Thanks for those most kind comments. I very much appreciate them all. FYI silence doesn’t always means someone’s disappeared from the face of the earth and I’ve been quite busy on the music front nonetheless. Covid lockdowns notwithstanding, I’m trying like so many others to keep the music flowing. Have just completed writing a song comprised of the entire locations sited in the Shipping Report which we hear daily here in the UK. I mention this because Fitzroy created that concept along which the foundations of UKs Met. Office that issues a range of forecasts via the BBC. He also originated the concept of marker buoys, and even developed a glass barometer that Mariners could use at sea. He was genuinely interested in Darwin’s work but later on was torn by reconciling his deep religious views with Darwin’s new Theory of Evolution. Anyway I’ll be posting a bunch others which you might be interested. “The Shipping Forecast” is still posted in FB as part of this past year’s Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, and some other songs are on my Facebook page. But Muscat feels like the right place for all of that so please stay tuned.