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Any thoughts on what could have caused this....
Went to bed at about 11 o'clock last night; nothing out of the ordinary. Woke about 02.30 and couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up, came downstairs and made a cup of tea. I sat in the living room and browsed GN (and even posted on a games thread) whilst I drank tea and went back to bed at about 03.30. Got up this morning and went back in the living room and I immediately noticed that a small ornament of a hare, which had sat quite comfortably on the mantlepiece for 10 years or more, was lying shattered on the floor. It was in fragments. I couldn't understand how it could have happened because I know that it was not like that at 03.30; I'd have noticed immediately. Whilst I was clearing it up, I looked at the cuckoo clock hanging on the wall. It was ticking, as normal, but the hands were at half past six. I went over to the clock to put the hands to the right time but both hands just swung back down loosely to half past six again. Several times it did that. I eventually managed to get the hands to the correct time and they've stayed that way since. But I didn't touch the clock before going to bed last night and can't understand why both hands would suddenly become loosened overnight.
Although both of these occurrences aren't particularly important, I'm mystified as to what on earth went on in my living room between half 3 and half 6 this morning. I don't normally believe in wooo, but I'm a bit 
about this. Any ideas GNetters?
Cheers Rufus! I think 
Make me feel a bit more sane?
Chewbacca: Why? You seem happy enough as you are! Half your luck!
Sometimes things happen we can just not explain.
My Mum has had about 3 incidents, in the last couple of years, where she is sitting in the living room and hears an almighty crash in the kitchen. She goes in and there is nothing that has seemingly moved or fallen. Then within a couple of days she receives bad news, within the wider family.
So now if it happens, she says....I am going to receive some bad news. Up to now, she has. 
It is one of life's mysteries.
Just back from an evening out and the clock is still ticking and it's fingers are where they should be.
Think I'm too far away from the fracking site (I agree that frack sounds like an excellent expletive and could be used judicially).
No, lemon Harold wasn't the ugly bronze hare; regrettably, I'd have been chuffed to bits to find that one in smithereens! Sod's Law meant that it was the rather noble hare that I rather liked.
I'm going to go with Jalima's conclusion that the earth went round in the wrong gear and everything fell off my mantlepiece. It's as sane an explanation as any other!
Chewy is that the bronzed hare?
I have a couple of those with names beginning with H, and I just wonder if it got too warm and cracked into bits?
Were they on the mantelpiece and did you have a fire going?
The clock is another matter, but clock hands do stick on older clocks.
Once you have eliminated the impossible, the answer, however improbable is the truth....or something like that, said by Holmes in one of the Sherlock stories.
My money's on the cuckoo. That Big Ben scene from The Thirty Nine Steps springs to mind.
(That sounds like an expletive - I think I’ll start using it as one. Oh frack off, etc )
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