In his poem "Leisure", WH Davies asks, "What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare".
While waiting for the bus, in Queens Road by the building site, I looked up at the clock and was most surprised to see the "ball" slowly rising up the mast on the Clock Tower. It was about five minutes to 10am.
The ball reached the top of the mast as the hands showed ten o'clock then the ball slid slowly back to base.
When Magnus Volk invented this "time-ball", people complained about the noise made when it returned to base and it was stopped from working.
Maybe we would not hear the noise today but I wonder how many people have time to stare and have seen the ball rise or fall?
-Doreen Hyde, Brighton
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