Daylight saving time? Wassat??? We have British Summer Time or Greenwich Mean Time. During the war we had Double Summer Time. I remember in the 70s when we had that horrible British Standard Time going to work in the dark. Hated it.  

Bikeracer, you have it wrong. If you watch Charlie Brown you'll see that the kids ask for a 'trick' or a 'treat', they don't perform a trick on you. While all of Charlie Brown's pals get a treat (sweets), because Charlie Brown's Haloween costume is always so awful, he gets a 'trick' (stone).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tIhwITwhSg

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Quote from: Sprintex on October 28, 2011, 10:43:38 PM
I'm not the only one then!! 

At least in cold weather you can put on extra layers to get warm, or turn the heating up - in summer you can only cool down so much, unless like me you invested in an air-conditioner to sit in front of when it's 28 degrees outside 
Just love a cold crisp morning
Paul

28 degrees and you reckon it is hot???  I am writing this with it 35 outside and climbing to a forecast of 39 (which going be the last few days it will reach around 3, 3.30 this afternoon).  And Summer doesn't officially start until Tuesday.

Hah - here in Lancashire we regularly have 28,35 and 39 degrees. Trouble is it's Fahrenheit :'(

Quote from: Tank on October 29, 2011, 09:31:48 AM
I have air con too Sprintex!  One of those portable units for those unbearable days of 18 degrees plus.    

That sounds about right! 


Paul

I wish I could train my dog - she will wake me up at 5 a.m. instead of 6 for the next week, until she gets used to it! 

Quote from: Sprintex on October 28, 2011, 09:19:25 PM
They don't knock on my door, not when there's a clear notice on it saying "NO TRICK OR TREAT - Police will be called if any nuisance is caused." 

Paul I hope you don't mind but I've plagerised that for our notice - the Police logo at the bottom corner doesn't have much effect

My computer clock went back by two hours instead of one. 

Quote from: Kipper on October 29, 2011, 08:07:22 PM
I wish I could train my dog - she will wake me up at 5 a.m. instead of 6 for the next week, until she gets used to it! 

The dog was so confused, she did not wake me up until 7:30. 

Quote from: newportnobby on October 29, 2011, 02:51:36 PM
Hah - here in Lancashire we regularly have 28,35 and 39 degrees. Trouble is it's Fahrenheit :'(

When I lived in Tyne & Wear we called that summer and everyone got out the BBQ's!
Anything above 48f/9c was considered a heat wave... 

As to times, my computer set itself back an hour.
My phone is supposed to but hasn't and the rest of the clocks in the flat will be done eventually.
Probably a month before they go forward again!

And 'trick or treat' callers never bother me thankfully.
Might be something to do with the steep flight of steps to the front door.
I live 3 floors above that so if they were that adventurous I can open a window to pour boiling oil look out of and see who it is.
Then ignore them! 

I'm glad for the clocks change, I've been going to work and having to joint telephone cables in the dark for a few weeks so it'll be nice to be able to see what I'm doing for a bit longer as we're not allowed to fire up a genny for lighting rigs before 9am and torch/headlamp light is useless at best for this job. Roll on winter! I can deal with 50 degrees if its dry heat, been there, done that on a road trip through Southern Tunisia and the Atlas Mountains but I can't stand the smothering humid heat we get in this country, anything over 25 degrees is just plain nasty...

Trick or Treaters? We call them dog snacks round here...the brats are wise to the hounds now and keep a wide berth, we haven't had a single knock at the door for a few years now and don't have to put up any 'fek orf' signs