1st email from Spearman - "Help required - SOLOS (3:31 clock)

I hate to piss on anyone's parade re the clock times. I don't see where 17 comes in. It looks quarter past, dead on, to me. So the number would be 16? I blew up the clocks and printed them out when they came in and subtracting them was the first thing I did. I thought I'd made a mistake, but I keep looking and I just see quarter past...

JayKay - I think you're giving me deja vu... I keep seeing new posts but then thinking "hold on, have I just read that"...

I thought I'd post that one in the clues section and the clocks one, Colinrocks. Same as this one, just in case no one reads the other sections - trying to keep a tidy house (whilst my own crumbles round my ears, haha! I can get a bit 'into' things. Comes from doing theatre productions and getting 'in the zone').

A couple of dates relating to 3/31

13/3/1781 Uranus Discovered by William Herschel

31/3/1717 Bangorian Controversy - note the date (the month is switched so that the original 3.31 the month doesn't come first) or if you prefer, it reads March 31st 1717? Might be tenuous, but it's when a theological argument in which Bishop Benjamin Hoadly wrote 'Preservative against the Principles and Practices of Non-Jurors' where he stated that, as the bible says of Christ, "My kingdom is not of this world" and therefore Christ doesn't have a role in any courtroom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangorian_Controversy

Forgive the grammar, I sometimes go to start a sentence one way and have a change of heart and forget to go back and sort out the stray bits.

Colin- I recognised the red girl quote from The Events but just wondered if it was another clue or just someone trying to be clever in their comment. Stood out as odd.

Ahh, yeah just spotted you mentioned the events in your post, sorry! I've seen a few people put stuff like that in their comments on Phillis' updates on FaceBook, I think.

Saying that, I've also suspected Phillis might slip hints into the comments too, like how she put clues into the file names of images. It's ages ago now, but no-one seemed to know who found the www.snoitciderpserocsnerred.co.uk site, it was just mentioned in the comments of another site that someone had found it.

i have a brain disease. (*shame*).

what about that red doll thing in the picture of the second clock?

The name of the jpeg is an anagram of compass...

Have put up a link to the anagrams so we don't have to keep quoting it

https://dbchat.forumotion.co.uk/solved-puzzles-clues-f6/what-we-know-already-t53.htm

I thought maybe the times shown may have something to do with his audio chapters of Tricks of the Mind. I only have the hypnosis one atm & can't find anything significant at around the times we have received but if anyone has Magic or Memory.. it would be interesting to know if anything is mentioned??

I've listened to tricks of the mind Memory & Magic but i can't find anything significant around the times in them either . it was a good idea though

Cool, well thanks for checking them out (:

ERM FOLKS PLEASE CLICK HERE I THINK YOU WILL HAVE A COLONIC EVENT!!!!!!!!


http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%2526+heritage/literature+%2526+music/art71789

scroll down the page!

3:31!! You're a genius!

Whoa, well found!! That's got to be more than coincidence... though the first clock was from Spearman, who we've been told to ignore, and the filename anagram didn't work... could this be a red herring then? i.e. the first clock is to throw us off the "compass" scent?

PS - Storm, mind if I split the thread so this is in it;s new thread, not in the "landmarks" thread? Think this is big news...

Storm wrote:ERM FOLKS PLEASE CLICK HERE I THINK YOU WILL HAVE A COLONIC EVENT!!!!!!!!


http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%2526+heritage/literature+%2526+music/art71789

scroll down the page!

Storm, you are a star! I've been looking for pics to reference 3.31

Well Spearman's clock might be telling us the location (Museum of Oxford), and the other clocks are compass bearings / directions from the museum. Maybe Spearman will ask us to find him in his next email.

I think thats a given Colin

Now I would say this - I may have found another clue.

The story is that lewis Carrol was always late hence the rabbit story he had to keep winding the watch

not much use and therefore you would always be late.

So something that would help us much more and prevent us ever being late would be perhaps ......

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=clock+3.15&meta=

and I wasn ot on this site before and forgot this one to be honest but

swatch have a battery for their watches and I am sure this is co incidence but its called

a Q 3.17 back to the triangle maybe

Wow Storm - fantastic find!

Random aside - I used to live about 3 miles from Daresbury Church and have seen the chapel window many times.

Oh, my colon! Storm, you are brilliant!

to be honest i think that maybe this is the starting point for the compass pics from here we follow the three other compasses but for how long? are the numbers clues as to how long one should travel in each direction or will they maybe triangulate

Just a thought, but since the clocks all have 2 hands, could one hand indicate a distance, and the other hand indicate a bearing?

Though, since the position of the minute hand will slightly affect the position of the hour hand, that could be very tricky.

also... just to throw something else into the pile! it's been said that the two names spearman and darkmanlox rearrange to form maps near landmarks ox is it maybe possible that we should be looking out for some kind of map near a landmark in oxford?

With the first watch located at the Oxford Museum. Does that mean that it is the starting point for wherever we have to go next? With either a) following Lox clock and the direction it dives us or b) following Spearmans clock in another direction (if we go with the long clock hands as giving us the direction that is).