This article from a British newspaper should make you feel less burdened when you reset all your clocks, microwaves,car clocks, watch etc. And besides we get an extra hour's sleep. :)
LONDON (AFP) - Britain puts its clocks back one hour at 2:00 am (0100 GMT) on Sunday giving most people a welcome extra hour in bed -- but two cuckoo clock enthusiasts will have precious little time on their hands.
Brothers Roman and Maz Piekarski have more than 500 clocks at their Cuckooland museum in Cheshire, northwest England.
And the task of winding back the mechanisms in the antique German clocks is going to take them all weekend.
"It is not as simple as changing a battery-powered clock because they are antiques, with all sorts of complicating factors," said Roman Piekarski, 54.
"It can put you in a real spin after a while, and I have been known to change dozens of clocks before realising I had already done them.
"It is a mammoth task but it has to be done, and it is a labour of love."
The museum, which hosts one of the world's largest collections of cuckoo clocks, also features clocks which mark the hour with quails, trumpeters and monks.
Meanwhile, those who suffer from the winter blues as British Summer Time ends and darkness sets in during the mornings and evenings are being given something to cheer them up.
A telephone helpline of "inspiring" sounds from the mountains and shorelines of the tranquil Lake District in northwest England has been set up to help those feeling depressed as the number of daylight hours dwindles.
It includes a reading of William Wordsworth's poem "Daffodils", the sound of Lake Windermere lapping against a jetty, the crisp crunch of leaves on a country walk, and Cumberland sausage sizzling in a pan.
5 comments:
That telephone hotline is incredible. I wonder how many people will actually call it. Where there's a need.....
As far as those two brothers having to turn back ALLLLLL those clocks...YEOW! I guess I can't crab about the 1/2 dozen or so I've got to contend with....it makes my chore feel like a walk in the park.
Thanks Chancy.
You have really put my small task of changing clocks into perspective :) Guess I can just relax now and listen to the sound of the river and the bird songs --- clocks are reset (until the next power outage)
Thanks for a great post
Next year the switch moves to November...but when your electricity has gone off serveral times during the night, what if you don't even know what the real time is!
I have to laugh at myself.
After posting this on my blog I got up this Sunday morning and tried to convince my husband, who had already reset the kitchen clocks that the time change did not happen until tonight. I was not convinced until he turned on the TV and showed me the that "Meet The Press" was not on for another hour and it was really 9 AM. :)
Perhaps I can use this excuse. My two grandchildren spent the night with us last night and I was "grandmothered out"
:)
I do love the extra hour of sleep, especially when I am working the weekend as I was this time. But.. the next day.. every clock I looked at seemed to tell a different time. :-)
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