Well the year  is gradually getting longer, so you will get that extra day eventually

Quote from: fsn on 28 March 2021, 09:01:39 AM
Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.

Huh, unless you have small children in the house, who get up after x hours of sleep, which is of course now an hour earlier according to the clock. So you end up getting up an hour earlier, and staying awake for an hour longer on the Sunday.

Quote from: fsn on 28 March 2021, 09:01:39 AM
Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.

We should dispense with the going forward and keep the going back.

What could go wrong?

Wrong (with the autumn extra hour) is if you're n that night-shift.

Latest news from Suez Canal - they are considering taking off the handles and the things wot hold the candles

Gentlemen.

As you know, 2021 is the year of Nobby's Napoleonics.

I have carefully planned the British element (taken from the Waterloo OOB) but may have goofed somewhat.  My current scheme is for 19 bttns of infantry, 5 regiments of cavalry and 7 batteries of artillery - 1140 infantry, 200 cavalry, about 150 artillery. This, I thought, reflected the ratios of Wellington's army.  It does - but not the BRITISH elements of Wellington's army.   

To properly reflect the British element, I need to add a further 5 regiments of cavalry. Now, my conundrum is this: do I want to add a further 200 cavalrymen (Leon - stay out of this) to what is already a force too big to reasonably field on my table, or do I just say "stuff it"? My cavalry is 3 of Light Dragoons and 2 of Dragoons, and I fear that I perforce would have to field either Hussars (nasty foreign things, suitable only for Continentals) or the Life Guards.  Certainly I'd have to add the Scots Greys to complete Ponsonby's Brigade.

What to do? What .. to ... do?

 

The great unanswered Waterloo question...
Did the Brunswick cavalry return home, or did the Duke raise a second unit?
I have heard both over the years.
So you neeeeeeeeeed Brunswickers!

Quote from: fsn on 28 March 2021, 09:01:39 AM
Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.

When I am on nights the clock going forward means I work an hour less. If I am on nights it when it goes forward I get an hours overtime.  win Win as far as I am concerned. 

I'm retired and single. I go to bed when I'm tired and get up when I wake. Clocks? What are they?

Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 30 March 2021, 08:46:39 PM
So you neeeeeeeeeed Brunswickers!

469 infantry, 92 cavalry, 2 artillery batteries already purchased. 

Quote from: Last Hussar on 28 March 2021, 02:14:09 PM
Latest news from Suez Canal - they are considering taking off the handles and the things wot hold the candles

They shited it, another 1000 camels I understand

Well the last day of shielding for our son, which is great news! His highlight for tomorrow will be able to go shopping again and regain some semblance of independence and normality. Quite weird yesterday going for a long walk with our daughter and seeing people socialising in groups again, which was nice, but sadly many exceeding the rule of 6 or two family groups and more importantly social distancing.

Quote from: ianrs54 on 31 March 2021, 05:59:21 AM
They shited it, another 1000 camels I understand

That sounds rather painful

Probably for ut camels 

Quote from: Orcs on 31 March 2021, 08:04:58 AM
That sounds rather painful

Just keep it on 'Summer Time' for me! 

Hmph! What were the Henges 'Set ' at?     SOMEONE Had to know when to get up to 'Do the Biz' !... "EVERY Year, EVERY Bl***Y Year... TWICE!" 

Last para in particular

Built-Up Area - Michael Flanders
In case it isn't obvious, this is about Stonehenge...

There's so much building go on everywhere else - on Salisbury Plain nothing, no building at all. There hasn't been any building there for about, ooh, four thousand years I suppose, really. Even then, I daresay, back in Neolithic times, there was some old Stone Age man standing in the observation platform watching what was going on. I daresay he didn't care for it much either...

Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Well wot's this then? You're not going to put up these great ugly stone blocks 'ere, are you? You can't do that! I've got Ancient Lights on my cave! Well, what is it anyway? A henge? Well, what's a henge? You may call it megalithic culture, I call it vandalism! I suppose you realise this is about the last nesting place for mammoths in the whole of Wessex?

What with them building up the long barrows and the round barrows and the bell-shaped barrows... They've started cutting out these white horses on the hillside now, have you seen that? I don't know - it's some sort of ad for mead, I think. They don't call 'em the Beaker Folk for nothing! And then you come dragging along these great prefabricated dominoes all over the roads! They're not meant for that sort of traffic. Every fine weekend it's the same story: ox-carts nose to tail all the way from 'ere to the coast.

I don't know where you get that stone from anyway - that's not local stone - I can tell. You get it from where? The Preseli Mountains? In Wales? I know it's in Wales - I've been abroad. Ooh, what'd'yer want to bring it all the way... You're bringing it the wrong way anyway: you want to bring it round the Chanctonbury Ring road, avoiding earthworks at Avebury.

What a horrible lookin' thing! That's all there is to it is then? Just two up and one across the top all the way round? Well if that's modern architecture, roll on the Ice Age I say! Well, you'll never get a roof on it for a start - never get twigs big enough! Yes, we 'ad a wood henge here once but it rotted. These big picture windows you've got all the way around the bottom: oh, they look very nice, yes, I grant you but what about the draughts? What about the lack of privacy? Who wants to live in a thing like that? Will you tell me when they start movin' in, won't yer? We get a pretty rowdy crowd in some of these new developments. I don't want to end up under the altar stone in a crouching position!

It's not going to be lived in? Well, that's something anyway. What is it then? It's a what? You're pulling my... a calendar? Well, it's a bit big for a calendar isn't it? I mean, you'd look a bit silly with that on your desk, wouldn't you? Well, how'd you work it then? You come up 'ere every morning before dawn - well better you than me, mate - and when the rising Sun throws a shadow of that big stone onto this flat one 'ere, then we shall know if it's Summer. Well, that will be very helpful, I must say. But is it Summer? You can't tell. Well, I'd better come and help you shovel the snow off it then...