Kazak Clock Conundrum
No one told my housemate the clocks go back. She stared at me with disbelief at the news that the clocks had gone back. Gone back? Gone back where? Gone back to Clock land? To their Swiss factory perhaps? She is from Kazakstan, where the clocks do not exhibit such strange behaviour as ‘going back’. The poor girl just lost a whole hour somewhere, and yesterday, it seems, was a very confusing day, where people stared at her with incredulity as she arrived one hour early for EVERYTHING. And it seems to have taken her a full 24 hours to click that someone has fiddled with the nations time keeping.
If you have Kazakstan housemates, it’s your duty to tell them the clocks go back. Britain can be a very confusing place as it is when you’re from the windswept badlands of Eurasia, so don’t make it worse by letting them arrive for lectures, buses and appointments one hour early. Remember this for spring too!
