Nettlebed

They're in Shrewsbury on the 1st of November.

They're in Nettlebed Folk Club.

Great folk club that.

I haven't played it for probably 30 years, but some fond memories of being on tours there.

around England, various parts of England.

Nettlebed was always a favourite stop.

Anyway, various other gigs, I won't list them all.

They will also be at Celtic Connections early next year.

And...

And my parents were going to stay in Nettlebed with the Flemings, and he met Ian there, and obviously the name stuck.

And Ian said to me, told me the story, that standing...

We were standing outside the sort of door of Golden Eye, which is the most uncomfortable, beastly, single-story house built by Ian.

It was called The Spring up by Highmoor.

Nettle bed.

Lovely area.

Lovely place.

Y- honestly, you can't beat it.

[laughs] Standing in for Bledlow Hall is Joyce Grove in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire.

Named for Lieutenant Colonel George Joyce of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army, it was sold to James Thompson of Wallingford in 1637.

In 1903, it was sold to Scottish banker Richard Fleming, who tore down the old manor house and built the current manor in the Jacobean style.

And at the curves of the road, the telephone wires shine like strands of silk.

Nettlebed, Shillingford, Dorchester, each unrolls the road to Oxford.

I mean, it does feel like you described to be right at the heart of this seismic moment-

Mm

But I- you're quite right.

But I know these places and these roads quite well.

You, you go to Oxford on the M40 nowadays, of course, but Dorchester, Shillingford, Nettlebed, I'm, I've certainly driven those roads, and the Chilterns I know a little bit.

And, uh, uh, I, it, it really speaks to me anyway, even now this 80, 90 years later, I can sort of imagine what that drive was like.