Yes.

You know, if you're staring at the icon of...

John the Baptist, for instance, he's kind of the number three that you have as your third icon.

Oh, right.

So the first one is your own saint? No, the first one is Christ.

The second one is Theotokos, mother of God.

And that's normally depicted as a mother and child.

how are you getting on with bereavement of our father?

Yes.

You know, if you're staring at the icon of...

John the Baptist, for instance, he's kind of the number three that you have as your third icon.

Oh, right.

So the first one is your own saint? No, the first one is Christ.

The second one is Theotokos, mother of God.

And that's normally depicted as a mother and child.

how are you getting on with bereavement of our father?

No, no, no.

Now, one of the things I felt wished we'd got in, either to the main eulogy in the church or to the bit in the wake, was how bloody funny he was right up to the end.

His family WhatsApp comment, he's g- he's ...

What finally killed him, we didn't realize at the time this was gonna be happening.

He had a, a, an obstructed bowel.

So bowel movements are important at the best of times.

But when you're that old, having a good one [laughs] is not just, uh, desirable, it's essential, and he simply wasn't.

It's just a question of how and when and how quickly.

The classic

would be a drive home from school.

We're going home from boarding school for the weekend.

I'm in the back.

You are normally got to...

We always fought for who went in the front.

Any family will be... familiar with that old fight.

No. I'm just so grateful

Okay.

Or gin.

Um, and you've got a bottle that will last you all week, um, so you don't get through a heck of a lot of egg.

But, uh, in a tiny palette with, um, l- little hemispheres in it, you're mixing up your pigment and your egg until it's like a paste, just, just runny beyond paste form, and then you're adding water.

And so even the technical side, you're constantly maintaining the color that you're using by adding little drops of water from a little squeezy bottle.

There's a lot of technical side that there's a lot to manage.

So it's not an easy...

Oh, do, yeah.

it's

one of the um actually but yeah let's just get over that one i know it's called icon writing but uh so Regular viewers, and hopefully that's all of you, will have been watching James' Psalms series.

And for Psalm 19, you were with the man who was teaching me for the last week, Aidan Hart, who is a fascinating and lovely chap in his own right.

Very interesting.

entertaining to be in his presence for an entire week.

I mean, that was worth the cost of the thing alone.

But it's set in Shropshire.

I mean, you're saving me a

Do you think God had a hand in MDMA, or is that, is that a kind of-

I think it's gotta be a ...

A lot of science, as far as I can work out, is man getting close to working out the minimal amount of how God did various things.

So finding out what our circulatory system is like and finding out how a heart works, not to the point where we, we're clever enough to completely make a human from scratch.

But we've got a, a pretty good understanding of how things work, and I think stuff like MDMA would be a case of you're already using stuff that's preexisting in nature and just turning it into a pill.

[gentle music] Global warming is a massive con.

There is no evidence whatsoever that man-made climate change is a problem, that it's gonna kill us, that we need to amend our lifestyle in order to deal with it.

And, and then they'll probably use that as an excuse to bring in CBDC.