Wilson has a serious talk with me

Wilson was sitting in the garden watching Tiny Toy play football with the Johnson Brothers when he called me over for what he called a 'serious talk.'

'Well, New Dad,' he began, 'the Solstice is passed and the nights are drawing in — what task do you think is worrying people most as winter approaches?'

On such a hot day I was surprised by this question, but I hazarded a guess: 'Christmas shopping? Shovelling snow?'

'Putting the clocks back!' he said, as though I hadn't spoken. 'People are dreading the time and effort of putting their clocks back an hour, or forward an hour in the southern hemisphere, as the case may be, and they will pay almost any sum to get out of doing that chore twice every year!'