‘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?!

please tell the birds in the autumn. Tomorrow morning, they will crow a bit later which means we will wake at the same time/light, but it will be later by the clock.

I’m hoping it will briefly reset my child who wakes at 5am. I hope this every year mind.

My MIL gets up at 6am every day ‘for the cat’ - get a bloody cat flap!? She then moans about being bored or tired. I’d be bored if I got up at 6am and had nothing to

She rang me at 11am to tell me she’s took the bins out and tidied the living room the other day and said she hadn’t had chance to get dressed yet because she’d been ‘running around’ all morning and reminded me that then Dr told her to make sure she wasn’t ‘running herself ragged’ when she went with whatever ailment she’s had recently ... I’d already been up, put a wash on, driven to work, and had two meetings by then. The woman hasn’t done any of her own shopping bar nipping for milk since last March, we have been doing it all!

*nothing to do all day

I still don't actually understand the whole clocks thing.

In Australia, the "extra" hour of daylight used to be decried because it faded the carpets.

:o

My mother in law is like this. Gets up early for NO REASON! And says she was woken up early cause it was bright but doesnt close the curtains in her room 🤦‍♀️

What we should be objecting to is clocks going back in the winter. People leaving work at 5pm in the dark for weeks on end, whereas far fewer people would be going to work in the dark if we had BST all year around.

@50TurkeyTrot

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.

So glad you said this. I came on to say it and then started doubting myself!!!

@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.

But fewer children dying in road accidents.

It gets you at some point - either Sunday or Monday!

Literally just had the same conversation with my mum. She's going to bed an hour earlier so she doesn't 'lose' the extra hour in the morning. She could get up at lunchtime if she fancied seeing as she's 80!

I'm with your mum. Bloody hate it.

It's actually made me feel quite sad and miss my mum (died 6 months ago) as she reminded all 4 of us adult kids that that clocks were going to change the evening before and would then message first thing to make sure we'd changed our clocks. Even though we'd all tell her most of our clocks updated automatically!!

Miss my mum loads!!! 😢

@Blueeyedgirl21

My MIL gets up at 6am every day ‘for the cat’ - get a bloody cat flap!? She then moans about being bored or tired. I’d be bored if I got up at 6am and had nothing to

She rang me at 11am to tell me she’s took the bins out and tidied the living room the other day and said she hadn’t had chance to get dressed yet because she’d been ‘running around’ all morning and reminded me that then Dr told her to make sure she wasn’t ‘running herself ragged’ when she went with whatever ailment she’s had recently ... I’d already been up, put a wash on, driven to work, and had two meetings by then. The woman hasn’t done any of her own shopping bar nipping for milk since last March, we have been doing it all!

this made me laugh,OP!

@Blacktothepink

It’s great if you work a nigh shift 🤣

Where I work, we have to start early to make up for it, or take an hour's leave, so no benefit at all!

@Crunchymum really sorry about your Mum

I really hate them messing with the clocks, every year the same nonsense - why??

@Blueeyedgirl21

My MIL gets up at 6am every day ‘for the cat’ - get a bloody cat flap!? She then moans about being bored or tired. I’d be bored if I got up at 6am and had nothing to

She rang me at 11am to tell me she’s took the bins out and tidied the living room the other day and said she hadn’t had chance to get dressed yet because she’d been ‘running around’ all morning and reminded me that then Dr told her to make sure she wasn’t ‘running herself ragged’ when she went with whatever ailment she’s had recently ... I’d already been up, put a wash on, driven to work, and had two meetings by then. The woman hasn’t done any of her own shopping bar nipping for milk since last March, we have been doing it all!

“Running around” naked I presume

Anyone who says it doesn’t matter to older or retired people are idiots

We are ALL in some way conditioned to wake at certain hours, whether it’s for the newspaper to be delivered, the cat to feed or just because we wake up at that time historically.

Altering the bloody clocks, drives us all a little bit mad.

Have some empathy people.

Bloody idiots

@WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants > 'It doesn't even matter if you have small children. They're not likely to wake up an hour earlier just because of what the clock says!'

Believe me a dog will definitely wake up/sleep in for the random hour, that he knows nothing about, for his breakfast. This means a shifting in household routine, as opposed to telling a child, "You'll work it out in your own time." All our dogs have taken about four days to move to the latest BMT. After that they're used to the new normal. Children were much easier, as we hopefully spoke the same language. The amount of times I've groaned, "It's bad enough having to drag myself out of bed at 7 o'clock, and now it's only 6 o'clock; but here you go, in four days you'll have finally worked out how BMT works."

And before anyone has a go, I'm retired, so yes, I can sleep in 'til 7 o'clock, and I do not believe that children are the same as dogs.

I think I’m in an angry mood...

This is when I feel weirdly smug as a parent, when the kids seem to wake later but Im confused because I'm just as tired

My alarm will be going off at 6 tomorrow morning. Which will actually be 5am!

Must go to bed now...

True fact - the clocks went forward on the 27th March 1999 which was a Saturday.
I know this because I was giving birth at the time and someone climbed on the bed, took the clock down and shunted it forward.

True fact - the stated duration of my labour is an hour longer than it actually was.

Anyway, I am feeling very clever because I've ordered my click and collect an hour later than normal tomorrow morning.

I once flew long haul the night the clocks went back - before mobile phones. It messed with my head. Fly for n hours, turn back clock n hours, turn it back 1 more hour, wake a stupid o'clock due to jet leg. I literally had NO idea what the hell time it was.

But if you have no job, no children living at home and can do as you please, you can just go back to sleep, prat about online for a bit or just enjoy the peace and quiet. Sounds pretty nice to me.