James Clark

Helping mining’s leaders in their drive for a responsible global mining sector. Personal account so cars, watches & water a possibility.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

@_virajacharya Mine is the type used in Vulcan (although wasn’t advertised as such) so I took a punt. Issue number and some research confirmed that’s where it ended up, but they used essentially the same chrono in various things, with just tiny changes as it went from Mk to Mk.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

Everyone’s home work station should include the chronometer from a Vulcan bomber.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

@_virajacharya If you want a specific Vulcan one there are very few (as very few Vulcans) but there are a fair few of these “8 Day” Smiths cockpit chronometers from various aircraft on eBay. I bought mine there for £50 but paid a clockmaker 6x that to repair it back to full working order.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

Rolled out the pizza oven in the building site which was once part of our garden. Like a Siren call to morons.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

Superb essay by @ICMM_com CEO @RohiteshDhawan in @AtlanticCouncil.
Responsibility is the surest path to resilience in the minerals age.
https://t.co/MOqX6lFJ9U

[James Clark @OxonJames]

We have a church we’re buried in back the Forest and that’s where I’ll end up, but the view from the village church here where home is these days isn’t bad as a back up.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

Both the big things (although one makes the concept of “big” very relative compared to the other) now wearing the badge of what might be my favourite place in the world. #wy

[James Clark @OxonJames]

@m_plewes Excellent commuting tool that.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

Over at @NFUtweets, my former stomping ground, it’s the end of @terry_jones74’s last day as DG after a decade of brilliant, vital leadership through tough challenge after tough challenge. Superb boss, inspirational leader, staunch friend.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

4-1 on George Elek tweets “If we draw a pentangle and summon a level six demon who can alter time we can go back and replay all our games since 1934 and we’ll win the Champions League in May. It’s not over yellows. Those are just facts.” #oufc

[James Clark @OxonJames]

The big Ford has had a lot of upgrades recently, but none of them as good as adding Rudy as an option.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

It’s coming on. A bit of love, some hard work, a few £ and a recognition that the first gen Super Duty is a seminal piece of American automotive history - it’s “when trucks changed” (which is why it’s one of the rare trucks worth a lot more in Oklahoma than Oxfordshire).

[James Clark @OxonJames]

Decal delete. Much better but clearly a sad for democracy & there’s slightly less Freedom™️ in the world.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

@Timoldland @Emma_A_Webb Dangerous path to go down. There are plenty of folk who might say the same thing about people who ride motorcycles, or are seriously overweight, or drink too much. If you cut off NHS treatment for people for their life choices where and how do you draw the line?

[James Clark @OxonJames]

Decal delete. Much better but clearly a sad for democracy & there’s slightly less Freedom™️ in the world.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

@Tankslider Have lots of things and it’s a big old thing that doesn’t suit cuffs.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

Nine years since I walked in to Kintaro Hattori’s first ever shop, in Ginza, Tokyo, and bought this.
Rarely worn now, but will never be sold.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

@AndrewOsborne36 Chicken treats the dog (and cat) with lofty distain.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

Since the doors and windows were removed from the old utility ahead of its demolition the brave chicken can now get in. It keeps trying to rush the old inner door to get in to the house and gets repelled, but in a sinister development it’s now discovered…the cat flap.

[James Clark @OxonJames]

The latest in a long line of people to leave the Cabinet against their will in recent months.

[Kate Ferguson @kateferguson4]

Top exclusive!!

Cabinet Office cat Ossie needed urgent surgery after he fell off a CABINET.

Civil servants did a whip round to raise cash for his emergency treatment.

By @stephenmoyes https://t.co/fqvmJqVVaY