Time Change Not An Easy Task For Clock Museum

Residents of most of the US, Canada, the UK and a few other countries around the world put their clocks back one hour over the weekend. This gave most people an extra hour in bed but for owners for a clock museum, it only meant hours of extra work.

You see, brothers Roman and Maz Piekarski have more than 500 clocks at their Cuckooland museum in the United Kingdom. And the task of winding back the antique clocks took them all weekend.

"It is not as simple as changing a battery-powered clock because they are antiques, with all sorts of complicating factors," said Roman. "It can put you in a real spin after a while, and I have been known to change dozens of clocks before realising I had already done them. It is a mammoth task but it has to be done".

The museum hosts one of the world's largest collections of cuckoo clocks.

Meanwhile, a telephone helpline of "inspiring" sounds from the mountains has been set up to help those feeling depressed from the British winter blues.

It includes a reading of William Wordsworth's poem Daffodils, the crisp crunch of leaves on a country walk, and sausages sizzling in a pan.

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