system and changed it by an hour. Later that year they changed it by another half an hour .

Chatham Islands (New Zealand) decided they wanted to be different and added 45 minutes to it. They didn't care what the law said. The law was amended later on to let them do it.

An interesting read is A Pattern of Islands by Sir Arthur Grimble (written about 100 years ago) where the International Date Line used to run through the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (British). It's a true account of when he worked on the islands and became Resident Commissioner.

As, in those days, bars were not allowed to open on Sundays but because the islands were in different time zones they had different days. So they could go across to the other side of the dateline and avoid Sundays completely. They were made up of very many island stretched across the South Pacific and are part of the two independent countries of Kiribati and Tuvalu.

 

I completely forgot and so did the cat, now I have an extra hour but Misty won't wait for her breakfast.