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Goodbye Daylight Saving (DLS), How I hate you

Goodbye Daylight Saving (DLS), How I hate you

The Owl Statue on Sunday morning Prisma

Goodbye daylight saving, I really don’t like daylight saving. I’m an early morning person and I don’t care about having light at the end of the day. I don’t exercise outside after work, I don’t socialise with anyone after work, all I need is light and heat so I can cook and eat.

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In past posts here and on Yummy Lummy I’ve provided assistance to owners of the Ikea VIKIS digital clock who need to change the time for the change in time zone each time we enter or leave DLS.

This year in a fit of annoyance at this clock which makes no sense at all in terms of adjusting time and as part of my general melancholy associated with DLS, I replaced the clock with something else. A clock which is linked to a digital radio signal and which changes the time automatically. This clock lets me listen to the radio and when I am away for work or play when I turn everything off, I don’t have to muck around with setting the time when I return home because as soon as I turn on the power, it displays the correct time.

What have I watched this week?

Star Trek: Discovery

Through the Valley of Shadows

Anson Mount is really impressive as Captain Christopher Pike. In this episode we get some insight into Pike’s future which we already know about from the two part Menagerie episodes from The Original Series.

A recurring concern I have with Star Trek is the dependance across all of the series on the time trope. It may be time travel or an exploration of different time lines. In this episode there is more on time and a nonlinear perspective of it.

Star Trek: Deep Space 9

Business as Usual

I do my weekly ironing on Sundays and watch Star Trek. I’m currently doing a rewatch of Deep Space 9 and aligning it with the Podcast, Dork Trek.

This episode is focussed on Quark who is down on his luck and resorts to selling weapons. I like the Ferengi episodes mostly and Quark is a great character.

What have I listened to this week?

The Audiobook of the year 2018

I did a relisten through the audio book from the No Such Thing as a Fish team.

What have I eaten and photographed this week?

This is a gallery of photographs. Click on one image and scroll through the rest of them.

  • Crispy belly pork 🐖 with Udon noodle soup 🍜 The pork was cooked at 250 °C for 1 hour. The noodles were cooked for 8 minutes in boiling vegetable stock. I then added Bird’s eye chillies 🌶 Fennel, Spring onion, Red onion, and Parsley. #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #bellypork #udonnoodles #soup
  • Crispy belly pork 🐖 with Udon noodle soup 🍜 The pork was cooked at 250 °C for 1 hour. The noodles were cooked for 8 minutes in boiling vegetable stock. I then added Bird’s eye chillies 🌶 Fennel, Spring onion, Red onion, and Parsley. #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #bellypork #udonnoodles #soup
  • Time to TimTam slam while reading about phage therapy.
  • The steak was cooked at 55 °C for 1 hour. The salad has Feta cheese, Avocado, Bird’s eye chillies 🌶 Fennel, Spring onion, Red onion, Lime, Lime juice, Dijon mustard, EVOO, and Parsley. #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #salad #leftovers #sousvide #steak
  • The steak was cooked at 55 °C for 1 hour. The salad has Feta cheese, Avocado, Bird’s eye chillies 🌶 Fennel, Spring onion, Red onion, Lime, Lime juice, Dijon mustard, EVOO, and Parsley. #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #salad #leftovers #sousvide #steak
  • Passion fruit cheese cake and coffee
  • Passion fruit cheese cake with a Coon cheese roll, and coffee
  • Coon cheese and Vegemite breakfast roll for vitality!
  • Coffee and phages
  • Baked balsamic salmon with fennel salad. I baked the salmon for 15 minutes at 250 °C (480 °F). The salad has Feta cheese, Avocado, Bird’s eye chillies 🌶 Fennel, Spring onion, Red onion, Lime, Lime juice, and Parsley. #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #salmon #salad
  • Baked balsamic salmon with fennel salad. I baked the salmon for 15 minutes at 250 °C (480 °F). The salad has Feta cheese, Avocado, Bird’s eye chillies 🌶 Fennel, Spring onion, Red onion, Lime, Lime juice, and Parsley. #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #salmon #salad
  • Baked balsamic salmon with fennel salad. I baked the salmon for 15 minutes at 250 °C (480 °F). The salad has Feta cheese, Avocado, Bird’s eye chillies 🌶 Fennel, Spring onion, Red onion, Lime, Lime juice, and Parsley. #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #salmon #salad
  • Double coat TimTams and coffee
  • Orange and poppyseed birthday cake for work mate
  • Australia Post parcel and mail
  • Australia Post parcel and mail
  • Australia Post parcel and mail
  • Australia Post parcel and mail
  • American Society for Microbiology Manual of Clinical Microbiology 12th edition
  • American Society for Microbiology Manual of Clinical Microbiology 12th edition
  • American Society for Microbiology Manual of Clinical Microbiology 12th edition
  • Chicken schnitzel, sour cream, sweet potato mash, and quinoa salad for payday lunch
  • Chicken schnitzel, sour cream, sweet potato mash, and quinoa salad for payday lunch
  • Chocolate muffin for breakfast
  • Leftover sous vide steak 🥩 with 2 mustards in butter with tomato 🍅 and avocado 🥑 The steak was cooked at 55 °C for 1 hour. The steak was seared in a hot frypan. #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #sousvide #steak
  • Leftover sous vide steak 🥩 with 2 mustards in butter with tomato 🍅 and avocado 🥑 The steak was cooked at 55 °C for 1 hour. The steak was seared in a hot frypan. #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #sousvide #steak
  • Coles Graze Porterhouse steak 0.192 kilograms $6.91
  • Coles Graze Porterhouse steak
  • Anova Culinary Precision Cooker
  • Crispy pork 🐖 belly with 🌶 quinoa rice 🍚 The pork was cooked for 1 hour at 250 °C. The quinoa rice was cooked with steam under pressure for 20 minutes. #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #porkbelly #pressurecooker #autoclave
  • Crispy pork 🐖 belly with 🌶 quinoa rice 🍚 The pork was cooked for 1 hour at 250 °C. The quinoa rice was cooked with steam under pressure for 20 minutes. #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #porkbelly #pressurecooker #autoclave
  • Brie, Blue cheese, and Smoked cheddar cheese with dried fruits
  • Saturday morning snack. Burrito bowl with pulled pork and guacamole.
  • Saturday breakfast. Fried egg on butter fried sourdough toast.
  • Coffee and work
  • Coffee and biscuit
  • Chicken schnitzel with hot chips and gravy
  • Ironing a shirt
  • Fast slow cooker
  • Camera on tripod
  • Yummy Lummy Reef and Beef 🐄 Steak 🥩 prawns 🦐 and scallops Sous vide steak and seared scallops. Served with quinoa rice 🍚 #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #sousvide #steak #prawns #scallops
  • Yummy Lummy Reef and Beef 🐄 Steak 🥩 prawns 🦐 and scallops Sous vide steak and seared scallops. Served with quinoa rice 🍚 #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #sousvide #steak #prawns #scallops
  • Birds on Lake Ginninderra on Sunday morning
  • Lake Ginninderra South on Sunday morning
  • Abandoned shopping trolley in Belconnen on Sunday morning
  • Abandoned shopping trolley in Belconnen on Sunday morning
  • The Owl Statue on Sunday morning Prisma
  • The Owl Statue on Sunday morning
  • The Owl Statue on Sunday morning
  • Sangean Digital Radio
  • Chicken thigh schnitzel cheese and bacon sandwich
  • Chicken thigh schnitzel cheese and bacon sandwich
  • Dobinsons Bakery New York style cheesecake with passion fruit and raspberries
  • Dobinsons Bakery New York style cheesecake with passion fruit and raspberries
  • Dobinsons Bakery New York style cheesecake with passion fruit and raspberries

Yummy Lummy this week

I made a reef and beef (or surf and turf) dinner with steak, prawns, and scallops.

Yummy Lummy Reef and Beef 🐄 Steak 🥩 prawns 🦐 and scallops Sous vide steak and seared scallops. Served with quinoa rice 🍚 #YummyLummy #foodphotography #hypop #foldio #sousvide #steak #prawns #scallops

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Final thoughts

  • Are you a fan of daylight saving?
  • If daylight saving didn’t exist, would you be upset?
  • Do you like a clock that sets the time automatically?

14 Replies to “Goodbye Daylight Saving (DLS), How I hate you”

  1. I love daylight saving as I used to live in Scotland and I loved when as a child it was light until really late at night.
    The opposite to that was having to go to school in the early morning dark, not so good.
    I love the summer side of daylight saving when you can spend time in the garden after getting home from work.

    1. Thanks, Heather. I think because I’m an early person and I really have no interest in outdoor living, especially once I’m home and in my kitchen, I see little point. In the tropics and even in Brisbane, I recall the trials of DLS. It was horrible. We had a west facing kitchen so in the late afternoon early evening when Mum was wanting to cook and we were wanting to eat it was just hot and uncomfortable.

    2. I guess Queensland doesn’t really need daylight saving, one of the disadvantages of being such a vast country.

  2. When I ate dairy Gas, I used to love the Dobinsons banana toffee cream pie – so many calories but SO delicious. And the vegetarian pies were great too.

  3. I am actually quite shocked you only now got a clock that changes the time automatically… 😐 To be honest I feel changing the time backwards and forwards is mucking around. That said, I like the extra hour and I like the sun to shine as long as possible into the night. Places in Finland and Norway there is no sunset in the middle of the year, and I hope to one day experience that 😀

    1. I was in Helsinki at the end of June one year. It was amazing being out at midnight and there was enough light to see things without turning on a light.
      It would be interesting to be in Helsinki at the end of December to experience the lack of all light. It would be cold though.
      Ideally, I’d like to live in Singapore or Hawaii and have minimal variation 😃😃😃

    2. Now you make me want to visit Helsinki even more in the summer. I wonder if I could go days without sleeping because of all that light.

      Singapore would be an ideal place for you to live, Gaz. Tropical weather, theme parks, good food, easy to get around 😀

    3. I was thinking that after you visit helsinki, you should do a stop over in Singapore to get used to normal time 😃
      I agree, I think Singapore would be a perfect place for me to live.

    4. That would be a workable itinerary. Direct to Helsinki. Stopover in London for fish and chips. Stopover in Hong Kong for dim sum. Stopover in Singapore for more food and well, for you theme parks.

      I can so see you holidaying and eating your way around the world 😃

  4. Every time the clocks change I like to have a mechanical watch or click I can check the morning after. I look at it and know it is wrong, and then I can walk around and check the rest of my things.

    Turns out I no longer have anything in the house that needs manual intervention, even the car looks after itself 😀

    1. The only clock I had to touch today was in my car. Even my watch (Garmin) changed automatically.

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