Extra hours sleep tonight - yippeeeeee

It's swings and roundabouts. I like the extra our but like you not looking forward to dark afternoons. On the other hand I live northish and wouldn't relish waiting until after 9am for dawn in mid winter.

Doesn't please me because I always wake up too early through insomnia and now it will be even earlier when I am sitting up in bed reading and waiting for the day to begin.

I loathe dark early evenings. I just don't feel safe in my area and so stay in more. At least the mornings will be a bit lighter though so I won't feel like a mole too much. We actually had a smattering of snow in the night which is just melting! Winter has arrived though a lot of the tree still have their leaves. Some of the photos of autumnal shades in the papers are gorgeous and very cheering.

Someone - a sleep 'expert' - on the news has just told me that it's 'very'bad' for us to have that extra hour - apparently we won't catch up with sleep until the clocks go forward in Spring - what a load of old tosh

Wonder how the sleep expert accounts for jetlag then Gally?!!

Well Soupy I really don't know - after a couple of journeys to Oz and back between now and then I will probably be on another planet or have metamorphosed into some strange unsleeping creature........

I hate the dark afternoons/evenings too and suspect it contributes to the increase in accidents although the same could be said for dark mornings. I remember putting the clocks back by 2 hours as an experiment when I was a student in St Andrews, I know students have a reputation for rarely seeing daylight, but I would have qualified as a vampire. It seemed like perpetual gloom!
Most of the hour I gain is spent putting all those clocks and timers back by an hour so not a lot of benefit. Dog doesn't seem to know about it either.

I hate the dark afternoon/evenings, I find closing the blinds in the late afternoon makes my mood mellow.. although I wake early so light in the early am doesn't bother me..

I can't put my cats back. They will still assemble outside my bedroom, bang on the door, scrabble on the carpet and howl for breakfast as usual tomorrow.

absent the same with the DGC they will still be through at silly o'clock stood at the side of my bed until I open my eyes to " Grandma we are hungry" I need a lock on the door and then they might find their way to their parents bedroom

glass Or they might just assemble outside your bedroom, bang on the door, scrabble on the carpet and howl…

Hmm absent easier to provide breakfast.

glass can't you just leave them a little surprise snack in their bedroom? Like a packet of sandwiches and a flask of tea!

Is that the cats or the grandchildren?

Mine would be in the kitchen, foraging....

Only one of my cats – Dingbat aka Fatty – drinks tea. They all like Marmite on toast.

Well Dgd will want chocolate sandwiches and dgs will want little weetabix with warm milk, but I might not be fit to make breakfast for them tomorrow

It's just me then is it? I love it when the clocks go back and the long evenings set in.

I won't get an extra hour because I have to drive to Heathrow at silly o'clock to pick up daughter (returning from doing shows in Doha) as her husband is working.
At least I'll get a lovely pub sunday roast for my trouble (cooked by SIL - he's the chef).

Cats were bang (literally) on time as predicted. Still I get an extra hour on Gransnet.

Woke up at half past five (GMT) this morning. Got up at six. Being retired means I can just pretend it hasn't happened. Worked last year - until the clocks went forward in the spring and I still kept adjusting the time for appointments!

I woke up at 7 on the dot and thought, no not getting up yet, so watched a ridiculously weepy Catherine Cookson on the telly - now I can't get going at all. MrG would have been horrified at what I get up to these days - telly in bed on a sunday morning - Never!!

Couldn't sleep! Got up and had my annual bath. Almost fell over! As the handle on the wall I lean on to get in and out decided to lose its suction and part company with the wall!
I then had to remember how to work the bath lift.
It's no use, I'll have to forgo another cruise next year and have wet room fitted!
Don't worry though, I do have showers inbetween, but the shower in my room is very cramped.
I now have the first load of washing in. Just having a coffee prior to reading files for next week.

Went to bed early (10 ish) and woke up at 7:00 ish new time =result!