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« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2006, 08:54:56 pm »

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Or perhaps they had slightly more important things to worry about?


Aren't children's lives important?


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« Reply #16 on: October 29, 2006, 08:57:28 pm »
I can't remember the last time I heard of a child dying from getting up an hour later or earlier.
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« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2006, 09:12:24 pm »
No.  But the darker nights cause more accidents and that must inevitably involve children. I didn't intend to be frivolous.

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« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2006, 10:07:32 pm »

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BST was permanently in force from 1940 to 1945, and again in 1968 to 1971. 


I can remember this (the second time period!).  It was horrible - we had to walk to school in the pitch dark and everyone was issued with orange and silver reflective armbands.  Whenever they talk about changing the system with the clocks, cows (and milking) seem to come into it! 

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« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2006, 10:10:46 pm »
this system WORK

DON:T FIX What ANOit BROKEN!"


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« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2006, 10:44:03 pm »

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I just leave my clocks.  Save's me having to put them forward again in March.


 And I thought you prided yourself on your knowledge of the apostrophe!

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« Reply #21 on: November 05, 2006, 09:01:40 am »
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BST was permanently in force from 1940 to 1945, and again in 1968 to 1971. 


I can remember this (the second time period!).  It was horrible - we had to walk to school in the pitch dark and everyone was issued with orange and silver reflective armbands.  Whenever they talk about changing the system with the clocks, cows (and milking) seem to come into it! 



 


Wow! I'd forgotton all about those arm bands until now! I can clearly remember those dark winter mornings and ariving at school just as the light was dawning.

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« Reply #22 on: November 05, 2006, 11:38:14 am »
 
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I just leave my clocks.  Save's me having to put them forward again in March.


And I thought you prided yourself on your knowledge of the apostrophe!



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