Thanks Keith!!
I remembered reading in Fred's book about the time when his light went out
and he had no matches to re-light it but couldn't find the reference(looking
under "lighting" would have been a good start!!!!!)
In echoing previous comments on this topic, the incident he refers to
includes a description of his search in the dark and his eyes had clearly
been in the dark for sometime before he was able to notice the glow of the
fungus
Thanks for finding the reference I thought I was going mad!
Regards
Dave Hardwick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Ramsey" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 30 July 2001 16:13
Subject: Re: glowing timber ?
> Fred Flower Mentions this in his book "Somerset Coalmining Life" (Bath:
> Millstream Books, 1990). On pp 34-35 he describes an occasion when, whilst
> working alone, his lamp blew out and he was unable to relight it as he had
no
> matches with him:-
>
> "... I saw what I thought were lights on some of the old wooden roof
supports.
> These "lights" looked so real that I even tried to light my lamp from
them. I
> discovered later that they were patches of luminous fungus growing on the
bark
> of the old damp tree trunks."
>
> Keith Ramsey
> University of Exeter
>
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