Well that's it then!

Clocks go back this weekend so it'll be dark when I get home from work so anything that's got to be done in the garden will have to wait till weekend.
Mid-march before it stays light till a reasonable time, depressing isn't it!!!

 

How about working by t'parish lantern?

 

Get up earlier in the morning? Good for a few weeks after this weekend to get some tidying, pruning and putting the garden to bed still.

 

Blimey SG, what time do you get up mate.

 

I'm up by 6.30am, even weekends. Having chickens that need letting out and feeding means early rising most mornings. And if it's daylight and not raining, a chance to have a potter round the garden.

 

Oh not to late then, surely its still dark then even once the clocks go back.

 

I'll check it out and report back on Sunday morning:D

Mind you, this morning I pottered up the garden at 7.30am to let the chickens out and was confronted by several beady eyes glaring at me from the perch - they had decided it was still dark and they were having a 'lie in'!

I'm a creature of the light - I need sunshine and proper daylight. This winter and the clocks going back don't do me any favours. Roll on Spring.

 

Yeah. The dark evenings are awful:( I used to work in a factory and never saw daylight apart from the weekends. No wonder that SAD is so prevalent. I'm old enough to remember (back in the '60's) when we didn't put the clocks back for one year, we could actually "play out" when we got back from school, great.:gnthb:. Apparently we don't do it anymore because it upsets the Scots farmers cows. Or somesuch. As they have their own parliament they should be able to sort that out for themselves. Let's have the lighter evenings.

 

I'm a creature of habit. I set my alarm "really early," 8.00am on the three days a week I play golf.
The rest of the time I get up between 9.00 and 10.00 am. I might wake up earlier, but I'll turn over and go back to sleep until then. But then we don't go to bed any earlier than 1.30am. and sometimes not until gone 2.00am.
I had a working lifetime of getting up at 6.30am. and sometimes earlier. Glad that's well behind me now.

 

You'd think they would be pleased to not put the clocks back-they must have terrible trouble resetting their watches.:dh:

 

Haven't we already got another thread on this same subject somewhere else on the boards?

It is a l,oad of rubbish saying that it will mess up the Scottish farmers because if they are anything like the English farmers they will all have headlights on their tractors so they can carry on working in the dark.:yez:Even in the summer down here in England we see and hear the farmers working on the land well past 10 o'clock as they don't like to miss out on harvesting the crops and getting the next lot of seed sown.

I think it was Shiney who said on the other thread that most of the kids these days have their parents driving them to and from school so they don'teven have to worry about the darkness

I am like you Cajary I spent many years working in the factories where the windows were up in the roof and the only door to the outside world was only open on odd occasions in the winter months.I used to start at 6am and worked until 6pm so I went to and from work in the dark and didn't even know what the weather was doing/had done until I set foot outside of the building.:(

I always suffer in the winter months with sad symptoms and already have my bright light ready for when it gets here:D

I think the galring low winter sun and the twilight time causes more accidents on the roads than the actual darkness:yez:

 

Ten years ago, in the last days before local kids decided having a paper round was too arduous, beneath their dignity, or they didn't need the money because their parents provided them with plenty, our paper girl was transported around her "round" by her father in his car.

 

My paper was delived by Audi today, the driver placed the paper in my hand, his kid in the passenger seat passed it to him.:D
Another boss in the making, I guess.

I find it very strange that nobody suffered from S A D, 20yrs ago, I'm sure the winter days are no shorter now.
I do remember wishing for spring though.:wink:

 

Funnily enough loli just today wired up the greenhouse so I have a little lantern light...and heat and a really useful beer fridge.