Stop All The Clocks, Aylesford

Today has been totally different weather wise to yesterday. Cold, wet and flatly grey. My image today is of the old clock that used to be on the wall in the kitchen but stopped working a few years ago even when the battery was replaced. 
I left it out in the rain to pick up the raindrops but, of course, it struck a chord with the heart wrenching W.H Auden poem and the present, tragic situation we are in at the moment.
It also, though, got me thinking about time itself and how it can speed up, slow down or feel like it's stopped altogether depending on your emotions and feelings.
Clocks and watches are also set at ten past ten (or, as I thought, ten to two) for a particular reason. One is often to show off the logo of the watch or clock maker and the other is, apparently, because the hands produce a "smile" when set this way rather than a "frown" if set to twenty past eight (or is it twenty to five?).