I’m currently busy putting the finishing touches to a couple of papers, so blogging has unfortunately been a bit light, and will continue to be light for the next week or so.
But — to tide you over — possibly the oddest story I’ve heard coming out Russia for at least a week. A replica of Big Ben (yes, the famous clock in London) is being built for a school in Surgut.
Sable Fabrications in Marden, whose expertise is in making tower clocks, received an inquiry from a Russian school over the internet.
The firm is now producing four clock faces and a digital sound system that reproduces the chimes of Westminster.
Once the gold clock is installed in a 100ft tower, the chimes will ring out hourly across the school’s campus.
Yes, you read correctly — the clock is going to be made of gold. And, this being Russia, they want lots of it…
“It’s a 23-and-a quarter carat gold leaf and the numbers are about nine or 10 inches high.
“They take, well I’m not going to say the money side of it, but they take quite a lot of gold and that’s double-thickness gold.”
Wow. Just think how many Russian teeth could be replaced with that amount of gold…
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