24 Dusk

Once of the contrivances of 24 I always found rather amusing was speed at which evening would fall. As the series is spread over the course of a day, dealing with the rapidly changing light at dawn and dusk is obviously problematic, so the solution was clearly borne of pragmatism: Simply send the characters indoors for the best part of an hour, and then let them emerge into darkness at the end of it. It's so obvious what's happening that it almost feels like a nudge and a wink from the producers of the show to the audience - "We know, we know, but it's the best we can do. Just suspend your disbelief and go along with it m'kay?"

Why do I mention this? After a few months of gradually failing light in the evenings, it seems the one clock change on Sunday morning finally proved the tipping point. I stepped out of the house earlier this evening into near complete darkness. Quite a change from the dusky grey I would have emerged into last week. That, plus the fact that the temperatures have plummeted over the last week or see lead me to conclude that winter is well and truly on it's way. Still less that two months to go before the winter solstice arrives and things start to brighten up once more...