BIG BEN spooky happening

[Fergus]

Assembly complete.



I took the completed clock indoors and set the alarm for 9 last night. I had Dr Georges book open so positioned the clock on the page showing his BB. At 9 the alarm fired off which was most satisfying. So I wound the alarm spring and moved the alarm setting to 8 so that it would fire off this morning. I always wake early, 4 to 5, for a drink and noticed the alarm setting had moved to 2/45. Nobody else has handled the clock and 'er indoors would not have moved the setting or even known how to. I sat thinking how on earth has the setting changed, there's no way, even with contact by the minute or hour hands, can it be changed. It's independent of the time works and relatively stiff to more. Now the alarm had not fired off at that time because a, I would have heard it and b, the spring was still fully wound. The time, 0405, was within 5 minutes of the previous evenings setting.

THEN I glanced at the picture of Dr Georges clock in the book and it's set to 2/45............



This is the god's honest truth....spooky or what.

[Fergus]

Update: Issue resolved with no paranormal input...well only a small bit.

When the hour hand reaches 12, the alarm hand starts to rotate anticlockwise which is against its normal clockwise to set mode. Under test the clock stopped at 1230 and by this time the alarm hand had moved from 1100 to 1145. I must assume last nights issue, stopping at 0245, was pure coincidence but spooky nonetheless.

I am about to go back in and adjust the item which allows this to happen.

[inboost]

Whoa, that's pretty spooky, but in a neat way Fergus! I'd say it was a wink from the Dr. himself letting you know of his approval.

[Fergus]

I'm having a very spooky day.

Not only did I have the clock issue which hopefully I have now sorted out with a minor nut adjustment but also this.

I am monitoring our Winchester Peregrines because they have two eggs on the go. They did have three but pushed one off the tray a week or so back. Well this morning I saw they had pushed the remaining two eggs off the tray but the female was still trying to incubate them where they laid. At around 1100 the video cameras went off line but returned on line an hour or so later and the two eggs have gone and the female is back incubating something on the tray. I think there has been human intervention during the outage.

www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/peregrines/