It's a strange "tradition" (if tradition is the word for it) for this country to still adhere to the autumn/winter rule of "putting you clocks back"....
I have never really bothered with it all before ( apart from having an extra hour's lie in that is) but last night during a somewhat trying shift at work, I was one of eight staff who all looked at the clock at 2am with some satisfaction that the whole sorry night was at least half over, only to realise that it was suddenly 1 am all over again.
Its amazing how psychologically "crushing" that hour gained can be, to a group of registered nurse despots who are all in need of a coffee and a kind word.
It was a long night.....
It was a long night.....
And so this morning after an hour's marathon snoring and looking like an extra from The Walking Dead, I ventured out down the lane for a dog walk.
I must have looked a fright for I hardly realised that a car had stopped to squeeze past us all.
It was gentleman farmer Ralph and his wife Louenna (who always reminds me of a smiling Welsh version of Miss Jean Brodie)...As they passed I apologised for standing in the way of the car, explaining that I "was not firing on all cylinders" due to that extra bloody hour
"I wondered by your blog was not updated" she called out!
Small fish in a small pond........I realised.
And so, I have updated the blog with the banality and humdrum which is so often "life in Trelawnyd"...The new bald hens have all settled down, safe in the prospect of not being shagged to death by cockerel the size of a small man in a rooster outfit and the dogs all relaxed and comfortable after their country walk are lining up to lie down with me for another short siesta....they are nothing but loyal.
I'll need another snooze as Christopher (bless him) is taking me out to a rather nice sea food restaurant in Llandudno later..he has remembered that is our anniversary of eleven years together!
Bless... he has put up with a great deal over the years!
Only this morning he spied me carrying Boris and Gloria out of the shed (where I had moved them so that the new hens would have a "hen house" all of their own).....and I could hear him mutter to himself a slightly exasperated
"There's Fucking Turkeys in the shed AGAIN!!...what's bleeding next? "
......tee hee
I think he has forgotten that there's a bulldog bitch visiting on Tuesday......
Thanks for the chuckle at the end of your post.
ReplyDeleteWe get our change in a week or two.
I despise it, really. I find it hard to believe it actually saves anything.
Love the sign.
And Congratulations on your anniversary! Eleven years is fantastic! :)
Hi John
ReplyDeleteAs a fellow NHSer please tell me they are paying you for the 'extra' hour?
Sounds like you are having a busy animal spree, was thinking about having a sweepstake on whether the Bulldog bitch stays or not but from your blogging history don't think the odds are that good lol.
Have a lovely meal x
Jane
That's a good picture, John. See if you can picture the look on Chris's face when he meets the bulldog for the first time - that will be a classic.
ReplyDeleteAh, the time change. Here in AZ we don't change the clock. Which means that we have to think every time we call anyone anywhere. I'm always calling too early or too late.
ReplyDelete11 years :-) Congratulations! I did have to wonder, had Chris remembered the bulldog if you would still be getting dinner?
xo Linda
The cats & dog here simply don't " get " the clock change & still queue up at normal time !
ReplyDeleteHave changed all the clocks in the house -the computer magically does it's own... off to battle with the boiler one now !
Happy Anniversary to you both.... Hope the new pup works out well. I can't imagine you saying no to it.
ReplyDeletehaving worked the "graveyard" shift before I know how depressing it can be to realize that one has to work an extra hour
ReplyDeleteyou and Christopher enjoy your seafood dinner, congratulations on your eleven years
I too am betting the Bulldog bitch finds a happy home with your menagerie
happy anniversary to you both. Our clocks go back next week here,
ReplyDeleteGill in Canada
Happy Anniversary and Congrats on 11 years!
ReplyDeleteMy husband was on nights last night too. Let's hope you're on the same shift when the clocks go forward again.
ReplyDeleteHave a great seafood dinner! And Happy Anniversary to you both! I think Chris realizes how lucky he is!
ReplyDeleteI read that subject line and envisioned turkey porn going on in your outbuildings... who needs caffeine on a Sunday morning when they've got your blog?!
ReplyDeleteHaving never had to work a night shift, it's never occured to me there could be a bad side to the clocks going back. Never mind, it's over for another year.
ReplyDeleteGlad the girls are safe from interference now.
Have a great anniversary.
Sorry you had such a shitty day (night) at work. At least you got some zzz's. Did you check your flies before you ventured out?
ReplyDeleteHope you have a nice fish supper for your anniversay (presumably not from a chip shop haha)
We change our time in a few weeks and I hate it. Sounds like you are doing the animal shuffle like me! Thanks for the chuckle.
ReplyDeleteConnie
Have a great anniversary, John and Chris. x
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary John and Chris!!!
ReplyDeleteWhen will the hour-change madness end! Aaaaarrrgh! Being at work for it. Yuck! Happy turkey-free Anniversary!
ReplyDeleteHey John - happy anniversary - hope you both had a brilliant meal at Llandudno. Talking about putting the clocks back - mine fell off the wall when I put it back an hour (the nail I hammered in at an earlier date had worked loose and left a bit of a gaping hole in the plaster.
ReplyDeleteI've heard Llandudno is very genteel, so better be on your best behviour and hope none of the other guests were the folks who passed you on the night of the flasher pants :-D
ReplyDeleteBulldog bitch? That's no way to refer to your mother in law!
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ReplyDeleteOh that extra hour this morning - bliss.
ReplyDeleteBulldog bitch? Be careful who you say that to.
A very Happy Anivesary to you and Chris!
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary!!! He may grumble about your turkeys but, sometimes, the very qualities that someone fusses about are the qualities that make you so endearing.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary!
ReplyDeleteCannot imagine the new 'bitch' being turned down. :-) I will look for pictures!
Happy Anniversary to you both. Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteClocks going back (for us next weekend) will mean my mornings won't be so dark, but Rudy has a terrible time with the dark rolling in at 5pm.
I seriously think he suffers from seasonal adjustment disorder, so my mission this winter is to send him out to play in the sunshine as often as I can...wish me luck!
Congratulations on your anniversary. I hope you had a wonderful evening well away from turkeys and bulldogs.
ReplyDeleteLove your rooster description.I had one of those once, he was a nightmare, so rough with the girls, not a gentleman in the slightest.Silky bantam roosters I have always found to be a cut above.Attentive, courteous, caring and gentle.
All my years as an Rn nothing was worse, not drunks vomiting on your shoes, or older folks leaving excrement all over the shower, or children biting you when you started their Iv or doctors calling you a candy striper...no nothing was worse than having to work the night when the clocks got turned back. Pure nerve stripping pain.
ReplyDeleteI was up at 7am doing the ironing. I was wide awake and it needed doing so it seemed a good idea - the clock changes get more difficult to absorb, the older I get.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your anniversary - I hope you had a lovely meal.
thank you all for your kind congratulations... we had a lovely meal....here's to the next 11 years
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11 years...congratulations!
ReplyDeleteAs I read your more recent post before this one, you can imagine the headline was a little confusing!
Happy anniversary, John and Chris!!
ReplyDeleteI was away from my computer all weekend, scurrying around to do all the outside chores before the snow arrived Saturday night.
got done all the Must Do's on the list, and i'm hoping the snow melts away before it starts in earnest for the winter.
I never minded 'falling back' the hour, but 'springing ahead' was always hard for me (night person working days). One place i worked used to give the unfortunate midnighters and extra hour's pay when the clocks went back an hour, and no, they didn't cut the hour when we sprang ahead.
megan
A belated happy anniversary you two!
ReplyDeleteI never really thought about people working the night shift during a time change. I've always been asleep. Really...how horrible. Did they pay you overtime for it?