Time goes by so slowly for those who wait

[venta]

For the best part of a fortnight I've been intermittently coughing and hacking and spluttering and generally sounding like dying sealion. But without the ability to balance a ball on my nose (I tried).

In among the many apologies to my colleagues for the godawful noises, I mentioned the likelihood of gold watches.

Everyone looked at me funny. Again.

[Poll #1566412]

It never was a gold watch, by the way.

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[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I first came across "wreck of the Hesperus" in the George Harrison song title, but my mum told me it was quite a common expression in her day. It refers to the Longfellow poem of the same name, but that's much earlier. I wonder if this was also a meme started by someone on the radio.