At last winter is over. Sort of.

We have endured a season of bank holidays and have jumped the final hurdle – playing around with clocks.

They say that putting the clocks forward gives us an extra hour. I’m not quite sure what I did with it. Maybe it fell down the back of the sofa or [God forbid] into one of the kitchen drawers. It always amazes me why clutter ends up in kitchen drawers? That seems to be a universal problem, along with odd socks and the proliferation of unused wire coat hangers. Certainly I didn’t notice any extra time. I woke up at around the usual time and the only difference was that clocks said something different.

Today is All Fools Day [or as some would have it, April Fool’s Day]. I’m not quite sure what the origin of this is and frankly I couldn’t be arsed to research it. Times past there used to be some great pranks played via radio, television and newspapers. Sadly the practice has dwindled simply because just about any modern headline could be a prank in disguise. The whole world has gone distinctly odd.

So it’s back to normality tomorrow. Time to start chasing the window/insulation mob again. I don’t expect any results but it’s fun annoying them.

Another thing I have decided to do is to get an electrician in to do the ceiling lights. It’s a simple job – replace the current lights with LEDs and replace the dimmer switches with ordinary ones. I rarely used the dimmer function anyway. I would do the job myself but I now find it very difficult to do jobs over my head for some reason. It’s painful and makes me dizzy. I don’t fancy taking a header onto the kitchen floor. I have had fun playing with the flashing garden light by dimming and brightening the kitchen lights but it’s time I grew up.

Time to go looking for that missing hour.

I’m not sure what I’ll do with it if I find it though.