Ding ding

You learn something every day. While I was in the shop where I found the candle trimmer/snuffer (see last Friday) I was admiring a mantle clock.  The owner (who I know vaguely) approached me.  "Nice clock" I said.  "That's not a clock" he said "it's a timepiece - it doesn't strike".  And so I learned that a clock must have a bell and strike the hours, or better still the quarters.  Otherwise it's just a timepiece.  So there.