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Aurora checks herself out in the mirror in the Chalet Hotel room before going on stage. MELISSA TAIT / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS. Aurora checks .. Then that guy will think it's OK for the next girl. And it's not. You're giving the rest of the girls a bad ...

Ready, steady, snow: get set for the new ski season

Stay at Chalet Bruson, a converted 18th-century mazot, from £854 room only, mybruson.ch Unsurprisingly, it looks like the inside of a cuckoo clock, with springs as seat bases, cogs and clock faces as tables, pendulums swinging on the wall. Tables ...

Family trip of a lifetime

A cuckoo entertained us with its clock-like call as we walked through a larch forest. A hostess in Trient, A few days later we'd leave the stone architecture of Italy's mountain buildings for Switzerland, where colorful geraniums highlighted ...

How's the weather up there? All aboard the flying Scotsman

Snowy peaks, lush green slopes stretching for miles down to Gruyeres and its Cinderella schloss. A smaller American balloon does not judge the ridge quite as well, though, and seems to prang a tree on the way over, which sends his basket swinging like ...

Kimberley goes cuckoo

Even the young girl who has just put a quarter in the clock and has been waiting patiently for its tiny wooden door to swing open seems ready to give up and head for the hills. Suddenly "They say we have the biggest cuckoo clock in the world, but ...

Use wall clocks to enhance home decor

Even today, think wall-clocks and somewhere the thought of a cuckoo clock is bound to cross your mind. Most of these clocks are made either in the shape of a birdhouse or chalet. They have a small mechanical cuckoo bird pop out of a door on the hour to ...

Keeping things ticking with the Maryland Clock Company

nautical and cuckoo clocks from the United States, England, France and Germany fill the showroom floor. Two grandmother clocks, distinguished from grandfather clocks by their “cinched waists” and shorter height, were made by the Maryland Clock Company ...

River City Bird and Well Quartz Novelty Clock - German Chalet

This chalet ... swinging couple on the pendulum. The case also has hand-painted flowers and a water-pump. The blue bird above the clock dial continuously moves back and forth as the brass pendulum beneath the clock swings. This clock does not have a cuckoo ...

That will drive you cuckoo! Curators of Swiss clock museum begin onerous task of winding them forward an hour in preparation for British Summer Time

Cuckoo clocks are typically made of wood, shaped like a chalet, and have carved leaves and braches around the edge, with a small cuckoo singing the hour. In the UK the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back 1 hour at 2am on ...

Uber Realistic Silicone Baby Mold: Cute or Creepy?

rustic chalet in the Alps. In the lobby of the Inn, facing the check-in desk, was a bassinet with a very realistic baby doll swaddled inside of it. It was just sitting there beside a magazine rack and under the requisite Cuckoo clock. I thought it was the ...

Woman may be the last in family to run Clock Manor

"I've been around clocks ... cuckoo clocks since she inherited the business when her mother, Marian, died. She estimates the inventory is worth $200,000. After more than a decade of running the specialized business on her own, Nelson, a self-described ...

1-Day Black Forest House Cuckoo Clock in Natural Finish

Chalet style. 1-day rack strike movement. Wooden cuckoo, dial with roman numerals and hands. Individual handlaid wooden shingles. Moving wood chopper and dog at every full hour. Cuckoo calls and strikes every half and full hour. Shut-off lever on left side ...