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XG double pivots and inferred wingbacks.

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This is Dan Tones End. Welcome, Dan.

Morning, Vernon. You're in MoCop. Where's that?

Mel Cop is a little hillside village in between Staffordshire and Cheshire.

Oh, very nice. So it's very high up and you look down on both counties really.

It sounds very green. It's very green, very rocky. It's a nice place to live anyway. Yeah, it is. It's beautiful. Really good up there. You play the guitar in your free time?

I do a little bit, yeah. I've done that for a long time, but only in the house really. Right, okay. And when you picked up the guitar for the first time, is it easy to get all the chord structures down and that kind of stuff? I was 11 at the time, it was nearly 40 years ago, and I had lessons for probably about 10 or 12 years, and I kind of went on my own after that. There's only so much you can learn and somebody else can teach you then the rest you kind of find out by yourself. Yeah, I think a lot of guitarists do that, don't they? Yeah, I think so. They read Bert Weeden's playing a day and then they're off. That's it, Bert Weeden, yeah. Yeah, Fab. Are you a gardener? I am for my sins. Well, winter time, Is it downtime or is it preparing for spring? At this moment in time, I'm recovering from a few surgeries, so I'm just relaxing at home at the moment, just trying to recover. Well, that's all right, that's it? It does if you're wearing so much pain, but yeah. Yeah, yeah, true, true. Are you all right? You're going to pull through it?

It's probably going to take a little bit more surgery. Right. Unfortunately, I've had a prolapse

desk giving me back and I've also had a big toe fusion. I think they're playing

Glastonbury next year when they're going back. Big toe fusion, yeah. Didn't they're in one of

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