Have you ever turned up a web page by accident and found something
that grabs your attention. I was looking for some information about an
old school friend, I had lost touch with called Tim who moved away to
live in France some years ago. He bought an old farmhouse to create a
camp site. As we will be travelling south in the mobile home to Spain
for the winter. I thought I might look him up.
Google in its wisdom served me a page on the speaking clock - you may remember the speaking
clock was often called TIM as a way to remember the number to dial,
from the days when telephone handsets had letters as well as numbers.
Anyway, I got sidetracked and apparently the speaking clock was invented
by the French. There was a great deal of information on various
speaking clocks from around the world. A throw away line in the
inventors biography said the inventor had died as a result of suffering
three successive strokes.
I
had this thought running around in my head with Hannah Gordon's voice
saying 'At the third stroke you time will be up, precisely. Pip, Pip,
Pip, aghaaaaah'
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