23 Mar 2011, 6:22 pm
part of the inspiration for Jimi Hendrix' 'fire' was the desire to stand next to noel redding's mother's fire in her then home in folkestone. 
from a biography fudo read.
Noel was actually a guitarist who switched to bass & was born on christmas day 1945
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23 Mar 2011, 6:27 pm
Fudo wrote:
part of the inspiration for Jimi Hendrix' 'fire' was the desire to stand next to noel redding's mother's fire in her then home in folkestone.
EEWWWW!! You said Folkestone. Yuk!
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23 Mar 2011, 6:32 pm
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23 Mar 2011, 6:35 pm
Folkestone = Toilet....
Almost as bad as Dover.
............Almost
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23 Mar 2011, 6:37 pm
23 Mar 2011, 6:37 pm
23 Mar 2011, 6:41 pm
Fudo wrote:
aww sorry to hear.. strood is pretty terrible too.
It should be - the name sounds like an exotic disease. 
23 Mar 2011, 6:46 pm
Cornflake wrote:
Fudo wrote:
aww sorry to hear.. strood is pretty terrible too.
It should be - the name sounds like an exotic disease. lol i picked up strood whilst trekking across cambodia.. it's the itching that is particularly bothersome.
23 Mar 2011, 6:53 pm
23 Mar 2011, 7:07 pm
Zen wrote:
*whispers* I heard Fudo's come down with Strood.
she assured me there was no risk
23 Mar 2011, 7:10 pm
23 Mar 2011, 7:14 pm
Cornflake wrote:
I thought this was both beautiful and interesting, but then I had a 'thing' about clocks.
It's an interview with the designer of 'The Corpus Clock', which is a large sculptural clock at street level on the outside of the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
The clock is entirely accurate only once every five minutes. The rest of the time, the pendulum may seem to catch or stop, and the lights may lag or, then, race to get ahead. According to Taylor, this erratic motion reflects life's "irregularity".
Hours are tolled by the sound of a chain clanking into a small wooden coffin hidden in the back of the clock.
The face is gold plated.
The clock uses a 'grasshopper escapement', invented by the self-educated UK clockmaker John Harrison (1693 – 1776) who also solved the problem of determining longitude. I've seen the original (and still functional) Harrison clocks on display at Greenwich and they truly bring a lump to the throat. (unfortunately something large, hairy and closely resembling an aggressive female Russian shot-putter was posted to prevent people (ie. me) taking photigraphs of them)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCqGtvTA36k[/youtube]
It's an interview with the designer of 'The Corpus Clock', which is a large sculptural clock at street level on the outside of the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
The clock is entirely accurate only once every five minutes. The rest of the time, the pendulum may seem to catch or stop, and the lights may lag or, then, race to get ahead. According to Taylor, this erratic motion reflects life's "irregularity".
Hours are tolled by the sound of a chain clanking into a small wooden coffin hidden in the back of the clock.
The face is gold plated.
The clock uses a 'grasshopper escapement', invented by the self-educated UK clockmaker John Harrison (1693 – 1776) who also solved the problem of determining longitude. I've seen the original (and still functional) Harrison clocks on display at Greenwich and they truly bring a lump to the throat. (unfortunately something large, hairy and closely resembling an aggressive female Russian shot-putter was posted to prevent people (ie. me) taking photigraphs of them)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCqGtvTA36k[/youtube]
cool
thanks Cornflake, certainly quite interesting. feeling better already
23 Mar 2011, 7:28 pm
23 Mar 2011, 7:33 pm
Cornflake wrote:
Begone foul Strood, go get thee hence.
23 Mar 2011, 7:36 pm
23 Mar 2011, 10:01 pm
