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...
ReplyDeleteWe've got another week until our clocks turn back ...
ReplyDeletethis 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
ReplyDeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteYou have to admit the not worthy digital clocks are handy as they change themselves.
ReplyDeleteMy sundial is out by an hour!
ReplyDeleteNow i am wondering when our clocks will do their march. Perhaps next weekend. I haven’t checked, but I know that it is soon.
ReplyDeletewhat happens in the 'other world' during that unstable hour?
ReplyDeleteWe will "fall back" next week and then "spring forward" next spring and the sun will never notice the difference.
ReplyDeleteIt's always a little unsettling, this faffing about with clocks.
ReplyDeleteI would love a grandfather clock . . .
ReplyDeleteSo, do you have the old wind up clocks that you have check everyday!
ReplyDeleteI love clocks but dislike the enforced time change intensely.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Devon x
Perhaps the digital timekeepers are soulless, but humans don't have to worry about remembering to set the time piece ahead or back.
ReplyDeleteOurs haven't changed back yet. I'm not looking forward to it. I really wish they would stop the time change.
ReplyDeleteIt did mean that I could enjoy a good lie-in this morning!
ReplyDeleteWe haven't changed the time yet. Soon.
ReplyDeleteI 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
ReplyDeleteIn my house there's only one non-digital clock. I shall have to ask it what it thinks about the whole matter.
ReplyDeleteClever and comical. (Ha, I agree with your digital clocks assessment.)
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