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So as half of the country seems to be disappearing under water, you can take it as given that we’re close to being in that half… and so I’ll talk about something else instead.

Did you go out on for Halloween? Did you dress up? Did you have an awesome night? Did you take photos? Are you still suffering?

Yes, yes, definitely yes, not enough and yes. Booo.

Oh and I still have Naked in my head, even if it was I got a feeling I was singing on Sunday morning (don’t disown me iLis!). I recall being told that the latter is now mine and my mates “going out song”. Well, if you don’t have a going out song then you’ve nothing to start the night with and nothing to getting drunkenly excited about and dance like a crazy fool to when you’re in the club type place at the end of the night.

Yeah, this has descended into an incoherent second-day-of-hangover blog entry. Must remember I’m not a full time student or outdoor ed instructor anymore – I blame being out of practise at this sort of thing… not that getting old…..

Back to work and making the server complain!

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein.

I’m not quite what to make of this but I’m astounded by this sweeping statement:

Sir Alistair, who said he was 99% Scottish, said the rest of the UK should not lose an hour of evening daylight just because Scottish farmers did not want to milk in the dark.

I know from experience that farmers, crofters, smallholders and anyone who owns livestock work the hours they need to to get the work done. In parts of the Scotland (especially the Highlands and Islands) the clock change doesn’t do us any favours – we’ve got six hours of “daylight” in the depths of winter up here and there’s even less on the islands. I’ve seen tractors in fields, lights blazing, in the middle of the night during hay-making time (because by then we’ve actually got some “night time” again – we lose it during the height of summer). These don’t sound like the type of people Sir Alistair thinks are farmers in Scotland, does it?

I heard him on this morning’s Today show and he didn’t exactly strike me as someone who had really thought his argument through when he said this:

“You can be in France in 21 minutes but you have to change your clocks and work out when all your appointments are,” he said.

Well, first I think most people can cope with that but also, correct me if I’m wrong but if we’re using a “21 minute rule”, shouldn’t all countries that are within that amount of travel time of each other be on the same time zone? So… all the countries in Europe should be on the same time zone… but then there are Asian countries that have European neighbours so they should be on the same time zone as well. Oh and there’s African countries which share borders with them…. can you see where I’m going with this? Never mind the fact that we’re reducing the amount of time it takes to get somewhere so we might need to rethink time zones in another 50 years….

Fool. Old. Babbling.