Tuesday.

Above snapshot of a lovely Suffolk manor/ farm  house in Suffolk  was taken a day or two ago from the  car window.

The  long case clock on the left  has stood in our middle  hall  here for a good many years. It was made by Thos. Dickinson of Boston (Lincolnshire), during the early 19th century. We found it in a garden shed in Ely in the early 1970s, We had a 'phone call from the owner ,  who said he knew I purchased grandfather clocks and would I care to have a look at this one? He told me it had been standing in a shed in his garden for some years. This  last bit of information didn't bode well  for the clock, but in fact the garden shed was very dry, so the clock hadn't suffered any real damage. We both liked it - it went well in the house we lived in at the time -  so we bought it and kept it, and it, in turn, has kept reasonable time ever since, although I should perhaps say  that I had to do a very fair amount of  restoration on it; no  major  surgery, but it  did  need a good  deal of cleaning.