My Pet Watch

 Hi there

Way back, there was a craze for a tiny little keychain computer called a Tamagotchi pet. The computer character on the screen only grew if you 'fed' it, and looked after it, and played with it.  All virtually, of course.  But, goodness, you were totally responsible for this tiny thing.  Ignore the Tamagotchi at your peril?  It would ... die?

Oh well, you could start again with a new baby Tamagotchi.  Easy-peasy.

A couple of years ago, I bought a (no, no, not a Tamagotchi) ...  I got an eco watch.  It doesn't have a battery.  You don't wind it up.  

My watch runs by ... light.  It stores up the light.  Any light:  the sun, an overhead electric light, a bedside lamp, a cinema screen, a dull day.  As long as there is even a tiny scrap of light, my ecco watch survives.

About a year ago, I slung it onto a shelf.  Upside down.  Then I went on holiday for a couple of weeks.  On my return my watch had stopped.

Oh dear ....  Had I killed it?  

Nope.  A couple of hours sitting in the sun, and my watch was back to normal. Phew....

I do worry about it staying alive. I used to stress when I swam with my watch until it convinced me (well, it was written on its back) that it could truly survive swimming to really deep depths in the sea.

Oh, I really love my watch.

But, goodness, it's rather like looking after a Tamagotchi ...

above: my ecco watch.  Whoops, I photographed it upside down.