No bongs ...

[Nearly Sane]

Dear Trent,

Not Palestine's, atheists, who from now on I will be renaming Auditors. :PP

Gonnagle.

Why is that, given that disagree on this? Why make a lazy incorrect generalisation?

[Gonnagle]

Dear Sane,

See the smiley, no look again, see it now, good, it was tongue in cheek stuff, no more, no less, you Auditor

Tell me old friend, if we stop believing in Santa will the sun not rise tomorrow.

Gonnagle.

[ippy]

I wanted a whole range of clocks in our home that ranged from bongs to cookoos.

My husband the spoilsport won't hear of it, says it will drive him nuts specially as the cookoo clock I really wanted, went off every 15mins and seemed to lack an off switch for night time 

He threatened to shoot it if I got one 

I like old noisy clocks.

Like grandfather clocks with a loud and serious sounding tick/tock that does the Westminster chimey thing every 15mins.

I call it, atmospheric the other half describes it as just a lot of racket.

 

Old noisey clocks are much better than the new fangled silent electric ones, IMO.

But in our household I'm outnumbered, so no bongs for me   

You and I would get along just fine Rose, I don't even like ticking clocks, the clocks wouldn't be doing the striking, I'd be doing the striking; any striking clock wouldn't be striking for very long here.

My wife has a kitchen clock of her own choice, she was away for three weeks recently, I had the mechanism, changed professionaly while she was away, it's now silent and it's radio controled as well; I always think why have anything else than radio controled timepieces when you think most of them only cost a few pounds more than the others and they give the right time for most of the time, all without having to fluff about with them.

ippy

[Brownie]

I don't like intrusive sounds either ippy but I suppose if one is used to it, they don't mind or even notice.  I grew up with my parents' big chiming clock which chimed on the hour and half hour and thought nothing of it.  It now sits in another room and doesn't work, I have no clocks that work atm!  Apart from alarm clocks and only my husband uses one of those, once a week if he is not awake before it goes off.  I am happy with a watch to tell the time - I'm told even that is outdated as everyone finds the time on their mobile.  They'd be out of luck with mine which says it is ''Mon 13-8 13:26''...don't know how to change it.  Hee hee, I don't care, have diary and calendar.

[Étienne d'Angleterre]

I don't like intrusive sounds either ippy but I suppose if one is used to it, they don't mind or even notice.  I grew up with my parents' big chiming clock which chimed on the hour and half hour and thought nothing of it.  It now sits in another room and doesn't work, I have no clocks that work atm!  Apart from alarm clocks and only my husband uses one of those, once a week if he is not awake before it goes off.  I am happy with a watch to tell the time - I'm told even that is outdated as everyone finds the time on their mobile.  They'd be out of luck with mine which says it is ''Mon 13-8 13:26''...don't know how to change it.  Hee hee, I don't care, have diary and calendar.

I do have an electronic diary at work and it is useful, but I could never be without a paper one. I always have an A7 diary for notes and useful numbers/info. It is small but I can fit it in my jacket pocket so it goes everywhere with me.

[Rhiannon]

I've had the same watch for ten years. Rely on it completely to keep track of time - if I'm washing up or got my hands full with shopping I don't want to have to drop everything to hunt out my mobile or find the nearest clock.

I do have an old school alarm clock just in case I sleep in, which I rarely do.

[Brownie]

Good to hear there are others out there who, like me, don't rely on clocks.  Let's hear it for diaries (I have a pocket/handbag diary and a calendar). and watches!

[Rhiannon]

I rely on my memory for dates. That snd bits of paper shoved in my bag.

Funnily enough I'm always forgetting stuff or getting double booked.

[Brownie]

Hee hee, me too.  However I put that down to me being scatty about some things.