Ok so we moved our clocks forward and caught up with the US on Daylight Savings Time this weekend just gone. Having worked night shifts in the past, this was one of the nights you looked forward to having to work one hour less than scheduled to do so. Obviously the converse happened in October when your shift was an extra hour longer.
What I don't understand is why we still use daylight savings time. Surely midday is the time at which the sun is at its highest point during the day, but no not for the next six months. I know the argument is to give both lighter evenings and the advantage of bright mornings, but I just don't get it.
Of course what is worse, the idiots in UK think that now we are on Summer time, it must be summer. In fact on Monday I saw my first ice cream van of the year out on the streets.
This is fine except the previous weekend we'd had widespread snow. I'm not sure if our American readers are aware of what an ice cream van is, hence the picture. But they sell something called ice cream but is more akin to sloppy frozen milk, and other frozen deserts and they are called Mr Whippy and they play crappy monotone versions of classics such as Greensleeves or The Happy Wanderer. Many a Sunday afternoon was spent queuing up to get a 99 from Mr Whippy. That said, when I was at school the local ice cream man used to sell individual cigarettes to kids at 10p a fag, which even those was highly illegal and quite expensive.
But not only did BST bring out the ice cream vans, but I saw two people in t-shirts, shorts and flip flops in the supermarket on Monday, ok so it wasn't blowing a gale, but it certainly wasn't t-shirt weather.
I think that our climate is so bad that even the mention of summer brings out the worst in the average Brit.
As an update - we actually had snow this weekend, flights were cancelled, yet still the ice cream vans came around on Sunday.
