"I propose for 10 and a half months of the year we have American Work Time, when we do our jobs and then, every August, we have American No Time".

Earlier this year, various people — including Donald Trump — started to wonder out loud if it would be a good idea to stick with Summer Time all year around. Every year when this topic comes up and it seems like a fairly harmless suggestion, but it is always met with considerable hostility.

Those who rise early say that, in fact, we would be much better off sticking with Winter Time all year round.

And then you have those who say that we should have Summer Time in the winter and then double Summer Time in the summer. This is what happened in the UK, during the war and every year the suggestion is still made.

But this argument seems to find little favor with some people. “No. We can’t have the clocks going even further forwards than they do now because then we’d be in the same time zone as the bloody Frogs.”

You even have Cornish people saying that, under the present system, they have midday when it’s still only 10:30 in the morning. And that any change would cause noon to fall between their bacon and their eggs. And in Scotland, where it is so close to the equator, of course it is permanent daylight in the summer and constantly dark in the winter, it makes more sense to dispense with time altogether and become a badger or a bat.

Naturally, road-safety organizations are particularly vocal on the issue. They say that year-round lighter evenings would make it safer for “kiddies” coming home from school — and this is probably true. But on the downside, it would surely increase the number killed while fumbling their way to lessons in the pitch black mornings.

I know this probably hasn’t occurred to the Societies that set up for the Prevention of Accidents — an organization that endeavors to prevent an incident that, by its very nature, cannot be foreseen — but if I’ve got to be hit by a bus or truck, I don’t really care whether it’s in the morning or the afternoon. I do, however, care about the question of time. My life has become so hectic in recent years that I didn't even have time yesterday to go to have dinner. And the day before, I was so busy I forgot to breathe.

I’m sitting here now with a dull ache in my head. It’s been throbbing for a few days. I suspect it’s just a headache. But I do not know for sure because I have not had a moment even to telephone the doctor for an appointment.

I suspect I’m not alone, either. I bet thousands of people die every year because they simply didn’t have the time to get better.

We’re all in the same boat. It used to be easy to meet friends for a drink or dinner. Not anymore. Now, they are always chained to their laptops or stuck in a meeting. And woe betide the man who suggests “one for the road” at the end of the evening. Because everyone has to be up at five to fly to New York.

Never mind Summer Time or Winter Time. Hosts now need flexible Party Time to accommodate those who are popping in after work because they need to be up early and those who have been in the office till gone midnight. You are just finishing serving one lot with coffee and mints when the next batch arrive and want a prawn cocktail. This means you can go next door and get jet lag.

I have exactly the same job running a business now as I had five years ago, it was a slightly different industry to running a cleaning company, but the principles are still the same. All my friends have exactly the same jobs, too. And, thanks to electronic communication, those jobs should be easier. Even allowing for the fact that we must set aside two hours of the day to root about in a cupboard, trying to read the serial number of the wi-fi router so it can be fixed by a man in Mumbai, we can still deal with stuff far faster than we could in the days of ink and stamps.

There’s more. In the past, if we wanted to do some Christmas shopping, we needed to drive into a town and then drive around for hours to park. Now, we can do it all online. Cooking? No need. I just move the mouse around a bit and in a matter of moments a motorcycling delivery guy is at my door with a steaming pile of Chinese food, pizza or sushi.

In my kitchen there is a tap that delivers boiling water from what feels like the center of the earth, so that I don’t have to stand around waiting for a kettle to boil. Coffee comes instantly from the wall. The air is conditioned, so I don’t need to step outside for a breather.

All of these things should mean we now have several free hours in the day to write thank-you letters and do stuff with the kids. And yet like most kids in the area, my daughter has been off school most of the week because of the fires and I have struggled to find time to do some fun stuff with her. Not even fleetingly. Because I’m so busy, and I know I am not the only one as we have had several calls from potential new clients whom have all said the same.

My mother says often that I should slow down. I bet your mother does, too. But for me, this is not possible. If I had chosen to spend the past few hours making daisy chains with my daughter, this blog would not have been written. Which effects my business. This, therefore, is the problem we need to be addressing. Instead of listening to a few folk, we need a whole new strategy.

At present, it’s a nuisance changing all the clocks in your house twice a year, so here’s what I propose. For 10 and a half months of the year, we have Work Time, when we do our jobs and mend our routers and have heart attacks.

And then, every July and 2 weeks over Christmas, we can have Down Time, when the speaking clock is turned off and every big clock across the nation is covered in tarpaulin. You can get up when you feel like it, sit in the garden until it’s too chilly and go to bed when you are tired. They have a similar system in France and it’s one of the reasons why they all live to the age of 136.

Whilst the above is suggestion is absurd, we find historically as the clocks fall back we find an increase in inquiries for people wanting their homes cleaned as the holidays loom. And this year the clocks hadn’t quite gone back and we have found this increase already. We find generally people are just so busy particularly this time of year, that they don’t have time to get everything done and cleaning their home is the first thing people wish to pass to someone else.

We expect more calls too after the recent effects from the fires.

If you are in the position where you have limited time, but need house cleaning services, then please do not leave it til the last minute to call us. We had 4 calls the past week, where folks have wanted a deep clean before a party they were hosting for Halloween.

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