Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us? Yes.

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from

43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

Thursday morning, exactly a week since the precise amount of rain that we all enchanted for,

arrived, ending the fire emergency after 20-something days of bouncing around to

various friends houses motor lodges more expensive hotels that to their credit quietly gave us reduced rates,

given the situation we were in, a couple of Airbnbs, and so on, back on the farm, back on the farm for almost exactly a week listening once again to

the morning rain fall on the roof which it has done every single day since I got back.

So apologies for skipping a week.

As you might expect, I was a little preoccupied.

My OCD won't allow us to permanently skip a week, so I expect we'll do an extra show in February.

Consider this. I can do that by considering this the January solo show even though it is in fact

February so yeah sorry about that but I it wasn't just being preoccupied trying to

tentatively you, unpack and get the farm back down from Warfoot.

It was also about trying to process how all these experiences I've just undergone kind of come out of my

mouth in human words that you know capture the experience to my own satisfaction and I've been sitting here making

that little bullet points since about five in the morning of what I want to cover and some

notes and yeah I think we're good to go. What we talk about

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