Aren’t village clocks that go “bong” charming? On a lovely summer afternoon, if you lived in a village like Botley you’d feel all quaint and middle class when your town hall clock chimed, wouldn’t you? I came out of a Botley pub the other evening to be greeted by the 11pm chimes. 11pm?! That would surely be annoying, right? Anyway, I got to thinking...wouldn’t it be awesome if instead of a quaint “bong”, Botley’s village clock went “bip bip bip bip” repeatedly like a cheap £3.99 alarm clock? And wouldn’t it be joyous if it just carried on like said bed-side alarm clock until some poor sap climbed up and smacked the button to make it stop? And how cool would it be if that poor sap forgot to actually switch the alarm off and found out he’d only hit the snooze button? I’d love to watch that poor bleary-eyed guy have to shimmy all the way up the tower again to hit the right button 4 minutes later. And every time the clocks went back...the same guy could keep on pressing the hour button (or hold it down continuously) until – oops – he went an hour too far and had to cycle all the way around again. These, I believe, would be good times.