Speaker 1: I'm interested. What did your school report say about you?
Speaker 2: I don't think any of it was particularly good. How
Speaker 2: do you say little bastard? Professionally? Those words whatever that
Speaker 2: is was pretty much what was in my school report challenging.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm bumped into my head so that she
Speaker 2: was like my head of not year, what is it?
Speaker 2: She was like my form tuotor, Yeah, she was my form.
Speaker 2: I bumped into her.
Speaker 3: She was also head of house. Yes at school Callum
Speaker 3: went to yeah, Griffin or mate.
Speaker 2: I bumped into her a long while afterwards, and notorious
Speaker 2: for the behavior that I had. And also she was
Speaker 2: an English teacher, so I didn't really apply myself particularly
Speaker 2: at school. And then she ask me what I was
Speaker 2: doing now? If I could bottle the I could paint
Speaker 2: the picture. When I told her I was a professional journalist,
Speaker 2: that was that was quite something that I was working
Speaker 2: in London as a professional journalist. Since she was like,
Speaker 2: oh you really so yeah.
Speaker 3: I didn't know Razal had journalists.
Speaker 1: George Sport what what is your I mean we had
Speaker 1: house masters. What did your house master have you? In
Speaker 1: his mind's eye? What did he think that the young
Speaker 1: George Brown was going to be imprisoned.
Speaker 4: I think probably he was not my biggest fan, if
Speaker 4: I'm completely honest, and the feeling was mutual. We did
Speaker 4: not get on at all well, and so my singular
Speaker 4: lack of success so far in life would probably have
Speaker 4: come as no surprise to him whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Which is, well, what do they have you marked out
Speaker 1: as at school?
Speaker 3: Which the bit I got kicked out of? The bit
Speaker 3: I didn't get kicked?
Speaker 2: I think the first one is a marker of success.
Speaker 1: I think I think the first, the second.
Speaker 3: The second. I remember my physics teacher when I spectacularly
Speaker 3: failed my A two level whatever they were called, because
Speaker 3: it was like the second half of it, he just
Speaker 3: said I was a massive disappointment to him. Five years
Speaker 3: later I saw him selling light bulbs at a Eco
Speaker 3: light bulbs at the sort of the village Fate. So
Speaker 3: I don't know how that works. I don't know what
Speaker 3: his marker of success was, but I'm sure we both
Speaker 3: disappointed each other. So with with disappointment in mind, should
Speaker 3: we try and work out what actually happened at the
Speaker 3: game fair? Because I know we sort of we normally do, oh,
Speaker 3: who's come to the game fair? And we do a
Speaker 3: bit and then we never mentioned afterwards. I sort of
Speaker 3: lost track of where you all went at the game fair,
Speaker 3: but I knows some something happen, so I think we
Speaker 3: need to sort of an after.
Speaker 2: Action report here, a blow by blow.
Speaker 3: If that's what happened, that's what happened to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had no blowing never mind that. Okay, the
Speaker 1: highlights for me it was on the Friday. I think
Speaker 1: that it was largely that, rather than just being perpetually
Speaker 1: at the GWCT stand last year, is that Claire and
Speaker 1: I were let off the leash and we just went
Speaker 1: out as a sort of normal couple, wandering around and
Speaker 1: taking it all in. And it was in its way
Speaker 1: a delight. And you do realize that you get stopped
Speaker 1: by loads of people and you can say, oh, I haven't
Speaker 1: seeing your phrases. And I think that's the best thing
Speaker 1: about the game thing, is that you do catch up
Speaker 1: with people who you haven't seen for a year, but
Speaker 1: they might have read your stuff or listened to what
Speaker 1: we do on this dark podcast of ours and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and you realize, oh, that's actually were worth it.
Speaker 1: And then on the we did some sort of proper
Speaker 1: journalism stuff of interviewing people which was quite cool. And
Speaker 1: then on the Saturday I realized, then the the Friday
Speaker 1: is a delight but the Saturday is just a really
Speaker 1: really busy thing. We went to some posh drinks parties
Speaker 1: which we were actually invited to do. More on that
Speaker 1: later and they were quite cool. I went to one
Speaker 1: up actually at the Hall, which also Callum was invited to,
Speaker 1: but we'd gone by then because we'd actually left Charlie
Speaker 1: and his and his sidekick in a hot car because
Speaker 1: we said you're not coming because we'd been previously. Yes,
Speaker 1: we'd been to the Shuffle drinks party before that and
Speaker 1: Charlie had tried to half inch the beers that were on.
Speaker 3: Yes, I saw that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he put me an bag. So we vetoed him
Speaker 1: coming to the Fields drinks party up at the at
Speaker 1: the Hall because that would have been a bit dangerous.
Speaker 3: Spirit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if he had actually started nicking things off the
Speaker 1: sort of Earl of Hartford, that probably would have been
Speaker 1: sort of career over. So that was it. It was
Speaker 1: largely one of delightful Friday, far too busy Saturday, and
Speaker 1: we went to and do you know what, I didn't
Speaker 1: buy anything inappropriate or silly that I got back and thought,
Speaker 1: what the hell's this thing even do? In fact, the
Speaker 1: only thing I think I did buy was an expensive sausage.
Speaker 3: I heard you could buy such things.
Speaker 1: I thought they were in It was a Herefordshire sort
Speaker 1: of salami type thing. Because the guys there, they there
Speaker 1: was down in the food area and they were a
Speaker 1: bit quiet, and they clearly put all this effort into it,
Speaker 1: and they gave me loads of samples, and you know,
Speaker 1: you feel.
Speaker 2: You get not guilted into it, but you do feel
Speaker 2: bad for something.
Speaker 1: You think, yes, callum, I did you just thought you've
Speaker 1: put a huge Amoun's effort in this, and love and
Speaker 1: passion and skill. And also I'd spoken to George the
Speaker 1: day before about that he was planning to make these sausages,
Speaker 1: and I thought, I need an excuse not to have
Speaker 1: one of his sausages that he's going to me. So
Speaker 1: therefore I bought them off a professional rather than getting dysentery.
Speaker 2: So I got offered one of these sausages. This was
Speaker 2: a slightly warm one.
Speaker 3: That's a different sassage.
Speaker 2: You'll be George's just slightly warm sausage.
Speaker 4: You'll be pleased to hear Richard that I managed to
Speaker 4: resist buying the sausage machine, so everyone's safe another year.
Speaker 1: We did have this image just as George go back
Speaker 1: because he was flying solo, won't and we will find
Speaker 1: out about what happens when George flies solo and laces
Speaker 1: without adult supervision. And just this image of him buying
Speaker 1: a sausage maker, every single thing that can sort of
Speaker 1: turn meat into then sort of gristled up stuff. And
Speaker 1: I just had this image of George covered in sausage
Speaker 1: skins and gristle and minced up meat for the next
Speaker 1: six weeks as he starts experimenting with all this stuff.
Speaker 2: Do you ever try? Have you ever tried to make sausages?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: I tried. How difficult it is to go into that skin? Well,
Speaker 2: the imagery of amateur sausage making, it's also how I
Speaker 2: feel like I look in a white T shirt like
Speaker 2: that kind of like so has badly packed it in.
Speaker 2: Every time I see a woman in an ill fitting
Speaker 2: white dress, all I think is amateur hour at the
Speaker 2: sausage factory.
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 4: I like the idea that sausage factories have an amateur
Speaker 4: urt when people can just turn and have a go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like an open mic map.
Speaker 2: Yeah, g Q in sausage making.
Speaker 3: So to tell the wider story of this, because sort
Speaker 3: of Callum George and I and Amy silently, we have
Speaker 3: sort of this inter networking of adventures where we almost
Speaker 3: need to release a map like they used to do
Speaker 3: with certain you know, certain books. You know you'd have
Speaker 3: you turned to the middle for the map and you
Speaker 3: can see where all these things are happening. We need
Speaker 3: to do that for sort.
Speaker 4: Of the middle of warrants, sort of military.
Speaker 3: Yes, we used to do that in sharp novels. So
Speaker 3: just imagine that in your head. With this, we're converging
Speaker 3: on a camp site somewhere near Evesham, which wasn't going
Speaker 3: well because it turns out that Google Maps did an
Speaker 3: update that week and just sent everyone down stupid side roads.
Speaker 3: And if you're listening to this and you think, yes,
Speaker 3: my Google Maps was stupid that week, yeah, apparently it
Speaker 3: was a thing where they just it just started randomly
Speaker 3: sending people down stupid routes even though there were ten
Speaker 3: minutes longer. And that's what we had all the way there,
Speaker 3: and I think you did as well.
Speaker 4: I did have exactly the same experience, and I found
Speaker 4: myself thinking, I know, I'm near the end four because
Speaker 4: I can see signposts to it, but I don't seem
Speaker 4: to be able to get on it.
Speaker 3: Got to the campsite, Georgie was already there, and I
Speaker 3: want to paint a picture of you listeners. In the
Speaker 3: corner of the campsite with caravans either side. There is
Speaker 3: a five meter bell tent, one of those big canvas
Speaker 3: campaign tents, with a mustached man sat in front of
Speaker 3: it wearing a pink shearer's vest, shorts and flip flops,
Speaker 3: which you know there's an image for that for patrons only.
Speaker 3: But it was a strong way to start the weekend
Speaker 3: and it sort of went downhill from there, really, didn't it.
Speaker 4: I think it went uphill. Certainly I got smarter.
Speaker 3: You did well. Also. You had to go and put
Speaker 3: real clothes on when we went to the pub that night,
Speaker 3: because we went to the pub at the campsite and
Speaker 3: it was a bit shit, so we went off to
Speaker 3: a better pub. Which are we going to give away
Speaker 3: the location of this the.
Speaker 4: Best pub, because I would like us to be able
Speaker 4: to camp there next year instead of the campsite that
Speaker 4: we were at.
Speaker 3: So let's go for the descriptors then instead in the
Speaker 3: village where most of the rules were thatched And what's
Speaker 3: the thing you'll know this niggas. What's the thing with
Speaker 3: the animals on the top. What are they called?
Speaker 1: Do you know what? I don't know the precise name.
Speaker 1: I think Chris Dodson told me that they were something
Speaker 1: like icons. I think they were called that's the term
Speaker 1: they use for them.
Speaker 3: That would make sense.
Speaker 1: But he has told me some of the bizarre things
Speaker 1: that he's been asked by thatched house owners to put on,
Speaker 1: one of which was a ballerina of all things.
Speaker 3: Produce it in the notes, Amy has just said they
Speaker 3: are called finials.
Speaker 1: Apparently see some like hunting and cheer, so they probably
Speaker 1: that's how they pronounce finials.
Speaker 3: So just evening sun walking across the village square, there's
Speaker 3: church bells going, there's thatch roofs everywhere. Walking up towards
Speaker 3: the fifteenth century pub with Morris dancing happening in the
Speaker 3: tithe barn next to it. We walked through the orchard
Speaker 3: to the outdoor dining area. Open the menu and it says, well,
Speaker 3: we make our own sider and we've won many awards
Speaker 3: for our pies. Inside there was a folk music session happening,
Speaker 3: and the staff could not have been nicer, I think,
Speaker 3: the possibly the nicest human beings on earth. And we
Speaker 3: went for supper with Avian and his wife, which was
Speaker 3: I think I was happier that evening than I have
Speaker 3: been all year, although for about two thirds of this
Speaker 3: year so far I have been dying.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, for a year when you
Speaker 1: nearly lost your leg and the doctors turn around and
Speaker 1: say we might save the leg, is let's be perfect, honest.
Speaker 1: Anything after that is.
Speaker 3: Probably coming up Millhouse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So what was your highlights? George?
Speaker 4: Of the of the game fare?
Speaker 1: It was a flying sony.
Speaker 4: It was a bit of a strange game fare for
Speaker 4: me because in most of the other most of the
Speaker 4: other years that I've been there, I have been tied
Speaker 4: to a stand and I have never really been able
Speaker 4: to explore properly. Last year I wasn't, but I literally
Speaker 4: just did. I turned up for a podcast recording and
Speaker 4: then naffed off again. Really, so this year, what were
Speaker 4: my highlights? So for the Guns on Pegs podcast, I
Speaker 4: interviewed Carlo Barretta, who is the next in line to
Speaker 4: the Barretta business name. So his dad is running at
Speaker 4: the show at the moment, and he was there representing
Speaker 4: Bretta for the five hundred year anniversary of the company,
Speaker 4: which is an astonishingly long time for anything to be
Speaker 4: going on.
Speaker 1: For it, am I Ryan saying it's the oldest family
Speaker 1: owned company in Europe.
Speaker 4: It would certainly be up there. There's not many companies
Speaker 4: that have been going for that long, are there. So
Speaker 4: that was really interesting and he was a consummate professional.
Speaker 4: We then did our Gunspace podcast live show, which was
Speaker 4: the one I've enjoyed the most out of all the
Speaker 4: live shows we've done standing ramonely in the Game Fair Theater,
Speaker 4: but actually I think And then on Saturday night I
Speaker 4: attended the Bretta dinner up at the House, which was well.
Speaker 4: The invitation said that it was formal evening dress, which
Speaker 4: I interpreted as black tie, but it turned out that
Speaker 4: very few other people had done so I would say
Speaker 4: maybe ten percent of the people there were in black tie,
Speaker 4: and I was one of that ten percent. But that
Speaker 4: was all very fun and it was wonderful walking up
Speaker 4: from the park where the showground is, up the steps
Speaker 4: into the very formal garden with thee with the string
Speaker 4: quartet playing and everybody having champagne and cocktail. You had
Speaker 4: a bond film, it felt like it. Yes, I did
Speaker 4: have a sort of mental soundtrack.
Speaker 2: Don't think they had a host pipe band in that garden?
Speaker 3: Did they know?
Speaker 1: It was lush, wasn't it?
Speaker 4: Do you know?
Speaker 1: When we went into the Fields Drinks do there on
Speaker 1: the Friday there was a I assumed that they holding
Speaker 1: hands a gay couple in front of us, and from
Speaker 1: the back one of these chaps looked exactly like Jeff Goldblum,
Speaker 1: and they had as you walked up, various members of
Speaker 1: the sort of household staff of Ragley Hall sort of
Speaker 1: welcome you and sort of ushering you it because you
Speaker 1: apparently you can't walk in a straight line without someone
Speaker 1: pointing whether you've got to carry on walking in a
Speaker 1: straight line to get to where your host is. And
Speaker 1: I said to him, did you see that was Jeff Goldblum?
Speaker 1: And he went was he? And I went, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: definitely Jeff Goldblum and he goes, I didn't know he
Speaker 1: was gay. I thought I have now just started a
Speaker 1: ring with Jeff. Is to say of a crab joke
Speaker 1: to a chap who works at Ragley or sorry, Jeff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if it was at Goodwood or something like that,
Speaker 3: that would be more expected because there's all sorts of
Speaker 3: random celebrities there hiding away in corners of the house.
Speaker 3: A friend of mine was at a thing at Goodwood
Speaker 3: at the revival and went went off somewhere into the
Speaker 3: house to try and find a quiet room to fart
Speaker 3: in because he just sort of stepped out of the corridor.
Speaker 3: He stepped into this room and there's Keanu Reeves sat
Speaker 3: on a sofa and he sort of he didn't know
Speaker 3: whether to hold it in or just carry on or
Speaker 3: just sort of sort of nod him back out.
Speaker 2: Please please tell me you just crop dusted in and left.
Speaker 2: He's a good He's a good man. Don't crop dusty.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Nigel, I just had the story of when you
Speaker 3: accidentally shouted on Keanu Roufs.
Speaker 4: But actually I think all of that was all very fun.
Speaker 4: But I thought that the most fun was actually Friday,
Speaker 4: when we were just sort of biffing around the showground,
Speaker 4: chatting to people and looking at stuff and completing our
Speaker 4: bingo cardshit a.
Speaker 3: Pink T shirt that said Hello Cows on it, so
Speaker 3: the bingo card. I think we need to sort of
Speaker 3: address that We didn't get into trouble with it, but
Speaker 3: I put quite a few sort of shooting world celebrities
Speaker 3: scattered across it that they didn't know about. And I've
Speaker 3: had a lot of messages since from people saying what
Speaker 3: is this fucking bingo card? And why is my name
Speaker 3: on it? From people of varying degrees. We also started
Speaker 3: giving them out to stallholders, and I know for a
Speaker 3: fact that the bizarrely present and no one quite knows
Speaker 3: why Restore Britain stand were given again a countryside bingo cards.
Speaker 3: They were playing bingo, although it may have been one
Speaker 3: of the forestry people who just sent me a photo
Speaker 3: of that. Ah, but we sort of infected the show
Speaker 3: and people were saying, what's this T shirt thing? And
Speaker 3: I think Hamish from Gilly on the first day said, oh,
Speaker 3: I've had a couple of your people here, and then
Speaker 3: on by the end of Saturday he said I've had
Speaker 3: a lot of your people here and I'm not and
Speaker 3: it was sort of loaded with a lot of your people.
Speaker 3: I don't know quite what he meant by.
Speaker 1: We don't know, we don't we're not responsible for them.
Speaker 1: I was particularly pleased with the not only the number
Speaker 1: of T shirts I saw, but the cues outside Hugo
Speaker 1: Campbell Hills Place the game GluN.
Speaker 3: Yes, for the game.
Speaker 1: Fair, there seems to be a distinct lack of people
Speaker 1: selling game I mean you observed it, George, didn't you
Speaker 1: was that there was a reason for that? And why
Speaker 1: did you think it was that?
Speaker 3: That was?
Speaker 4: Well, this is conjecture and hearsay rather than concrete. But
Speaker 4: I think that just the costs are incredibly high. I
Speaker 4: think there's they take a feel and I think the
Speaker 4: there's not actually that many game suppliers who are set
Speaker 4: up to be able to do shows. And I think
Speaker 4: what actually happens quite a lot is that people use
Speaker 4: the game fare as a sort of stepping stone to
Speaker 4: other things in their in their business. So if you
Speaker 4: think of the likes of Kayak Brin and those sorts
Speaker 4: of people, they will have done the game fair many
Speaker 4: years ago. But it's sort of a way of making
Speaker 4: a bit of a name for yourself and then moving
Speaker 4: your business on so you don't have to give a
Speaker 4: big chunk of your takings away to whoever happens to
Speaker 4: be running the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the costumes were crazy for a stand,
Speaker 2: but I think for if you weren't selling cheesy chips
Speaker 2: for ten quid and you're actually selling quality food, I
Speaker 2: would have thought you'd done quite well.
Speaker 3: Looking at the just the Hugo and the game gluttered
Speaker 3: and what they did. He he went through seven hundred
Speaker 3: and forty four pheasants and sixty partridges over three days.
Speaker 2: We should explain.
Speaker 3: Substantial amount of bird flesh.
Speaker 2: We should explain what he was doing. So we had
Speaker 2: a breakfast menu. Was a pluck muffin that was delicious.
Speaker 2: I had one of those, it was fantastic. And then
Speaker 2: he was doing the pheasant smash taco Swarmer thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: basically a like a wrap squashed up pheasants stuff in
Speaker 2: it with some lettuce and a delicious sauce and lots
Speaker 2: of pickles. It was amazing. I didn't get to eat one,
Speaker 2: but yeah, everybody else said it was fantastic. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what Hugo was doing.
Speaker 1: I'm very pleased that one of our loyal listeners and
Speaker 1: patrons managed to maximize on his top quality product. That
Speaker 1: was really good. What was the most stupid thing that
Speaker 1: you saw for sale at the game fair today?
Speaker 4: But I have an answer for that. Hang on a
Speaker 4: second I can show you.
Speaker 3: Yes, physical evidence.
Speaker 1: Oh wonderful, loyal listeners. George Brown is holding up? Have
Speaker 1: you become a Viking?
Speaker 3: Or what is that? Yeah?
Speaker 4: It's a drinking horn. It's so big I can't get
Speaker 4: it in the shop.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yes, should we get should we get the jokes out
Speaker 3: of the way now? So he's got the horn?
Speaker 1: The horn, Yeah, he's got and it's in his hand.
Speaker 1: So so George has bought, actually bought one of the
Speaker 1: more silly things. Richard, What did you see, stupid?
Speaker 3: Richard?
Speaker 1: What did you see?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 2: Was?
Speaker 3: You thought that? Who's going to buy that? I I
Speaker 3: didn't buy much myself, actually because I was too busy
Speaker 3: doing other things, mostly getting free drinks and breaking into places.
Speaker 3: But I there was the usual stuff, and you sort
Speaker 3: of think, you know, I have no idea, who's going
Speaker 3: to buy that? Who's going to spend seven hundred pounds
Speaker 3: on a waterproof that is about half as good as
Speaker 3: warn and cottswat outdoor and things like that. There was
Speaker 3: one guy actually was trying to track him down and
Speaker 3: I never did find him and it really bugged me.
Speaker 3: Which was neurodiverse pyrography, which I don't I want to
Speaker 3: know what's neurodiverse? Is it sort of autistic or ADHD
Speaker 3: person or is it you know which, hello friend? Or
Speaker 3: is it jittery pirography? I don't know, like what's what's
Speaker 3: the neurodiverse bit about it? Because does Callum do neurodiverse
Speaker 3: marketing and photography?
Speaker 2: I will if it gets me a few.
Speaker 4: I like to think that all of the pyrography is
Speaker 4: sort of half finished.
Speaker 3: You started, it.
Speaker 2: Got distracted by a squirrel outside because.
Speaker 1: Is that harm?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean most of it's overshadowed by the Shenanigans
Speaker 3: of Friday Night for us, which sort of didn't start
Speaker 3: until about well nine ten pm, where Callum arrived having
Speaker 3: because what did you do? You photographed Carloberetta and then
Speaker 3: came to the field party. Is had it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So I come straight from the Holland and Holland shooting
Speaker 2: ground and then that kind of overran a little bit.
Speaker 2: Well we didn't, it just sort of it all just
Speaker 2: got a bit complicated. So I didn't get to the
Speaker 2: field party till well, Nigas was there an hour and
Speaker 2: I got just after that, so it must have been
Speaker 2: like twenty to eight or something. So I did my
Speaker 2: I did my socializing, and the responsible thing would have
Speaker 2: been to find myself a place to go. But instead
Speaker 2: of instead of finding good place to go, you said,
Speaker 2: I'm over the other side of the campsite. I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm going to go there instead, So yeah, I headed
Speaker 2: over to you and tell them what happened from there.
Speaker 3: Well, so the preamble to this is we went to
Speaker 3: four parties and successfully got into three of them, which
Speaker 3: was guns on chauffeur guns on Pegs. Didn't make it
Speaker 3: into the main big VIP one because a man kept saying, yes,
Speaker 3: but you need a badge that says exactly this, And
Speaker 3: then we went off to the brand of cost party instead,
Speaker 3: which had Venison chili, which made it the best. But
Speaker 3: then we met you by the porterloose on the edge
Speaker 3: of the campsite and friends do yeah, yeah, and then
Speaker 3: we decided, okay, well, Callum's going to come back to
Speaker 3: our campsite and we'll go up. So we walked back
Speaker 3: to the car amy as the incredibly sober designated driver
Speaker 3: got in, put the key in the slot and watched
Speaker 3: it immediately eject again. And if you've got one of
Speaker 3: these basically made in the last fifteen years, they didn't
Speaker 3: have proper keys anymore. They have a key that will
Speaker 3: only work if it talks to the car, and as
Speaker 3: decided to stop. So basically we're broken down, trapped in
Speaker 3: a field. So a rescue plan was emerged, which was
Speaker 3: George Brown was going to set off wearing pith helmet
Speaker 3: and bright pink shirt saying hello cows and shorts with
Speaker 3: a very large pair of Harkeeler boots. So I'm just
Speaker 3: painting a picture here with a canvas rucksack. I think.
Speaker 3: At that point Yeap who was going to set off
Speaker 3: for the sort of four mile trek from the middle
Speaker 3: of the game fare out to where one of the
Speaker 3: gates was at the edge, Callum was going to try
Speaker 3: and drive round to meet him when they go back
Speaker 3: to the campsite and get George's car. Now I worked
Speaker 3: out that I could probably take the key apart, resolder
Speaker 3: it with a lighter, and put it back together again
Speaker 3: whilst drunk, which, yes, is incredibly impressive. I know I
Speaker 3: can hear you say it, so thank you. Yes, it
Speaker 3: is impressive, and we got it started. Meanwhile, George, what
Speaker 3: happened at the gate?
Speaker 4: Yes, so I'd hiked my way across the across the
Speaker 4: site to the gate, and he sort of, I would
Speaker 4: would we call them wrought iron? Probably not wrought iron,
Speaker 4: but big old gates anyway, And I all the ornamental gates,
Speaker 4: and the security chap sitting next to them explained that
Speaker 4: the gates would only open upon arrival of a car.
Speaker 4: So I looked at the gates and thought, I don't
Speaker 4: think I'm getting through any of those gaps. And then
Speaker 4: I saw that there was a little sort of rickety wicket,
Speaker 4: you know, fence sort of between that and the wall
Speaker 4: to sort of fill in the gap. And I looked
Speaker 4: at that and thought, well, I'll get over that. I'll
Speaker 4: climb over, only, you know, waist high. And as he
Speaker 4: saw me scaling the gate, the chap on the chair
Speaker 4: said be careful, and I turned to him and gave
Speaker 4: him a withering look which he would not have been
Speaker 4: able to see in the dark, and I said, I've
Speaker 4: been climbing over fences since i was four years old.
Speaker 4: My dad's a farmer, I'll have you know. Hop hopped
Speaker 4: over landed with my foot on the curbstone, rolled my
Speaker 4: ankle over, my sunglasses, hit the floor, and made an
Speaker 4: audible crack, which I thought, for a horrible moment was
Speaker 4: my ankle going. I swore loudly hit the floor and
Speaker 4: then had to sort of hobble away and wait for
Speaker 4: Calum by the side of the road, and I sort
Speaker 4: of I hobbled. I could have stayed more or less
Speaker 4: exactly where I was, but I felt I needed to
Speaker 4: hobble out of sights. I wasn't in the direct glare.
Speaker 3: Of exit stage left.
Speaker 1: You see this slightly then backs up that Patrick Galbrai
Speaker 1: wrote a piece in the Telegraph on Friday about how
Speaker 1: it said Britain's most illustrious outdoor event was going downhill
Speaker 1: because it's sort of basically surrounded by crime now, and
Speaker 1: by which they probably thought, and by the tone of
Speaker 1: Patrick's article, that we were talking about crime as in
Speaker 1: the thefts that have gone on, But actually perhaps it
Speaker 1: was referring to the fact that a pith hat clad
Speaker 1: individuals doing amateurish breaking an entry of Grand Old's stately home,
Speaker 1: breaking and exiting, breaking their exiting I mean break you
Speaker 1: and shrub soul, I mean you aren't. Basically you are
Speaker 1: the complete opposite. I am breaking out of this great,
Speaker 1: big palatial thing owned by a Mark question that would
Speaker 1: confuse Hi, wouldn't it that they wouldn't let me out? Yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: I've entered this place.
Speaker 3: George. Well, this story kept having sort of extra you know,
Speaker 3: it's like the Lord of the Rings. It's got too
Speaker 3: many endings. It's sort of having extra bits. Like we
Speaker 3: got back to the camp site and found out that
Speaker 3: George had lost half of his possessions in this in
Speaker 3: the fall. It sort of scattered away from him, like
Speaker 3: when you kill a computer game character and then drop
Speaker 3: all their loot. Son, Yeah, exactly, all the rings drop
Speaker 3: out except for him. It was sort of vape batteries
Speaker 3: I think, and.
Speaker 4: The weight batteries of the bits I was most worried about.
Speaker 3: But the next morning, when we came back to the
Speaker 3: game fair through the same gate, he spotted them on
Speaker 3: the floor and stopped and held. If you were held
Speaker 3: up in the queues on Saturday morning at the Red Gate,
Speaker 3: that was almost certainly George Brown sending Amy out to
Speaker 3: go and pick up all the vape batteries. The tailbacks
Speaker 3: went back as far as Evesham, so we didn't really
Speaker 3: cover ourselves in glory on Friday night, but we sort
Speaker 3: of survived against all odds, but I feel like other
Speaker 3: people did it with more elegance.
Speaker 1: Well because I'm a proper grown hut and was there
Speaker 1: with my wife and son. I stayed in a tiny
Speaker 1: little pub called Ye Old Red Horse in Evesham, which
Speaker 1: I know some of the people who listened to us
Speaker 1: who are from that out of the woods. They've got
Speaker 1: very downer on Evesham. But I've said I thought it
Speaker 1: was a delightful little place, but rather wonderfully. On Saturday morning,
Speaker 1: when I got up to go and take the dog
Speaker 1: out for a stroll, I went out to They've got
Speaker 1: Evesham Abbey, so they've got two churches very close together,
Speaker 1: and it goes down to the River Avon and quite
Speaker 1: an elaborate park. And the moment I walked across there
Speaker 1: and I was listening out for what's the dawn chorus here?
Speaker 1: And I heard the ubictus woodpigeon collar dove and a
Speaker 1: peregrine falcon. And so therefore, up in the top of
Speaker 1: the of Evesham Abbey there was a pair of peregrine
Speaker 1: falcons shouting at one another. Underneath the abbey, it's quite
Speaker 1: literally littered with the heads of jackdaws, and wood pigeons
Speaker 1: where clearly they've been having a bit of a sort
Speaker 1: of you know that they've been doing their pest control work. Governor.
Speaker 1: I'm a working conservationist, and it's rather wonderful. And I
Speaker 1: was going, wow, look look a peregrine falcon and some
Speaker 1: chap in the Leeds United shirt. It was a local.
Speaker 1: He came out.
Speaker 3: I'll be saying them.
Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, the commoner's l here they are, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it was wonderful. So my dawn chorus was a wood pigeon, colar, dove,
Speaker 1: peregrine folcon, wonderful. It summed up the game fare for me,
Speaker 1: is the eclecticism of it. The country writ large.
Speaker 2: It's usually the people that are the eclectic mix, is
Speaker 2: it not?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, there is that, There is there is that
Speaker 1: I have to say.
Speaker 3: There was.
Speaker 1: That's where the success of the Bingo card, you know, is.
Speaker 1: I think this was the joy it gave. I think
Speaker 1: the Bingo card added to the game fare almost as
Speaker 1: much as the pluck muffins that Hugo Campbell Hill provided.
Speaker 1: Without that it would have been flat. I'm waiting for
Speaker 1: the sponsorship deal coming from that. And also they're probably
Speaker 1: going to get George to do what he did over
Speaker 1: that gate as part of a main show arena top
Speaker 1: sort of you know, demonstration gun dogs. George.
Speaker 3: It's like Machinery Nation with their sort of demonstrating electric
Speaker 3: quad bikes and chain sorts of things. What we need
Speaker 3: to do is get some sort of agility thing where
Speaker 3: we get the editors of various rural media publications to
Speaker 3: do an assault course wearing.
Speaker 4: This is an idea I've spoken about before. I'm sure
Speaker 4: the Game Fair Olympics. Have we not spoken about this
Speaker 4: on this very podcast? You know, do some whelly whang in.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes we did, and a bit of and a
Speaker 1: bit of dwild Flunky you are quite.
Speaker 4: Right games yes, and the editors Steeplechase.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: And do you know the final thing I think that
Speaker 1: we would all agree that, both for guns on Pegs
Speaker 1: and for Country Slide is it was very gratifying to
Speaker 1: meet so many of the people who listened to us
Speaker 1: and keep us coming back each week to do our
Speaker 1: respective podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, George, you had a full house.
Speaker 1: We met so many of our guys out there.
Speaker 2: And it was just lovely and it was so good
Speaker 2: to put names to Twitter handles and faces to people
Speaker 2: that you'd only spoken to on WhatsApp chat. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2: Thank you for everyone that came and said hello and
Speaker 2: had a chat.
Speaker 1: It was really good, excellent.
Speaker 2: I had a moment that the sort of stuff that
Speaker 2: I used to do when I was much much younger
Speaker 2: that now usually have to be the responsible one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but my plan was to go fishing on the river
Speaker 2: on the Friday night. But to go fishing on the river,
Speaker 2: you obviously need it to be light in order to
Speaker 2: cast a rod into the river. So when when Prudeau
Speaker 2: broke down in the car, I waited for him for
Speaker 2: a long period of time.
Speaker 3: I don't like that definition.
Speaker 2: Allegedly. I had a moment where I was like, I
Speaker 2: don't actually know where I'm sleeping tonight, Oh yes, which
Speaker 2: I was, which was was quite It was quite wild boy,
Speaker 2: and a part of me was like, this is the
Speaker 2: sort of this is the person I used to be,
Speaker 2: and I like it. There's always a there's always a
Speaker 2: since being a parent, you've got to be responsible for others,
Speaker 2: so you can't do stuff like that. But when you're
Speaker 2: your own person, I was like, I'll be all right,
Speaker 2: it's fine to not have a plan. I ended up
Speaker 2: sleeping just behind George's tent in the middle of a
Speaker 2: campsite at the expense of whoever owns to campsite, which
Speaker 2: I didn't pay for because there wasn't any room.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that was quite fun. We didn't try to
Speaker 3: be fair. You just walked in and then picture ten
Speaker 3: and then walked out before they spotted you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were closed in the morning anyway, so yeah,
Speaker 2: it is what it is.
Speaker 3: So just to sort of round this off, then what
Speaker 3: was the good, exciting, nice positive thing you saw at
Speaker 3: the game fair?
Speaker 1: Pizza the Queen. I had no idea. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a daxond apparently.
Speaker 3: Oh you didn't know about this.
Speaker 1: I had no idea what Pizza the Queen was. But Charlie,
Speaker 1: my son, we were the shuffle drinks thing and he
Speaker 1: suddenly went, dad, Dad, can you take a photograph of
Speaker 1: me with this guy? He's really famous? And I looked
Speaker 1: over at this person. I have no idea where they were,
Speaker 1: and he had a small dacent with him, and then
Speaker 1: he handed this small daccent over to Charlie and he
Speaker 1: made Charlie's whole two days because this dog apparently is
Speaker 1: pizza the queen who turns out to have four hundred
Speaker 1: fifty five thousand followers on Instagram, so that makes them
Speaker 1: very important. And I realized that I am officially old
Speaker 1: because a dog is more important than me to my son.
Speaker 3: Well maybe that's a given, really, isn't it. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: dog's tutor, to be fair, George, what about?
Speaker 4: I was very excited to confirm that the Fishing Village
Speaker 4: isn't actually mythical. I saw it in the distance. I
Speaker 4: still haven't actually been there, so it could still be
Speaker 4: a mirage.
Speaker 3: No, oh, did you know know?
Speaker 4: In five years of going to the game fair, I've
Speaker 4: never once made it as far as the Fishing village,
Speaker 4: so I still slightly uncertain as to whether it's a
Speaker 4: real place or not. But I have seen it now it's.
Speaker 3: You only saw it because it was next to the
Speaker 3: Press Town.
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: I'd say it was twenty percent good. I went all,
Speaker 2: this is always worth a visit, especially if if you're
Speaker 2: tempted to buy a really expensive fly rod and you
Speaker 2: get to play with them, which is always dangerous and
Speaker 2: fun in equal measures, because eventually, one day you might
Speaker 2: just have enough of a head injury or something to
Speaker 2: actually purchase one, or you might just be irresponsible enough.
Speaker 2: I mean you seem to be quite irresponsible buying a
Speaker 2: drinking horn for about fully.
Speaker 4: Well, I haven't bought the sausage machine for two hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty quid. I felt I needed to do a
Speaker 4: little sort of displeasement retail activity.
Speaker 2: Are you familiar with the thing that's girl maths and
Speaker 2: boy maths. I think that's boy maths because you didn't
Speaker 2: buy a sausage machine. Spending forty pounds on a drinking
Speaker 2: horn is basically now free, So that's boy maths.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that was good. And the Turrel's fly Fishing
Speaker 2: place as well. They let you tie all your own
Speaker 2: flies and teach you how to do stuff and give
Speaker 2: you all the materials and will guide you and you've
Speaker 2: got experts there. That is one hundred percent worth going
Speaker 2: if you're into fly fishing. And also Steve McCracken art.
Speaker 2: He paints all these these fish and kingfishers and lots
Speaker 2: of really cool things.
Speaker 3: Clarified. Does he do pictures of or does he go
Speaker 3: out and put paint through wildlife?
Speaker 2: I think pictures of Well I was talking to him.
Speaker 2: I was talking to him, and I was saying about
Speaker 2: how last night I didn't have I didn't have anywhere
Speaker 2: to sleep, and it was like a bit of a
Speaker 2: mad one, and he just said he rolled a yoga
Speaker 2: mat out on the stand and just put an old
Speaker 2: jacket over him and just slept on the floor. And
Speaker 2: I was like, well you in that one. So he
Speaker 2: is truly is a fall while boy, and I quite
Speaker 2: like him.
Speaker 4: I've got a graffitied fish story, but I think it's
Speaker 4: probably not for the main show. I think it'll have
Speaker 4: to be in the in the extra bit next time
Speaker 4: I'm on, because it's probably actionable.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Richard, what was your what was your exciting
Speaker 1: or good thing that you saw?
Speaker 3: People I got to see people haven't seen for a
Speaker 3: year basically, or I haven't seen you know. We only
Speaker 3: with see each other at events or empassing. And it's
Speaker 3: actually Saturday night whilst you well, well you were going
Speaker 3: home and George was pretending to be I think it's
Speaker 3: more sort of George Laizembie than Roger Moore. I put
Speaker 3: to the Big House and Callum was cooking for four
Speaker 3: thousand people. By the looks of it, I was. We
Speaker 3: broke into the exhibitors party, and I just spent a
Speaker 3: really good evening with people I haven't seen for a
Speaker 3: long time, and friends old and new. And I've committed
Speaker 3: us as a podcast to missed. I've committed us to
Speaker 3: what is basically quite a few things. And now I'm
Speaker 3: getting messages all over the placing. Are we still onto
Speaker 3: that thing we discovered discussed on Saturday night? And I
Speaker 3: have to gamble now to say yes. Yeah. Well I
Speaker 3: don't know, because these all these people seem to know
Speaker 3: and I don't. So if I committed to something else
Speaker 3: Saturday night, let me know, because that night ended up
Speaker 3: with drinking gin out of someone's drinking horn on the
Speaker 3: I think we're on bleeped stand, And yes we were.
Speaker 3: That was where we finished up. So we're seeing people's
Speaker 3: seeing people haven't seen for a long time. And Amy
Speaker 3: bought one of those wax skirts, those waxed cotton skirts,
Speaker 3: which you'll be seeing in photos at some point, no doubt, No, Calum,
Speaker 3: you're not going to wear one, right.
Speaker 2: And there was there was somebody we were missing.
Speaker 3: Yes, important person, which I don't know how sort of
Speaker 3: how far we go into this, but if one of
Speaker 3: our sort of wider network of people. Glenn, who is
Speaker 3: on the Bingo card, is a bit little bit poorly
Speaker 3: at the moment. He will be absolutely fine, I am sure.
Speaker 3: But if everybody could have really good thoughts about our
Speaker 3: very good friend Glenn, that would be that'd be amazing,
Speaker 3: because he's a lovely person despite the way he acts,
Speaker 3: despite himself.
Speaker 1: He's lovely.
Speaker 2: His sausage dog's lovely too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like his sausage dog. I've got We've got
Speaker 1: the T shirt, haven't we. Anyway, On that note, bye bye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 1: By driver