'Oos that, then?

The dark mornings are beginning to become wearing. Shortly there’ll be a respite, as the clock goes back and we enjoy GMT once again.

Every so often someone comes along with the idea to stop the clocks being turned back for a variety of reasons and once - in the UK - we tried it for a whole year or so. Didn’t like it.

Road safety is the single most touted reason for keeping the clocks on BST.  But that was before schools started - slowly - to adopt the continental-style of timing, with earlier starting times and much earlier endings.  And, personally, the thought of driving in the dark while a horde of mothers combine driving their 4 x 4s with telling the kids to be quiet, settling arguments, realising they’re going to be late for school, thinking of what they’re going to pick up from Tesco’s and watch the road ahead is more than a little scary.

And there is evidence that many find coming round to full operational status first thing on a dark morning very difficult, with slower reaction times, lessened sensitivity to stimulus and inhibited  cognition, all useful to have in spades as you head towards a crowded roundabout heaving with the aforesaid mothers and using Land cruisers as elbows.

No; keeping things as they are with the possible exception that bringing the hour change forward a couple of weeks is probably the ideal. Alternatively, we could all hibernate.