TIME to wake up to change in UK by Ignorant MP´s

  REVISED  11 /  X I  / 2008

More about nosh , particularly in SW / W /  &  NW Spain - OK! the latter is only of potential concern in the future!

I am guilty of harping on further concerning that news item in May 6 on page 11 in “The Oracle – Cadiz/Seville” on “Andalucian Kids Among the Fattest”.

The prime point of the article is that Andalucia, as a unit, is number 4 in order of ”gross numbers” of the overweight peeps in Spain.

I am not considering the case of the Canaries – where the time on the clocks differs by one hour less from that in Spain, but still necessarily provides an extreme case because they are far to the west of their real time meridian longitude line on the map (which, of course is actually the Salerno, Italy one in Summer, but is the Castellon one in Winter!).

I don´t have the actual statistics other than the current percentage data shown overall for the whole of Andalucia, but since the previous reports in the Cadiz newspapers that I referred to in “New Craze in Andalucia?” stated that Cadiz Province had the most numerous fattest children in Spain, I can only infer that Cadiz is therefore still the worst area for the problem in Andalucia at this time! That could increase the importance of the ranking for Cadiz over much of the areas mentioned in the article (Cantabria and Murcia - the latter is not part of Andalucia) – if not actually putting Cadiz as top rank  .

If you are disbelieving about the clocks being so strange in Spain (and France, too) – all you need to do is look at the Weather page in a prominent newspaper, to find the day´s sunrise and sunset times quoted in the Spanish clocktime (look for “Orca, Salida,etc” “Ocaso, Puesta,etc”).

Subtract one time from the other to yield the duration of the likely sunshine hours. Halve that time, remembering the 60´s, not 100´s,  rules to add that duration to the sunrise time and - Hey Presto! You have the true time for midday on the Spanish clocks in the place stated by the newspaper (admittedly not always clear, since "El Mundo" always quotes Madrid whatever edition is in your locality) – about 14:00 to 14:30 pm in the “double summertime” on those clocks, depending simply how far west in Spain is your location!

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Here are more of my comments on current “Punnish History” which are influenced by the above unbelievable situation in Spain:

WHAT MATTERS FOR THE FUTURE ?

SÖCIAL SCIENCE is márvellous fún!

Chánging the líves for ´most éveryóne,

Insight it shóws - fixing clóck times in Spáin -

Mánaging lúnch - to achíeve your weight gáin (?)

Dídn´t it mátter - to tíme by the Sún ?

Allow me to put just one brief line in here in Spanish, quoting Winston Churchill´s famous tribute round about 1942.

“¡ Nunca, en la historia del Reino de España, tanta gente han tenido tantas ganas de comer, por tan poco de esfuerzo ! "

“Never,  in the history of the Kingdom of Spain,  have grown so overweight, so many  -  for so little effort!”

That is a perfect accompaniment to “vicious quips” - but is mis-attributed!

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( New Pages follow on TIME,  but NOT concerned much with Nosh!)