The church clock, which featured in Beds on Sunday on 14 July has been behaving erratically recently. Very erratically. It's only thanks to volunteer clock maintainer Gerry O'Mara that it keeps half decent time. But this month the variations have been beyond even his skill. Gerry reported: "Since last week, the clock has gone 20 minutes fast. It was fine for 12 hours or so and then it suddenly went 10 minutes fast in the space of about an hour."
Since then, our regular engineers, Smiths of Derby have been to check it out but the problem is still there. One senior member of the PC has said they are not going up the bell tower because of the giant spiders. I can't say I've clocked these beasties but maybe a couple of black widows are disturbing the delicate mechanism. Looks like Smiths will be coming back to help us catch up with lost time.
Since then, our regular engineers, Smiths of Derby have been to check it out but the problem is still there. One senior member of the PC has said they are not going up the bell tower because of the giant spiders. I can't say I've clocked these beasties but maybe a couple of black widows are disturbing the delicate mechanism. Looks like Smiths will be coming back to help us catch up with lost time.
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