We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember robgraham
saying something like:

I'm gradually clearing out the old workshop and moving across to the
new one. I came across a horse shoe in a corner and am surprised how
big it is - 175 x220mm. Is this going to be a genuine one or
something made just as a large shoe ?

From a shire horse, some of them have hooves the size of dinner plates.