Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting.

Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC.

I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book.

But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts.

I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into

a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to

give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole

new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories that

make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC sounds.

This is the BBC. This is a BBC Radio 4 download. You're listening to me, Claire Boulding,

with another edition of ramblings. It's been snowing steadily all morning. It is still snowing, and it's settling on the branches of trees, on the tops of hedges, on the roofs of the cottages around us.

And it feels as if the landscape is enveloped in cotton wool.

The sky above is the colour of milk.

I've come to the Peak District in Derbyshire, renowned for its far-reaching views,

but I suspect

that today is not going to be one of the days in which you can say look at that beautiful

scene in the distance Ed Byrne is alongside me the comedian and Munro Bagger yes Monroe bagging appeals to

the nerdy side of the outdoors for me that I obviously the main thing is the being out there and the getting up there.

But then even if it's been a miserable day where you don't get to see anything,

that being able to tick off another Monroe, it appeals to the nerginess, the completest,

the sort of, you know, that's just sort of spotty side of me.

And actually when I rather wimpley said to you, should we stay in the pub for an hour and wait and see, it, it stopped snowing. You looked at me like, no, why would we do that? Well, it was

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