This morning we motored to a nearby village to fix the above clock. It is an old acquaintance of mine. I've had to set it in beat after it had been moved when the room in which it lived had been decorated, then when it had been moved to its present home a few years ago. This time it turned out that the owner's young grandson had managed to open the trunk door and had been swinging on the pendulum. Spent about an hour doing kitchen table surgery on the clock and drinking coffee. Eventually repairs were completed, all was put back back together, movement, pendulum and weights reinstated into clock, and the clock put in beat and set going. All now going well.
However felt it my duty to point out to clock owner that if grandchildren are allowed to play with the clock and manage to pull it down on top of their little selves, a severe risk is incurred - of the clock being damaged again!!!!!! Still, it's her clock.
3 comments:
I am shocked Mike,
While I am among the first to defend rights of ownership, such rights must be earned by dint of responsible care for the items owned. No-one who abuses a fine clock merely to extinguish their blood-line deserves the right to own it!
Ah, but would the little dears (had they survived) have deserved the right to inherit the now damaged clock????????
If they could survive longer than the clock already has, then perhaps they might be approved for ownership. I do respect survivors.
PS
I've just twigged these new binary v-words... they're anagrams.
The current 'ermsit ureption' is of course about my comment... 'merits eruption'(of applause, I expect!)
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