Woo-hoo, the clocks go back to GMT this weekend!

Yeah... yeah. When I was a touch younger, I liked the shorter days (for reasons unknown, probably being a bedroom-dweller :D), but older me likes the warmth and the longer days.

...although I don't mind a crisp autumn walk, just with more than three hours of daylight a day.
 
Chris Wilson said:
I actually did that a few years ago, but they were little things you put on a split ring on their collars. They worked well for a few weeks, then one dog was missing a device the next night, when I came to turn (twist) it on. They had hearing aid batteries in them, and I think they have mercury in them. I was a bit worried so rang the vet, who I know well, at home. He just laughed and said there was no way he was going back into work and x raying all the seven dogs we had then, and that I should just look for a flashing turd the next evening.... I took the rest of the things off and never did see a twinkleturd. None ever got ill, so God knows where it went.

Thanks for the idea and link, they do look good, but as you say, a bit pricey. Some might rightly say they need training better, but some are rescues and some disobedience is, to coin a popular phrase, "baked in".
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Keep the labour party out of this thread ;)
 
As anyone who works outside knows this time of year is hateful you lose an hours daylight and by december it'll be getting too dark to work by 4pm. Blergh.

mrk said:
Nope, this change may well be the last because: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/clocks-change-uk-2020-daylight-saving-time
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You may have noticed because people may have mentioned this around here once or twice already we aren't in the EU anymore and we ain't gonna be electing to use them commie EU laws no more round these parts, no siree. This govt are not going to be adopting any more EU laws its going to be shedding them more likely.
 
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Blackjack Davy said:
As anyone who works outside knows this time of year is hateful you lose an hours daylight and by december it'll be getting too dark to work by 4pm. Blergh.



You may have noticed because people may have mentioned this around here once or twice already we aren't in the EU anymore and we ain't gonna be electing to use them commie EU laws no more round these parts, no siree. This govt are not going to be adopting any more EU laws its going to be shedding them more likely.
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Thanks for the info.
 
We get this thread twice a year. In March, @Lysander and myself are in the same camp in that we don't like the lighter nights, the noise etc, then the imminent Summer heat. Everyone else in the March thread are cooing happily.

Then in the October thread, the opposite happens, where nearly everyone moans about the darker nights and chilly weather. The minority that are vampires and warlocks like myself are happy that we can finally come out to play once again.
 
Worthy said:
Yeah... yeah. When I was a touch younger, I liked the shorter days (for reasons unknown, probably being a bedroom-dweller :D), but older me likes the warmth and the longer days.

...although I don't mind a crisp autumn walk, just with more than three hours of daylight a day.
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What sunlight there is now is horribly weak watery sunlight and it starts to slowly fade around 3pm.
 
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