C
c1973
Guest
It's only a problem in Spring anyway......I mean we've all just scored an extra hour in our kip this morning, what's the problem, life's good. 
Clocks go back to GMT tonight!
- Thread starter delc
- Start date
G
guest100718
Guest
does anyone in this thread actually have children? With after school clubs and stuff they ae usually waling home in the dark anyway and as for playing outside.. i think you are imagining childhoods that didnt really exist cos when it was cold and dark we didnt go out much as kids.
Qwerty
Tour Winner
Why? I was out every night from the age of about 8 and so were most of the local kids. I think if one of my mates said he wasn't coming out because it was cold and Dark I'd still be laughing now.
C
c1973
Guest
I was playing outside in all weather, hated being indoors (unless I was reading something at the time) I vividly recall playing football in the snow, blinding rain.....all sorts of weather. As long as you were wrapped up and in sight. Played outside with around 20 odd kids, albeit it was in a road with a dead end, so no through traffic (not many cars either as I recall) and playing fields across from the houses. A quiet street with the exception of us lot.
Maybe you weren't out much as a kid, but I know I was.
C
c1973
Guest
G
guest100718
Guest
like i said, imaginary chilhoods.
D
Deleted member 15344
Guest
I was playing outside in all weather, hated being indoors (unless I was reading something at the time) I vividly recall playing football in the snow, blinding rain.....all sorts of weather. As long as you were wrapped up and in sight. Played outside with around 20 odd kids, albeit it was in a road with a dead end, so no through traffic (not many cars either as I recall) and playing fields across from the houses. A quiet street with the exception of us lot.
Maybe you weren't out much as a kid, but I know I was.
yep out every night after school and all weekend long - used to have to get dragged back inside for dinner etc
I was playing outside in all weather, hated being indoors (unless I was reading something at the time) I vividly recall playing football in the snow, blinding rain.....all sorts of weather. As long as you were wrapped up and in sight. Played outside with around 20 odd kids, albeit it was in a road with a dead end, so no through traffic (not many cars either as I recall) and playing fields across from the houses. A quiet street with the exception of us lot.
Maybe you weren't out much as a kid, but I know I was.
times and lifestyle has changed- that's ...erm... life.
please don't start telling us there was 150 of you living in shoe box in middle of road, Cardboard box? "Luxury"
"It's him, mommy, it's him again. He has taken more than his fair share of the coat." "What are you talking about, coat. There's no coat in there. I don't know, she has a fertile imagination, father. The coats are all in the cloakroom." They're in the kitchen. Bloody cloakroom. She thinks it a dancehall, she's in. "The coats are in the cloakroom, and well you know it. Down on the mezzanine floor. Near the lunchenette, next to the breakfast bar. It's an eiderdown, you stupid girl. Coat, ha, ha, ha, I don't know where they get it. She must have thought it was one of them duvet jackets. Eiderdown! You were saying, father... what were you saying about God, there, father? What was that? All right, enough. Here, have another custard creme, that's right. Oh, you don't say." Bedlam, bedlam, bedlam. "Will you stop that, in there! I won't tell you... I won't tell you again." "It's him, mommy, it's him again." "What's his doing this time?" "He is shoving his legs through the sleeves of the eiderdown."
Problem is that it tends to be colder in the morning and people have to make breakfast and get ready to go to work (which can be done in the dark as long as you have artificial lighting). Evenings are generally warmer and you are less likely to have time restraints. Therefore lighter evenings are more valuable to most people than lighter mornings.
D
Deleted member 15344
Guest
Problem is that it tends to be colder in the morning and people have to make breakfast and get ready to go to work (which can be done in the dark as long as you have artificial lighting). Evenings are generally warmer and you are less likely to have time restraints. Therefore lighter evenings are more valuable to most people than lighter mornings.
What exactly are you going to be able to achieve in the extra half hour of sunlight in the evening ?
Play a few holes of golf perhaps!
P.S. if we stayed on BST it would be a full extra hour of sunlight btw!
Last edited:
D
Deleted member 15344
Guest
Play a few holes of golf perhaps!
You wouldnt be able to play any holes if you finsihed work at 5 even if the clocks didnt go back - but what you would do though is at weekends people wouldnt be able to tee off until 8 ish - maybe 8:30.
I was playing golf until a few minutes after 6pm last night, but that wouldn't be possible today! The days are short in the middle of Winter, but GMT just prolongs the agony! :angry:
Last edited:
D
Deleted member 15344
Guest
But yesterday we couldnt start until 8 - this morning we could start at 7 :thup
If you are working during the week you cant fit any holes in unless you leave early
You can now play earlier in the day at weekends.
C
c1973
Guest
150? You were lucky! There were 400 of us living on top of a shoebox in the middle of the lane on the road, I were knocked down twice a day, 8 days a week and paid driver for t'privilege! I got up half an hour before I went t'sleep, brushed my teeth with tarmac, ate a handful of hot gravel, puked it up to keep for ma lunch, got knocked down, paid driver then went t'work for 25hrs non stop before going home and getting murdered by my father every day of my life........still found time to play outside in freezing cold n dark every night......you try telling kids that nowadays.....they'd never believe you.
C
c1973
Guest
Nothing imaginary about mine. Outside playing every chance I got.
Maybe it bears no similarities to your childhood (I apologise if you were a weak, sickly child who never got out much and had to be mollycodled) but like I say I was out playing in all weather every chance I got. Nothing imaginary in my post.
G
guest100718
Guest
Nothing imaginary about mine. Outside playing every chance I got.
Maybe it bears no similarities to your childhood (I apologise if you were a weak, sickly child who never got out much and had to be mollycodled) but like I say I was out playing in all weather every chance I got. Nothing imaginary in my post.
lol whatever
williamalex1
Money List Winner
I vaguely remember they tried it in 1968/69 when the clocks didn't get put back, it didn't work too well up here.
The Scots complained about their 'wee bairns' being run over by motorists as they walked to school in the dark mornings. Statistically fewer children were actually killed walking to or from school in those years, just more in the mornings and less in the lighter evenings. Problem with living in Northern latitudes, such as Scotland, is that the daylight hours get very short in the middle of Winter, so it's difficult to avoid travelling in darkness at some time of the working day! To compensate they get longer hours of daylight in Summer. :mmm:
Last edited:
