Tell us about this.

Yeah, so to kind of synthesize what's going on in the last 20 years, I used to tell people I'm a health and wellness banker.

And every time I had the word wellness come out of my mouth, I kind of cringed because I didn't like the word that came out of my mouth.

I didn't know why.

And then I Googled it, and it turned out that there was a guy at the Mayo Clinic back in the 50s.

His name was Dr. Halbert Dunn, and he was trying to come up with the antonym of illness.

And the antonym of illness is wellness, which to me is the not-sick industry.

But also, you're

And the round-robin question was, when did you last have a real belly laugh? We had some funny answers, but this is Pete.

Pete from Daventry.

I'm sorry, I read the question wrong.

I thought it said deli laugh.

Because we were in the deli and a woman with a little baby went up to the butcher and she'd just gotten a little baby and she'd bought a potty.

And she said to the butcher, a pound of fillet.

And he said, a pound you can't.

[laughs]

And, um, a, a- and you just have a, a small, a relatively small battery.

I mean, it still weighs about a kilo and a half, but, um, you can get these lithium ion batteries to power them.

And, um, so yeah, it's not too bad.

You can get it in a backpack or you can get it in your bicycle pannier.

Um, but I've done very little of that this year.

It's simply been a pair of binoculars and going out looking for butterflies.

Are we also losing species, however?

So could you share a bit more about how you've experienced things over the last four decades?

Yeah.

Well, George, I'm pretty much like most people, Lynn, with long-term pain.

I had all the experience of back pain over the years during my late teenage years, but it became persistent pain.

In a nutshell, I went it all and went a bit bonkers.

Back in the day, I was a painting decorator and I was painting a house opposite Windsor Castle.

This is where I got a connection with royalty because the day my back became really dodgy was when the castle went up in smoke.

But it's a pain in the bum that might be worth trying.

Pete works on policy around boar/pigs in the NatureScot Wildlife Management Team, effectively the people who advise Scottish government on how or whether to manage wildlife populations.

Rationale behind that, I suppose, is, is really due to the uncertainty of the provenance of the animals referred to.

Um, NatureScot did a little bit of research back before COVID into the genetic makeup of these populations of, of pigs we have in Scotland.

Um, and they've definitely got two sort of sources of escape or release, uh, with one, uh, and possibly a third.

And certainly the northern ones, the ones at Loch Ness and Lochaber are very clearly got a strong dom- domestic gene in within them.

As a public agency, it's expected to be everything to everybody, which puts them between a rock and a hard place.

As with everything, it's not a black-and-white answer.

Uh, I think people acknowledge the, the benefits of, uh, ground disturbance that pigs and boar can, can have.