Extra hours sleep tonight - yippeeeeee

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.

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........

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

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

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.

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.

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.