The the So, Hello and welcome to podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 899. It is the 23rd of

April which means it is St George's Day. So happy St George's Day everybody. I am joined by history enjoyer Bo.

All right? And also history enjoyer and also steam train enjoyer. Alex, welcome to the show.

Good afternoon. God save England. Happy St. George's Day and all day.

Yes, excellent, excellent.

So before I do something else, I will first say, if you are a jolly good sort of chap and you look at us and you think those are interesting good looking wonderful people I would like to work with them.

Well now is your chance because we have some job vacancies up on the site we are looking for people who who can do the you know the button stuff with the with the cameras and the computer if you're one of them then have a look at our job vacancies and there's various ones up there but you know

production manager is one of them so if you know what that means you know videographer type type

thing so anyway if that's you come and join us and and now we mention Alex so that's you isn't yes yes obviously on that one

follow me on Twitter Alex that steam guy for my unique brand of putting

political commentary and esoteric steam engine posting.

Just to break the timeline up.

I think we get into a bit of a rut, so yes, some odd...

You've always got to balance those two.

You do, I think balance is the key to life

really so um yeah follow me on that in my life I'm actually the chairman of a of a charity called the

the Roby trust based down in Tavistock in Devon.

Our steam fare is Sunday the 2nd of June.

So come down we're going to have all our engines out doing trailer rides around our

beautiful town. We've got food and drink, we've got

classic cars, we've got tractors, we've got live music, so there's something fun for all the

family.

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