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The Hello and welcome to Nomad Podcast. I'm Joy Brooks and this is David Benjamin Blower.

Hello Joy. How's things?

Hello. Yeah, they're pretty good actually. I have just munched a couple of blocks of vegan millionaire shortbread in the hope that the sugar rush will

tide me through because we're recording this in the evening and I sort of needed a little bit

of a pick me up. It's not the healthy way of doing it. I don't recommend it. Don't do this at home,

but that was the route I took. I've got such a millionaire shortbread problem.

I mean, I don't have it all the time, but if I, you know,

when you have the little tubs that are just full of little ones? Oh, yeah. I can do all of those,

yeah. Yeah, the stuff I make, it would be very bad if I ate all of that or once. But yeah,

I can see what you mean about those little ones in the little boxes because they don't

seem quite as rich as what I make and they are really small.

But anyway, how is your good self?

I'm pretty good.

I've been hanging out with Anna Robinson most of last week at the Gathering Embers Retreat down at the

Franciscan friary in Dorset with a bunch of people, some of whom are listeners.

So I've had a really, really cool week there.

And then at the weekend, I climbed a mountain with my son. Wow. Which mountain?

Scarfeld Pike in the Lake District. So that's the biggest mountain in England. Yeah,

which for overseas listeners is probably just a little hill really, isn't it? But to us,

it's a big deal. Yes, it's the biggest we've got.

Yeah. There's bigger ones in Wales and Scotland. But there you go. I always imagine at the

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