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Walking The Dog - Episode 3 · UK Column Radio

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Well, Poppy, what do you think. Let's get you now. I'll
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just say that it's really lovely to have you all with me today. Because
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it's afternoon time. It's called at a four in the afternoon. But the
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weather is just wonderful. All of the grayness has cleared, there's a lot
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of blue sky, the sun is really quite warm, and the whole day's
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just got a different atmosphere from how it's been over the last couple of weeks.
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And the other very strange thing is there's no wind. So I thought
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we would just pop out with Poppy and have a little stroll and a catch
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up. Did I say there was no wind? The moment I get into
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the lane, here the wind the wind springs up. Have a listen.
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So those little those some little wind chimes that somebody's got in their garden,
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and I've got to say they do. They can make a really lovely little
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sound. Not so good if the weather, if the wind's too strong,
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but as I said, today is really quite good, and so they're just
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making that very delicate little chiming sound. The thing which has changed dramatic,
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even though the weather's been really bad, is the fact that I can't believe
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this. There I was saying there was no wind, and suddenly this gust
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has sprung up. So I don't know where the microphone's picking it up.
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Probably isn't actually, but this blustery, gusty wind has suddenly appeared out of
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nowhere. It's all a bit all, a bit strange, but yeah.
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The big thing is that the leaves have suddenly started appearing on everything. So
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the trees, you look at some of them, well, it used to
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be the ash trees that would come into leaf very early. But you look
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at the trees and there's this lovely green glow and it's the new leaves beginning
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to open. It's really lovely to see. Lots of birds. I think
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the birdies are happy that they've got some warmth and sunshine, and there's been
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quite a few of them hopping around. They're obviously starting to get interested in
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nest building. Here's the local river and i stood on one of the little
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wooden bridges and I'm looking at the water flowing downstream, and of course,
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because it's been raining and the water is quite high, so it's quite turbulent,
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and so the little bits of turbulence catch the light. So I'm looking
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at this very sparkly. It's really pretty actually, and you see all the
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whirlpools and the currents in the eddies as the water is heading away from me.
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And then after about fifty yards there's quite a little change in the gradient
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to the river and it's going over a lot of rocks, so that's mini
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white water. But it's just lovely to see it. I thought i'd take
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you with me. Are probably very keen to get out today, and you've
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all been talking to me either. Well, it's usually comments that are coming
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in from YouTube, but I have also had quite a few emails coming into
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me direct and they are they've been really nice. Actually, we seem to
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have settled the dispute over walking the Walking the Dog audio and walking the Dog
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video, and it's really nice that we've decided how we're going to do that.
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We're going to stay audio. So yeah, the key bit is that
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we're going to stay audio. But I have paid attention to what people have
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said, and there is a view that's a little bit of video. Well,
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photographic stimulus is needed to help things along. So I'm going to see
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what I can do on this one, and maybe what I do will mean
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that everybody is happy, if that's ever possible. So you can tell it's
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sonny, because what have we got. We got a few people out are
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clearly keen to cut their grass, and this is this is a good thing.
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I managed to do mine a few days ago, so I don't need
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to be rushing out to do it. I just pause for a bit.
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We've got a big family group coming past, which is great. Hello.
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So this is one of the nice things about where I live is that because
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of all these walks, people come out with their children. And I just
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love it when you see families and children of all ages, including teenagers,
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who come out with their moms and dads and family, and they all look
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just normal. They're doing normal things, and I love it. So I've
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got the river on my left, and the first thing I'm noticing is,
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yep, the primroses are really doing well. I've talked about those before,
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but these are all ones along the river bank and it's just great to see
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them out and it's looking nice. It's looking spring light. We've also got
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some bluebells, not too many here, but enough to notice, and a
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few dandelions, some of the little yellow flowers I'm not sure what those are,
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so I'll just say they look pretty. And the ground is firming up
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a bit because the sun's been on it already, so that's nice. And
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I thought we'd just take a little nosey up the river, which I haven't
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done with you before. And this is a nice route because the path is
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very much a little tiny country path and it's right along the river bank,
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so you get the advantage. You can have a good look at the water,
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and I hope you can hear it flowing in the background, because that's
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one of the things that I always find very therapeutic when I come out.
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It's just that lovely sound of the water, and you've got dapple shade from
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the leaves onto the water. As I say, if you look downstream,
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it's just all sparkling in the sunshine. The other bit that I mentioned to
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you is about wild garlic season, and that's upon us. So there's now
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a lot of the wild garlic, the white flowers that are out and some
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of the buds are still to come out, but there's got a lot of
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flower heads open and this is very pretty. And the other thing that happens
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is that the wild garlic it defines the edges of the path, so you
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get used to walking this path which is, you know, sometimes it's a
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narrow path and sometimes it's sort of a bit open, and then all of
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a sudden, either side of you there's this well defined well sorry, there's
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a well defined edge to the path which is just a sea of green and
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the white flowers of the garlic, and it's very pretty. I'm walking opposite
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what used to be the old mill here, and they're beautiful buildings and they
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were very well restored some years ago, made into the mill building and the
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adjacent buildings were made into private developed dwellings, and I'd say they've done a
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very sympathetic job because the stone work of the buildings is just beautiful. I
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would guess it's been repointed in lime mortar, because it's all very light and
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bright, and you've got these wonderful stones visible, and they're lots of different
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colors. Actually, when the sun's on them, you almost get where you
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get the normal buff colored or grayish colored stones, but you also get ones
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that have almost got a pinkish and a bluey tinge into them. So when
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you look at the wall, it's it's not a sort of dull stone walls.
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It's really bright and I like it a lot. And the other thing
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they have done is that the windows and doors for these buildings I think are
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all very sympathetic. They fit in really well. And not all of them,
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but quite a few of the people are using some of these very nice
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paint which are supposed to be sort of mimicking what would I say, Victorian
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colors, So they're pastel colors. And there's one of the greens that's being
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used that I like a lot. It's just a nice soft color. They
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had to do a bit of work some years ago when we had a particularly
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bad flood of the river, so part of the river bank's been built up
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to protect the old mill. But they've still got a nice piece of grass
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in front of them, and it all looks it all looks very good.
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Poppy would like me to tell you that this is actually her favorite walk.
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Ifever we get to a point where there's a sort of choice as to where
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we can go, she always wants to come down and do this upriver walk.
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And I think it's because the path is interesting. And we get into
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another little woody bit in a minute, but she just likes going along the
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bare earth path and there's lots of places for a dog to get their doggy
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snout into. And she's bouncing along and her tail is clearly showing that she's
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having a good time, So that's great. The other bit I should tell
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you while I'm here is that the river's narrowed here. So how was it
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twenty feet across maybe something like that. But what you can actually see it's
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not perfect because there's sections that have now fallen into the river. But originally
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they'd walled either side of the river to speed up the flow, to get
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the speed in the volume flowing into the mill pond, to help the performance
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of the mill. And I often think about just the amount of labor that
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went into getting those stone walls either side of the river. I would guess
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a lot of the local laborers employed pretty hard wet work to build those up,
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and that would have just shown you the value placed on the local mill.
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And of course that was absolutely the time when a mill was such an
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important asset because all of the grains were ground locally, and the mill owner
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or the oat, yeah, the mill owner would be pretty important and well
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respected and probably quite a wealthy person. So you can hear it really flowing
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here. And it's interesting that the stonework is in place either side at this
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particular point, although it's all covered with this very thick moss. That's the
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word I'm looking for. And actually cross that section of the river, there's
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a lot of logs now jammed. So there's one that is almost at right
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angles to the river, and there's a couple of other very big ones that
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have wedged against it, and then on the far bank there's a great huge
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bundle, you know, maybe twelve foot long and seven or eight foot wide,
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of various sizes of sticks that have come downstream in the I'll call it
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the floodwaters because the river rises very quickly if there's been a lot of rain
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in parts of South Devon for the catchment area. And what's your head here?
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Because we're having to duck under a particularly big oak tree that decided it
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was old enough to fail, and in one of the storms it was blown
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over, a pretty massive tree. But as you come along the path,
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you've got to keep your head down to get under the trunk and the big
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branches which are now sort of impaled into the ground. You've also got to
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watch where you're walking here, because there's a lot of tree roots come to
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the surface, so if there's any of you that a bit wobbly on your
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feet, you'll need you need to take care. And I like this bit
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of the river as well. It's coming around a bend, quite a gentle
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bend, and it's widening out a bit. But on the other side it's
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technically flood plain. I don't know whether they ever used to keep animals over
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that side of the river, but now it tends to get overgrown. All
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of the undergrowth comes up, and various trees and bushes and grasses start growing
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up, and they leave it for so long, and then they'll come in
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and cut it all down again. But it's I don't know why. It's
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just an area that I've always thought was very nice. And then on my
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right we've got a small woodland. This also floods if the river's high.
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But interestingly there's the remains of old stone walls, now pretty much overgrown,
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but you still sort of see them emerge from It's a bank and part of
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the path, so I don't know whether in time's gone by animals used to
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be kept in here or whether this was a bit more of the I've talked
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about this before, the areas where they use it as a sort of nursery
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for pheasants. Maybe I should do my research about that, but yeah,
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who knows. So we'll just stand for a minute. I think I wonder
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how long we can do that for. We just stand and we're quiet,
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and we can see see what birds we can hear and what other noises.
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Well, I don't know whether it's working for you, but it works for
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me that when I come out and I just switch off, just enjoy walk
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with the dog, and I listen to all these sounds of the water and
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the birds and the wind if it's strong enough to make a noise in the
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trees. This is all part of my therapy, and it's a means of
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unwinding from all this nonsense that's going on around us. And it's part of
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the UK column Sanity project. Yeah brilliant, but I mean it, and
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I encourage other people to do it because I can say I've been in this
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wonderful game for long enough to know that there are a lot of people that
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get drawn into the to the research, and they're watching a lot of videos
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and they're reading a lot of dark material or whatever they're coming across is very
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negative, and some of them I've had to say to, you know,
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just watch it because it draws you into a very bad place. And if
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you feel you have to do the research you're doing. One, don't do
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it at night. Don't do it late at night, because that's especially bad.
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But also make sure you do other things to chill out whatever it is.
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I think a bit of exercise and fresh air is important. But there
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was another lady I was talking to the other night, and maybe she was
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feeling a little bit anxious about some stuff, and I said to her,
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the last time we spoke, I encouraged you to play your flute. Did
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you do it? And it went quiet, of course, and then she
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said, well, no, I didn't, And I said, well,
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I think you should, because I think it would. You'd find it very
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relaxing. And when you're concentrating on playing a musical instrument or you're just enjoying
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the sound you're making, I suspect her flute sounds a lot nicer than my
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violin. You're relaxing and you're chilling out your brain. And so I encouraged
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her to do it. So that's something else that I think. It's just
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my opinion, but I've got a feeling that, excuse me, for the
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people who play musical instruments, this is a very it's a very important thing
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to do, and it's very good for them. Oh wow, that two
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two Mallard ducks with all the colors in the sunshine, and they've just flown,
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you know, only about fifteen feet away from me down the river,
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cruising at about three feet above the water. Just a really spectacular site.
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It's lovely. I've seen ducks on the river paddling upriver or downriver, but
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I haven't seen any flying down like that for a while, which is just
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beautiful. So there we are. We made the effort to come out for
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the dog walk and we get rewarded by a beautiful sight of those birds.
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It's lovely. The other little bit about this area is that it's the undergrowth
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is really interesting because there's a lot of really beautiful ferns. Presumably this is
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because it's shady and and also quite moist, but it's they come out of
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the ground and they had their spectacular leaves and do they give it. The
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word primeval comes into my mind, but I don't want to use that word
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because I never think it's very nice. But you see the ferns, and
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it just changes the sort of nature of the of the undergrowth, so they're
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really interesting to see. And I think we just poppy, we'll poppy.
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We're just going to cut through this way, as I'm actually stepping over some
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of the the original stone walling of the river, because you can see it
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here as well. But this is this is a lovely little piece. It's
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it's like a beach if I describe it like a beach. The river doesn't
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s bend. So I stood now looking to the I suppose the southwest it
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would be, and the river's flowing downstream, and it's just all this beautiful
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white light sparkling, and we've got some really quite big leaves on the tree.
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The boughs are the trees that are overhanging the river. But then there's
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a space where it's almost like a brown sandy beach, and there's another little
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stream that is flowing down now to join the river. That stream will dry
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up if the weather ever dries up. But this is just a brilliant place
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to just sit and be quiet and have a look at everything around, including
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up in the trees, because there's some amazing shapes these trees. I think
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they're lime trees, and there's some oaks, but I think some of them
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are lying and there's just these tiny little leaf buds forming. So obviously they
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start to come into leaf a little bit later than some of the other trees,
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but it's just very nice to see them. Poppy wasn't impressed there.
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I hope you picked that up, because once you're on a walk with Poppy,
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the idea is that you walk and she can tell you off pretty quickly
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if you decide to stop for too long admiring the view or talking to somebody.
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Isn't that Another good thing about dogs is that if you're going to go
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out for exercise, they're going to make sure that you keep walking. Wow,
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this is so pretty. We're now into a white carpet of all these
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flowers, and it's a mixture of the white flowers of the garlic and if
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you don't know what a garlic flower looks like, it comes up into a
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head that opens into a number of different flowers. So you get a mixture
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of these little white flowers and little white buds and it's quite a spectacular sight
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here, particularly as there's a lot of bluebells amongst them, which is all
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great. It was very nice that I've had some interesting emails from people talking
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about the fact that they've enjoyed the walk because they can't get out. So
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there was one lady who said, I'm just not fit enough to get out,
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so coming out with you and Poppy is really nice. There's another lady
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who says she's in the depths of Istanbul, so she's in the middle of
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a pretty busy metropolitan area. And then there was another lady in UK who
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said that I think it was her, said she'd been walking the dog while
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listening to me walking the dog, which which I thought was really nice,
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and just going to come over here. Yeah. I get a lot out
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of the fact that I can do this and walk the dog and it gives
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people other people in enjoyment maybe also encourages them to get out. So,
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wherever you are in the world, thank you for joining me today. It's
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been that's always really nice to have you on board. And we're just cutting
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away from the river now into one of the fields and then we're going to
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join what I know is a Green Lane. It's one of the pathways that
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wind their way between the fields. You can find these all over England.
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But basically this is where they used to take the animals to move them from
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one location to another. So they didn't have to take the animals on the
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actual main roads or the backcountry lanes. They could take them in these sort
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of pathways for animals, and I've always known them as the green Lanes.
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I think there's some really good books talk about these pathways across the country.
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And this one brings you up over another little wooden bridge and you can hear
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the stream which is below me, and and we get a lovely look back
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into the field, which is well cropped because it's had cattle in there for
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a while and they've certainly trimmed it down, and it's all glowing in the
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sunshine. It's brilliant. So if I repeat a few things, you'll have
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to bear with me because I can't remember episode by episode what I talk about.
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But hopefully, hopefully I'm not covering too much stuff that I mentioned before.
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A few of you got into the debate and responded to me about whether
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I was allowed to talk about other things while I was walking, and I
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think the consensus was that people were very happy with a little bit on the
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basis that they wanted to know what was in my head, but maybe not
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too much that it sort of spoilt the ambience of the walk. And I
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think this is a pretty fair fair thing, because I didn't want to make
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these walks too heavy. I wanted to make them sort of enjoyable. So
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I'm happy to go with a flow on this, and I'm happy to share
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a few things. And today I came out one because I looked out the
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window and saw that it was so lovely and sunny, but also because at
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the time it was about time for poppies afternoon walk. But I'd also been
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talking to a lady doing an audio interview for Gutsy Women, and I'm not
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sure which will be out first, probably this, so I won't revealed too
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much because I'm going to encourage you to listen in to me talking to this
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lady. But what we were discussing was the White Rose. And if that
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doesn't mean anything to you, it's meant a lot to me for a great
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number of years, because when I started to absolutely you see that something was
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wrong in this country and there was something politically oppressive that was coming into place.
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Of course, in the early days we looked to the European Union for
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a lot of the policy, and I think that was correct and is still
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correct. But we've seen other onerous policy since then. And I'll tell you
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what, Bobby, let's give this a try. She's keen to get back
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into the fields. But I think I'm going to mention on one of the
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walks that they locked the gates sometimes and then you're sort of trapped in a
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field. See what happens. Yeah, So if we go back to the
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UK column days in about two thousand and eight, well, we published the
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article in February, but i'd been looking at I'd come across, by chance,
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the story of some young people early twenties one twenty five who made an
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effort to fight the Nazi regime in Germany. And they did it by leaflitting,
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and they were very brave youngsters. The two main ones were brother and
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sister. I'm not going to give you too much because I'm going to encourage
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you to listen to the Gutsy Women interview where a particular lady is talking about
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this as well. But they went out leaflitting, protesting about the Nazi German
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government and what was happening. And I think it was the brother of this
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lady had been out. I think he was a medical. He was army,
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he was fair marked, but he was army. Sorry, he was
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medical, and he'd been out in the East and Front and he'd seen the
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carnage. And so they leaf flitted in protest at at what the government in
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Germany was doing. And to cut a long and beautiful but tragic story short,
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they ultimately got caught leaf flitting and it cost them their lives. And
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oh my goodness, Poppy the old dog has suddenly accelerated. I don't think
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she's going to win this one because there's a pheasant that has decided to do
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a runner instead of flying, and unfortunately, poor old Poppy is not going
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to make it. She enjoyed the chase, but the pheasant, missus pheasant,
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is going to survive, is going to survive another day. But I
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know what this means that come eight o'clock tonight, Poppy is going to be
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a bit crock and stiff legged because sprinting is not really the thing for her
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the age she is. But it was good to watch, so just to
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finish the little story, very poignant story about young people who formed a resistance
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in Nazi Germany, and the UK column picked up on it at that time,
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but unbeknown to me, there were other people who were recently looked at
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it and they were so inspired that they decided that the resistance needed to be
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reformed. It's it's a really lovely story, the two things. So I
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had a lovely conversation and I think the UK column audience, you guys will
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enjoy it. And yeah, what a coincidence that something that I saw and
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inspired me back in two thousand and eight suddenly comes to the fore again in
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twenty twenty four. I think what I'd say is that it's one of the
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most encouraging things because it shows you that although we can sometimes think that nothing's
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happening out there, I think more and more people are not only seeing things,
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they're starting to do things to challenge what's going on. And this is
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a really good thing. And my last comment on it is just doing something,
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however small, can make you feel so much better. You're not just
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watching this clownrce horror story come in and thinking, yeah, is there no
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way of stopping it. If you do something, especially with a few friends,
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you'd be amazed at what starts to happen. So there we are.
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You'll have to wait for that gutsy woman episode. And I think she absolutely
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was a gutsy woman because she's another one of these individuals that just decided on
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her own to get up and do something. I always find that very inspiring.
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Now where are we? Oh my goodness, I didn't notice that little
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boy. I think we head down this way, Poppy. So we came
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over the over the style into it's pretty Oh no, they're all here.
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Okay, that's all right, into this field, and initially it looked empty,
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but as I started to head in one direction, I noticed what I
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thought was a solitary animal, which would have been the bull in the far
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top right hand corner of the field. But then actually, when I looked
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closer, the herd is up there, So I think they're just cows.
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A yes, so we're okay. I've never had any problems with them,
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but sometimes you've got to watch cows if you've got a dog with you,
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because they can get a bit upper tea. And so we have the guidance
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by the style, which says keep your dog on a lead, but actually,
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if you walk through fields of cows, you have to be prepared to
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let your dog off if the cows get upper tea. So there we are.
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That's a bit of my local knowledge. No doubt I shall get a
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stream of complaints from farmers telling me I'm wrong, but I've experienced this myself.
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And the other bit now is because I've sort of done a loop around
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and I'm heading down river, but I'm somewhere away from the river, but
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between where I'm standing and the river itself a couple of really lovely fields,
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and there's the remains of small fruit trees. And I know from speaking to
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people many years ago who were a lot older than I was at the time,
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that these two fields were absolutely packed orchards in their day. Because of
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the river and the fact that sort of early in the season it could flood,
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water was in brilliant supply, and therefore the fruit was particularly good,
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and certainly apples were the main part of that crop, but I think there
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were other fruits as well, plums, etc. And of course the village
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had its own cider press in a building quite central in the village, and
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if you read some of the historical documents. They were taking those apples and
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celebrating in the autumn with their own pressed apples and cider creation. I find
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it just lovely story the people working on the land and all the fruits were
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there for them, and then they got the reward of it. Fertile land.
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People work in the land, and that land looked after them. And
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it's in stark contrast to the madness of the rewilding program that's going on at
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the moment, and it is madness, but it's calculated. And I really
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do hope that our farmers in UK start to wake up a bit faster and
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become a bit more active. Well, those birds are going for it is
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that because they can see me or wonder they get a bit fretful, particularly
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the blackbirds. If you come along. Yeah, we need I think we
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need c UK farmers getting a bit more umph in them, in line with
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their French and Dutch colleagues, because all the video that I've seen online shows
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that there's real passion started to be unleashed for the Dutch and the French in
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particular. Maybe we're always yeah, Bobby, Bobby, Pobby, No poppy,
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Poppy Poppy. All right, go on, go on. See that's
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a classic, isn't it. Because I talked about Poppy's favorite walk, and
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I just come to a little bit there where I can walk her along the
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pavement for a few hundred yards, and I do it now and again because
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otherwise Poppy tends to walk on soft ground and if you do a bit more
42:43
pavement, you can, as the dog owners will know, you can keep
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their nails claws a bit shorter. But Poppy didn't want to go that way.
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She wanted to come back by the River's she's normally incredibly but I think
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I was on a loser then, so we'll come back this way. If
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you're wondering what else is in store on walking the dog, I've been thinking
43:22
about this. One of my thoughts was upping the frequency. It wasn't my
43:29
intention to leave it so long before getting this one out, but I don't
43:34
know what it was. There was something sort of stopping me. So I
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thought it might be fun to do them a bit more often, which makes
43:43
it easy to connect up, easier to connect up some of the commentary on
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what's happening. And the other thing is that this is only if you're really
43:54
well behaved, and that is that I thought we might be able to walk
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together in some other locations, which would be good and Poppy would enjoy that.
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Some of those I'll do locally, so they'll just, you know,
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literally be walks out the front door, out of the house, and some
44:22
of them I might decide just to pop in the car and go a little
44:28
bit of distance and we can see a new vista and we can experience a
44:34
bit more of delightful devon. I think this would be good because really I
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couldn't leave, I couldn't leave listeners without experiencing the fact that, of course
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we're pretty close to the sea, and there are some really fantastic walks,
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not only on beaches but along the cliffs. So I think we might share
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some of those. And yes, I will consider what we might do with
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some images. I'm not promising video. I'm going to be ruthless and cruel
45:20
on this, but we might manage some sympathetic images to help the people with
45:29
visual special needs to enjoy what we're doing. And then I have a couple
45:37
more ideas up my sleeve as to how we will assist the content of walking
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the dog. Will you do your bit and that is giving me feedback.
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I love the comments. I like hearing about where you are and what you
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do. And it's really great when people are telling me stories about their own
46:05
dogs, because this is a nice thing that people. People are so connected
46:14
with their animals, with their doggies. So it's great to hear about your
46:17
dogs and how many you've had and their personalities. And what I thought is
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that in some of the future walks together, we'll share some of these stories.
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I won't I won't give out any actual names. I'll only I'll only
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talk about the content to protect people who need to be protected. But I
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think that could be quite enjoyable. And yeah, if you mentioned where you
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are in the country, however accurately as you want to, we might be
46:55
able to get a few of you connected up, because this has certainly happened
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over the years with people who have got in contact with a column more been
47:07
in the UK column chat box or call to some of our events here Bobby,
47:14
and they then learn that there's other UK column people close to them,
47:20
and then a friendship forms. And also they're saying that it's so nice,
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you know, to know there's other people who are awake around them, and
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here we are just heading back to the to the little bit of road.
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So that's very good, all right. Well, look, I think I'm
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going to end it here today. It's been lovely. I've really enjoyed the
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walk. The fresh air has been brilliant. Maybe we've got some sunshine and
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ring firmly on the way. Maybe not, but Poppy will need to go
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out and I shall be happy to take you with me, So please join
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us for the next one. See you then, Okay, bye bye,