Daylight Savings

lt's that time of year again - when we gain an hour as we put our clocks back and bid adieu to daylight savings for another year. It's just after 7.30pm and it seems like it should really be bedtime - but I have to stay awake for hours yet! Which presents a wonderful opportunity to be doing "stuff" - including blogging!
The big question is whether I did manage to save any daylight this year. Unfortunately no. But I did learn something about daylight savings. It was apparently introduced during the War years in a European country - a way of increasing war-time production without increasing costs - with daylight savings the factories could work an hour longer into the evening without having to turn lights on. Who would have thought that daylight savings would be based on a practicality? Of course, the odd practicality of daylight savings is that our cats can't tell time and there was a little insistent furry paw waking me up at 4am (yesterday's 5am and their usual feeding time).