Two lumps of Rock

As I post this shot I'm reminded of that morning about 44 years ago when as a young child I woke to pictures on the TV of mans first landing on the moon. We watched it again at school, my recollection was that there was a segment of a few minutes that played on spool for hours, without much commentary. It was amazing for all kinds of reasons apart from the revelation that the moon wasn't made of cheese. These guys were there, there were TV signals back from the moon to the US and then too us. As a 6 year old I was amazed, what sense I made of it then I'm not sure, but the aspirational element of it all was something that I think impacted me in my little school in the backwater of Whitehaven.

It's hard to grasp now with instant 24hr news, internet connection, and all this just how out of the ordinary and amazing this all was. PCs weren't invented, mobile telophony was sci-fi, if you wanted money out of the bank you took your book and asked a man nicely and didn't expect the bank to be open when you weren't at work.

Still that lump of rock quarter of a million years ago draws our eye