No new posts???

No it has been exceptionally quiet today. Must be daylight savings time.

This post makes 38 since midnight on my computer

Spring has come to Europe... we are "all" outside enjoying the sunshine and "balmy" temperatures

i think you might have a good point, Fran. not everywhere goes on/off daylight time the same weekend. i think some servers lose the plot and some postings among the chaos. we dont change over to standard time here til next weekend and there is talk here of adding a couple weeks more in march and one more week in oct to summer. works for me. some fool said we ought to just move the clocks forward all yr round. he must of forgot that in the dead of winter it is pitch black by 5pm. we change as he suggested and we'd not have the sun up til after 8am. that is much much too late for anyone. go figure. anyhow, i'm sure some posts just vanished into thin cyberair cuz of the time changes in some places and not in others. man oh man i'm prolific for it only being 8am here now. oh well. cheers from autumn in the south pacific, jeanne

we got one more week of summer time here tho the weather just took a big change and we finally after nearly two months of the big dry in auckland, got RAIN!!!!! glorious RAIN. now the lawns will green up again, they were looking soooooo sad. my pomegranates and passionfruit still have time to add some growth while the soil is still warm and also those lemons that popped up around the big bushes that got moved to their own location will get a wee bit bigger this yr before winter arrives. gotta love the rain, it was so much needed. also maybe it will not mean water restrictions thru winter. yes we do get those here if its a dry summer and a low rain fall winter. it aint a lot of fun when we do. last big 'water save' was in '93 when we showered only and with buckets round our feet to catch as much water runoff as possible, which then got used in the washing machine and saved that runoff to flush the loo. all that in winter and it aint no fun at all then. we depend on our own water supply, cant get it from anyone else. also our electricity supply is mostly hydro so without water we 'are' in a real pickle. cheers from a wet autumn morning in the south pacific, jeanne

It seems slow to me also. Gen

Rain! Glorious Rain, dark clouds and loud thunder, Rain, glorious rain, greens the dry grass down under.... ....singing the "Food" song from "Oliver!"

No siree, I'm not quiet! I whooped and hollered when JoAnn's 50%-off coupons showed up in my email box this morning! Jumped in the shower and hopped into the car. I took advantage of the time away from home and also headed for an LQS and to the donut shop down thataway. Now I'm home and I need a nap! Got books in Joann's and red batik for QOV blocks at the LQS! I'm happy! And it's 74 degrees outside so I can look at my books out on the porch! I'm happy! No slippers or socks on, so I'm happy!! No school this week 'cause it's Spring Break -- I'm REALLY happy!

We had an experimental clock change way back which made everything an hour later than the usual back to winter change. The idea was that children would be able to get home from school while it was still light.

However, they didn't realise that it wouldn't get light until 9.00 a.m. DH went out at 7.30 and somehow I couldn't get my day started until it was light and just used to sit half asleep waiting for the day. It was the most depressing winter ever!. Somehow when it gets dark earlier you feel you can close the curtains and be warm and cozy, but dark mornings just don't work.

The experiment didn't work and didn't last long, though every now and then someone says "Wouldn't it be a good idea if.....".

YAY for the rain!! may it rain enough to keep you in water (and electricity) all winter!

thanks Jess. :) all winter and next summer. for us its a yearly concern as we only got what we get. if we use it all up over a long dry spell, we're pretty much sunk for the next two seasons while we wait to see if they will also be long dry ones. i just read of some rural folks still needing to have their water trucked into fill their tanks as the roof run off even from this downpour wouldnt be enough to fill their huge tanks. i'm not too sure how fast the rain off the roof can fill the tanks. our pool was pretty low and its gone up a whole two tiles in one day, that is without taking it off the roof overnight (afraid we'd sleep thru too much and it might overflow, eeeeeeek, dont want that to ever happen here again while we're sleeping). argh, oh well. its still like camelot down here in the south pacific, cheers, jeanne

...and i forgot that the farther south/north one is the worse the light issue is. oh dear. i'm about latitude 38 degrees south. the extreme south of NZ is around 42 degrees latitude. they do get longer summer evenings than we do but also shorter winter days than we do. not something i'd relish thats for sure. i just cope with winter as it is now, daylight-wise that is. yes permanent daylight time is not a good idea at all. a bit longer maybe tho, eh. drying out in auckland today (fingers crossed) as we had 28C/Sunshine over the weekend, then on tuesday/wednesday the wind/rain/hail that hit the north island were insane, trees fell, roofs flew, flooding and it even snowed in the south of the south island, eeeeeeek, yup its no longer summer here in the south pacific, March in like a lamb and out like a lion i think, the reverse of the northern hemispere, at least our easter chocy eggs wont melt, i hope, might have to eat them faster, lol. cheers, jeanne