Porlock

Down to

Porlock.

Down to Porlock, Porlock Mear.

Would you drive them

up the hill to terrify them at Porlock Hill? Yeah, on a pushboat.

Because isn't it

one in

Then I'm doing an event in Trenton Gardens in Stoke-on-Trent, an evening with me for a little cafe there.

Then I'm doing the National Hill Club Championships down in Devon at Porlock.

So I drive down to Devon.

do an evening's chat on the Saturday.

And I don't know about how John wants to do it, but for me, Sunday before a budget was pretty sacrosanct, because that's when I would sit in my chancellor's study in number 11, which is a beautiful small room, and just in total quietness, crunch through my speech and work out exactly what I wanted to say.

Yeah, and hopefully the man from Porlock doesn't come and disturb you.

This is probably one of my least favourite times of the year as a reporter, because it saw everyone's going kind of clamouring for these pre-budget stories.

And they're almost always kind of wrong, but no one ever really gets any blowback if they are wrong, because the Chancellor stands up in a couple of days and delivers what the actual stories are.

So you're both based in Somerset.

Imogen, just tell me a bit about your childhood growing up in Porlock.

Very beautiful village in Exmoor, isn't it? It

is, yeah.

So I hope you like it.

But I don't want you to go and inspect my fridge because I'm not sure it's entirely free of plastic bottles.

How do you persuade, and I don't know how many businesses there are in Porlock, but how do you persuade all these small businesses to give up plastic? What was the starting point, Joshie?

starting slowly and getting your name out there a little bit.

Coming from Brittany they sailed up the Severn, ravaged South Wales and the Arch and Field district of Herefordshire, but could do nothing against the garrison of Gloucester, Hereford and other neighbouring towns, which seem already to have been fortified.

They were forced to leave the district and so careful a watch did Edward keep over the coast of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall that they could make no effective landing, though they tried twice, at Porlock and at Watchet.

Ultimately they took up their quarters in the islands of Flatholm and Steepholm in the Bristol Channel, but lack of food soon drove them away to Ireland in a starving condition.

In the same year Edward built two forts at Buckingham, one on each side of the Ouse, and his policy again found speedy justification when Earl Thurkaidl and all the chief men who obeyed Bedford, together with many of those who obeyed Northampton, submitted to him.

They were, like, somewhat a descent of royalty.

Like, they lived in this beautiful mansion in a place called Porlock.

Um, and my mum was gonna be their housekeeper, looking after them, cooking them food, all that sort of stuff.

So we moved from being up north all the way down, Jazzie, my dad, my mum, and me.

Um, and I was five, so relocated down there.

And, you know, life was pretty lovely down there.

It's a beautiful place, Porlock Village, very small.

Um-

It did.

Well, it's the man from Porlock.

He was interrupted halfway through-

Yes

Then when I started making the houses and I put them on Instagram, then the people at Cambridge Contemporary Craft Gallery said, "We'll have some of those," so they had some.

And then the other gallery that I worked with, have worked with the most out of anybody is Churchgate Gallery in Porlock in Somerset, and Rachel there, from my very, very first putting stuff on a website, she has al- has had stuff regularly over the years.

So those two were my, kind of, I didn't think of them at all as like a test, like a test, you know, to see how they got on, but that they, they were willing to have them and had them and sold them, and that was great.

Um, so and then I always did Crafty Fox Markets, the DIY Independent Markets, the, there was another one called Urban Makers in London.