As I mentioned a few posts ago (October 22), daylight-savings time was due to come to an end, which it did this last weekend (at 2:00am on Sunday morning to be precise, when the clocks went back to 1:00am — giving a one-off gift of an extra hour's sleep!). So far, it hasn't been as bad as I remember it from the UK in 1994 (perhaps I was better prepared for what to expect!). The evenings are getting dark around 5:30 (rather than 6:30), but it's still no worse than winter in Grahamstown. At the other end of the day, the sky was just starting to lighten up at 6:15 this morning when I got back to Davis from the weekend in Rocklin, which was a pleasant change from the pitch dark.
Of course, the time-change means we are now ten hours behind SA time — even more inconvenient a difference than before!
The weather took a turn for the worse over the weekend, with the halloween drizzle carrying on for most of Saturday (the newspaper reported a total of about 1.6" (roughly 35–40mm) of rain for Friday and Saturday. That made for a very good day to stay inside and read, which was pretty much what happened! Sunday brightened up a bit, but today (Monday) has been colder (about 15°C) and drizzly again. Oh well, I guess winter and the attendant rain had to come sometime.
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