Alarm!!!

Oh lordy. I sleep like shit, every night. T'is the gift and splendour of having sleep apnea. Oddly though, for years I have not needed to use an alarm clock as my internal clock seems to work rather well -- I look at my watch or clock before slumber, tell myself what time I need to rise and roughly two minutes before the appointed time I wake.

The flipside is the deliciously naughty feeling I get when I slip into bed and deliberatly avoid any and all eye-contact with my various chronometers, and fall asleep safe in the knowledge that I need not rise for any reason...

Bliss.

Recently though, my roving eye has been caught by some awesome clocks.

There's the DANGERBOMB alarm clock, which requires you to reconnect the wires in the correct order to turn it off. There's this round up of other annoying clocks, but the one I crave most emphatically is the VOCO clock, voiced by Stephen Fry!

As the page says, we all like a little admiration in the morning. The Alarm has 50 phrases from Stephen which it uses to rouse you in the AM, from "The world has been very anxious to hear from you for the last eight hours. Shall I inform the news agencies you are about to rise, Sir?" to "Oh dear...come, come, let us not be defeated, Sir. Let us 'seize the day and take it roughly from behind', as the Colonel used to say in his unfortunate way."

I need one!