Tempus fugit

This clock is set in a piece of Elm burr and crafted by Derek Thomson of Balerno. My mother gave it to us for Christmas and I think it looks fine on our wooden mantlepiece above the woodburning stove. There is a candle burning just to the left of the clock.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the title of this blip:

Tempus fugit is a Latin expression meaning "time flees", more commonly translated as "time flies". It is frequently used as an inscription on clocks. The expression was first recorded in the poem Georgics written by Roman poet Virgil: Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore, which means, "But meanwhile it flees: time flees irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail."

Time always seems to do a lot of fleeing while I wander around ;o)