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CLOCKS GO BACK

A man with more than 650 clocks in his home will spend TWO weeks resetting them when the clocks go back tomorrow (Sun Oct 26)...Keith Giddings,(PICTURED) from Berkhamsted,Hertfordshire,who is known as Mr Tick Tock, has a mammoth task ahead of him when the clocks move backwards from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time at 1am...The 66-year-old has been collecting clocks for 35 years and now has hundreds squeezed onto every wall of his two-bedroom home..."It takes me at least two weeks to change all the clocks in the house", he said..."I do it a wall at a time but my wife gets confused as for a couple of weeks they all show different times..."You should never wind a clock backwards so it's a long process, but for me it's a real labour of love."..Keith first started collecting clocks after moving into his home with wife Majorie, 65, shortly after they were married...The couple bought a wooden wall clock and Keith liked it so much he kept buying more and more clocks...They now have more than 340 in the lounge, 25 in their bedroom, 40 in the kitchen, 12 in the downstairs loo and even a few in the garden...Keith said: "I've got clocks of all shapes and sizes. I've got a bendy clock, I've got one with cogs that move in different directions, one that only has 10 numbers and an Irish clock that goes backwards..."I've even got a guitar-shaped clock and a cushion clock..."I don't know why I like clocks so much, but I love every single one of them..."I get given clocks for every birthday and Christmas and I'll never stop collecting. My wife thinks I'm crazy but just accepts my hobby now."..Keith, whose house is called Clocks and who has a budgie called Tick Tock, said visitors find the house rather noisy... SEE COPY CATCHLINE CLOCKS TAKE 2 WEEKS TO GO BACK...

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A man with more than 650 clocks in his home will spend TWO weeks resetting them when the clocks go back tomorrow (Sun Oct 26)...Keith Giddings,(PICTURED) from Berkhamsted,Hertfordshire,who is known as Mr Tick Tock, has a mammoth task ahead of him when the clocks move backwards from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time at 1am...The 66-year-old has been collecting clocks for 35 years and now has hundreds squeezed onto every wall of his two-bedroom home..."It takes me at least two weeks to change all the clocks in the house", he said..."I do it a wall at a time but my wife gets confused as for a couple of weeks they all show different times..."You should never wind a clock backwards so it's a long process, but for me it's a real labour of love."..Keith first started collecting clocks after moving into his home with wife Majorie, 65, shortly after they were married...The couple bought a wooden wall clock and Keith liked it so much he kept buying more and more clocks...They now have more than 340 in the lounge, 25 in their bedroom, 40 in the kitchen, 12 in the downstairs loo and even a few in the garden...Keith said: "I've got clocks of all shapes and sizes. I've got a bendy clock, I've got one with cogs that move in different directions, one that only has 10 numbers and an Irish clock that goes backwards..."I've even got a guitar-shaped clock and a cushion clock..."I don't know why I like clocks so much, but I love every single one of them..."I get given clocks for every birthday and Christmas and I'll never stop collecting. My wife thinks I'm crazy but just accepts my hobby now."..Keith, whose house is called Clocks and who has a budgie called Tick Tock, said visitors find the house rather noisy... SEE COPY CATCHLINE CLOCKS TAKE 2 WEEKS TO GO BACK...