'In winter time we cry, 'Alack!'And put the clocks an hour back,
In summer time we cry,'Très bon!'
And put the clocks an hour on.'
Yeah well, not sure why we cry alack in winter, we get an extra hour of sleep, it's the losing the hour that bites me. Still, in Britain it's the end of British Summer Time, over here the end of Daylight Saving. Remember the years when we didn't do it? I was at grammar school then and it was very odd indeed. Creepy and darker than ever in the mornings. Actually, when I put it like that it sounds kinda cool.
BBC Canada for some reason best known only to themselves, decided not to honour the two o'clock changeover time and seemed to do it around midnight. Which was convenient because I was able to watch Hotel Babylon and pretend it was not insanely late.
Joan Collins was in last night's episode and for pity's sake, does that woman have some kind of pact with the Devil? Seriously, she simply isn't ageing, and she doesn't even have that over-stretched look of the older moneyed actress whose skin has been constantly hoiked back behind her ears. Her carriage is still that of a middle-aged woman, her neck has only a few wrinkles. I mean Hell's teeth, the woman was born in 1933. It's like Dorian Grey.
Yesterday we saw the film 'Just Friends' with Ryan Reynolds and a handful of other people I've seen in a bunch of other things but wouldn't be able to name. I do like Ryan Reynolds, but I wouldn't willingly watch one of his comedies unless I was on a plane, however this film was on the movie channel at some point so we'd recorded it to the TV's HD and there it was, waiting for that moment when we'd watched everything else.
And you know what? Fairly predictable storyline, but so well-scripted it was a very funny film. And Reynolds is just so good at physical comedy. Well worth a watch.
How many programmes do Colin and Justin actually have? They even have enough kudos to be mentioned by Daffydd Thomas in the last episode of Little Britain.
Yesterday on 'How not to Decorate' they were almost hoist by their own petard. The offending house looked suspiciously like the working men's club where the offending homeowner and person responsible was hiding. His wife, who could no longer stand living in what Justin politely described as,
'Everything's so brown, it's like living in one big jobbie,' had the imploring look of an Old English Sheepdog, the grey hair almost covering her puppy-dog eyes.
As the lads were taking her around the house and decrying some of her own design faux-pas, she would look at them, wounded, and say,
'But Colin/Justin, I saw you do this once.' You had to love her and her dogged loyalty to them.
If you ever forget what time it is, you can look it up on the Greenwich Mean Time website. How spiffy is that?
3 comments:
Just Friends was a surprisingly funny movie. Anna Farris is one of Lisa's favorite comedic actresses.
Joan Collins is evil.
And Amy Smart is one of my lesser favorite actresses.
I didn't know other parts of the world "celebrated" Daylight Saving Time (Savings is not the official spelling of the procedure, as I learned a few years ago). It's neat. Not all of the US does either. Some counties in Indiana do, while others do not. Ipso facto, a person who lives in one county, but goes to church in another county may end up going to the wrong service, though fortunately not the wrong church (that would be a Space Time Savings).
Arizona is very JW about the holiday as well-- no changing of the clocks.
I myself would like an atomic clock-- analog thank you very much. Though, it's not something I'm asking of you, just pointing out. It's a long day. Extra hour didn't do anything for me, so I'm hitting it (the hay) a little earlie (that's how the sailors say it in the song).
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