Errogie
07-Feb-07, 23:25
Catching up on news and very interested to see that John Thurso supports retention of summer time through into winter.
I entirely agree with this view and feel for too many years there has been a knee jerk reaction from Scotland whenever this is mentioned. It is regarded as some sort of dastardly sasanach plot to undermine our hardy northern culture and dispel the celtic gloom of our long winter nights.
Putting the clocks back in autumn and loosing the evening light after a normal days work is deeply depressing particularly as we've been getting a run of glorious late autumn weather over the last few years. I'm a crofter with animals and like most of us have another full time job. For three months it is dark at both ends of the day so you don't get a proper look at the stock before you go to work whereas if the clocks didn't adjust you'd at least have a chance to check them once at the end of the day when you come home as well as at weekends.
Then there are the road safety figures proving that accidents are more likely to happen when kids dawdle home after school in poor light. I also remember the trial year in, I think winter 1971 when they didn't turn the clocks back and I don't recall any disasterous results but I'm unclear why it was dropped. So well done John Thurso for having the courage to question why we persist with this discredited ritual. It's high time it was consigned to the dustbin of history!
I entirely agree with this view and feel for too many years there has been a knee jerk reaction from Scotland whenever this is mentioned. It is regarded as some sort of dastardly sasanach plot to undermine our hardy northern culture and dispel the celtic gloom of our long winter nights.
Putting the clocks back in autumn and loosing the evening light after a normal days work is deeply depressing particularly as we've been getting a run of glorious late autumn weather over the last few years. I'm a crofter with animals and like most of us have another full time job. For three months it is dark at both ends of the day so you don't get a proper look at the stock before you go to work whereas if the clocks didn't adjust you'd at least have a chance to check them once at the end of the day when you come home as well as at weekends.
Then there are the road safety figures proving that accidents are more likely to happen when kids dawdle home after school in poor light. I also remember the trial year in, I think winter 1971 when they didn't turn the clocks back and I don't recall any disasterous results but I'm unclear why it was dropped. So well done John Thurso for having the courage to question why we persist with this discredited ritual. It's high time it was consigned to the dustbin of history!