Lisbeth thinks that happiness is hearing Big Ben (courtesy of an Internet radio), the clock of the village church (a mere fifty yards from the front door) together with her tatty old French grandfather clock, all chime the hour at the same time.
Big Ben is deep and oh so reassuringly English. The church clock is a little higher in tone but still has a sense of stability, French history and of time passing. The grandfather clock came from an old farmhouse in the country about twenty minutes from here. It has a crisp, higher, pretty quality and, like the church clock, chimes twice every hour. Anyway, Lisbeth says the chiming of the hours gives her a lot of pleasure.
Big Ben is deep and oh so reassuringly English. The church clock is a little higher in tone but still has a sense of stability, French history and of time passing. The grandfather clock came from an old farmhouse in the country about twenty minutes from here. It has a crisp, higher, pretty quality and, like the church clock, chimes twice every hour. Anyway, Lisbeth says the chiming of the hours gives her a lot of pleasure.
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