Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org

@sciencebase Interesting that there's not a lot of Ca oxides in the mix.

@sciencebase "As a matter of fact, it's all dark".

@sciencebase Know any songs with 'gibbous' in its lyrics? There really should be, but I don't.

@sciencebase Yes, esp lower down.

@Romaq @freemo There is a good book by Dava Sobel "Longitude". Harrison the clock-maker lived close to where I live today.

@sciencebase It is mind-numbingly bad. I offer only P Harum's 'Something Magic' as something worse.

@sciencebase Ours has grown into the gas fire flue. I can't imagine how that would have coloured your composition.

@sciencebase I'm afraid we did it at junior school. I had to sing in it.

@sciencebase Just heard it streaming. I though Blackmore must have got it from somewhere, not just trying to impress Ms Knight with his pointy hat. Urrgh.

@sciencebase I realise I really meant 'Shades of.....' rather than 'Hush' alone. I've never heard 'Book of Taliesin' though. May have to think about it...

@sciencebase I can hear 'Hush' and oddly much later with Tommy Bolin rather than Blackmore. No keyboards a bit unusual for then.

@sciencebase I've got it on right now. They're nowt like Deep Purple either.

@sciencebase Budgie's 'In for the Kill' album would fit.

@freemo Once they had clocks that kept the time at home, they could tell their longitude at midday.

@freemo Yup. They looked different depending on where you were somehow and almanacks
were made to refer to. From a ship at sea before decent clocks were available.

@freemo Incredible how sailors used the moons to find longitude with such primitive kit, ain't it.