Time passes.

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 It is quite some time since I posted anything on my Pulsynetic blog. My wife died in 2022 after 55 years of marriage. This was followed by serious heart plumbing problems a couple of years later. This despite my fitness and lifelong walking and cycling. An ambulance ride or two with flashing blue lights and I was fitted with four stents in a bit of a hurry. 

 Both events destroyed all interest in what had been lifelong obsessions in multiple subjects. My interest in clocks goes back to my teenage years and I will be 80 years old in only a couple of months. 

 Electric clocks, as well as weight driven, were my passion for most of my life. I collected books and fewer clocks as funds allowed. I was extremely lucky and managed to find affordable examples of the main, British, master clocks. Even a Pulsynetic Waiting Train. 

 I was an early adopter of the internet when there was resistance from the usually elderly collectors. Forums and blogging allowed me to share my interests remotely but free of charge. I could add my own photos and share illustrations which I came across. It all seems so very long ago now. 

 Thirty years ago my wife and I moved to Denmark. Which distanced me from the UK's secondhand bookshops. Which I had scoured so avidly for literally decades. It placed me even further from casual discovery of interesting clocks for sale. My collection stagnated. So I blogged and posted on forums instead. It felt as if I was still connected to fellow collectors.

 Selling my clocks online is no doubt possible. Getting them to the buyers is far more difficult. These clocks are heavy, contain demolition weight pendulums and have glass fronts to their cases. A combination which precludes bubble wrap or a few polystyrene kidney beans for packing. I brought all my clocks over from the UK in the back of my car on the ferry. That ferry no longer exists!

 I mentioned that I wanted to downsize my collection on the clock forums. This produced no interest. My 60+ collection of books on clocks and electric clocks much the same. Having spent considerable sums on some of these books I was loathe to just dump them. Or to pass them onto somebody. Who would turn them to a profit entirely at my expense. The local charity shops certainly aren't interested. Nor the Danish, secondhand bookshops. All my books are in English and nobody reads any more! Even international library charities weren't willing to accept a donation of my thousands of books.

 So the collection gathers dust and the books sit safely in boxes. Along with 25 other large, removal boxes. Which hold my lifetime library on countless other subjects. All non-fiction. Nobody here will have a clue what any of it is. Nor the remotest idea as to value. A Danish household item auction would hardly cover the cost of the fuel to get there.

 I inquired of an online app connecting returning lorry drivers in Europe with the UK . The cost of delivering a single master clock would exceed its value in the UK. Perhaps I was just unlucky amongst the very small sample who responded?

 If anyone has any ideas of how to dispense with my clock or book collection I'd be very interested. If anyone wants to buy any of the clocks illustrated within my blog then do, please get in touch. The clocks can be seen working on my YouTube channel as "Tricyklist." Click on Videos and then Oldest. My early videos go back 18 years! With digital camera technology advancing rapidly over time. 

 Thank you for your interest if you have reached this far. It has been a very long but interesting journey for me.

 Best regards

 Chris [Christopher] Bolwell

 chris.b (at) smilemail.dk

 SW Fyn, central Denmark. 

  

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