Fast forward into BST!
Monday, 27th March 2006 by julieWe had our now-familiar time-hiccup yesterday. While we were sleeping we had an hour nicked from us, with an I.O.U. for October. And just like that we moved into British Summer Time (BST).
Coming from a country where daylight-savings isn’t the norm, the whole idea seemed quite foreign when we arrived in the UK. Our first experience of it was the flip back to GMT in October, which is always depressing. Suddenly you go from it getting dark before 17h00, to it getting dark before 16h00 (!); which seems SO much worse. (Never mind that by the time you get to December, you’re well into twilight by 15h00!)
So on the whole the summer-time arrangement seems to have a lot more to offer.
The clocks always change on a Sunday, so we had our usual amusement at church of seeing “who’s been caught out”. There’s always one. In particular we had one lady yesterday who’d clearly planned to arrive half-an-hour early. Her face was a picture when she walked through the outer doors and spotted the service already well underway – I was on sound-desk at the back so had the best view of this utterly startled expression. We didn’t have too many of those though, so kudos to our organised congregation.
And the first day back at work in “summer-time” is such a pleasure. Early-spring temperatures out but such a good feeling at the day’s end to be heading home in broad daylight! 
An hour later it’s still slightly light at 19h00 and – best of all – from here it just gets better all the way till the June solstice!
