Just give us a sense of what is here in a nutshell.

Yeah, well, obviously, for those of you that have listened to the podcast with me and Harry before, you'll know that I've described this often as organising multiple weddings back to back.

And if you can get things done in advance enough and you're also in a good emotional place, that means that this can be a vehicle to do an awful lot of cool things.

We're really hoping that this is a new foundation.

So we've been able to invite all kinds of partners and bring together all aspects of not just the miniature gaming, the Middle Earth miniature gaming communities, but the wider Tolkien-loving Middle Earth communities.

Because obviously so many of us in strategy battle game, we come to the miniatures not necessarily because we came from Warhammer or Warhammer 40,000 or another war game, but it's our love of the books and the movies and to have the opportunity to actually have that level of immersion in a tabletop experience.

So to be able to get this to then transcend with people who are artists, who are lovers of the music, who are mad into the costuming side of the hobby, you know, and say, look, we have this venue.

Yeah,

Pile Trackers does some wonderful work for people exercising and athletics.

Yeah, definitely.

So we are known for being an athletics track, but we're a lot more than that.

So we were a local authority owned leisure facility.

And in 2016, 2017, there was a change in the leisure provider.

So there was nobody wanted to run it, basically.

So in 2017, the community got together and saved it.

It's so important, isn't it?

Who are you? Where's Elite Services Group? What sort of area do they cover? And yeah, let's hear about you and Elite.

Okay, so I'm James Clark from Elite Services Group.

We are based in Yorkshire, so we do work around Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

We're just outside a hole in a town called Beverley, so we're not far away from Lincolnshire and getting over that bridge and doing work there as well.

So I'm one of the directors.

There's four directors in this company, which...

It can have its challenges but its benefits at the same time.

And do you do that design or where does the boundary sort of stop and then you hand over to somebody else?

Is there a difference between a funeral of someone who is mature in age or has had cancer for a long period of time and they die as opposed to something that's very sudden and unexpected or alternatively someone who is so young?

Yeah, there's a real marked difference in those things.

So When we sit down with a family and it's a younger person or it's an unexpected death, there isn't usually a discussion or question around, should we have a funeral? It's almost like in those situations, the importance of a funeral and what it does is just understood.

And we don't sit there and have the discussion, should we, shouldn't we? It's just assumed that we do that.

But when you compare to say someone maybe in their late 90s, The conversation can be very, oh, we don't know whether we'll worry about having a service.

All their friends have kind of died anyway.

And you do have that conversation about whether there is value or there's importance in actually having a funeral ceremony for them.

Even

Sure.

Okay, so, you know, a little bit about me.

I grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, back in the 60s and 70s.

And I, you know, I was raised by a blue collar family.

My father was a truck driver.

He drove, you know, highway rigs and oil field equipment.

My mom was a baker.

you know,

Is this

helpful? Look, I think the comment comes from a good place.

Usually that comment would come from a parent who's often a father.

That's usually where it comes from.

But it comes from this good place.

One, it probably comes from a place of humility, like don't make a fuss.

Don't worry about me.

and what do they look like

What would you like to add about the program, James?

I think the main thing I'd like to add is that we've made some changes this year.

So people that have been to it, I think we've been trying to listen to the people and trying to figure out ways to make this even better.

than it has been in the past.

It's always a great event, but we're trying to make it even better.

So just changing some of the day around, creating the second art therapy session was a big thing because we were overflowing last year.

Um, also a lot of the people in art therapy, uh, it's a longer session, so they're having to miss a session.

And we should probably, James, tell people where it's at.

And so it's, you know, just being willing to, yeah, be nimble, be, uh, adaptable and, and find, find those little niches within reason, you know, I mean, if you're going to be like, I'm only going to do, um, super tiny baby mustard greens like you're probably going to have a bit of a bit of a struggle selling a ton of that but if you can have that and you throw it in a nice spring mix or a stir fry mix and do that you know stir fry mix was one of those things that we thought was going to sell really well and it didn't but then we started letting the mizuna grow a little bit bigger we did some bunches we mixed it in with our fancy salad and then suddenly we were selling more doing that than by trying to really highlight the mustard greens by themselves

Yeah.

And what, you know, where I think that a lot of, you know, new farmers miss is, you know, like you said, learning from a tried and true grower is, you know, you also don't have their life and what's going on in their world.

You know, you may have a family, they may not, or vice versa.

You don't have their environment, their microclimate, and there's all these dynamics.

So The principles are there to your point, but everything is hybridized.

This is one thing I say all the time.

And so, yeah, I mean, there's something to be said about being small and mighty as opposed to falling into the trap of bigger is better.

Speaking of strengths and weaknesses, what would you say is the strength of your game?

Um, I'd say my hitting.

I mean, I have pretty good bat to ball skills, things like that.

I don't swing and miss a lot.

And then also my speed and just my athleticism, like that helps me in all categories of the game, whether I'm at shortstop, it helps me range out and make different types of plays.

Or if I'm in the box, maybe I can beat out a ground ball or something like that.

So those are pretty big strengths in my game.

How have you dealt with left on left, facing any left on left? How do you conceptualize that? Because that's a big challenge at the next level.

I'll tease it up.

1849, tell us what happened.

So 1849, my great-great-grandfather moved to the village.

It's a small farm of 52 acres with a malting.

So at the time when every community in the UK would have been making beer, not least because the water was often unsafe to drink.

So by making beer with that water, you've rendered it safe.

So he was growing this barley and malting it.

So maybe talk about your decarbonization journey, which is still ongoing, but you're making some really big strides in it.

Can you just explain to people the difference between capacity and power output?

Yeah, so obviously the capacity is the amount of energy that it can store within the battery.

You can have a 40 kilowatt battery, but y- the inverter's only gonna allow you to disperse and charge and import and that a, a, you know, at a certain rate.

I think it's about 3.6 kilowatts is the normal inverter.

Uh, so yeah, you're absolutely right in terms of what you can run.

A lot of properties, you know, we look at this, you know, even with a heat pump on in the dead of winter, they're not, they're not pulling that much energy.

They're, they're really not.

If somebody's considering putting a battery in, just the battery, nothing else, kind of what should they be looking for in that installer so that they can get a quality install and a safe install?

Hmm

...

the anointed king, King Henry VI, who was, uh, of the House of Lancaster.

The House of York has taken the throne from the House of Lancaster.At the first high point of the period of conflict, uh, in the 15th century in England that we know now as the Wars of the Roses, the two roses warring with each other were of Lancaster and York.

The key early point in that conflict is that York wins out over Lancaster, takes the throne, and the eldest surviving son of Richard, Duke of York, young Edward, takes the throne in 1461.

And there are two other brothers, one of them George, uh, the other, younger brother, Richard.

Edward is, early in his reign, a welcome change from the troubled, persistently, uh, unstable reign of the Lancastrian king who's been usurped, Henry VI, whose mental state had left political life in complete disarray.

Hmm.

[instrumental music] James Clark is professor of history at the University of Exeter.

The people who come to the British Isles as the Roman presence in Britain is beginning to recede are coming from the mainland of Europe, from the area that we now know as Germany, and from Denmark, in fact, from Jutland, which is a region of Denmark, but predominantly from the territory of Germany, from the Rhineland area.

Traditionally, historians understood these peoples to be Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, which is a very blunt overview of different Germanic and Scandinavian peoples really coming into England.

Essentially, there are no longer permanent deployments of Roman troops in England, and that gives the opportunity for these Germanic and Scandinavian peoples not simply to harry the coast of England as they have been doing for a number of decades, but actually to begin to think about colonizing.

From this, the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England begin to emerge.

So the Saxon presence is in East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and the central, southern, and southwestern region of England, what is now Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, which is where we see a presence of West Saxons and which eventually emerges as the Kingdom of Wessex.

Then we have a presence in central England, which is really the area north of the River Thames as it runs westward into Oxfordshire, all the way up really to the borderlands of Cheshire and the beginnings of northwestern England, that broad central area becoming, in the course of the 7th century, the Kingdom of Mercia.

And then the region, particularly in the northeastern part of mainland England, emerging as the Kingdom of Northumbria.

That's James Clark from GeoComply.

So the use of VPNs is very big.

And from data that we see that we find around a third of all internet users use a VPN at some point.

Over half of them, 51% of them, use a VPN to access better entertainment content or different entertainment content that they otherwise wouldn't be able to access.

But what's more scary for a consumer is not so much that their football match might be disrupted.

It's about what are they giving up in return for accessing this free content.

And we've done a lot of research into VPNs, and particularly the free VPNs which most people favor because they're free.

And James says within the terms and conditions of some of them is something potentially worrying.

James Clark is professor of history at the University of Exeter.

The people who come to the British Isles as the Roman presence in Britain is beginning to recede are coming from the mainland of Europe, from the area that we now know as Germany, and from Denmark, in fact, from Jutland, which is a region of Denmark, but predominantly from the territory of Germany, from the Rhineland area.

Traditionally, historians understood these peoples to be Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, which is a very blunt overview of different Germanic and Scandinavian peoples really coming into England.

Essentially, there are no longer permanent deployments of Roman troops in England, and that gives the opportunity for these Germanic and Scandinavian peoples not simply to harry the coast of England as they have been doing for a number of decades, but actually to begin to think about colonizing.

From this, the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England begin to emerge.

So the Saxon presence is in East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and the central, southern, and southwestern region of England, what is now Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, which is where we see a presence of West Saxons and which eventually emerges as the kingdom of Wessex.

Then we have a presence in central England, which is really the area north of the River Thames as it runs westward into Oxfordshire, all the way up really to the borderlands of Cheshire and the beginnings of northwestern England, that broad central area becoming, in the course of the seventh century, the kingdom of Mercia.

And then the region, particularly in the northeastern part of mainland England, emerging as the kingdom of Northumbria.