Ticking away

Well, it's the last day of October already.  Clocks went back last weekend which mean I had to adjust our 2 'manual' clocks i.e. those with old fashioned hands.  I wonder if we will ever get rid of those?  Anyway, the kitchen clock needed moving but in doing som the clock unit think at the back decided to come unstuck somehow to the detriment of the whole clock working thing. I set to work with a knife (to take the hands off) and some supglue to stick the unit back onto it's mounting.  Sticking went OK, hands back on but I noticed last night it's stuck at 7.30, so I guess my hands need putting on a bit differently.  I have previous with hands. In an earlier life I was an instrument mechanic where some of my time was spent calibrating gauges of the aforesaid handed variety.  Putting the pointers back on the exact position was fraught with difficulty and not one of my favourite jobs.  I guess they're all digital now.  I wish my clocks were.
Dark evenings are not my favourite time of the year. If that makes sense, which it doesn't, but I'm sure you knoo what I mean.  Those people that say Autumn is their favourite time of year are obviously retired ir work shifts.  Travelling to/from work in the dark is decidedly depressing.
I'm trying to shake off the winter/autumn blues with a resurgent running regime.  After £60 well spent at a physio who found out my running style was causing my knee issues I have had for over 2 years, I have managed to gradually increase my running distance with no adverse affect on my knee at all.  Evidently I was pointing my right foot outwards, landing on the heel and rolling inwards (pronation I think it's called) causing all sorts or nasty twisting in my knee resulting in subluxation pain.  It was basically moving my kneecap a little causing it to move in the wrong place.  Suffice to say it flipping hurt.  The goods news is that with me consciously twisting my leg so that I land in a straight line it doesn't hurt at all, and that is/was the best news this month.  I managed just over 8 miles last night.