Posted August, 1997
Contributed by RW David A. Chase, DDGM 1st Masonic District
A brother from Eastcote Lodge sadly passed to the Grand Lodge above. At the pearly gates he was met by St Peter who, seeing he was a Freemason, suggested he visit the Masonic Clock Room.
Some days later he returned, and asked why the thousands of clocks all showed different times. "They are Masonic clocks, one for each Lodge . Each advances one second every time a mistake is made in Lodge ritual"
Some weeks later he returned to St Peter again. "I wanted to find the Eastcote Lodge clock, to see how we compared to the rest, but I can't"
"Eastcote?" laughed St Peter, "That one is in the kitchen!"
"Why?"
"Well," replied St Peter, "the electric fan was broken..."