Day 42 - Spring Forward, Fall Back

As I am sure that everyone in the UK remembered, last night the clocks went forward, moving us off Greenwich Mean Time onto British Summer Time.  This meant that we all had an hour fewer in bed last night which, in combination with the Met Office's dire projections for the day, probably explain why the golf course was deserted this morning.

I too decided to give golf a miss today but had to run by the Club to pick up clubs, shoes and trolley for a match tomorrow.  Inevitably, I ended up in the bar and had a couple of drinks with some of the members who had actually braved the elements (though I am not sure what they made of the mower which had broken down on the 6th Green of the Old!). Immovable Obstruction?

As ever, the papers this morning are full of articles purporting to make a case for abolishing Summer Time, or Winter time, or both...  Arguments about Scottish farmers and schoolchildren abound. More interesting was the Radio 4 programme hosted by the omnipresent Stephen Fry on Radio 4 on Saturday. Thanks to the wonders of BBC iPlayer, this is available for all at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nk5qqhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nk5qq.

Our children, and their children, will never know a world where once you had missed a programme, it was gone, unless you were lucky enough to chance upon a repeat many months hence.  With the iPlayer, Radio 4 Extra and the On Demand service, we really are spoiled for choice nowadays. If I listened to everything wanted to, there'd be no time for any golf....