Spring has Sprung!

With the clocks having gone forward on Sunday and daffodils making a sudden appearance everywhere (reminding me of that old Wordsworth poem), spring is truly here, finally.

After almost six months of 4-5 pm sunsets, it is unnerving to see daylight at 7 pm; throws me completely off track resulting in delays everywhere. You see, my sometimes-still-in-Mumbai brain tells me that if it's bright outside there's still time for dinner, clearing up, tv or sleep. Of course, like many other things, Europe doesn't do things like Mumbai does... hence the confusion. Even a year and some months later, the clock in my head hasn't adjusted to daylight savings time.

In a matter of weeks, sunset will progress from the current 7 something to 9-10 pm. We won't remember then, what it was like, for the past six months, to walk home from work in pitch darkness with some rain for good measure. We'll conveniently forget the half-dozen layers that kept us warm and soak in every sunny opportunity we can. From now until end of September, we'll look forward to brighter mornings, open feet, bare arms and perhaps, even sunglasses.

Till the leaves fall again, here's looking forward to the next six months.