Max, so busy with my own distractions, I forgot to say how I liked this. As
you know, in the West we knocked Daylight saving on the head after a trial
run: crazy! I like it. & in business over here it is a real disadvantage
being three hours behind the rest of the nation!
In CHina, it is all Beijing time, north, south, east and west. Maybe we
should do that here - make Australia all Sydney time <g> As a Melbournian,
you will of course disagree, but the way it is now is annoying ...
Thanks again for the poem
Andrew
On 13 October 2010 08:52, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Daylight Saving
>
>
> It means getting up earlier,
> enjoying longer evenings.
>
> After all, the sun for weeks has been
> gradually rising earlier.
>
> But it's a jolt,
> one hour in one hit.
>
> That first Sunday can be a day
> of shock (depending on the weather -
>
> this year was OK),
> a morning for more coffee.
>
> And the afternoon so drawn out!
> Maybe an extra meal will be needed.
>
> And all the possibilities
> outdoors, longer games, day-trips...
>
> anyone for Bendigo
> or one of the remoter bays?
>
> You northerners, up there
> in the top-heavy hemisphere,
>
> as the dark closes in
> how is it for you?
>
> Chill winds blow no good
> through your yellow-leaved trees.
>
> Here it's blossom time
> everywhere except my garden -
>
> its lank weeds have sprung again.
> Season for clenched fists
>
> against thistles and their kin.
> Straightening my creaking back,
>
> I scan the slow evening sky
> above the tree-line - new moon!
>
> Oh, the same one shines on you,
> but here it's in a clear dark blue,
>
> on its side, smirking
> like a smiley emoticon,
>
> Venus nearby, and over there,
> that could well be Mars,
>
> awaiting co-option
> in the flag of some new nation.
>
> Craning my neck I may see the Southern
> Cross, already borrowed for two flags,
>
> my native New Zealand's (four stars),
> my long-time five-star home, Australia's.
>
> Took them both an age
> to go in for daylight saving,
>
> worries about the dairy cows
> and the curtains fading,
>
> especially in Queensland,
> holding out longest,
>
> a confusing problem in Tweed Heads
> straddling the New South Wales border...
>
> bars opening an hour earlier on one side,
> closing an hour later on t'other.
>
> A problem for some, a gift to others.
> That was then. Now is daylight saving.
>
> Max Richards
> in Melbourne
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--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
http://www.picaropress.com/
http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
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