Unfortunately she couldn't turn back time and the pain she caused the man she was singing about, Sonny Bono caused him to ski at full speed into a tree and die.
It's always good to see time in the news and today is no exception. There are plans in the works to bring time forward by an hour making the days lighter and the mornings darker. I'm not quite sure about the reason for this but apparently it is going to be a good thing.
However, the Scottish don't think that its a good idea because they feel that if the mornings are darker, they will have more car accidents. Could this point be valid? When Princess Diana died, she was in Paris where the clocks are one hour ahead, so it appears that the Scottish might have a point.
William Wallace, one of the disenting voices in the clocks going forward one hour debate.
Although I have just said that the Scottish are against the idea, the BBC website states: "...There have been fears expressed in Scotland that putting the clocks forward would increase road accidents in the darker mornings."
So there is no real evidence that the Scottish are against the idea, just that fears had been expressed in Scotland. It is quite concievable that a foreign visitor to scotland could have been the source of this fear.
Like perhaps a Russian.
Or a... erm... Sorry, I don't know what that is.
However, it is thought that ultimately the clocks going forward one hour can only be a good thing even if it does cause more accidents, time is a great healer.
But is time being messed around with already without us knowing? Just the other night I got into bed at 10.30pm. My head had only just hit the pillow when the alarm went off and it was the next day. Where did that time go?
Another example is Valentines Day. The day of Saint Valentine has come under scrutiny in recent years facing accusations of becoming commercialized and a focal point of a sanitized romance industry. Saint Valentine has done little to rubbish these claims. Partly because he is dead, and partly because he is one of 14 possible historical martyred people in the era of Neronian Rome, this is a possible reason why it is celebrated on feb 14th, well, it explains the 14th but not the feb bit, in fact it is probably just in february to kill off some pagan holiday from pre-christian times. Which in itself isn't a very Christian thing to do.
I am digressing, and am on the brink of blowing your mind. This year Valentines day was on a monday, but having remembered having a day off on valentines day last year I checked an old calender and saw that last year Valentines Day was on a sunday. The same with Christmas Day and new years day, every year the government is moving important days forward by one day. Why have the Scottish not raised objections to this? It is far more sinister. What next? Bank Holiday Monday on a Tuesday? Good Friday on a Thursday? The government are taking money from us left right and centre with heavy Taxation which they are blaming on the credit crunch, so why are they stealing our time too? If this year Christmas is on a Wednesday and next year it will be on a thursday and the year after it will be on a friday, and after that a saturday and then a sunday, What then? There are no days after sunday.
So it turns out that the Lib-Con coalition are taking our time as well as our money, probably because someone told that George Osbourne man that time is money and he believed it.
So basically, we just move all the days forward until all the public holidays fall off?
On the other hand, if we don't celebrate Valentines day then I guess it will save us money as we don't have to buy overpriced flowers and other red and pink things that would otherwise be considered tat on the other 364 days of the year.
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