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Yesterday, 4:50 am

Do you clocks which has a little mechanical bird that comes out every hour?



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Yesterday, 5:33 am

We used to have one when I was a child; I was fascinated with it and as a young child I liked to imagine that there were three little boys who lived in it, you know, such very tiny creatures like the Borrowers from Mary Norton's children's novels :) (Back when I was five I didn't know the series by Mary Norton exists, I found out it does when I was about 15 maybe so it was my very own fantasy not one based on the books.) I always enjoyed looking at the bird coming out :D We don't have the clock any more, no idea what's happened to it but I suspected mom gave it to my uncle - once when we went to his flat to feed his dog when uncle went to Warsaw to visit his daughter for Christmas, I noticed the clock hanging on the wall in his bedroom but no idea if it was that very clock that belonged to us back it the past - probably yes but I am not 100% sure.



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Yesterday, 5:41 am

My grandma and grandpa had a wooden one with a bird during the 2000's. I was definitely fixated on it. Sadly, I don't know what happened to it after their passing.



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Yesterday, 8:56 am

I love Cuckoo clocks. I especially like the ones with the pinecones. I want to get myself one.


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Yesterday, 11:52 am

I like the idea of Cuckoo Clocks
There are some very elaborate ones that are mechanically amazing.


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Yesterday, 4:24 pm

Yes. But I wouldn't want one. That little bird would dive me cuckoo.



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Yesterday, 4:32 pm

Yes I like them. But I would like Winnie-the-Pooh's Pooh-coo clock that I saw in the cartoon even better. It has a tiny Pooh Bear in a Hunny pot that goes "Pooh-coo" when the clock strikes. It's adorable. :heart: