#stopped clock

[ID: Two versions of a five stripe flag with the colors dark blue, dark green, light green, greenish white, and yellow. At the left middle of the flag is a yellow hand-drawn symbol of a clock, outlined and filled in with dark blue. The first version of the flag has the outer two stripes bending away from the symbol, while the second just has straight lines.]

Five minute coining adventure / Stopped clock

A term for those who feel like it takes them forever to finish a single coining post, who haven't coined in ages despite wanting to, frequently get sidetracked or blocked, or otherwise coin infrequently against their will.

First name is inspired by DougDoug's phrase "a five minute coding adventure," used for when he decides to code a new gimmick on stream on a whim. Usually, this ends up taking several hours.

Let me out of here (joke).

Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday ... yep, it's another fun fun day in Tuesdayville ...

Meet Morple ... the no tick and no tock clock. Also present and correct and silent as the grave are Gladys Jones and Father Llewellyn ... but their wordless sermons are something to talk about another day.

I remembered something yesterday that my grandparents sang to me when I was little ... (My) Grandfather's Clock, written by Henry Clay Work around 1876. That is to say, I could at least remember the chorus:

"Ninety years without slumbering, tick, tock, tick, tock ... His life seconds numbering, tick, tock, tick ... It stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died."

I remember the old pendulum wall clock that they had ... the hiss of the gas fire ... the sounds of their afternoon nap ... time having slowed as though moving through treacle.

No clock ticks or tocks in this house, though there are many of them. When Morple arrived, he would tick and tock for a couple of hours and then have a ponder about the time that had passed ... before starting up again for another couple of hours. Back in March he ceased to mark time at all. Now he's the right time twice a day and that's about all he has to say on the matter.

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Even a sick horse is right six times a day 

Acrylic, water pastel, pencil

10x12” panel