Yeah.

so why on earth you know they don't work let's put everything in respect they wreck everything their lifespan is only 20 30 years then they bury them somewhere in the moor the peat bogs have been take have taken thousands of years to to come to the standard they are they are so so important to our environment.

I get all these people saying, well, this is the way to go.

It's not the way to go because there's no storage facilities.

They are going to have to build a complete cement factory with roads across them all.

Disgraceful concrete roads.

The villages, I mean, those houses go back many, many years, and they haven't got the weight of that stuff being taken through.

Right.

No.

I actually...

We, it was the last day, we'd been up in, uh, after barramundi, uh, way up in the Northern Territory.

And we're on the river, and it's the last day, and he'd been bragging about, to me about this 8, uh, 94-centimeter barramundi caught about 10 years before.

He said, "You don't get any of those now.

There's not that many big in, th- uh, that big in the river nowadays." But also in the river, there are a lot of very large lizards.

Salties.

And there was also bull sharks.

Mm.

They've gone over there, and those grounds are much bigger than anything we've got.

You know, MCG 100,000.

And you go there, and then I think these guys have saved all that money for all those months to come out and enjoy a summer in Australia, and the Ashes and a, and a, a combat.

Again, it's not a walk around, it's combat.

It's gladiatorial.

No.

And, uh, I felt so sorry for those people who'd spend all that money, and they were asked, trying to do thing...

They're doing a good job, yeah.

Well, I'm not going to push the button.

I actually think that it's not an easy job.

The biggest problem I have with the ECB is we've got to get the fixtures sorted out because you cannot play for the 3rd of April, I think it was, 3rd or 4th of April, first championship game in the northeast of England.

And what's that all about? We never used to play the first game until end of April, May, beginning of May.

And you played that through and you did it.

But now they've clustered it up with their T20s, the 100, et cetera, et cetera.

So we go in

What kind of wonderful treats can you serve us up?

I can do pretty much anything.

At home, I did a big Dover sole.

Everyone said, well, that's a bit tricky on the barbecue.

It was beautiful.

We had that.

I've done various forms of fish, prawns, and then the usual stuff, the snacks, the steaks.

Are you a barbecue fiddler or do you let it cook? Because Australian barbecue men, we tend to play with the food a lot.

The first one

... [laughs] no.

But, uh, look, when you come to this, this wonderful ground, the history of the ground, uh, the ho- honors board.

And that what makes it harder when you're playing against any other side from the overseas, is the fact they all wanna be on that board up there.

So everybody gives everything they've got.

They'll, they'll run through barriers to try and beat England here.

But, uh, i- that's a great ...

Yeah.