What are the bits that strike you are some of the challenges?

It is, it's a challenge, and it's a privilege.

Uh, I remember when I, uh, first arrived in, in Cumbria, um, where I came here from Manchester, uh, where I'd been the deputy director of, of public health.

And, uh, driving around places in, in Cumbria and particularly in the, the west coast, y- you're driving around thinking, "Somebody's paying me to do this?" It, it's a, it's a, it's a real pleasure.

But of course, uh, West Cumbria is not without its share of challenges.

Um, and in particular, you, you think of Cumbria, if you, if you don't live here, if you don't know Cumbria, you think of it as the Lake District, and it's the kind of rural areas.

It's the farming, and that, that's the thing that's, that's for front and foremost in so many people's mind.

That was like s- waiting to see whether you-- those anticipated peaks and it must have been such a dynamic time.