I always like quirky facts and events. I remember reading once that people from northern Britain and northern Scandinavia have minutely largely brains, something like .003% bigger. Whilst I am happy to reach for any compliments going, it isn’t something that makes us extra brainy. Apparently the light levels are so poor for much of… Continue reading SS Warrimoo – the ship the straddled time and celebrated the New Year in Style
Tag: Time
The fall and rise of St Pancras Clock
Railways have become synonymous with time keeping as their successful operation is measured through following a timetable. Before the railways time was a much more local matter based on the 24hr rotation of the earth resulting in East Anglia being about 5 minutes ahead of London and Bristol being some 12 minutes behind and places… Continue reading The fall and rise of St Pancras Clock
The day we rioted as the government stole 11 days of our lives!
If you think moving the clock an hour in October is a tedious, weird thing to do that only cheats you of an hour of precious useful daylight in the evening then do spare a thought for our forebears who centuries ago were trying to come to terms with the government stealing 11 days of… Continue reading The day we rioted as the government stole 11 days of our lives!
Arrival – Movie Review
It’s a long time since I wrote a film review adn that is partly because I’ve been too busy to watch many and those that I have seen, have not really been worth the effort to write about but Arrival is definitely something very different. Last Sunday afternoon I had spent several hours of it… Continue reading Arrival – Movie Review
Stupid corporate customer surveys
We all have them don’t we. Every time we go somewhere, every time we do something, every time we visit a website we are urged to share our opinion. Tight companies offer us nothing in return, others offer us a 1 in a million chance to win £10 or something similar. Those lucky enough to… Continue reading Stupid corporate customer surveys
A brief history of time(zones) or why do we keep changing the clocks?
Some of us have just done it and others are about to do it but this week sees many of us changing our clocks to go onto winter time but why do we do this often quite annoying ritual. In the old days every town and village in effect had its own time-zone. When the… Continue reading A brief history of time(zones) or why do we keep changing the clocks?
Stephen Liddell 