I've been having a most satisfying day. The clock that I've been cleaning a waxy green mess off has come together very nicely.
I've been able to help David a lot today, with his GPS Navigation doodad, with packing his kettle, getting a long case movement down for delivery. However due to the inaccuracies of postcodes in the country poor David ended up in the wrong place, and the clock had a minor problem that required it to be brought back to the shop.

Pete Mitchell (St Loye's horology instructor) popped in today after a couple of watch straps which I was able to locate for him. Pete mentioned a difficult student that I haven't met, it does Pete good to have someone to be annoyed at.

One of David's previous repairers had not used enough oil on a floating balance clock, so when Matt was working on it putting a little oil on the pivots immensely improved the performance of the floating balance. Note to non-horologists; using non-clock oils into a clock tends to gum the clock up in short order