Cuckoo clocks should be rather mad, as the name implies, but until now they've been more of the 'small sickeningly cute shed nailed to the wall with a sad bird in them' variety. Well at last the sheds are dead, and these wonderfully silly clocks with their cartoonesque design are set to take over. Who wants a scrawny bird tweeting on the hour when you can have a curiously endearing orangutang poking his head out at you and oooh-ooh-ooh-ing. Now one of the clever things about these clocks is that you can get the characters to pop out and perform on demand, by pressing a button on the side of the clock - because let's face it, an hour is just too long to wait. Also they have thoughtfully built in a gizmo that stops the character making a sound in dark rooms, so you don't get howling and mooing through the night, unless that's something you do on your own anyway. These clocks rock. Features: characters perform on the hour, auto sound shut off in the dark, requires 3 x D and 1 x AA batteries, size: 30.5 x 25.5 x 10cm.