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after midnight, it's not late

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a timeless sign

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no wonder we have problems with public projects in the UK.  it's because civil service time is completely wrong (i took this photo just after 1pm)

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i was confused by this for a while.  then i realised.

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esther is digital.  kezia is analogue

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this clock was showing 99 minutes past 3 in the afternoon at henley station.  it's about time these things were decimalised.  i'm all for the 10 hour day

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(demonstrating the compression effect of a long focal length - yawn!)

how fantastic is this ? it's a pocket sundial, about the size of a small compact camera. it's got a little pointer to produce the shadow, a compass and a complicated ready-reconner on the lid.

everything the modern man could ever need in one tiny tin.

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it's takes just one hour for a complete revolution.

i think this is an early example of a dual screen analog/digital watch. unfortunately the digital bit seems to have gone a bit wrong as it's showing 88 minutes past 16, which in our modern world would be nearly half past 5 in the afternoon. yet the hands show ten to four.

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julie sent me this picture of a clock in her local high-street. it's actually a stop watch, but it's all time related.

there's a great pun in here, but it's escaping me at present.

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i saw this clock one morning at 8:21am. not a great advert for the jewellers within.

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watch children are really easy to wind up apparently.

once upon a time i saw a watch face. "which way" you ask ?

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a clock outside a funeral directors. the clock itself appeared to be deceased as i took this photo at 8.30 yesterday morning.

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this is a great thing. it's a clock that shows you the time across the (now defunct) british empire. it's at goodenough college for anyone wanting to inspect it in more detail.

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thieves are everywhere. so it's good news there's a security camera in close proximity to old big ben

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i loved this reflection of a wall clock in the Oak Tree Inn. as the window moved in the door it seemed to shimmer and melt.

a lovely effect enhanced by nice warm colours.

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is this a hidden grandfather clock ? dunno. it was locked.

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richard sent me this photo from his car dashboard. it's fantastic. you could wait thousands of years to see a date like this !

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i worked near this clock for 3 years but never spotted it. funny how time sometimes passes by without us noticing.

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waitrose is posh. as is Marylebone High Street. but not posh enough to have hands on it's posh waitrose at marylebone clock.

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here is a nice clock chiselled out of stone. it's probably stone age or something

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it's been a while since i last walked past this sign, but it's still here. interestingly i managed to include a clock in the picture so i can add this post to two categores.

when will the experiment end ? where will it be written up. who gets to keep the lab coats ?

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my old tube season ticket used to let me go anywhere. nowadays i walk most places so i just buy tickets as i need them. the cheapest way for me is to buy a Carnet of tickets which works out as 10 tickets for £15.

However, i forgot that these tickets only cover zone 1. so my cunning plan to stay on an extra stop and get off a whitechapel instead of aldgate east backfired when my ticket wouldn't work to get me out of the station.

i could have paid to be released, but resented that so went back one stop and got off at the proper station. so sorry, but i haven't got lovely pictures of lovely things this morning.

but i did take this picture of a clock at Whitechapel tube station. i've been thinking a lot about analogue and digital clocks this morning. they are very different beasts. perhaps i'll tell you about it sometime.

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oh, and to the person who phoned our house at 2am this morning from a mobile phone. please don't do that again. it's made us very tired today.