We Had A Quiet Day Today,

Alex called round in the afternoon,

so we had a coffee and a chat, but as we did not go out I thought I would make another post about one of my watches, this is a normal watch but if you look carefully you will see that the inner dial has 3 'watches' on it, each watch divided into 8, when nautical clock bells strike unlike civil clock bells, the strikes of the bell do not accord to the number of the hour, instead, there are eight bells, one for each half-hour of a four-hour watch, in the age of sailing, watches were timed with a 30-minute hourglass, bells would be struck every time the glass was turned, and in a pattern of pairs for easier counting, with any odd bells at the end of the sequence, 'eight bells' can be a way of saying that a sailor's 4 hour watch is over,

but once a year 16 bells would be struck, at midnight on New Year's Eve, eight bells for the old year and eight bells for the new, the back of the watch has a glass window, the case is of course scratched as all of these watches that I have bought from Latvia, Russia and the Ukraine are second hand, so now if I meet any nautical coves I can look at this watch and know what watch we are on,

whilst I was playing watches Diana was busy planting our hopefully next crop of tomatoes, it is now cooler in the evenings so there should be a better crop in a couple of months time than our last effort, it appears that tomatoes self pollinate and do not need insects like many other plants, but what they do need is cool nights for this to happen, after our evening meal we watched Fargo the television series, it was so good in fact we watched it all night, hugely enjoyable, you may remember the truth behind the story of the film we published yesterday, well here if the true story of the events in the television series, with that and midnight approaching we were off to bed.