Possible Clues:

• ---- Dynamine (Cocteau Twins EP)
• Metal yield initially small
• Minute spent in your house
• It's back to the city for almost nothing
• - - Tim (Dickens)
• Extremely small
• Very small, flimsily made new shed
• Short description of Tim in 'A Christmas Carol'
• Very small, but with sharp points?
• Time to city, about one minute