I like Sundays. I get to let the mind wander and think about random stuff. Like time.

In the olden days you got up when it was light, worked until it was dark and went to bed. The precise time at which things happened was not important to you.

Then, when we got electric lights and industrialisation, time got really important. We got time zones and the time signal and everyone started work at the same time, watched the TV news at the same time and so on.

But nowadays that is changing again. The way that timeshift TVs and broadband delivery of media work, and the massive storage now available to us means that we don't have to be directly synchronised to the outside world any more for our information and entertainment. And in some jobs you can just about work wherever you are, whenever you are.

Perhaps in the future we won't worry so much about time any more. The only time you'll have to worry about is the final deadline for your work, and when you want to meet up with other people. I'm not sure whether this will be liberating or whether people like having things happen at the same time every day for everyone. I like a routine, but that doesn't mean that everyone must like my routine.

I thought about this stuff (which may be rubbish by the way) whilst I was peeling the potatoes for lunch. We always have Sunday Lunch at 1:00 pm on Sunday. Every time.