Radio-alarm-clock, small and yellow, that she got during her student years from an aunt from Germany, so it first served to wake her up not to miss the classes. When we married, it was first somewhere in the room, but we soon concluded that it's better to put it in the kitchen, on the mirko. We called it „kvin Meri“ (queen Mary, but never pronounced it the english way), because it trompeted at 50 hertz, like a real steamboat.
It was of pleasant warm yellow color. Adams didn't write the „Guide“ yet, so it was nicknamed after its sound, not color. Later, in 2004, we bought two area heaters (though they actually heated the volume...), combined with black just the same, and we called them Vogons.
It displayed time on falling platelets - had 24+60 of them, of which two were always visible - one side of the upper, other of the lower, so every minute one on the right would fall and every hour one on the right, and the digits were printed on them - from 00 to 23 and 00 to 59. The inside probably looked like a little track tractor.
It also had a radio, but of course it was small, tinny and no good at all, the buttons would cause cracking noise, it would wake up either too loud or inaudible, off station, all wrong. So, 50 hertz and far enough. We trained ourselves so only the one who was to wake up first would get up - if I had classes, or later had to drive to early field work, then I, else she.
Maybe it would serve well as a kitchen radio, but we live in the kitchen anyway and that's where our stereo was, so why have an extra radio. Come to think about it, wherever we lived, there never happened to be a door between the kitchen and living room - it was always either open or it weren't separate spaces at all.
It vanished, with other stuff, when our house was broken into, around 2004.
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