I'm John Batchler. I welcome my good friends, Simon Constable, living in paradise

in the south of France.

Eyes on the climate and the blossoms around him and then we'll come to the real world of

commodities, much at issue because of the Iran War and the 3,400 ships plus trapped in the

Gulf carrying all variety of commodities that we need for the

supply chain, not the least of doing, of being food. But we begin, first of all, with what it is

to live in paradise. Simon, a very good day to you. When last we talked, as I recall, we had blue

skies.

You almost reached 60. You hadn't had a great deal of rain and everything was in the moments of budding for your springtime.

We concentrated on energy and especially the fuel supply for the farmers. They used diesel. So we'll begin again to see what a week did,

a week of springtime. How's the quality of the air and what's in bloom? Good day to you, Simon.

Good day to you, John. Well, let's start with some weather temperatures, which are fantastic.

This morning, it was at 39, and it got up to a high of 54 Fahrenheit.

I'm very happy with that.

We've had sun in the morning, and in the afternoon it's windy and respecting a little bit of light rain.

So not a big deal at all in that way. It's pretty, pretty nice.

I don't think we're going to enjoy the wet, though, when it does come in. We've also got orchids

in the garden and daffodils and the Mirabelle plum tree, which had blossoms. All the blossoms

have gone now because they've been fertilized by the bees, and they've got

buds.

So presumably, shortly, we should have some Mirabelle plums.

We're going to bang the tree and get them to fall off and catch them in a sheet and then go

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