Welcome back to the old front line podcast.

It's been a busy few weeks for me and I've been offline for a big chunk of it,

moving house from Yorkshire down to Kent. I've lived in elsika for for over seven years

working up at the head office of ledger battlefield tours as part of my job as head battlefield guide

but more and more of my work has taken me across to Europe these days.

And I've moved down Kent to be nearer to the heart of our European operations.

And while it saddens me to leave dear little Elsica behind,

it's a place that I grew to love.

I've mentioned it many, many times on this podcast and become quite connected to the

stories of the local men, the local regiments from their area of south and across to East Yorkshire,

having walked much of the wolds and the East Yorkshire coast. And of course that will never really leave me and I've come back to Kent in many ways

because I lived here in Kent near to Canterbury for a long long time in between my stints over there on

the old front line and living here now will make it a lot easier for my job, but also there's a wider aspect for this podcast

in that I'll be much, much nearer to those battlefields of the Great War.

When I lived in Kent before, it was quite common just to nip across for a day trip to visit

the Somme or the forgotten front in northern France or across the Flanders and I'll be doing that

again and we'll return to kind of how this move will impact what we do positively impact what we

do on the podcast later on in this episode, which is a bit of a kind of

interim episode really. It's not a full episode where over the course of the next few weeks,

we'll get back to normal. We've got a few guests coming up and I've got some of the podcast

ideas that I've been developing that we'll put out as episodes. So this is my first episode of the podcast recorded here in Kent.

I'm actually standing amongst the chaos of having moved. Those of you who've moved recently or

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