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The clocks going back generally isn’t a huge issue for most of us. It happens in the teeny tiny hours of a Sunday morning giving us a whole extra hour in bed - or a whole extra hour to go around and change the time back on the microwave, the VCR( if you still have one), the DVD player, the retro analogue clock in the kitchen, the oven, the microwave, the central heating, the car and eventually you remember your watch. Sometimes its frustrating but it usually it isn’t too bad…
Here in Biggleswade we have a rather nice building in the town centre which is the current home of an ‘Ask’ pizza resteraurant. The exterior, which is really the side as you face it from the market square looks like a baby version - or at the least put me in mind of a baby version of the Town Hall in Back to the Future. However the clock on this building is mounted to the side of the building, overhanging the pavement. And I know now how they set it back or forward depending on the time of the year.

The secret tool?

A piece of bamboo, long and not too bendy, with what looked like a  little L-bracket taped to the top, all of which I suspect came from Goldthorpes which is just next door. With this the minute hands are moved around on one side - this has the effect of turning the hands on the other side.

I am sure that other clocks who are mounted within buildings can be changed from the back but it would be fun to see the clocks on Big Ben changed with a very long and not too bendy piece of bamboo Or perhaps bendy would be good, and get the tourists visiting in October.

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