Where?
No-one is quite sure where they have gone, but at some point during the night they grew legs and scurried off to their lairs, in caverns in the mountains or caves by the seashore. Some scampered away to deep forest hideaways while others returned to open moors. A few unfortunates found themselves restricted to towns, to skulk near rubbish tips and keep company with the foxes and feral cats.
The grand church clocks and their relations from the town halls across the land strode purposefully to their ancestral homes, while the sarsens (not the vinegar – that’s Sarson’s) flexed their enormous muscles and lumbered away from Stonehenge and Avebury and Clatford Bottom to take their repose.
What the humans see on awakening are impostors. The originals will return in the Spring when the clocks travel forward again.
It is the end of British Summer Time.
What of the digital timepieces? Do they really deserve the title of ‘clock?’ They are soulless, with no heartbeat and no agency. They are not worth consideration.
Enjoyed reading this, but don't agree about who's the impostor vs "real" time...
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DeleteWe've got another week until our clocks turn back ...
ReplyDeleteWait up and see what happens . . .
Deletethis is perfect and the way I feel and did not know I felt that way. I vote no time changes but it still does it. ours is a week away, and ours will lumber, scurry but not many, the majoriity of clocks here are digital. not sure what they do for an the winter months.. I do feel joy though about this one because next week end beau and I will walk at daybreak and there will be zero traffic. right now day break is 7:15 and whoa boy is there dangerous traffic
ReplyDeleteThere are compensations before the days become so short as to be almost non-existent, particularly on a dreary, dull day.
DeleteI'm afraid I'm a bit of a clock freak. And they have to be analog. Yes I have digital timekeepers in my house but I don't like them. Our time change won't be until Saturday as they always wait until after Halloween trick or treat.
ReplyDeleteI like to hear a ticking clock. It's comforting.
DeleteYou have to admit the not worthy digital clocks are handy as they change themselves.
ReplyDeleteThat's very true! 😊
DeleteMy sundial is out by an hour!
ReplyDeleteTsk, tsk!
DeleteNow i am wondering when our clocks will do their march. Perhaps next weekend. I haven’t checked, but I know that it is soon.
ReplyDeleteOh, the breathless anticipation . . .
Deletewhat happens in the 'other world' during that unstable hour?
ReplyDeleteTo discover that I'd have to travel there and I might get stuck and unable to return. Far too dangerous!
DeleteWe will "fall back" next week and then "spring forward" next spring and the sun will never notice the difference.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we shouldn't pay attention, either.
DeleteIt's always a little unsettling, this faffing about with clocks.
ReplyDeleteIt can be unsettling for little children, and more so for their frazzled parents.
DeleteI would love a grandfather clock . . .
ReplyDeleteMy parents had a grandmother clock and I always loved it. I don't know what happened to it.
DeleteSo, do you have the old wind up clocks that you have check everyday!
ReplyDeleteNo, just the grandfather clock - everything else is digital, sadly. I'm such a hypocrite. 🤣😂
DeleteI love clocks but dislike the enforced time change intensely.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Devon x
I find the spring change more difficult to adjust to, but it only lasts for a couple of days.
DeletePerhaps the digital timekeepers are soulless, but humans don't have to worry about remembering to set the time piece ahead or back.
ReplyDeleteVery true, apart from the car clocks, but we never change them. We just have to remember whether they're ahead or behind.
DeleteOurs haven't changed back yet. I'm not looking forward to it. I really wish they would stop the time change.
ReplyDeleteLots of countries don't change the clocks at all.
DeleteIt did mean that I could enjoy a good lie-in this morning!
ReplyDeleteWe would have done, but Jellicoe, our diabetic cat, insists on meals at the usual times and doesn't countenance clock-changing!
DeleteWe haven't changed the time yet. Soon.
ReplyDeleteSomething to look forward to . . . 😉
DeleteI love how you’ve turned the mundane ritual of changing the clocks into a whimsical migration of time itself, full of wit and quiet magic
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DeleteIn my house there's only one non-digital clock. I shall have to ask it what it thinks about the whole matter.
ReplyDelete. . . and please report back!
DeleteClever and comical. (Ha, I agree with your digital clocks assessment.)
ReplyDeleteDigital clocks are useful, though, sad to say!
DeleteOur time changes next Sunday and many of them have to be switched manually. I wish some of those clocks would flee and return in the spring.
ReplyDeleteKeep watch. They may do just that.
DeleteThat's a lovely clock pictured. I hadn't thought about digital ones not being actual clocks. I wish Daylight Saving would be banished forever, it serves no real purpose.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if anyone really benefits from daylight saving, now.
DeleteWow! I didn't know England also falls back at hour in fall and springs forward an hour in spring. Used to be rather troublesome when we lived in Illinois. We don't do that in Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteWell done, Hawaii! 😁
DeleteLovely clock. I think mobile phones change time automatically.
ReplyDeleteAll the digital devices change automatically - one less thing for the humans to do.
DeleteThe blue faced clocks just hold the breath and turn a shade of darker blue.
ReplyDeleteWonderful!
Delete😄love it
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DeleteWhat I would like to know is when time became universal. I once read somewhere that when the trains started working, a person had to go to all the rail stations and see they kept the same time.
ReplyDeleteJust discovered this: A standardised time system was first used by British railways on 1 December 1847, when they switched from local mean time, which varied from place to place, to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
DeleteThere's a lovely children's book about keeping the correct time - 'Clocks and more clocks' by Pat Hutchins.
That makes a lot more sense than it should on a Monday morning. I suppose they could also visit the lost days from when we switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian. I imagine those old timers huddled around a small gas fire, blankets around their shoulders, grumbling about how time today doesn't know how good it has it.
ReplyDeletebtw https://www.amazon.co.uk/Calendar-Struggle-Heavens-Happened-Missing/dp/1857027213 The Calendar is a cracking book about time and I keep recommending it because it's fun. Julius Caesar, while in office, managed to finagle things so that when he was in charge of the calendar, the year lasted 444 days.
That sounds intriguing - I will pursue it.
DeleteThat's such a beautifully poetic and whimsical way to describe the end of Daylight Saving Time! 🕰️✨
ReplyDeleteWe do not have daylight saving where I am.
Be thankfu for small mercies!
ReplyDelete*thankful*
ReplyDeleteI stopped wearing wristwatches just rely on my phone now -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI only carry my 'phone when I go out. I can answer it on my wristwatch, but it's not very satisfactory.
ReplyDeleteIt's about time they stop this nonsense. Poor clocks: having to go into hiding until Spring and missing Christmas and everything doesn't sound like much fun! xxx
ReplyDeleteQuite right!
DeleteWhat a wonderful bit of whimsey!
ReplyDeleteThank you. 😁
ReplyDeleteThis is brilliant!!!!
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