Monmouth

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.

beer and you can't have it well appreciate it

yeah yeah i tried to give them sips and they were like no and i was like well it's not for you so carry on with what you're drinking

so sobriety is great because you can get awesome beers and awesome ciders um where they are in Monmouthshire is just that the next county along if we're going to England is Herefordshire which is obviously really well known for greatsiders so there are if you want to do a day trip to like to Herefordshire obviously that does involve going to England which is frowned upon a little bit but you're not very far from Oliver Cider.

You're not very far from Little Pomona, who make amazing ciders.

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theirs not to reason why theirs but to do and die into the valley of death rode the six hundred But we have been long enough away from that golden window by which Geoffrey of Monmouth sat and wrote his immortal stories.

Geoffrey was called a chronicler, and what he was supposed to be doing was jotting down accurately historical events year after year.

Some of the chronicles written in this way have become the chief sources of English history.

In the first place, Geoffrey tells stories which vary greatly from what was actually known to be history.

Then, too, this chronicle is full, as you have seen, of miraculous stories of one sort or another.

And there are other reasons, also, why these delightful stories of Geoffrey of Monmouth must be taken with a pinch of salt.

but it is because geoffrey did sit at his window in the little town of monmouth writing these stories which have to be taken with a pinch of salt that english story-telling began to grow geoffrey's imagination was to english story-telling what the sunlight is in making a tulip grow story-telling grew out of the chronicles the so-called historical literature The men of Geoffrey's time said that he had lied saucily and shamelessly.

So their capacity to do a venture like that is probably higher than somewhere else.

But then equally, I know people in rural parts of Scotland, like Northern England, that are getting paid to graze on land like conservation grazing and stuff like that so again they just turn up with their cows and not only are they not paying or paying by the rule they're getting paid to be there and like people in Wales do that as well you know there's um What's his name? Alex Crawley, who's up near Monmouth somewhere.

He's got that kind of business.

And there's other stuff like the classic New Zealand share farming model, which might make more sense.

Definitely not counting the days.

As part of the Grange Project, which is a nature restoration project just outside Monmouth in Wales, As we were completely new to rewilding and the concept of nature restoration, we thought we'd start a podcast and start asking questions around some really, really basic questions.

All the questions we were asking, which we felt that maybe other people from outside of the environmental bubble might be asking.

And then that journey's kind of escalated, hasn't it? Because we are quite interested in beyond just nature and nature connection and the importance of biodiversity, which is mega important.

$10.50 on my Bacardo's watch.

Murph tells us that on August 24th, 1975, Queen began recording their hit Bohemian Rhapsody at Rockfield Studio, Monmouth, Wales.

And, of course, the British setting fire to the White House in the Capitol.

When they invaded Washington, D.C. this date, 1814, during the War of 1812.