EAGLETON NOTES

Why is nothing ever simple? I’m tempted to say that there was a time in all our lives when things were simple relative to today and, in a wa...

 For a long time my natural instinct has been to use the 24 hour clock. I was recently given an appointment at the dentist for a rather odd ...

Everyone, except the young (which is, I admit, quite a lot of the world's population) knows that as one gets older time speeds up. For ...

I was pondering the other day on the marvel of the modern bus stop. The bus shelter had a display telling me where the next bus was going a...

CJ posted an interesting perspective on Daylight Saving Time - DST (which in Britain we call British Summer Time - BST) here .  That and th...

I have had one of those days when I've only ventured outside when I really had to.  The wind has been  cold and almost gale force and, d...

I have a kitchen clock which is guaranteed to be correct at all time to within one millionth or whatever of the Rugby Time Signal.  It's...

I do choose original titles don’t I? I arrived back on the Island on Saturday afternoon to be met at the Airport by a long huge hug from P...

For those of you who have read Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth  this posting may come as no revelation nor surprise.  ...

I wake.  I wonder what time it is.  No point lying here.  The time doesn't present itself as a thought.  I open an eye slowly.  As I do ...