A WEEK IN PHOTOS

The Week The Clocks Went Back Or Forward…

… Or Back By Decades

Penny Grubb
Weeds & Wildflowers
6 min readNov 10, 2024

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This Was the Week the Clocks Went Back in Our Part of the World

Dial fascism to return to the past. Photo: Penny Grubb

This week saw many articles about time zones, daylight saving, and the clocks changing. Barb Dalton catches the mood of the pros and cons where she notes that Falling Back One Hour is Fleetingly Heavenly.

But as we sat in our darker evening in Europe whilst our Australian friends forged ahead of us into tomorrow, someone put a spoke through the wheel across the Atlantic, and the USA crashed back by eight decades.

Earlier in the week, while American women’s autonomy was still in the balance, I came across this powerful story of Debra G. Harman, MEd.’s sudden and unexpected encounter with life-threatening complications of an unsuspected pregnancy when she and her husband were working in Cambodia.

As Debra says in the article:

No one, and I truly mean no one, from a developed country would choose a…

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An award-winning crime novelist & long-time amateur poultry keeper, who specialised in teaching methods, healthcare & software engineering as an academic.

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