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Ask us in March if we liked getting up an hour earlier

Yes but who appreciates their extra hour in bed this morning!!!!????

I have one clock that automatically changes time because it can receive a sync signal. This morning I had to change all the others in the house, some easier than others!

Changing the time on clocks twice a year was an easy bit of Sunday overtime for a few BT engineers. In the large telephone exchange (large towns and cities) so that they ran accurately, all the clocks in the building were 'powered' by a...

Working on Computer systems from the early eighties I dreaded the two clock changes it was an absolute mare with mainframe systems and all the programmes that ran on them , the impact now I imagine is negligible given what our phones...

That's informative Tony.

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You lost your map didn't you?

I have one clock that automatically changes time because it can receive a sync signal. This morning I had to change all the others in the house, some easier than others!

Just back from Malaga and their edible cousins are being roasted on every corner really popular with the Spanish . There is a myth that conkers if kept in the house they would repel flies and spiders but sadly there is no evidence that...

I agree I am often surprised to see conkers unclaimed. When I was a kid, they seemed to be a rare and valued find.

You lost your map didn't you?

I was an honest[ish] plunderer of treasure , scourge of the Spanish Main and Batley City Centre but that scoundrel Commander Willoughby was a total cad and bounder and deserved everything he got . Surreptitiously flogging copies of a...

I agree I am often surprised to see conkers unclaimed. When I was a kid, they seemed to be a rare and valued find.