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What are you doing with the extra hour tonight?

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YourPolitePoster · 26/10/2024 19:51

It’s that time of year again! The clocks are going back an hour at 2am, so we all get an “extra” hour tonight. Are you planning to make the most of it with a lie-in, or maybe use it productively?

Are you working, sleeping, catching up on something, or doing something you wouldn’t normally have time for?

Would love to hear everyone’s plans for the bonus time!

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Bellatrixpure · 26/10/2024 21:26

Sleep. I am going to sleep an extra hour ( or maybe 30 minutes to even it out)

Mumsgirls · 26/10/2024 21:24

Another cat one here, mine will wake me up at 6 instead of 7. Have sympathy for the night workers, especially if they did not work when they went forward to compensate. Remember the toddler years well, at least with cat I can go back to bed and read

tachetastic · 26/10/2024 21:23

Macaroninecklace · 26/10/2024 19:53

I have children who haven’t grasped the concept. They’ll get up at what is, to their body clock, 6:30am, as usual. They’ll adjust over a few days, as will I. There will be no “extra hour” in this household!

No extra hour? Incorrect.

My kids are exactly the same. They will get up according to their body clock, but I am gifted an "extra hour" of entertaining them (at then 5am) before the regular programme of sports clubs and visits to grandma commences.

LaPalmaLlama · 26/10/2024 21:21

Probably just coughing. You’d think it would not be beyond the wit of man to invent a cough medicine that actually works ( other than the one that does but has been banned). My ribs and pelvic floor are sick of this shit. Rant over. Enjoy your hour everyone 🤣

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 26/10/2024 21:19

Going to bed early because I have a long drive to an open day tomorrow. Excellent timing, in my opinion!

FormerlySpeckledyHen · 26/10/2024 21:18

I worked 10 hour night shifts many moons ago in the Met Office and hated being on shift when the autumn clocks changed. An extra hour to work, and weather observations to do at 2! 2 ams 🕑 was very confusing 🫤.

Maria1982 · 26/10/2024 21:14

Yeah, I have a toddler so there is no extra hour here. I’m dreading the early wake tbh

CandidHedgehog · 26/10/2024 21:14

I won’t really notice. I wake up any time between 7 and 10 on the weekends (obviously no young children) so it will just mean waking closer to 7 than 10.

FormerlySpeckledyHen · 26/10/2024 21:13

I’m going to visit my son and DIL in the morning to meet their new arrival 🐈‍⬛.

VioletCrawleyForever · 26/10/2024 21:11

I'm camping with scouts and hope it means an extra hour of sleep in the morning.

GrandTheftWalrus · 26/10/2024 21:10

When i was young in my clubbing days I used to love going out when the clocks went back as the club closed at 3am so it was open an extra hour.

Now it'll be getting up an hour earlier with the DDs

samarrange · 26/10/2024 21:10

We will be staying up because DS/DDIL are about to become parents, so hopefully in an hour or two we will be breaking out the champagne here. We're getting a blow-by-blow, dilations and all, on WhatsApp because we're several hundred miles from them.

ilovesushi · 26/10/2024 21:10

I'll get up early tomorrow and boringly I'm using it for cleaning. Have two lots of guests coming around and need to whizz around with the hoover.

SantaToSSD · 26/10/2024 21:09

God, I remember the days with young children when the extra hour just meant being woken at 5.30 instead of 6.30. Commiserations to all parents of young children but rest assured you will one day get your extra hour back.

I'm going to spend mine hopefully getting a much needed extra hour of sleep, then getting Sunday lunch ready at a reasonable time instead of, as often happens, eating it halfway through the afternoon.

Zanatdy · 26/10/2024 21:09

I sleep badly anyway, so doubt ill have a lie in. No plans to do anything in particular, just to enjoy my day of rest

ghostofadog · 26/10/2024 21:08

I'm going to save mine till tomorrow, early evening when I've got Sunday night feeling and thinking that the weekend has gone to quick, I will grant myself an extra hour to read a book and drink some wine 🙂I really appreciate it now my kids are older, when they were younger it was so disappointing to hope for an extra hour in bed then the kids just wake up at 4.30 instead if 5.30.

CharlotteCollinsneeLucas · 26/10/2024 21:06

Getting up early to drive to Eryri with DH for a long walk up a mountain!

user1471453601 · 26/10/2024 21:06

You do understand, I'm sure the time itself doesn't cannot be changed by humans? It's just the way we measure it that changes. So what you think you "gain" tonight you "loose" tomorrow.

But crack on, if you really think you'll gain tonight.

itzthTtimeGib · 26/10/2024 21:05

Rocking backwards and forwards somewhere with my 2 kids under 2…

ThinWomansBrain · 26/10/2024 21:05

cats do not understand the concept of clocks changing - she will start telling me it's time for breakfast at 3am instead of 4.
It will take her a couple of weeks to adjust.

Mum2jenny · 26/10/2024 21:04

Sleep, with a bit of luck!!

lifebyfaith · 26/10/2024 21:04

Ddog will be up wanting her walk at whatever time so it will be an hour earlier for us.

ThePinkFrenchFancyPlease · 26/10/2024 21:04

This year I’ll be sleeping because I’m unwell, but usually I try to get up after my normal hours of sleep, and do something tangible with my extra hour - whether that’s cooking a frozen pastry or some pancakes for breakfast, starting a jigsaw or reading my book, or going for a lovely walk if it’s a fine day.

Crucible · 26/10/2024 21:02

I'm in bed now. Just getting settled in. Extra early night for the best night of the year with the extra hour. My dogs will be confused tomorrow. The SAD light came out of the loft today, for DH, and I have wrapped all Christmas gifts that have already arrived. Also done some ironing and sorting of pillowcases today, my bed linen is ancient. I'm shattered.

WhimsicalGubbins76 · 26/10/2024 21:01

Sleeping off the extra wine im drinking. I’ll still be getting up at the normal time, but I’ll have a bonus hour included in my normal nights sleep