As regular readers will know we’re just finishing off this new to us house down here. We’ve got the main part of the house done (just the barn to turn into extra bedrooms now) and now it’s time to furnish the place. And I’m higly likely to indulge myself in something I’ve always wanted. That’s right, I want a grandfather clock. There’s simply something comforting about that slow tick, the swing of the pendulum and it helps that my own grandfahter had one: for years I thought they were named after him (obligatory cute kid story!).

Now, when looking around for one such closk I obviously thought about buying a clock online. As that post makes clear,the problem with bricks and mortar stores is that they’ll not have that wide a range of clocks. They can’t they’re limited by their very bricks and mortar status. But an online store can of course stock every clock under the sun, meaning a vastly greater available choice. Looking at what’s available I think this Bulova Jerome clock is what I would like. That contrast between the old fashion of a granfather clock at all and the modern design is most pleasing. It will of course, go in my combination study/library: the tick can accompany me as I write.

I’m also rather tempted by these Howard Miller clocks. Or, or, almost any of these clocks.

Hmm, how many do you think I should have? …..how many do you think I might be able to afford, even at these sale prices?