Black Mountains, Wales

Yeah, it gets a bit Sid Barrett.

Yes, everyone goes a bit Sid Barrett and leaves a part of themselves in the Black Mountains.

Yeah, it was interesting what you were saying.

That's right, he was explaining that that was never his thing, just to be recreationally daft with the drugs.

It's actually in the zoo, and he's also in the underground, the subway, in the London Mass Transit is-

It was the w- when they g- landed off the, the train or whatever it was, when the w- when the two friends got off and they were walking through, before, when both of them were still alive, that was shot in the Black Mountains in Wales.

That was out of the back of a truck full of sheep.

Oh, that's right.

Right.

They said it was done in Yorkshire.

The movie is, the moor is in Yorkshire, but it was actually shot in the Black Mountains in Wales.

Okay, there we go.

Tensions eventually came to a head in 1924 when a bust-up with his closest pal and fellow artist, Hilary Pepler, led Gill to resign from the guild and leave Sussex in a bit of a huff.

With two other families in tow, Gill relocated to an isolated abandoned monastery in the Black Mountains of Wales, you know, as you do when you're a fucking pedophile.

[laughs] And it's here that Gill designed the now iconic fonts, Perpetua, Solace, and the big one, Gill Sans.

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Cool.

So the next place is kind of like a little sub region is heading a bit further north from Kivili and heading up towards Abergavenny and Monmouth and the Black Mountains.

So now you're kind of away from.

the Welsh coast and up more towards the Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons.

I will have to apologise.

I cannot pronounce the Brecon Beacons as they're meant to be in Welsh.

Tell us about Forest Barn Retreat, talking about soil.

You're projecting the Black Mountains.

What's the vision behind it? And why does soil quality matter so much when it comes to growing organic fruit and vegetables with the nutrients we actually need? So are our soils depleted? That's why we can't have enough nutrients with whole foods?

Well, yeah, this is often the question, you know, why would I need supplements? Is it because our food is depleted and our soil is depleted and so on? And, of course, that's true to some extent.

So I was always a fan of organic because obviously we don't want lots of pesticides and herbicides and all that stuff.

But in my view, it always fell short because step one had to be measuring the minerals in the soil, optimizing them.

So that's what we've done down at Forest Barn Retreat in the Black Mountains.

The first step was to measure the minerals in the soil and then remineralize.