No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

@Siamsa Sessions wouldn't want to be in a rush now would ya

Adrian @IFarmWeFarm7615 on "Raised by a village" RTE 1

For any of ye interested in fishing. Youngest sent me this pic of a skate a few mins ago. Caught off the West coast of Scotland. It's a big fish measured at 170lbs (they measure the width of the fins and length from nose to tail) but not the largest he has caught. He caught one last year that measured 208lbs. For those that are not familiar - skates are protected in Irish and UK waters - the fish was returned to the water and swam away.

Edit to add - youngest is a Marine Scientist working in Scotland.

Well it's time to bite the bullet today and go for it, full new time/English time it is, and it's fairly black outside. As if the days weren't long enough, and I'm half wrecked after the spring as it is.

I'd a tough week of it but meal times have adjusted and I'm starting to get to bed on time too. I'd a ta-raa with the milk lorry driver early in the week over it. He normally calls around 9, which is grand, but the clock in the parlour normally isn't changed at all. Didn't my mother pass a comment on it and then I saw it some evening I was abit late, thought she had put it forward, and in a fit of pique, I put it back again. This of course made me late for the lorry but I started giving out to him for coming at 8! anyway, we're all good again.

I remember doing my 3 month placement and didn't the farmer go cold turkey, clocks turned the full hour in one bang. That was some shock to have him banging at the door and I only in bed a few hours. It didn't help that we'd been out racing buggys in the forestry til 4 that night. Time to crack on now.

English time? Did we not just go to Irish time?

GMT + 1, which we are in since last weekend, is Irish Standard Time (IST).

You must be very regimental in your eating and sleeping times if it’s taken a week to get used to it! You’d never survive contracting where you’d get fed any hour of the day or a lot of the time not fed at all😂

"Winter time is GMT, ie Greenwich UK. Current time is IST ie Irish Standard Time or as it's known for it's UK offset BST British Summer Time."

So it is now, but for the purposes of this story, I was referring back to the foundations of the state when the transition from Dublin Mean Time and the introduction of daylight savings time were passed through in the last years of the British governance in Ireland and we're thus associated.

https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/daylight-saving-the-troubled-history-of-irish-time