Daylight savings do me in!

6 November, 2017

Is there an argument against the clocks changing?
I have posted before about Insomnia, but after a week where I have been catnapping and watching shadows moving across the ceiling in the wee small hours, I wonder whether the catalogues of accidents and near misses that occur the week after a clock change, can still show the change to be justified across the British Isles.
I've been irritable and fatigued to an extreme this week following the extra hour in bed on Sunday. The following week has seen me waking at 3 or 4 am and not being able to switch off and go back to sleep. Historically, the hour change was about agricultural workers having to get up in the dark, but the methods used, and the numbers of people affected have significantly changed, and it's not predominantly agriculture that form the majority of night workers and most get recompensed for the inconvenience of their labour.
However, it has been exacerbated by extra activities happening and it's incredible that November almost sees activities notching up a bit in the runup to Christmas festivities. For a country where a third of adults do not believe in God (according to YouGov), the festivities in December should be a lot smaller really. We are being told Brexit is putting the prices of everything up, so perhaps we need to rethink what this one day in December means to us, and step back from thinking that gifts mean more than spending time with our loved ones.
It really ramped up and I started taking a new medication for me, Tecifedra, and waved bye-bye to my injectors, and three nights a week not knowing if it was going to affect me adversely... Yay!
Pictures in November are a bit grim...

Early December saw snow
which has already disappeared...