‘An hour less in bed’

[StillCoughingandLaughing]

Lighthearted... although it does make me scream a little bit

Every year, my mother reminds me that the clocks are going forward and complains about getting ‘an hour less in bed’. (She also gets excited about the ‘extra hour’ in autumn.)

Now, I could understand this if she worked Sundays and had to be up at a certain time. But she doesn’t. She never has. And as she’s nearly 70, she never will. If she wants an extra hour in bed, she can have one - or two, or three, or sleep all day! No one is going to say, ‘It’s 9am - you MUST get up’.

Why is she worried about ‘losing’ an hour in bed once a year when she could have that hour in bed every week?!

I would happily lose an entire night’s sleep if it meant we could have lighter evenings. sadly working tomorrow but don’t mind because it means summer is coming!

Think of the people who live in Batley who all of a sudden have woken up this week to suddenly find their clocks have been put back 1300 years...

@redcandlelight

yabu that hour less is bloody painful on monday morning.

Eh? Why would you get an hour less on Monday morning?

I hate it moving either way, it takes my body about a week to adjust

I'm guilty of this 😅

It is annoying actually.

No-one is 'losing an hour in bed' because we will still have the 8 or 9 hours we are sleeping! And unless you have to get up for work at 7 or 8 a.m. for work, you are NOT losing an hour's sleep. Nor are you losing an hour of your LIFE, because you will GAIN that hour back in October.

SOOOOO daft!

I hate it, I'm a lark so it goes back to being dark for a month and I go back to waking up in the dark. Egh.

This is how I feel about it.

Yesterday a DJ said we get an extra hour of daylight - nope fuckwit, same amount of daylight, just shifted later

@Blacktothepink

It’s great if you work a nigh shift 🤣

But less great doing the October shift when you work an extra hour unpaid. Bastards. Oh and it totally ruins a lovely fluid balance chart. 😂

Last year I worked the night the clocks went back and I am working tomorrow at 7am. I feel hard done by.

My daughter text earlier asking if I can give her a lift to work for 7am tomorrow as she was offered overtime.

I said yes - forgot about the clocks, then turns out that they asked her what the earliest she could start was she forgot and said 7 - said had she realised she'd have said 8

It'll be fine - I did a night shift when the clocks changed the other way earlier - that shift is horrible

When I worked nightshift, I loved spring forward because I worked an hour less but still got paid the usual amount for a shift. Hated fall back because you ended up working an extra hour unpaid.

I'm in bed already. Need to be up at 5:30 which will really be 4:30. I don't want to be late for work (NHS) so someone on nights is ringing me at silly o'clock.
I need all the sleep I can get.

My parents are retired. Still set the alarm, dash out of bed, do all their jobs and then complain they're bored by 8.30.

When I used to work in a restaurant a back to back shift the night the clocks went forward was an absolute killer. For anyone who doesn't work Sundays it's irrelevant.

My mum still texts us to change the clocks...we don't have any manual ones!

A woman at work has been moanjng about how it takes her children about two weeks to adjust to the time difference. They are teenagers

My husband used to say things like, "It's eight o'clock but it's not really eight o'clock, it's seven".
Grrrrrr

I agree with your mum and think the clocks shouldn't change twice a year. It's so unnecessary and really messes with our biorhythm. I remember a scientist on R4 once saying that there are more heart attacks this time of year because of it.

I’m really excited by this. Simply because it means our kitchen clock will be the right time again. It’s not hard to change, or hard to reach, we just couldn’t be bothered.

@Stevearnottsbeard
I say this, but in normal circumstances I work in retail therefore I have to be up and in work by a certain time so I do get that extra hour which I love. I hate the clocks going back, I miss that hour snuggled up in bed but your right, your mum should be officially banned from saying it!! 😂 😂 😂

Confused... isn't it the other way around? Surely it's the clocks going forward that you would hate? ?

It's not an hour less if you go to bed an hour earlier.

@BigSandyBalls2015

Yes they do!! If their normal waking hour is 7am then they’ll be up at 6!

They'll be up at 8, not 6, because the hour is going forward, not back.

@ichundich

I agree with your mum and think the clocks shouldn't change twice a year. It's so unnecessary and really messes with our biorhythm. I remember a scientist on R4 once saying that there are more heart attacks this time of year because of it.

I agree. It takes us several days to feel 'normal' again.