It's ridiculous. If we keep the clocks as they are now for the winter, it will be dark in the mornings when the children go to school. Normally in winter it's only just getting light when my two go off to school, but this way they would be travelling and arriving at school, still in the dark. Ok, the evenings would be lighter but the mornings darker so I don't see what they think they would be achieving. In summer it hardly matters either way as it is light so late anyway. In the middle of summer it isn't getting dark until 10 so this would mean not getting dark until 11. Too late I think.

I don't remember the 70s trial as I was in Australia. Speaking of which, Western Australia had a couple of try-outs for daylight saving and letters to the paper complained that "The extra hour of daylight is fading my curtains" and "The extra hour of daylight is putting my hens off laying"!! WA is introducing it again this year despite the fact that past referenda have shown a resounding "No".

Love Lynne