tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post7950291836556851039..comments2024-03-28T05:16:26.153+00:00Comments on You are witty and pretty! : Ss-ss--Summertime Blues... Brittahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-15561702625676438832015-03-30T11:10:13.439+01:002015-03-30T11:10:13.439+01:00Dear Geo., thank you! Good to find a brother in ar...Dear Geo., thank you! Good to find a brother in arms (and many sisters, when I look at the comments above) After posting I already felt quite silly - but than I thought: I am, so what - I love lightness - The importance of Being Earnest can wait. Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-334771316917336762015-03-30T11:09:51.064+01:002015-03-30T11:09:51.064+01:00Dear Geo., thank you! Good to find a brother in ar...Dear Geo., thank you! Good to find a brother in arms (and many sisters, when I look at the comments above) After posting I already felt quite silly - but than I thought: I am, so what - I love lightness - The importance of Being Earnest can wait. Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-9189705527815125602015-03-30T11:06:19.251+01:002015-03-30T11:06:19.251+01:00Dear Susan, now that is a story! Imagine to almost...Dear Susan, now that is a story! Imagine to almost miss the aeroplane...But not to feel the time change shows that your vacation must have been a wonderful one: without stress by deadlines, no diktat of the watch... <br />I will go to Crete (for the first time in my life) end of May. Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-75003302547780773742015-03-30T06:49:29.539+01:002015-03-30T06:49:29.539+01:00Dear Brigitta, I can never remember if it is sprin...Dear Brigitta, I can never remember if it is spring back --as if from a threat-- and fall forward --less injurious than falling backwards-- or the other way around. As Shakespeare asked: Is it nobler in the mind to be clueless in California or timeless in Berlin? Delightful post!Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-48349325775236816772015-03-29T22:46:24.828+01:002015-03-29T22:46:24.828+01:00We once took a vacation on Crete during the week w...We once took a vacation on Crete during the week when Greece changed to daylight savings time. We had no idea, the whole of the time. At our last hotel, which had specified mealtimes, we didn't realize we were an hour late for every meal and couldn't understand why the restaurant was almost empty. On the last day, we went to ask if we could have a late checkout and were advised it was already well past time. (They were very nice about it.) Shocked, we told them what we thought the time was, and were finally disabused. We very nearly missed our plane!Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-24519137551222682092015-03-29T20:43:45.477+01:002015-03-29T20:43:45.477+01:00Dear Emma, I love that : "share their foibles...Dear Emma, I love that : "share their foibles with everyone"! Yes, they do - though it is proven now (well: statistics) that at least the German citizens don't want it, and economy doesn't see sense in it either. And as you say: when finally the circadian rhythm has get used to it: they change it again...Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-11158696453809593182015-03-29T20:34:56.380+01:002015-03-29T20:34:56.380+01:00Since childhood I have said that if some people wa...Since childhood I have said that if some people want to get up an hour earlier let them. Leave me alone! But no... they must share their foibles with everyone else. So we all have to endure the dreaded daylight saving time. Just when we get used to it they go and decide to sleep an hour later so we go back to standard time. Make up your mind!Emma Springfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10543689047463574012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-221374079194138062015-03-29T18:19:24.215+01:002015-03-29T18:19:24.215+01:00Dear Pondside, you speak out of my heart! "pl...Dear Pondside, you speak out of my heart! "plunged into darkness for no good reason" - that is what I feel -- might be that I work with re- or suppression, who knows - sort of rebellion (which does not serve me anyway, my brain knows it). Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-20657565103443220472015-03-29T18:10:31.361+01:002015-03-29T18:10:31.361+01:00I have nothing helpful to add, being very resentfu...I have nothing helpful to add, being very resentful of this arbitrary time change. We went forward a month ago and it was hard! I'd come to enjoy the sunrise earlier and earlier and was at once plunged back into darkness for no good reason. Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-29078838917193350662015-03-29T17:05:16.683+01:002015-03-29T17:05:16.683+01:00Dear Rosemary, thank you! If it were so simple - :...Dear Rosemary, thank you! If it were so simple - :-). <br />Recent psycological and medical studies showed, that the dychotomy between left- and right brainers is a myth. "The pop psychology notion of a left brain and a right brain doesn’t capture their intimate working relationship. The left hemisphere specializes in picking out the sounds that form words and working out the syntax of the words, for example, but it does not have a monopoly on language processing. The right hemisphere is actually more sensitive to the emotional features of language, tuning in to the slow rhythms of speech that carry intonation and stress." <br />Well - and added: I am a person using both hands equally a "both hander" (my father and our son are absolute pure left-handers) - and tests told me often that my brain works as highly creative as highly analytical. But evidently NOT when summertime change is concerned. And: I added "forward" to spring - but jumped right back :-) Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8594057670762283940.post-67225442586616880832015-03-29T14:40:00.621+01:002015-03-29T14:40:00.621+01:00I think that the left side of your brain must be m...I think that the left side of your brain must be more dominant Britta than the right. Now have I got that correct or not?<br />By adding an extra word perhaps it would help - <br />i.e. Spring forwards - Fall backwards.Rosemaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03814070177137076757noreply@blogger.com