Join me for frosty and fantastical fun as we stroll through UK’s biggest outdoor Ice Trail with a range of magnificent ice sculptures set to transform York’s city centre. This Embrace the chill of winter with this unique experience, getting you up close to amazing ice sculptures. This is the first of two tours covering this wonderful festival
Okay and uh and we’re live Katherine has come through so do let me know when I come through and uh we will take it from there oh let me stand up hi really can you see me can you hear me do let me know when I’m coming through and
Uh we can do some lows great picture and sound fantastic Tis the only thing that’s not great today is well my hair for a start uh that’s not great um but I think we can just live with that um hello la um what isn’t great is we seem
To be having a February heat wve um which you know it has to be said hello Elizabeth um heat waves and Ice trails are not ideal bed fellows hello Linda good morning to you uh in New York so you couldn’t plan it could you but yeah
It’s 13° and sunny here in York on the day of the ice Trails so you may be looking at some spectacular puddles um but if it if it really is um if we’re not getting the optimal what what I might do is go out and re and record
This tomorrow morning and uh and then we’ll perhaps watch it in another way um so yeah just you know I’m not one to wish bad weather on anybody and let’s face it winter is miserable enough but on the for the poor folk that have put
In such a lot of effort to carving these ice things to have and of course you not kids like they all go along touching them which makes them worse so um yeah there we go so anyway before we start a little bit of bonus content for a for
Artic I like that Tish you can you say you can see the Artistry in that drip there is there is there is something you know I think that speaks to all of us in that puddle so you know if I have to wax a little little bit lyrical purple it’s
The same in Canada really pad uh melting I know Stephan was somewhere was he was was he inside look from the pictures he was inside so I don’t know if he had a better was he actually got a a chilled place but uh York very nice we could get
Some puddle grounds couldn’t we no I just I weather Oh Linda so just for Linda um and for everybody else U that special place in my heart um uh uh here we go is that you know our Toppers that we have on our um uh post boxes have a look at this
One isn’t that fun it’s obviously for Valentine’s we’ve got Hearts we’ve got roses ice sh inside with freezers that’s cheating is it but uh we could have done with that today but isn’t that fun um so no idea who the artist is who created this wonderful spectacle but uh it’s
Certainly I think worth sharing it’s a it’s a thing of beauty and a joy to behold love those Toppers I don’t know where they came from are they an English thing did they come from elsewhere do everybody know about this you know kind of where the Wellspring of this was
Because obviously they are now pretty common aren’t they but um I don’t recall how they started I there was like Stu of the Queen’s Jubilee I think but did it start there was it an idea that we imported from elsewhere does anybody know the derivation of the Toppers yeah
I me I think it’s English isn’t it because other places don’t have post boxes the same do they so you wouldn’t they sort of seem peculiarly English um maybe top my local Society I think I I’m going to say 17 degrees Elizabeth is I’m going to say I think it it probably is
Hello jinny that it probably is an English jinny might know jinny jinny’s very kind of up on these craft jinny sett not an argument but a a query for us did these uh did these postbox Toppers originate in England or have we got the idea from somewhere else because
Uh they’re quite quite fabulous but I just don’t know exactly how it was they came into being but I know jinny is very in on the craft world so she may well have the answer for us so when you don’t know ask a guide so we about 2 o’ I
Don’t know what time it is which kind of rather remiss of me one more love England absolutely we are we are a terribly lovable bun uh we’re known for that so I think we’re coming on about 2 o’clock so we’ll go down now and and
We’ll see if we can’t find our first um watery sculpture so as say for those that missed the kind intro in going live now really aren’t we um the the annual Ice Festival which is great fun um that we have here in York um is a bit
Impacted by the weather it is very warm um I’ve kind of peeled off the layers started off about 25 layers on thinking how cold February tour and uh each just got warmer and warmer Mark seen the Toppers near him um so the the first one is um it’s only about 100 yards away
From where we are now so we’ll be there in just a moment and if there is a theme as such this year um it is mythical beasts and I’m not quite sure how that was arrived up why they could of chose that particular um theme but uh I know
That some not all but some of them are uh that I think the first one a Yeti so let’s just give you a let’s flip around to the front and uh so we’re on wargate thought VMA a Nordic a viking lead think VMA an awful lot of Viking activity in this
It’s a nice Street this one it’s not somewhere I bring you down very often um on tour it’s got some very fine buildings want to which coming up on our left hand side we also got a lot of chod um which is technical tell right I’ve come across for buildings that haven’t
Thought so here we are our very first encounter today on the ice Trail is H I believe a Yeti and uh we coming close trying to get a bit of the detail in on here so he is a fabulous chat but he seems to be losing his face which isn’t really um
Kind of more scary but you kind of see where it’s going but I think what we’ll do is we’ll come out tomorrow morning and get some film of these in a kind of pristine State maybe do something at home because the lot of facial features I think does detract somewhat from uh
From the overall impact because you can see obviously it is a it’s a fine specimen um what do it say I know that this is meant to be a Yeti left side favorite so very long arms us to betray them kind the and Yeti SE of people big
F are really long kind of arms don’t they the gangly kind of look about them but uh yeah so so the weather is not our friend today uh it has to be said but nonetheless we’re going to Endeavor to uh to show you what we can show you and
As I say what we may well do is I may well pop out tomorrow morning about 10:00 and do some filming and we’ll try and get them all for you in sort of pristine condition I’m about to do an edited tour from home so I’m going to
Move out now so others can get in because obviously there’s lots and lots of lots of families around and we don’t want to get in people’s way it’s their free Festival too um as well as our can enjoyment so off we go then so sculpture
Number one tick we can manage that so I think we’re heading up now towards Picadilly so as I say hello there we’re walking down continue walk down warm gate so for just those that like to kind of get the sense of York at the very end
Of the street there you’ve got warm gate bar one of the four main gateways and this is the um the RO route that runs right the way up to Bo bar and the Minster so in effect we got a straight line cuz Romans did love a straight line
Right you know they had their rulers their set squares protractors they always brought their pencil case when they arrived in in town to make sure that everything was going to tick top and straight and accurate they loved a bit of that um and of course really what
It kind of means he didn’t really care what was there before everything was just swept out the way for the Romans to build the grids that they loved so much they can efficient grids so so York is still sort of to this day 2,000 years later is still sort of bisected by this
Road which shows that right at the top Bo and bar have started many many soures and at the other end um we’ve got of course um wargate bar so they feel like the the Eastern side of the city the northern side are linked together and so I think
The next one we got a little list here I think we’ll go down onto Pig so today’s tour I’m going to do the outliers then tomorrow we’re going to hit the city center where there’s lots and lots of them um but I couldn’t really do it all in one tour um
Spark so this is Church of s St Dennis the French Saint when the Norman the Conqueror came they they brought their French Saints so get churches now of St Denny’s St Denny’s Church on wargate another one of York’s many medieval churches I’m not sure I’ve brought you
Here before but um I’ll give you a little bit of bonus content as we walking towards the next W around around the corner for those like Ian brby that love a Norman doorway this is a a lovely fine example of 11th century stonework so as every New York around every corner a little
Delight to share with you and I supect where J is on East Sussex there’ll be many of these as well but uh isn’t that a fabulous bit oh he’s Ron joining us a fabulous bit of architecture Stone so nothing to do with ice sculptures we’re just passing it and
So you think well if we’re passing it why not stop at it and and share with you another one the little highlights of York CU York of course has got Majestic big highlights that we all kind of know about minst and Sham and so but often bit like marking the detail stuff is
Where the real kind of fun is isn’t it um and the kind of knowing just little simple little Delights that just give you a little freea that’s a good isn’t it freeong that’s a French word as well that came over no doubt we will conquer as well so a little freeong using it
Again of of just pleasure and I kind of get like a little electrical Ripple um I don’t other people experience this in their kind of cities or when they go somewhere else but I just get a little oh you know when I see something that I just think is wonderful and you feel
Like an instant Connection to the Past and the people that kind of created it and um that’s me I guess being a history buff that’s my thing other people might get it looking at sports cars and stuff that does that kind of leaves me a bit cold um but cold unfortunately is what
It isn’t today in York it is rather warm so again for those joining us just to be aware the uh the unseasonal weather is uh is plain Havoc as they say on uh on the ice sculptures so if they are somewhat depleted from what we would
Hope then I can only apologize but for the first I’m going to apologize for it being nice weather in February and let think enjoyed the uh the go so I think there’s one somewhere around here I noce that spark so eyes peeled and we’ll just try and find where that is because all
I’ve got is a list I don’t know precisely where these things are oh look at that’s a brand new view of York a demolition work you just see there suddenly got a view of the castle but has never been there until now is that interesting so let us try and find an ice
Sculpture generally speaking got to follow the crowds the crowds are pretty smart on this they know where stuff is so if we kind of look at where the this week isn’t that fantastic even ancient cities like York are still changing all the time there’s a whole
Bunch of people over here so are they queuing to get in or is there a sculpture around excuse me there’s a nice sculpture around here somewhere a oh is a q uh we’ll pick that one up later on the video it’s a q to
Get into this um so I think we will uh we’ll knock that one out and we’ll head into Coppergate Center cuz I know that there’s one down there I don’t think uh we going be queuing for for a while so I’m going to move up cross over not get run
Over so this is Picadilly so probably the the least attractive bits of the city but a course over on our right hand side in the moment we’ve got the fabulous Merchant adventurous Hall which is which is about to come up York spry saw second finest building
32 here running well and for AG for Mark it’s not cold still dull and damp yeah we haven’t even got that Mark it’s not Dull it’s not damp it is unseasonably warm so all I can say is on the one hand great um but not great for
And I maybe they need to move it to back to January maybe febr is asking too much I don’t know but the idea is to try and have things most River but let’s go into the Coppergate Center and we will see if we can find ourselves with a single Munch
Drop for a second as I pass inside the center but to do bear With and we’ll be out of there momentarily so coming to the cop in the home of the famous yic Vikings Center and I do believe that hereabouts yes I can see something I don’t know what it is little kid pouring on it get your
Hands off it the W enough as it is oh that’s right yeah so if you remember uh down here in Coppergate we often have umbrellas that kind of decorate I don’t any in the minute we’ll have a look cuz we’re passing that way next but
Um it’s a bit of a theme is bres and so they’ve done one instead I’m just going to wait until the people could have come around really it’s got very very busy here and I’m doing I kind of best to keep out FS way I’ll just come in from that side there
And give you a sense so it’s a lovely sculpture I’ll just the best I can there so we’ve got a rainstorm we’ve got a there we go so we’ve got a Broly we’ve got I’ll come out the way in a second you see the rank that’s a really good
Actually see surprisingly kind of good condition this one because as I say nobody can can resist sort of coming up and touching these things um as you can see there so of course every every little hot hand that comes into contact is is another tiny bit of liquid that
Escapes but um a fish ring well yes yeah it’s good idea but no it’s a it’s a Broly and a kind of rainstorm and it marks the cop if I come around this side we might get a better better view as I say it’s I think it’s busy than it was
Last year maybe because it’s such nice weather um if you remember last year it wasn’t too mad was it but uh it’s definitely definitely definitely definitely a good one this one so Broly yeah that’s right so Leslie so the broes um just excuse me can I just
Get through there thank you very much um the broes are up here but there’s none up at the minute um it’s a tour not going to plan um and I don’t know exactly where it came from The Umbrellas but they’ve sort of become a sort of design theme of the
Coperate center and as kind of various things happen they will put up broes to kind of reflect that so in Pride you get the kind of the rainbow broes in Wimbledon you got the kind of green and white broles um during uh kind of jubilees think red white and blue kind
Of on so they tend to use them to kind of reflect what’s happening right now so that is what the kind of broy thing but there’s none up so and as when you want to kind talk about something you then find it’s not there but uh our next one
Is very very close so we’re just going to get across so coming at coperate Center out a kind of modern York but this is the area hugely settled by the Vikings which is why the Vikings centes down here we’ve got All Saints Church is about to come up on the right hand side
With the famous Lantern tower on the evening tours that’s the Tower of course that’s lit up and another one of York’s fabulous Med medieval churches of which I think there’s 19 that we have within a kind of square mile astonishing kind of a number of these churches that we are blessed with
And I believe that we’ve got a another ice sculpture is round about here somewhere I can see lots of people so that certainly would suggest that where the people are chances are that’s where the sculpture is too so we’ll just uh give it a sec just to try and get into a
Position ah so this is for the restaurant which is called 8:00 or there is 8:00 uh as you play on words eating 8:00 it’s a lovely little place to go in actually have a meal and and so they’ve done on there theme unsurprisingly as a as a grandfather
Clock Tik Tock you a hickory dickory dock so we’ll try and get in in a minute but it’s so busy it’s difficult to it’s got name is at 8:00 yeah it’s kind of memorable it works well it’s a great location kind of right in the center so
We’ll just try and get a little bit nearer in just to see from the kind of side there so it really is it’s a lot of fun your hands C down is that Fab so they’ve got their logo in there it’s a great way of marketing you know for any sort of firms
That are kind of involved it’s it’s a great way of boosting your brand to makeing people aware of kind of what it is that you’re you’re kind of doing um and but as you can see just the drip drip drip kind of coming you can see them all coming off
So unfortunately this is the reality but beautifully clear water has to be said it’s like like Alpine Water isn’t it so I’m starting to think they should move it indoors like stepan’s one pres was that in Amsterdam the stepan’s one um because uh this really is struggling
To to hold up but nonetheless let’s move on and we’ll try and get in as many as we can because obviously they are deteriorating I think that’s the the expression so let me have my little list and find out where we’re going next and we’ll see what that looks like so
Next we are going to Clifford Street so Clifford Street is is the it’s it’s quite Us in York Clifford Street because it’s a it’s almost all Victorian and uh the most streets in your you know some Victorian buildings Clifford Street is almost exclusively Victorian there’s a wonderful kind of Gothic almost
Monstrosity that the magistrates Court in its midst um but famously must we going down Clifford Street will be going down to visit the castle Museum and inside you’ve got a reconstructed Victorian Street and uh I remember be being asked to respons by an American Tourist you know can you tell us the way
To the Victorian Street and I knew that they meant Kurt gate in the museum so I wasn’t being so stupid I said well yeah it’s down there but have a look around you because this is an actual Victorian Street other than a kind of reproduction
One um and he just kind of looked at me bemused couldn’t understand what on Earth it was that I was kind of suggesting um he wanted to go and see Kurt gate and the mummies not mummies the wax works so that’s nothing else would kind of
Suffice for him so that’s what so as I say you’ve got kind of fantastic Victorian Gothic architecture on this street the uh the magistrates Court um is reminds me a great deal of um some pan like a little version of some panras that Masterpiece um of London got North
London next to King’s Cross isn’t it some panr station he’s got that kind of look and feel um I guess deliberately to uh to kind of give you the chills if you go to court you’re not going to feel happy about that but uh very very fine Victorian architecture as say in this
Street most of it at one time if not now associated with the legal trade of course with York being such an important center of business and government there’s always Legions of kind of law firms here um doing sort of contracts you know wide kind of variety of kind of
Legal work so consequently most of these buildings are are known as some some Chambers or other but most now kind of moved over can retail hospitaly the famous York dungeon like the London dungeon same company as that but most of these were kind had had a legal basis
There’s the the Magistrate Court coming into view so I’m not quite sure where the sculpture is I think it’s going to be down by the court somewhere but uh we’ll look out so again looking at that kind of portico if we can cross over because I think it’s going to be on that
Other side of the the road I’m not quite sure but we were just admiring say I can’t really cross at the minute because it is uh there a crowd here so I think this is where the sculpture is here’s the court building here coming
Into our view it really is a a kind of towering glowering sort of building that uh sort angry you know it’s kind of like s out Gorman G sort of familiar with mvin Peaks novels tiest grown all lot I can imagine this being on a kind of
Hilly cck top um with Titus SC this one right here so sponsored by cromby Wilkinson solicitors this is very patriotic and it is about supporting the British forces so here is our guy there having a salute and uh we’ll give him his full he’s not very
Tall as we said he may a bit short for active service um but it says the Armed Force Covenant and it’s proudly supporting those who serve quite right to so very uh very respectful towards those in the military orders and he got smart CH there I think slightly let down
By a rather cheap and nasty uh Union Flag but other than that very very nice and respectful and uh in pretty good shape compared to some of the others so I like that one that’s very good so again we’ll just come out the way so other people can get their images in
Yeah not C that Union Flag they do better on that but other than that a great effort to all involved so trying to get run over trying and get out the way with the people goodness meet it’s busy day for February so here in all its gory Glory we have
The magistrates Court don’t you think it’s got a foding quality to it you know bear in mind you might going there to get ticked off a parking ticket or something you know it seems awfully brutal for uh for the dispensing of kind of relatively minor justice but there we
Go um s of bringing out just the thoughts to go in that big Victorian courtroom and stand there I years ago got in minor bit of trouble have to go there nothing nothing serious but um didn’t pay a fine impoved by the council and so the council then really took me
To court so iend paying about double which was a a bit short side to me not to just pay the first thing in the first here we are come the other side now so lovely bit of blue sky so fantastic we do need salute emo that’s a
That’s a great call so I think we’re on the eye of York uh next I’m not entirely sure where can I just get across thank you very much look where you going be good how nice that for just look at that pan that up there we go love
That that’s a nice postcard for you by the way I think I found a good way of doing postcards I’ll share with you uh in in a week or so I’m going ask one or two people to try out for me a way of doing postcards having to crop your
Images afterwards which you think is will be very much welcomed so sorry about I might ask one or two people to try out and let me know what they think before we perhaps suggest it could be adopted by by those in the community that are getting a bit fed up for
Cropping their images so we are heading into what called the eye of York the historic center of the city and the eye of York is actually the center point of Yorkshire um York as some of you may know historically was split into ridings which is nothing to do with uh with
Horse riding although it could be it’s actually for an ancest thread which means a third and basically the county was split into three ridings the north riding the West riding and the East Riding there was no South Riding and York wasn’t in the ridings York was its
Own city and county was a fully um functioning kind of city state as you might say and uh Linda’s up some volunteer for clipping well we’ll give it a go Linder and see what you think um so I’m just looking around now for where the sculpture is so basically the way
That the ridings worked was the center point was here oh I I see by cast Museum so the center point was pretty much where that tree is this of course is the wishing tree so if there’s a try to get a handle on where we are by the wishing tree and um basically
York that point roughly where the tree is was the center point so you imagine the three ridings were like triangles like a pizza like like a or or a what you call it what you call those graphs that pie chart like a pie chart right so
A third of this green was in North riding a third or well wasn’t in it CU York wasn’t but it started here third South Third East so this was the center this this is what they call the eye of York this was the line where the ridings of Yorkshire started
Uh but York as I say was a was a county province in its own right it had no truck with being in the ridings indeed we sneered at the very idea of such a thing York was a a city state all of its own so here we have
Another I think this is meant to be a mythical beast but I suspect it’s getting to the stage where it’s going to be increasingly difficult to to recognize so what’s this oh the bell of the ball I’m not entirely sure oh she’s l a head that’s that’s
Rather unfortunate isn’t it less of the Bell than you than perhaps you may have been earlier in the day so she is uh what should we call her maranet now instead we we’ll pretend that she’s a a victim of the French Revolutionary Terror but oh dear not quite the Bell
Ball so I think again we’ll come back tomorrow morning um when all these are freshly put out and and we’ll see if we can capture bell with a head isn’t it fantastic what happened in Clifford Tower was that a question or is that a what a shame she’s lost her head but
Nonethless we’ll walk on there’s plenty more to see so we will uh B is bit underwhelmed have to admit it uh Bell of the ball without a noggin is H it doesn’t really cut the cheese it don’t really cut the mustard that one so I can only apologize that the standard of the
Ice Trail exhibits today is below the standard you can reasonably expect from this so I can only apologize and and blame climate change that’s why it’s on season be warm so yes it’s all your fault if any of you drive vehicles or have heating on you’re to blame today so
Yes poor thing so it’s just looking rather splend though isn’t it against the blue sky I’m enjoying the uh the view we’re going to Middleton next I think because if you remember Middleton last year uh in the garden of Middleton it was an Al Wonderland scheme if you
Remember so um we had the madh remember the table and allet and all that was going on so that’s like a probably two three minutes walk away from where now and poor little bell I know where you’re in it’s h it’s not ideal is it has to be said to to be
S’s head when it’s your when it’s your data shine we with a bell of the ball instead she was looking rather sorry for herself wasn’t she um Mark walks into the buser so it’s not Mark’s fa everybody else has played a part including myself of course driving it’s
Complet sure um but Mark is a paragan of virtue an Exemplar and a influence to us all so those that love kind of flood watch reports in your the river’s at gone gone down we very very high with storm is it eer and somewhere else I can’t remember there
Was two an iron a j storm and as usual the river s of C down the river when it’s up looks spectacular when it comes down that’s when it kind of leaves a lot of kind of mud and Detroit to so in all this until very recently underwater you
Can still see here got the pumping sort of stuff so that is a problem with the floods is it does leave something of a of a kind of mess behind but none we can’t walk through the gardens we’ll cross over the river I’ll show you the
The river levels that we’re up to right now and we’ll go over to to Middleton to to pick up on what they’ve got there and we’ll see what this unseasonable weather has done to uh to disfigure hopefully they’ll have heads that’ll be a start if they got heads you
Know we don’t ask much do we but you know a sculpture with a head is definitely think a non-negotiable isn’t it it’s the sort of thing you expect to see I would say it’s a it’s a it’s it’s you know it’s not unreasonable to hope for a head I don’t think but
Anyway probably some child horrified that knocked the head off and you imagine the stern rebuke they would have got glacial stairs no doubt from those around and probably an incredibly embarrassed parent but uh they are the joys having kids when they do things like that in public it might not been a
Kid it could have been an adult of course but one suspects it was sticky little warm hands that played a rail in in poor Bell ending up in her sorry predicament um I may of course be wrong and doing disservice to the children young people of York but uh I feel like
I’m on rather safe ground on this one and I feel pretty confident in pronouncing it was one of the little people that had a role to play with that maybe succession maybe it’s like the straw that the the hand that broke Belle’s neck you know the camel St broke
The camel’s back so maybe it was just one hand too many so some unlucky child like a like a bad game of Jenga you know with ice sculptures okay I think I’ve got about as far as I can go with that analogy it doesn’t make any sense to me anymore so
Here we are we are they are Ser a good point when they dig up statues often without heads um partly because uh if you don’t got Riv for statue um heads are quite good you know you have little little heads and shoulders quite you so often they would just be lopped off
Bigger pieces um but of course the neck is is vulnerable bit could break quite easily not hugely surprising I suppose that if they’re going to break that that’s where the break probably the narrowest part of the body another person losing a head up City Elizabeth we do have something of a tradition of
Of the L well it’s not much ladies in the heads it wasn’t really um a punishment obvious in France rolu France with the gear te um ladies did of course Mar an most famously um in this country we tended not to execute women with head SC some did some Royals had it Henry’s
Queens and so forth but we like to burn ladies over here that we thought was going more fitting so the crime of petty treason again from the French little petty so petty treason means little treason and that was for killing somebody who socially Superior as a woman killing your husband killing your
Father because it was a disruption of the natural order of things so by doing that it wasn’t a treason against the king it was a treason against Society and flipping while not knowing your place so the idea was to burn some sense back into you so that by the end of that
You have Ln your lesson you of course would be dead but you would definitely have learn lesson and there would be no repeat Behavior along those lines so it does seems a crime prevention the punishment of boing for p treason was very successful but you may say it was
Also a hugely blatant disregard of Human Rights but people didn’t really care so much about those things uh and of course if you weren’t a man you had no truck with things like RS so nothing to do with ice sculptures but there we go it’s amazing what comes to mind when we we
Start seeing no we we’re on it sure we’re just kind of walking in between um s of picking up the outliers they uh this is what we are we’re about to heading to Middleton’s so they’re scattered around the idea is rather than conc all in one area is to have you
Wander the entire city the idea being of course is you stop then for for C coffe snacks and cake and ice cream and this the other with the kids so it’s a way of sort of spreading out the the fun you might say but there’s a big concentration in the city center and
We’ll be going out tomorrow morning to film all of those because it’s just really it’s too warm sadly as we’ve been saying over and over on this tour it is H doing huge disservice to crom’s head that’s a great uh that’s a good spot that Tish chroma’s head indeed was a a
Matter of kind of public property really private property so I think the 1920s Sydney susex College in Cambridge if anybody knows that particular college so we’re almost now at at Middleton and Pendle witches yes hanged um so yeah hanging rather than beheading was uh was our punishment of
Choice when it came to witch us if we didn’t burn him but uh so here we are coming up to Middleton and I think there’s three or four in here um and and uh I will just be with you momentarily so this is Middleton’s hotel and again very very busy ah looks
Like there got I can see gingerbread men and all sorts of kind of funky things going on so let us uh let us come on in and we will have a look and see what it is we see so again it is incredibly busy little bit kind of congested here at the moment
But a Lovely Hotel lady on herself right at the top so just while I get to space lovely Crest over here the memory of late Joseph Terry of course the famous Terry’s chocolate orange family this melting yeah indeed they’re getting further away because they are so darn small so we’ll try and
Start over here so it does seem that there is a big camera over here so maybe that’s going to give us a clue to the theme that is going on ah so is this something that he’s going to film it we will just sorry I’ll come
Around that side your way so we’ve got a film camera over here and we’ve got a rather creepy looking fellow um over there hard to describe I don’t know exactly um what’s I’ll try and come a little bit closer in a mdle we’ll come back to that one we’ll just see if we
Can get a bit closer up here because of course there’s so many young people around which is fantastic to see but trying not to be filming everybody is easier than I think I say we come out and do some private filming tomorrow morning uh and then we’ll do some of
This later at home edit it all together so you don’t get the boring bits of me walking from one to another and hopefully we’ll capture them in pristine tiptop condition before the hot sweety sticky little hands have have done their thing so here we have another and oh
Look at this this is a drinks dispenser so drinks going in at the top look and and coming out the bottom isn’t that clever so I suspect that’s something other potions cauldron have sponsored this one so again it’s a mythical Beast oh I see it’s a serpent can you see so
The serpent is snaking around but isn’t that clever so we got a tube coming at the bottom and for those that want to sample it can no doubt have a very very cold drink isn’t that fun so there does seem to be this theme mythical Beast
Today so I’m assuming that this is some kind of serpent rather than a snake thank you very much so it is has been confirmed it is indeed a super so you see his tail is Cur up so but again of course Very M will come back tomorrow
And and capture that with all it kind of detail but that is that’s F I love that so let me just come out of the way and we’ll see is there another one over here I’m not entirely sure where they are but obviously there’s a lot of people here
So does suggest if we follow the crowds we are perhaps coming Dawn Vin and again it looks like we may have something here yeah yes we’ definitely got something over there but it is H it’s it’s Wonka right got on Pumpers can you see um I’ll try and come over this
Side um so we’ve got a chocolate factory theme going on will let me Zoom a little bit thank you so that’s York’s chocolate story and again they’re somewhat losing definition aren’t they the bless little op Pumpers um they’re little folk in the first place they can’t really afford to
Lose a great deal of body weight can they but um there we are so we’ve got a Willy Wonka figure over here there a very much entertaining the children enging and and down there I think we can probably come in now second sorry come a little bit closer if we
Can but of course Chocolate Factory is very much a York thing um we are a a city of chocolate after all so I’ll just come and slip in just from that side down there see if we can just get in a little bit just from a distance and you
Can just see so there are really quite fabulous get just wait until they come out and then we’ll give a quick shot before the next one come in so there we go there is our three p lumpers looking Fab Linda in the new Wonka movie so
There we go that they are ump lump so again we’ll come in the morning and hopefully they will be in tip toop condition but I’m loving them I’m loving the old plumbers uh so let’s go down and see what was in the uh in the main
Section of the garden so he looked kind of alien has to be said uh I couldn’t say exactly what it was because with the lot of kind of definition as you might say as well as the crowds excuse me okay it’s G of hard to get as close as as we
Might like but I think tomorrow morning we’ll be a lot better in both respects less melt fewer people and so I think I’ll come down tomorrow and do a blitz and then we will uh props do that tomorrow evening I don’t know we’ll work
Out way so I might not do the live tour tomorrow because it’s the same weather so uh but I really want to show you these in in their best condition possible because uh obviously the amount of work and craft that’s gone into it and as well the money of course is a
Great shame so I Wily Wonka I recognize now of course now on the theme I now know so I’ll just come in give you a little so you can see his goggles there so steampunky hat it’s again all rather melty so far from its absolute best but
We’ve got a golden over here so let’s try and come in and I say it’s you see the golden ticket so again I’ll give a bit little bit of Zoom so the bigger ones I think the bigger sort of solid ones tend to sort of survive a bit better really under the conditions
It’s those with a lot kind of sort of excess if you like of of fine detail and just so we got little very cute gingerbread man gingerbread lady on the other side which is a absolutely Fab just come in try get a little bit closer in so we’ve got a kind of wonkers
Chocolate bite you see there the wrapper peeled halfback we’ve got the golden ticket being seen and inside you’ve got chocolate oranges so it is is celebrating York’s chocolate past sadly chocolate oranges no longer made in New York they were invented here and developed here but uh they’re no longer
Made here they made in Poland I think chocolate oranges which is a something of a tragedy but that as they is progress so we’ll just try and get you a little closer but of course every time there’s a gap people just pile into it just to give I’ll just give you a
Little bit of up close there that will he want cursed face but again his features are not as they say what they might be so let’s let’s walk on so busy and and it just shows that these things do actually work of course because um where it’s a a
Regular when a regular February Saturday you wouldn’t have people anything like this kind of volume um on Street like skel gate so quite clearly you know it does work in spreading them out even though it means that you got longer walks in between that’s prob encouraging
Us to be more outgoing more active which is probably no about thing in of itself but of course what it does mean is it means a little bit in between so again if you do this at home as a kind of filmed version we can of trim those bits
Out and you can get more ice for your book as you might say so more ice cubes in your drink if that’s what you like and very cute dog there passing by so we’re going to we’ll walk up scaler gate skeler shields in Viking the street of
The Shield makers and I’ve got the river still up so I’ll just show you on this side you still see that the river is still up but also if you look at this this wet here this marking this is obviously Where the River was until til
Very very kind of recently so it’s still Beyond its banks you can also see how fast flowing is incredibly dangerous because this is all flowing out to the Sea um the way I can of river that we see all this mud I’m not going to come any close it’s absolutely thick with mud
But it’s very very dangerous so get you end up in the water when the floods are moving like that it is very very difficult to get back out again because uh you it just moves so fast it is a it’s a tidal River really but just
Because it’s damned up at naburn it no longer goes up down with the tides but it is H you’ve got lots and lots I have no idea how much water passing every minute but it is a huge volume and ni the street you John thank you Elizabeth
It’s always a pleasure to be out about in York and next week we have the Vikings returning so we all about all things Viking next week for half term so again lots of things for young people children to get involved with which is fabulous and I need to go and collect my
Pass from the yic team to give me access but um we enjoy being the Vikings well the march of the Vikings suspect will be a week today and uh look at the encampment we’re going to go see the best dressed Viking competition this year we have the the trials of combat
The pitch battle so there is quite a lot to bring you Viking related so for those that uh enjoy walking in the n9th and 10th centuries next week is definitely for you so do check out those TOS are getting listed in the following days not
That I get chance to do my own tour spend so much time listening to other peoples that and then then messing up with their mistakes we get a lot of that unfortunately um uh that my tours tend to suffer as a result so if you wonder
Why I don’t get out about so much it’s because I’m busy helping other people which is nuts I know but there we go it’s careful what you start isn’t it you know with these things he end up being every’s mom to a degree but there we go it’s a roll I guess that
I thrust upon myself so got nobody else to to blame really on that so coming to mckel gate Great Street M great Street and this is mgate bar at the top thank you that’s most kind of you and um thank you to trist Sean for w lovely present thank
You Linda who sent me something uh last week do app appreciate it it is the most most welcome so St John’s Parish Church another of York’s medieval churches John the Evangelist it’s now a bar and Mini Eggs yeah oh my daughter my youngest daughter absolutely loves Mini
Eggs she is H and and she the not for sale I think all year round so when it’s time for Min to come back in we kind of get an industrial Creek delivered for to kind of satisfy our urges um through the Easter period which seems to start on
Boxing day now doesn’t it it just seems we just get um you know Christmas out the way and suddenly they want to push Easter oh they want to push Valentine’s first don’t they then they want to push Easter and it’s just sort of one thing after another that is about costs but
Yes so we’re walking up Mel gate again I’m not entirely sure where the sculptures are but we’ll follow the people and that indeed will uh will no doubt give us a clue as to where we’re going so as promised medieval Church on every corner we’ve got St
Martin coming up on our left hand side where the uh the Glass Center is and uh I tried Min kendle kendler fanatic is as well um Su stained glass if you remember on yor locked two years ago we went in there and we had a lovely I’m lady
Called Lyn suan I believe her name was gave us a demonstration of uh of stained glass techniques that was in that church there the things we’ve all done together I can barely remember them all myself now but s Martin’s Church another of our medieval churches so we’re heading up
Mgate so mgate is the other kind of main route into the city we got mgate bar at the top the famous Royal Gateway to York it’s way for those that came on the tour King Charles and queen Camila we stood there and waved them and saw them that’s
The Royal entrance C that’s we’re walking up there towards right now and keeping them peeled for anything that I see thankfully the sun’s gone in it’s a bit cooler so one can hope at least that that will have a a dampening effect on on the Melt and it’s rather quite up here so
Perhaps we might get a slightly closer look so we can but hope we can but hope and I’m just going to take a sip of water because it’s terribly thirsty business he’s yaking on constantly but uh think of it as a as a gift to my wife who gets a bit of Peace
For an hour or two while I come on and I’m Wier on to you up so uh you really are being spoted by medieval churches All Saints lovely Jacob’s Well just there on our left and we’ve got the fabulous Holy Trinity Church one of the medieval churches of
York I’m just keeping my eyes peeled now looking out for ice sculptures I’m thinking there might be one somewhere this is where I would kind of put it in this this is the church got the stocks outside oh look we got some uh little uh what you call them snow drops coming out
Is that cute so nice to see Life coming back whatever winter does to us we always kind to find a way back do we not so and Winter’s need isn’t it for nature to have a rest and and so forth so look at that that’s lovely so we got the
Medieval stocks out here the replicat actually the original ones inside the church but uh love these butter they butter cups yeah whatever they are they’re most welcome most most lovely so and famously you’ve probably spotted there are five holes in the stocks and the legend was that they were built specifically
Because there was one bloke around here it particularly naughty in here a great deal only had one leg so need did one leg but uh it’s it’s unfortunately like a lot of great stories it’s also completely untrue and what it was was the old stocks were put on a wood pile
They would be burnt the the The Woodsman the groundsman whatever had already started hacking them to pieces when somebody said no you mustn’t do that got to preserve them for the future and so consequently the sixth hole was part was swn off for firewood so so there we go
So I think that we’ve got now the Kraken I think that I think that we are on to Kraken now so we are we are definitely we’re definitely in back in mythical creature territory I’ll just come around this side I want in people’s pictures but uh we’ll just
Come around this side try and give you a bit of a kind of closeup so again the kind of definition is is not all it might be there but the Kraken of course great sea monster mythical sea monster isn’t it that would come up and smash them sorry smash
Sailors kind out their boats and drag them to the bottom of see Dave Jones Locker of course was called was it was a the mythical lair of the Kraken of the bottom of the ocean and of course the final resting place of mar unfortunate sailor I think he get like ships yes
Ships you pull them down great B SE things the T the ship and pull them down pull it down pull it down not a very social mythical Beast it has to be said but uh there we go and there’s a room I believe now called up the Kraken so I think there’s
Another one up here somewhere we we may have have missed it otherwise some by the stage so we’ll have wand around that way you like the one version better than the Kraken interesting um I think if that’s what we talk about there’s always s slight lag on on comments I’m never
Entirely sure exactly what it is that you’re referring to so if I got that wrong Elizabeth then do forgive me there is about 20 second delay I think from from what you submit and when I see it so in that the amount of rubbish and piffle that I’ve spouted in the
Intervening 20 seconds being quite lcal about anything really um let’s be honest there is no shortage of verbiage on this like a huge squid absolutely it was a huge squid and it was Notorious for sort of coming up um and for wrapping its tendrils around ship’s masss and so for
And pulling down the ship to as I say to reside in what’s known I don’t know why but was known to one and all as daav Jones Locker daav Jones Locker was the Bottom of the Sea and the final resting place of sailors so I can’t see another
Ice sculpture here so it may be that we missed one somewhere on the way up but uh don’t we’ll go round to the station and the Railway Hotel there’s one by the war memorial as well I think down here so there a few more to go don’t like for
Time I guess we’re coming towards the end of our hour together but as I say what we’ve missed today I’m going to go out and film in the morning and uh we’ll look to present a compendium of them oh talking about the stocks oh I see
Talking about the stocks yes yes it’s a better story isn’t it yeah and there is of course the view that why let the truth get in the way of a good story which I must admit on occasion I have I’ve been guilty of but uh I do feel a
Sense of Duty to bring so even if the ice sculptures are disappointing a little bit with uh with this warm weather it does make a lovely Blue Sky to highlight some of the the wonderful historic Beauties I’ve got so mate bar of course roll gateway to the city so
Going to swing a right and this may well be the very last time that we ever walk this route because um the reason I’m saying that is the bridge that we’re about to go over is a let cross over actually might EAS cross over here so I show you the
Beetle as well tany Beetle and the bridge we’re about to walk over is finally being demolished and they’ve been talking about doing this oh my most of my most of my life it is redundant because it the root an Old Railway line that no longer exists but that Railway
Line believe it or not as we we don’t this is the 1870s so it’s fair to say they haven’t really cracked on with this um but nonetheless it’s finally happening and so I think either this month or next month the bridge uh here is going and so we’re have a brand new
Plaza so it’s going to be uh a very kind of different I think look and feel around the station much more flatter and opener uh more open rather uh speak English be good um so all that’s happening very soon so this we can just see that the the ambulance coming down
There this rise it’s all going and so the walls for start are going to seem a lot higher because you’re not going to have the slope leading up to them um and you know it’s just going to create a very kind of different looking feel now that
Linda um I thought we’ll walk up this way because Linda uh I think spotted an IM was it Leslie and Linda commented on it one or two we’ll come to that in a second but this is Yorks tany beetle only resident in York it’s a lovely
Mural we have so the with insects It’s Not Unusual there’ll be a New York kind of beetle animals that have just kind of grown up to to basically you know survive in the local environment so the tany beetle of York only found here anywhere in the world so I love is and
So they decided to to do a very very fine mural I’ve shown you that before but that is York very in tan so yes so Linda or lesie I forget which apologies for my rubbish memory um picked out the image that I’m about to show you
Um will they maintain a good outs of the past I think I think definitely I mean I think actually this this bridge does nothing really I mean it’s just a it’s a it’s a ugly modern sort of construction to solve a problem that doesn’t exist so uh everything’s changing forever and
Again you may you may recognize it there was a bridge here a water foot bridge to the railway Institute sports and social clip that’s gone now so suddenly everything looking very very different but yes Linda Leslie this is the view that you talking about of yor rway s I think it was
Probably taken I I’ll try and capture where I think you love the M of the beetle yeah it’s fantastic it’s been about two or three years Sandy so it’s a fairly recent Edition very very welcome so there we go I would say that the photographer uh was probably stood
About there when they took the picture that is it in my group I forget I saw it somewhere on Facebook today um and saw Steve is not impressed with the progress um so I think it was about there right are we getting that are we in agreement those that there it is yeah
So that’s what you saw and it’s like bit like an armadillo shell so Linda did say is it worth um a tour and the answer is yes and I do this one on a tour that I call uh melate quar so I think we will schedule that not done that one for for
Quite a long time so we’ll do that uh at some point over the next a few months we’ll give you a nice look because it’s a fabulous station and I say when it was built in 1873 it was the largest station in the world it’s not bad huh in Little
Old York so still using it to this day now I believe somewhere in this area certainly one of the principal Gardens there are two or three uh will Mark the closing the road obviously while they do it which is going to be pretty hectic you imagine um but afterwards I think
They kind of reprofiling what they’re trying to do is make it a more pedestrian friendly because as you can see this part of the city very much kind of given over to Motor Vehicles whereas most of York of course here the opposite it’s uh pedestrian friendly pedestrianized during the day and so
Obviously buses and public transport so I think what they’re trying to do is uh what’s that I can’t think of the word like kind of segregate it as you might say you know mean so that more of it is given over to to walking and to cycling um but
Allowing of course the buses and taxi to continue but I suspect that Plano motorists will come to bottom of the pecking order that’s not a gripe I don’t mind that I think that’s sort of sensible um but I think the the age of being able to drive whatever you like
When you like is it’s pretty much kind of done with isn’t it so I wouldn’t be at all surprised whether restrictions onto private Motor Vehicles we part of that um yeah Linda I agree with you and of course you’ve got a fabulous station Central Station New York is one of the
The finest stations I would say in the world sadly of course the famous picture um can never be recreated can it with the with the with the light coming through because of all the buildings that are now kind of in the way and block that light but uh thankfully it
Was caught beautifully and of course the fantastic one I think you might get to go with Patrick her the Muse dors Museum dors in Paris a former Art Gallery an art gallery it’s a former station fabulous fabulous fabulous building absolutely love it so we are on the
Lookout for an ice sculpture that was told is I wonder if he’s in the station just going have a little pole in and just see if there is any sign of nice sculpture because I think there’s every chance they M have located it all I know
Is there’s one R by and one in the gardens next door so we’ll try and seek those out but I strongly suspect if there is one it’ll be inside so there’s one a little peak of station you get your wish but uh we’ll just have a
Look and and see if we can see everything get sort of filmed for your dation Delight interest and otherwise no I can’t see one here so it must be something on the outside so there’s a Aon Patrick great tools on the stations yeah um you know and and and as
Lind says I mean this sort of public infrastructure particularly sort of built you know 100 years ago and more tend to be kind of great repositories of you know kind of wonderful architecture Iron Works and so forth you know they took a great deal of care there was a
Lot more what call sort civic pride so was less less less just focus on on Purely the functional element of buildings and the uh the cost um so they lavished buildings with lots of lovely sort of details that made them much more expensive to build like this you know
Like the Station Cafe but uh are endlessly pleasing on the eye you they absolutely kind of delightful sort of buildings again you scan up you see lovely arage so let’s just push on I can’t see the sculpture it may been removed it may have been taken down because it was
Too um melted but let’s have a look so we’re going to have to make this I there’s two more I can show you today on this tour and then let to wrap up because I’ve just had my 10% battery warning flashing uh lot of station the L Metro absolutely um horrendously busy of
Course run by the Loof but uh it is a lovely Station Hotel former Station Hotel principal hotel now but if you’re looking somewhere very Central State in York you can’t really beat this for a location and glorious Victorian architecture bounds but of course you got the ground over the road as well so
Let’s have a look I believe there’s an ice sculpture somewhere in here we were told principal Garden so let us see what we can see like the s that went to see cc to see what he could see CC um where are we how have we got anything but
Either way a little little walk through the garden never actually been through here before on a tour so it’s no bad thing to uh take you but at the moment I can’t see normally these things are apparent by people nearby so I be to rather become reliant on on sort of
Following the crowds as you might say to it lovely though they tell to locate these sculptures but uh on this occasion there is nobody to guide me uh in that respect so it ain’t so easy to to spot but a quick s of turn around ah there we are I can see it
Now so I think that this is ah here we go this is a model of itself which is a is fun I suppose so there we go we’ve got a a model with it’s a scale but maybe it we start off in scale but now it’s melted
It’s less less scaly as you might say so it’s a nice kind of rendering isn’t it that that they’ve done here with and it is celebrating 145 years of Great British hospitality and it start started as the railway uh company was owned by by the by the the railway company so for
Station guests people traveling and so forth que Tor famy stayed here once but is the Royal station York Royal York Hotel for many many years um so yeah ice Do’s house Tish but I think it is a representation of the building that it stands in front of which is the the
Frankly Fab former Royal York Hotel Station Hotel now known as principal York so but it is those are sort of gingerbread quality to it isn’t there so that’s uh not so melted absolutely well we don’t know portuga there might have been figurin who knows what was there
Before but again I’ll come down with camera in the morning I think and and try and capture it before the weather can can do its worst but splitting in half than see it’s joined up but I like that one it’s a it’s now I believe that there’s one
More that we can show on um station rise just around the corner by the War Memorial is where I’m guessing that’s where I put it so I kind of sort of think to some deg where where would you put these things because it’s not simply a case of say can go around because
Obviously you know they only arrived this morning so there’s no markers yesterday where they were going to be and uh and the the maps are pretty vague they’re just kind of the budger dots showing you kind of where they are but they don’t specify precisely you just
Know there’s a one by the station one in the gardens there one here one there so you you’re it’s not spoonfed you’ve got to do a little bit of your own detective work in order now we might to just get across there thank you very much I get
Across thank you we’ll walk through the cola burial ground I’m sure have taken you down here in a while the col epidemic of 1832 in New York carried away very many of its citizens there’s only a few gravestones in here but all that is telling you is
That only a relatively small number of people that died were afforded the respect the luxury of having a grave um they put them out in the morning L they’re in cold there’s two ice sculptures for each one if you might say and one will come out tomorrow
Morning from a refrigerator van and then so from 10:00 onwards they’ll be out on the streets so that’s where I’m going to go and do some filming to get them at their best and when hopefully it’s pretty quiet as well and we’ll hit the city center ones first and then go to
The outlying ones cuz I don’t think it’ll be so busy um Pro till 10 11:00 tomorrow and if I’m not having chat to you I can just film switch off the camera go to the next one swim switch off the camera Etc so I can whis through it quite quickly and and
Not let to have a sustainer running commentary of sorts so we’re going to pass through the city walls with the archways created to allow the railways to come into City the original station just coming up in the Sentry picture now in the archway the building now west offices York Council was the original
Station of York but they found it in the wrong location inside the walls and it was far better to have something outside the walls so somewhere in this area on station rise which is where we are now I was told that there was there the the railway war memorial the the National
Monument to railway workers who lost their lives in the in the first war so we looked at this one before so I’m just keeping them peeled now and seeing if we can see so station rise that’s that’s not that it’s down here isn’t it so bit of wind picking up and been
Wonderful walk thank you uh I mean as with all these things is you know the the pleasure is on is in being together isn’t it and I know that for many of you watch these lat it’s very convenient to do your own time but there’s nothing quite like being together live and I
Think that’s that’s something that we should always sort of try and and maintain but of course busy Lifestyles time zones etc etc mean that we can’t always do that but if we can I think it’s a pleasure of whatever it is we do we do it together and that is that’s the
Whole vibe isn’t it really is doing it together and finding companionship and belonging and having friends people we drop into and most crucially people that would miss us if we weren’t here and so I think that is an absolutely fabulous thing about our community is H it’s
Caring it’s sharing we look out for one another and uh people misses when we’re not here and uh I think that’s fantastic because unfortunately you can’t always say that in life gy now the last of these I can’t find um we are on station rise that’s all the information I have
So again whether it’s simply become too melted and they’ve taken it in I don’t know but we have one last walk up but I can’t think that would have missed it cuz a pretty short Street and so tomorrow um I’ll make a judgment call depending on what I get in the morning
So whether I’ll do it live in the afternoon um or we’re still going to do part two of The Witches we go so what you do um we’ll find a way um but it may be that I do these at home um so we can
Get them all in kind of tip top and uh we’ll do a kind of live commentary over the top I’m looking for P I am kind of looking out and seeing if there’s any sense of where it was on see what I’ll do cuz I’m walking this way anyway just
In case there something leading this in front of the grand this isn’t really station rise but just in case it’s there we’ll walk down here before I turn off because I’m about to get kicked off because of lack of battery anyway so ah found it brilliant as ever follow the
Kids the kids know it’s creepy in it you know what what’s that film they like Village of the dam like that the children know they find these things so we’ll just uh right ah now that again it does look like somebody’s head is he no longer attached we’ll just wait for a
Minute to to come in and try and get you a bit of a kind of closeup over there but um so glad you could come sanday it’s always a absolute hoot and a pleasure to have you on thank you for your support and generosity and as I say
Thank you for being yourselves and coming along and being the websites all good now yeah it’s it’s a nightmare um unfortunately you know things happen updates the na little things websites um that are great if people aren’t using them but when boss start using them loading tours and so forth they they do
Creek a little bit at times so there we go so I don’t know what that’s meant to be really but oh is it willly won thing again we got top hat haven’t we so maybe it was a Willy Wonka was a mythical creature but on a postcard this one
Really I couldn’t really tell you exactly what it is but uh nonetheless here it is so I don’t know another headless one yeah well I don’t know he’s not head underne that Top Hat I really can’t hello doc Reverend Dot from in stren some Mar is it strel um always a
Pleasure to to have you on it’s tending to spiritual needs hangover like of our community so rev dots most welcome so hangers so I think that’s that’s about much are we going to get from this particular tour so before the battery I will let other people of course I will
Come this time and it’s fair to say my hair has not improved in in the last hour or so that we’ve been together um so I can only apologize about that but it’s frightfully thin on top now so getting to stay in place is a a mother
Of all tasks but there we go so we’ll try yeah we we’ll see what tomorrow brings like I said I’m going to come out and do filming in the morning and I’ll make a judgment call on the weather but frankly I think better to cap capture
Them at there pristine best and then we can look at it at home uh and we can look at all these ones that we seeing today but obviously in much better condition um I suspect particularly we have this Nat today um we can then just uh have edited highlights tomorrow but
Well well I call it tomorrow but as I say I think that’s what I’m kind of leaning together leaning towards rather should we say uh at this kind of moment in time so it’s been a frot been a pleasure all things must come to an end not least my
Phone battery so I’m going to say teral now before we’re rudely interrupted and I disappear from your screens not because I make a hasty exit but rather because phone batteries ain’t what they were and whil I Prism by the way this new platform we’re all using a
Lot of us using is Ace thanks to Mark and Amsterdam for introducing and supporting onboarding for that he’s a thoroughly Good Egg is Mark uh but it does tend to use your BP faster so that means that longer tours without a batter pack and I hav’t got a batter pack with
Me are increasingly difficult to do but nonetheless um I think that in terms of picture and sound quality and overall reliability um we were all getting a little bit fed up with its predecessor and there’s far too many Leoni Natalie and others were really kind of suffering with streaming
Challenges so I think it’s good that we’ve moved across to a different provider and touch wood really Reach Around Church me would if you’d be so kind to uh to see that prism continues to offer us a a high quality sound and visual but more importantly the reliability because ultimately it’s very
Dispiriting for both the guide and very much for you yeah portable charger I there are great portable chargers but the problem with the portable charger is you got have a cable we got a cable plugged into your phone um you then impacts when your gimbal you can’t kind
Of move as freely as I’m kind of doing there so as ever for every solution there is another challenge but uh that’s my worry not yours so thank you everybody for joining me we’ll uh we’ll finish off just here back on mgate heading back now towards my car been
Absolute hoot pleasure Delight seeing you all and uh I will see you tomorrow whether we are live in the afternoon U or doing which in the evening or whatever we’re doing and we’ll do something tomorrow so I look forward to that and thank you all for your support
And just being here and being wonderful and Fab and groovy and every epithet that I can I can think of considering yourself that applies to you so from me in York to you wherever you are I’m going to say goodbye and thank you for joining me bye-bye
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