"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
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Anne Burgess wrote:

We had (single) summer time all year round for a while in the
70s or
80s and as I recall, the inhabitants of the western Highlands
and
Hebrides moaned like hell about the risk to schoolchildren
going to
school in the dark.
Most of them these days are transported to school by bus.

Or car - over a distance so short that it would be as quick to walk it.
It's
been quite educational to be in a pub opposite a junior school in the
afternoon and watch the parents pick up the kids. You see them then
driving
themselves and the kids out from the side road near the school and out
onto
a dangerous bend, one hand on the wheel whilst the other clamps the phone
to
their ear.

LOL, you try *living* directly opposite a primary school!
My road is small & narrow and if I am ever off work and around at
school chucking-out time it's mayhem. The road gradually becomes
clogged with Chelsea tractors around 15 mins before their little
darlings are actually let out, then they're all jostling for position to
actually get out.
Sheer madness!
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl