Stoke

[Sherwood]

Elecution? A branch of physics perhaps?

[Barry]

Oops! Poor spelling there, I did of course mean "elocution".

[Macca]

Looking back, it's hard to believe how 'old fashioned' it was; but my parents were happy to pay the fees, and it didn’t do me any harm.

No it didn't do any harm, quite the opposite. Being trained to be indifferent to suffering wasn't pleasant at the time but it's been a positive boon in later life.

The Jesuits knew exactly what they were doing. It's why Himmler used the order as the template for the Waffen SS.

[Jimbo]

Do you recognise any of this Martin?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002130m

[Macca]

Do you recognise any of this Martin?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002130m

Yes he's talking about a street I used to work on. There is a huge, very posh looking Mercedes showroom that's surrounded by acres of post industrial dereliction. Looks like it landed from Mars.

[Lawrence001]

I heard that on the radio the other day he seems quite good at turning up at a town and making the locals laugh at themselves.

[Barry]

I heard that on the radio the other day he seems quite good at turning up at a town and making the locals laugh at themselves.

He didn't get many laughs when he visited a place in North Wales and made fun of the Welsh language.

Otherwise his monologues are quite amusing, and he obviously does a fair amount of research for each show.

[Macca]

View from the top of the hill taken during my morning perambulation:



The village at the top is Penkhull, it's in the Domesday book. Prior to that, Bronze age hill fort. Land drops away steeply on three sides, ideal defensive position.

In the 1880s it became the Stoke equivalent of Beverly Hills as you're up high, out of all the pollution. Some very expensive houses.

[Macca]

Today's view from top of hill. Different route this time

[Barry]

The weather looks a lot better!