Existence is not only temporary, it's pointless!

Hobart in the Spring. King Street, Sandy Bay. September 2012.

This Sunday, my Top Five celebrates the fact that we have shifted our clocks! Yes, it is My Top Five Things That I Like Best About The Shift To Daylight Saving Time!

It makes the walk home from work far more pleasant.

It means that my usual wake up time of 4:30 am is now the [slightly] more acceptable 5:30 am!

It saves on lightbulbs!

It broadens the scope of my photography (especially when you're stuck at work for the bulk of the day.

It supports my thesis that Western Australians and Queenslanders are simpleminded and needlessly antithetical.

Comments

Sue said…

It's not that I mind daylight savings but rather the timing of the start of it in Victoria. It comes after two weeks of school holidays when the darlings have gotten into the bad habit of sleeping late and getting up at ridiculous times. This always causes problems when they come back to school half asleep and/or late for the first few days and/or week. It makes more sense to bring it in at the start of the holidays so they adjust to losing that hour in the holidays as well as having an extra hour of light through the hols to enjoy. Whatever...I just think that makes more sense for us here in Vic. Apart from that, I like daylight savings too. Western Australians and Queenslanders just don't like the fact that the extra daylight fades their curtains!!! hahahahahaha

7 October 2012 at 10:07

Annie said…

whoooa...you need to come live in Queensland for a while..before you widely/wildly generalize.
;-)

Daylight saving may make perfect sense down south, but we already have and live our own daylight saving here. It is already light at 4.30am if anyone wishes to arise and use the daylight. A lot of us actually do. It is a wonderful time of day, cool and quiet.
I fail to see why arbitrarily shifting the hands on a clock makes it any better for anyone. Just makes grumpy people who don't want to get out of bed early, even grumpier by making them do so!

From a quiet fan of your blog. Very interesting.

Enjoy your daylight savings while you may!

8 October 2012 at 05:52

Kris McCracken said…

Moan moan moan! ;D

Peter Beattie said that DS would cause skin cancer. Last time I looked, it doesn't actually add sunshine onto the day...

12 October 2012 at 16:39

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral...

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

Here is a self portrait. I’m calling it Portrait of a lady in a dirty window . Shocking, isn’t it? However, it is apt! Samhain , Nos Galan Gaeaf , Hop-tu-Naa , All Saints , All Hallows , Hallowmas , Hallowe'en or HALLOWEEN . It’s Theme Thursday and we’re talking about the festivals traditionally held at the end of the harvest season. Huh? No wonder Australians have trouble with the concept of HALLOWEEN. For the record, in my thirty-two L O N G years on the planet, I can’t say I’ve ever seen ghosts ‘n goblins, trick ‘n treaters or Michael Myers stalking Tasmania’s streets at the end of October. [That said, I did once see a woman as pale as a ghost turning tricks that looked like Michael Myers in late November one time.] Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, sitcoms, and innumerable companies; it seems Australians are impervious to the [ahem] charms of a corporatized variant of a celebration of the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darke...

In dreams begin responsibilities.

A life at sea, that's for me, only I just don't have the BREAD. That's right, Theme Thursday yet again and I post a photo of a yacht dicking about in Bass Strait just off Wynyard. The problem is, I am yet again stuck at work, slogging away, because I knead need the dough . My understanding is that it is the dough that makes the BREAD. And it is the BREAD that buys the yacht. On my salary though, I will be lucky to have enough dough or BREAD for a half dozen dinner rolls. Happy Theme Thursday people, sorry for the rush.

This will hurt me...

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