Clock change should not be allowed on Mothering Sunday ...

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Just that really. Where's my lie-in!!!!

Well yes when people make up faux problems like 90% of mother's day posts (see also valentine's day and Christmas day) then I don't understand. HTH.

Light-heartedly, it is just one of those "bloody typical" moments.

There is only one day in the whole year that is one hour shorter than any other day in the year.

Ironic that the time poor get less time on "their" day.

At the risk of sounding thick, what time would it have been now? 7:40? Can have remember if it’s fall back, spring forward or the other way round.

I never bloody notice. I just look at my phone which changes time automatically and that’s the time. This morning has been completely normal, as always.

I’ve never noticed it when I had small children either - I’m in bed now and my 4 year old co sleeper is still snoring away next to me like she usually would be at 8:40am on a weekend morning.

I live in a little bubble, obviously.

I agree.
Mother's Day should be abolished.

Ah, but then how would they sell cards, tat with mum plastered all over it and overpriced flowers?

(I’m not into it, can you guess).

Truth. Up and at 'em for rugby at 9am - which feels like 8am!

Tell me about it, I thought my baby slept for 4 full hours last night, but it was only 3 🤣 my brain was so confused in the middle of the night !

Yabu, because you’ve got it the wrong way round. The clock change is at an easily predictable date, as it needs to be, it affects everyone in Europe. It’s Mother’s Day which should change if the clash is a problem.

My cheeky charming toddler decided that 5am was a reasonable hour to get up…. He didn’t fall back to sleep until midnight last night so my lie in…… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can but dream.

hoping he has a lovely long nap around 10 🙏🙏🙏

No interest in a lie-in here! Me-time while they’re all in bed.

I’ve been up since 6.30, reading, pottering, made myself a gorgeous breakfast. Two cups of tea. Shower next. Lovely!

Yes, wake him up, but remove all the heads from his golf clubs (do they unscrew?) as a sort of hilarious, early April Fools Joke.

He'll have to play the round using his clubs a bit like snooker cues.

What a laugh they will have in the Clubhouse!

(Actually, probably best you DON'T do this - he might be a tad annoyed.)

I don't mind it this year I've been waking at five am all week because last week my body clock decided the clocks had changed already

I'm curious what would happen (to me) if we ever decided to not change the clocks because this isn't the first time my body has done a clock change all by itself 🤔😅

Meh, just think of it as "bolstering the economy".

All the extra days (mothers', fathers' valentines' etc) add millions of pounds spending on luxury items and the chancellor takes VAT on all of it - no special days = less tax taken = more to be raised by some other means - which might affect me.

@Suzuki76

Hope you get a bacon cob at least! Rugby for us too!

I was wondering why my iPad says now 8:50 but when I looked at the clock in the kitchen before my coffee it said 7:30.
I thought I’d spent over an hour drinking a coffee 🤣🤣🤣

I have shit to do, so I have to be at the supermarket as close to opening time as I can manage in order to fit the rest in. So yeah, I do lose an hour of sleep, because now I have to get out of the house at 8:30, which we are arbitrarily calling 9:30 for the next six months. I've showered, done two loads of washing, I'm having my breakfast, and the sodding dog is still snoring upstairs on my bed after briefly coming to and wondering why I'm up so early.

Yeah, I resent the hell out of BST.

I dunno. I think the Chinese love mother's Day in the UK.

"Mum I'm thinking of the planet, so I didn't get you something for mother's day. Instead I'm going to make a promise to do some extra tasks around the house on a permanent basis because I've been slacking and letting you down"
Said next to no one.

Well resent it then. It sounds a miserable way to live tbh but I guess you can't help how you feel. Being so resentful of the world must be really tiring. Put your feet up and have a cuppa instead.

Yes — the years when you have small children are the only time in your life when the clocks going forward is a good thing. You don't get any more sleep but at least the clock says you did!

Which is surely why the clocks going forward is good? It means it gets light later for a while

No lie in here as DS needed to get to football. The game has been cancelled at the last minute. I could have had a lie in 😩

Mother's Day date changes each year due to Lent/Easter... see Google result below.

Next year it's mid March again and not when clocks go forward.

My DH is taking the kids to their sports activities this morning so I can have a nice relaxing morning.

In the UK, Mother's Day, or Mothering Sunday, changes dates each year because it's tied to the fourth Sunday of Lent, which is three Sundays before Easter, and Easter's date varies annually based on the lunar calendar.

I'm assuming this is some kind of semi-joke OP? And you don't actually believe either date can be moved around?

You can lie in as long as you want it's just that whatever you do afterwards will be an hour later if you stick to 'old time'.

Both dates are set well ahead - Mothering Sunday is a linked to the church ( historically it was a day when children working away from home were allowed a day off to return home.)

GMT and BST aren't moveable feasts, if that's what you want.

Both dates are known well ahead- like the start of the year.

@PuggyPuggyPuggy Why not go to bed an hour earlier the night before?
That way you won't lose an hour's sleep.

It's not rocket science surely to work that one out?

I think the issue here is not losing an hours sleep (if you wake up naturally of course) It is losing an hour of the day and then bedtime being an issue for kids as they'll be heading up an hour earlier than yesterday.