John and Alison are back for 2026 living life in wintry Edinburgh, freezing and loving it!

John is at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh with his wife getting an MBE.

Alisons new single has been playlist by 61 radio stations...celebrations and laughs all round. 

Stories from John and Alisons past including The Virginian, High Chaparral, Donny Osmond. 

High Noon in London. 

Nick Mason from Pink Floyd is given a copy of Alison´s new album sampler.

Johns new dog Vinnie is here, so are Alison's two rescues from North Macedonia. 

And food and drink.......of course. 

Award winning broadcasters and old friends John Wood and Alison Craig talk, swap stories and shoot the breeze. A little light relief when the world is going to hell in a handcart.   

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

What's the chats with Alison Craig and John Woods?

SPEAKER_07 0:03

We're so lazy. We must apologize. We must apologize. That's how we start every podcast. I know, I know. It's like I'm sorry we haven't done one.

SPEAKER_03 0:11

But yeah, we got a great tag today on our podcast website saying, Congratulations, it's six months since you're last podcast. So lazy. It's got to stop.

SPEAKER_07 0:24

But you get distracted. I got distracted today. There was an old woman that looked like Roger Dalty. Look, what?

SPEAKER_03 0:29

That's you getting distracted again. It looked like Roger Dolphin. It might have been.

SPEAKER_07 0:37

Had a fissure rod in his hand.

SPEAKER_03 0:38

Well, there you go.

SPEAKER_07 0:39

Oh, there you go. Could be.

SPEAKER_03 0:41

Indeed, yeah. Bloody. I can't believe it's 2026 apart from any else. Last time I looked, it was 1989.

SPEAKER_07 0:49

And you were still wearing the clothes from 1989 last week's.

SPEAKER_03 0:57

Anyway, I hope you are well. And thank you for sticking with us. And actually, it's amazing how many people have stuck with us on this podcast.

SPEAKER_07 1:05

I know. Hello, Russia. Hello, Ukraine. Hello, Mexico, hello, Spain. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:11

That means thank you.

SPEAKER_07 1:12

I don't quite know how I know that. So what we'd like you to do is send it to you. Because we're looking for a holiday. If you could invite us to your home and we could do a Wee World Tour.

SPEAKER_03 1:21

Well, maybe not Russia.

SPEAKER_07 1:22

Maybe not Russia. I'll give that one. Yeah, a bit cold.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

And I would be swithering as to whether I would go to the States now.

SPEAKER_07 1:29

Hello? Hello? Would you go?

SPEAKER_03 1:30

I mean, it's just mayhem, isn't it? The whole world's gone bizarre.

SPEAKER_07 1:33

Bizarre and if you hear any rummaging about during his broadcast, it's a dog. It's a my new dog called Vinny. I think we introduced him before, but he's had his hair cut.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

Well, just say what he is first. He's a miniature puddle.

SPEAKER_07 1:46

Miniature puddle, he isn't. And he's had his first groom today. I got his hair cut. He actually they they really shaved him. He looks like Yule Brenner. So he'll be in the canine version of the King in it.

SPEAKER_03 1:57

I was gonna say, I was gonna say Kojak, actually.

SPEAKER_07 1:59

Yeah, go there you go.

SPEAKER_03 2:00

But when I arrived at John's, you know, I could see Vinny's outline. And I know Vinny quite well. He kept he came to stay with me actually uh a couple of weeks ago when John was away. And uh, you know, he was a little fuzzball, and I saw this I suppose it was a silhouette standing on it, and I thought, oh, pipe cleaners, whatever happened to them. Yes, like it's it's it's the he's tiny. We'll put a picture of him on the podcast website because probably in about six months' time because we'll not get together for that, either. No, we will, we will, we will.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

What's the chats with Alison Craig and John Woods?

SPEAKER_03 2:32

Well, John and his wife are away somewhere to celebrate a very special thing. You always.

SPEAKER_07 2:36

It was, yeah. My wife got an MBE. We went down to it. It was really strange.

SPEAKER_03 2:40

Um If you say what an MBE is, what does it stand?

SPEAKER_07 2:42

It's a member of the British Empire. It's a it's a medal that you get from the royal family. There's only three people can give it uh the King or Prince William or Princess Anne. She wanted Princess Anne, she's always had a you know at all, she thought she admired her from afar.

SPEAKER_03 2:56

Oh well, she should have been the Queen.

SPEAKER_07 2:57

Yeah, yeah, and uh so basically it was for services to uh patient safety, which because she's got a medical nurse background. So anyway, she's got the MBE, but so we went to Hollywood Palace and um you're put in a sort of holding area, and all of a sudden, in inside one of the ballrooms. But and we we kept waiting and waiting. We thought, hmm, something's not right. Then two paramedics came in and went through a secret door, and we went, uh-oh, what's happening? What do you mean? Uh so we don't know if uh one of the household or one of the recipients uh fell or got you know fainted or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 3:34

It'd be quite overwhelming, I would just say. So describe the ballroom then. It's a very low. Can I just explain that in Edinburgh at the top of uh the Royal Mile you've got Edinburgh Castle, which you can go and see and it overlooks the city, and at the bottom of the Royal Mile, which is the road, um you've got Holyrood Palace, which is where the royal family stay, and uh you don't get in there unless you're you know special.

SPEAKER_07 4:00

Well, there was uh we were standing outside the gate, and uh there was uh two sort of wardens and they check your documents. You have to take your passport.

SPEAKER_05 4:08

Right. Right?

SPEAKER_07 4:08

The boy looked at me, it was like uh they looked at Donna's first of all, went Professor Donna Jean Corrigan O'Boyle, and he went, Oh, that's a mouthful. Who's next? I went, John Wood. Oh, that's easy. Is that right? So we were putting this holding area, and everybody said congratulations to us, it was lovely. And uh my sister and brother-in-law were there, and the holding area was a like a big drawing room with paintings of old princes and I don't know who they all were, drinks and stuff like that. And there was a there's a beautiful showcase of the order of the thistle. Only about eight people have that, and it's pure diamonds. I mean, it's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03 4:45

And what what sort of people get that then?

SPEAKER_07 4:46

Uh well uh uh yeah, it's it's who was it? Some du some great doctor got it. I think a QC got it as well. They have to have done something very special. I don't see, you know. So anyway, we're in this holding area, and then they call you through alphabetical. Now, for some reason, I thought it was going to be like a school prize giving. I thought we'd all be sitting there, and I thought they would go up one by one. No, you went into this room and it was like walking into a painting. Oh, Royal Archer was there, the Lord High constables were there, all that stuff, and then there's a harpist in the corner, and in the middle is Princess Anne, and she has about a few minutes, a minute, and then she leans forward, shaking your hand, and naturally time to go. And then that's it, and that's the dog barking as well.

SPEAKER_03 5:30

It's it's not me why you're gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_07 5:31

So, yeah, it's a great, a great day. It was a really good day before.

SPEAKER_03 5:34

It's an amazing thing to achieve, and actually she deserves it. Don is an amazing woman, she really is.

SPEAKER_07 5:38

Burns night, did you celebrate?

SPEAKER_03 5:40

Uh did I celebrate? It was no, I had a house, I had a house full of raging party animals actually that weekend. I had Bill Gill through from Glasgow, and uh Who's Bill Gill? He's uh he is uh an old old friend I shared a flat with in the 80s. I mean, like literally when I first got to Edinburgh. Um and we never asked, in fact, it was early 90s, I never even asked him what he did for a living. You know, we just sat in the flat and drank lager, and he went to his work and I went to mine, and that was it. Turned out he's a music producer all these years ago. He was working, he's worked with Barbara Streisand's.

SPEAKER_07 6:10

That's handy.

SPEAKER_03 6:10

Uh Motorhead, if you want to go right across the board. Uh he's got some great stories to tell, and he produces some of my music for me, and he's a very talented film editor and stuff like that. So he was over for the weekend. This is terrible. My next s thing is Because my husband was away fishing. Sounds very dodgy, but no, he came over and this other friend, Chris Thompson, guitar playing genius, and we had quite a weekend of it, so it was good fun. Right. But um I forgot it was Burns Night because I was a bit quiet by the end of it all. So the 25th of January is the traditionally when we celebrate the birth of Robert Burns.

SPEAKER_07 6:48

That's right. You know, I found out another fact about him that he nearly went to Jamaica and left Scotland. Uh he got a job as a book clerk, but something was wrong with the passport and didn't manage to get there. And the other fact was two major fans, Abraham Lincoln was a major fan, as was Bob Dylan, and on his funeral, his son Maxwell was born.

unknown 7:09

Oh really?

SPEAKER_07 7:10

He was only like 35 when he died.

SPEAKER_03 7:12

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_07 7:12

So it was some boy. So you might celebrate uh that throughout the world, that's you never know that. They celebrate it in different parts of the world.

SPEAKER_03 7:20

They do, they do, but uh nobody celebrates quite as much as the Irish celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

SPEAKER_07 7:24

I know, they seem to win, don't they? Why? They win.

SPEAKER_03 7:27

I mean, it's right across the board, and was it you saying that you were in Chicago or something and they dyed the river green? I can't remember, but it's like the major river green.

SPEAKER_07 7:36

She's dressed head to toe in green and white. And first she goes, Where are you from? I says, Well, I'm from Scotland. I have a friend in Switzerland. Well, that's really handy. I'm I'm happy for you. You know, no idea. But they dye the liffy green, don't they, in Ireland?

SPEAKER_03 7:51

Aye, and why not? It's an excuse for a couple of things.

SPEAKER_07 7:53

Because we can't dye the fourth tartan, so maybe that's why we're not.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

Well, they'll weave if you get in there with a snorkel, that's what it looks like. But you know. Oh, Vinny, Vinny's the dog, he's sitting beside me now. He's so cute with his he's got a special jumper on now because they've taken all his hair off.

SPEAKER_07 8:06

You were talking about the mixing your album comes out this year.

SPEAKER_03 8:10

That's right, I've got my album. When's that? It's the 24th of April, 2026. And you go by the name of? Well, yes, I go by the name of A. C. Scott. That's my kind of recording name. So I've got um I've just sort of released the ballad of Lucy Jordan, you know, the Marianne Faithful. And amazingly, Marianne Faithful's grandson, Oscar Dunbar, heard it and loved it, so he's given me a quote to use with the track.

SPEAKER_07 8:35

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 8:36

I know. So that's very exciting. Um and then my my next official single, because that just I just took that out because I just love that song. And it's just literally me and a piano. There's no, it's nothing fancy pantsy. Um, and my next official single's coming out on the 13th of February, um, which is called Never Too Late, which is very much about, you know, it doesn't matter how old you are, you must just do what the heck you want to do.

SPEAKER_07 8:58

So and this year I've got fuck all coming out.

SPEAKER_03 9:00

Well, that's good though, but I mean that's a 12-inch, isn't it?

unknown 9:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:04

A 12-inch remix of fuck all.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

It's a it's a remix of fuck all watch the chats with Alison Craig and John Wood.

SPEAKER_04 9:12

Never too late to try. Never too late. Never too far to go. I don't ever know.

SPEAKER_02 9:33

Take a leave when you may fly.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

What's the chats with Alison Craig and John Woods?

SPEAKER_07 9:42

So anyway, your music career's been going ahead of wheels, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 9:46

Has a bit, has a bit. Uh quite funny, Dave was away fishing, right? And he ended up sitting uh next to this guy who was even older than him and uh his wife. Uh and they straff like a conversation as you do, you know, a couple of glasses of wine and whatnot. Anyway, as the night progressed, it transpired it was Nick Mason who's the drummer in Pink Floyd. She was. So Dave was like, Oh, so they they were really nice people, uh him and his wife, and uh Dave was there with his pal Adrian, so they're chit-chatting away. And Dave is not a pushy person, as you know, he's quite compared to me, he's very quiet and retiring. Anyway, he'd had enough to drink to go up to his room and get two CDs, my CDs of my album sampler, and gave them to Nick Mason. Brilliant. So because he said to and only Dave could say this to Nick Mason, have you got any CD players in the house? I mean, it's that's not a pink slide. What do you think? And anyway, she went, We've got about twelve, and he went, I'll be back in a minute. So yeah, so off they went with an album. Isn't that nice? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 10:44

But did you not tell me he also bought the house next door because he's got too many cars?

SPEAKER_03 10:48

Yeah, he bought the estate next door to his Nick Mason, not my dad, not my husband. That was a Freudian slip. Uh and uh yeah, it was up for sale. He bought it, and he just basically put garages all over it because he just has absolutely Ferraris and Porsches. Apparently he's got the most expensive Ferrari in the world.

SPEAKER_07 11:06

Really?

SPEAKER_03 11:06

But a very nice guy, very down to earth.

SPEAKER_07 11:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:09

So obviously we're in constant contact, but uh we'll never see them again.

SPEAKER_07 11:14

Remember the drummer of the Rolling Stones, he had uh a whole load of Charlie Watts had all these beautiful cars and they couldn't drive. Is that really at all?

SPEAKER_03 11:23

Gosh, and I've got absolutely no cars and I can drive. It's like you with all the horses you've got. You don't ride.

SPEAKER_07 11:29

I don't know what you're gonna do. You've got twenty horses in your garden. It's it's getting beyond, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 11:35

Powered I've got in that old rickety car out of the room. No.

SPEAKER_07 11:38

My next door neighbour has a collection of Hoovers. Yeah, he loves Hoovers. He's got them, and I kid you not, he's a bro, he's an art, he was an architect, he's a brilliant artist as well, actually. Great designer. Uh, and he's got this room where I kid you not, full-size hoovers are hanging from the ceiling.

SPEAKER_03 12:00

Why do you say I kid you not?

SPEAKER_07 12:03

Because I don't think people would believe me.

SPEAKER_03 12:05

No, but I kid you not, as opposed to I'm not kidding, I kid you not.

SPEAKER_07 12:09

It's my Shakespearean upbringing.

SPEAKER_03 12:12

See, I know you're old, but they know that old.

SPEAKER_01 12:14

I kid you not.

SPEAKER_07 12:16

You've seen it, actually. You've seen it. I have seen it, yeah. It's quite amazing.

SPEAKER_03 12:20

It is, but when you're in this house, you're wearing a rough and an Elizabethan outfit, so that's probably why you're dropping in the IK. Did you ever collect stuff apart from your horses? Not really. I won't say it at all. I like pigs. I do like pigs. Oh, you do like pigs, yeah. And um although you did you not say there was a pig man?

SPEAKER_07 12:37

Yeah, there is a it's a new Bigfoot. It's down in Shropshire, and they've discovered a sighting of pig man, half pig, half man.

SPEAKER_03 12:46

You see, that's actually still bacon toes.

SPEAKER_07 12:52

And between a slice of bread.

SPEAKER_03 12:54

Scratching.

SPEAKER_07 12:57

That is actually a horror film, I think so. I don't know if the top half, oh it must be, it must be human on the top half, and the bottom half's a pig. Oh dear god. It's like mermaid.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

It's like no, it's actually not like a mermaid at all.

SPEAKER_07 13:11

Half woman, half. This is the true story. True story. When I was teaching, they used to take the first year up to uh a camp and it was by the by the sea, okay? Uh huh. And uh they stayed overnight and did what what we used to do was sausage sizzles, you know, we had your campfire and they did all that and played games and orienteering. The kids loved it because a lot of the first year kids had never been out of their area, they didn't been to the countryside or down in the ocean and stuff like that. So anyway, they were down in the ocean this time, and the bus had just arrived, but the teachers were there beforehand. And one of them, Alison, funny enough her name was, because right, I'll get my costume on. And she spotted a rock which was just like a walkway out in the ocean, uh-huh. And she got her mermaid's costume on and sat there, combed her hair, right? Oh my god. And all the kids came out, and the teacher went, Oh my god, look, it's a mermaid! And they went, Oh my god, oh we've seen them, oh, we've seen. But funnier than that, we used to take them to Glendavin, and I used to, I used to go jogging with them in the morning, so they knocked them and was like, Mr. Woody, we go jogging, yeah, come on, we'll go jogging. And as we drawled along this river, a heron took off. Oh, and one and one of the boys turned around and says, Sir, look, a fucking flamengo!

SPEAKER_04 14:31

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_07 14:32

And as we were driving over to uh we were doing an orientation thing at another part in dollar it was actually, and we went over the the mount the hills and all that, and we saw we saw a horse, and the horse was rather excited, you know, right? Yes, and I'm I'm pointing out other stuff on the other side now. Look at the trees, the colour now, you'll notice a lot of a lot of oak trees in this area, and there's the old track that the old, you know, the merchants used to take in the old days when they're look at the cock and that from a head from Willie at the back. That's all I heard.

SPEAKER_03 15:05

Well, the name would be Willie.

SPEAKER_07 15:06

It was Willie, actually. That was his name.

SPEAKER_03 15:08

Oh dear, dear, dear. So here we're listening to what's the chat.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

It's a hot bar, isn't it? Six months. This is the best he couldn't do. I'm so sorry. Oh dear.

SPEAKER_03 15:24

Are you hoping for some literary content or article? Oh shit, what's the dog? It's not a puppy. I mean, you got him.

SPEAKER_07 15:31

No, he's five and a half. It was a woman that had him, and unfortunately, she took ill and couldn't look after him anymore. So we sort of saved him and he's come to live with us, and he's oh he's got a big thing. He's an absolute sweetie, really, isn't it? Well, you've had him over the next couple of minutes.

SPEAKER_03 15:45

And uh because he hadn't been brushed so much, you had a, as you say, a radical haircut, didn't he?

SPEAKER_07 15:50

Yeah, yeah. And you've got your two dogs.

SPEAKER_03 15:52

That's right. I I got um, you know, well, my sausage dog, Charlie, who I adored, died in September. So I was I didn't realise I was completely down the dumps. So anyway, at Christmas time, I was on in line at like three in the morning and I saw uh this dog, big hairy glute of a dog in Macedonia that was astray and looking for a home. So I just pressed Adopt! Oh, and then the next day I went back to check the charity work who they said they were, they're called Beating Hearts Rescue. Um and they're absolutely genuine. And there was another dog that looked like a cross between a sausage dog and a sea lion. Um so I pressed adopt again, so I've adopted two. So they arrived uh two weeks ago. Um absolutely knackered. Um but you know, they're the sweetest dogs. I mean, they arrived after four days in a van and they were absolutely mad when they got out of the van.

SPEAKER_07 16:40

They're beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 16:41

But they're I mean, they're so gentle, the pair of them. They'd never met, they were both abandoned in the middle of a city. Um the big hairy one, had been um badly attacked by other dogs, and Panda was just a little puppy. So uh Ozzy was in an outdoor kennel living in Hay in minus eleven, you know. And she was in a uh foster home, but she was also outside a lot. So they'd never been in the house. Since they've arrived, we'd had one accident on the first night, uh, one little pee. Uh and that was Dave, because he was excited about their arrival, obviously. And they have been, you know, they're pushing the envelope a bit now because they're a bit more confident. He arrived, he was 12 kilos. I had him at the vet the other day, 16 kilos now. So he's put on quite a bit of a lot of. Oh, that's good, that's good. Um and they're just joyful. They're sweet. They're they play together, they're there's not an aggressive bone in their bodies, they don't fight over toys, over food. They're absolutely lovely, you know, they'll be super when Vinny meets. Um so so that's and I've started an Instagram for them because you know, people are always asking. So it's called Aussie and Panda, because the big one's Aussie, small one's panda. And they are just the sweetest. They're comedy dogs. I mean, they really are. So um we'll have to get Vinny down for some playtime. And where were they from? They were from North Macedonia.

SPEAKER_07 17:55

I wonder if we've got any listeners in Macedonia. Because we've got a few. It's all over the spread of countries. Russia, Ukraine. Something like 112 countries. Mexico. I didn't even know there was a hundred and twenty. Hi to Digi in Montana. That was the uh the boy I talked to. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 18:12

I'll say hello to him.

SPEAKER_07 18:13

Yeah, hi to Digi and his family.

SPEAKER_03 18:14

Was he would he have been on any of the trips you were just talking about?

SPEAKER_07 18:17

No, no, no. They were Scottish kids. Right. We actually did a great trip with these kids in California. We're up to Lake Tahoe. Uh well, yeah, up by Lake Tahoe. We went skiing, actually. Oh, lovely. Now I haven't been skiing since I was a kid. Uh-huh. Right? And I'm talking a primary school kid. Right. So we went up there and I thought we're going to have to be with the kids, and you know, oh no, the kids were away with the instructors, and we had the whole day to ourselves. Pine trees, blue skies. Gorgeous. And you got your confidence back, but the best thing was come lunchtime, we stopped at this halfway restaurant, uh-huh, and all you did was you said meat or chicken, and then you took outside, and then you barbecued it yourself. So there's no complaint to the chef at all. Because you were the chef. So that was a great idea. Oh, fantastic.

SPEAKER_03 19:02

Well, that sounds absolutely amazing.

SPEAKER_07 19:03

That's 40 years ago.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

Oh, don't don't count years. I mean, ages really definitely is a state of mind.

SPEAKER_05 19:10

Oh, it's true.

SPEAKER_03 19:10

I was watching um great actor, black actor, brilliant voice. He was in he played God in uh Morgan Freedom. Yes, Morgan Freedom. He was being interviewed by an American uh the other day on a chat show, Stephen whatever his name is, big chat show host, and he said, What is your secret for aging? And he his expression was simply don't let the old man in.

SPEAKER_07 19:35

Oh, I like that.

SPEAKER_03 19:36

And that was it.

SPEAKER_07 19:37

I like that.

SPEAKER_03 19:38

And of course it's got a very different context if you say it as a woman. Don't let the old man in. But I can see from this point of view that you know, but it's true, it's like, but we all knew somebody that was.

SPEAKER_07 19:51

I was thinking the Beatles song When I'm 64. Yeah. I'm now 69 this year. It's like, oh for God's sake.

SPEAKER_03 19:57

Don't focus on that. Think to yourself. You wake up in the morning and you think I'm 50. Be 50. Don't be.

SPEAKER_07 20:01

Well, I'm approaching 60 from the wrong end. Yeah. Basically, that's that's the problem.

SPEAKER_00 20:05

Watch the chats with Alison Crieg and John Woods.

SPEAKER_07 20:09

I was down in London, went down to London, went to see High Noon, which was yeah, it was alright. It's hard to put a Western on stage. Sometimes it doesn't work. But it's actually quite a debatable thing because he's he's basically sent off a criminal to get hanged, and he didn't get hanged, and he's coming back to take revenge on him. Okay. And he gets married, uh, the Gary Cooper character is getting married, he's a marshal, and uh he finds out that the guy's coming back to get him.

SPEAKER_05 20:36

Right.

SPEAKER_07 20:36

So the dilemma is his wife wants him to just go away and have a nice, happily married not a bad idea. He says, No, I can't, I've got to stay, and then it's that story. So it's interesting. It's interesting.

SPEAKER_03 20:48

But no, no, you didn't think it translated very well onto the stage from no, I don't. Well, I mean it's not quite the same as a dusty desert highway, is it?

SPEAKER_07 20:56

No, a dusty well, do you know what I mean? Are all highways dusty and desert?

SPEAKER_03 21:00

Well, I'd think they'd be quite dusty and deserty in the sort of Virginian. High Chaparral. There was a lot of dust.

SPEAKER_07 21:08

Was it Blue Boy that was?

SPEAKER_03 21:09

Ah, I fancied him. That was High Chaparral. Oh, you also fancied Alice. Yeah. No, Alice Smith and Jones. Really fancied him, Ben Murphy. Gosh, what was I some sort of teen perv? I mean, really? I've thought about that before. You went from, you know, Twinkle, which was a magazine, to Donnie Osmond, who looked like a girl, to Ben Murphy, a naked cowboy in a big tin bath, smoking a cigar.

SPEAKER_07 21:35

And that's when you first met your husband. And I am Allison, I know this is the first date, but there's a bath over there. Would you mind just dying to hair blonde, jumping in, and here's a big fat cigar. Yeah, well, it worked. Oh, I was talking about costumes. I went into Talking about what? Costumes. Oh lack of them. Uh huh. I went into Muse, the cheese shop. Oh, yeah. And in front, all I wanted was a bit of brie. It was not too much to freaking ask, anyway. And I stood behind this guy and he had the the weekend. Stop Bridge at the weekend, turns into a fucking brigadine, if you ask me. And and what happened was he had the paint trousers on and he had the tweed, you know.

SPEAKER_03 22:19

No, the elephant cord.

SPEAKER_07 22:21

Oh, yeah, yeah, the elephant and the yellow socks and the broads, and he's going, can I try a bit of that cheese, please? And that's not too bad. Something a bit creamy I put you on. So eventually he went away, and I thought I felt like shouting after there's another seven cheeses you haven't tried if you want to come back, you know. I don't know how these guys go back. You have to take it on morning to buy the channel.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

I do agree, they're walking through Stockbridge. Uh it's absolutely mob now. It's there's a lot of yummy, mummy, yummy, daddy, yummy. Oh tell me about the influencers rollicking around with these cameras, holding up the traffic, taking pictures of I mean, these things have been there for hundreds of years. We don't need to see them photographs or you know, it's just a lot of people.

SPEAKER_07 23:08

I watched two Japanese girls. My case comes up Tuesday, and I was watching two Japanese girls taking a photograph of each other. They would have about half an hour. It's like you were there for half an hour. An influencer. Imagine putting that in your passport.

SPEAKER_03 23:26

I'm an influencer. I'm a farter. Exactly. I mean, what have you got to talk about other than you know, I've just had my hair done, I've got my nails done, I've, you know, I've got the dog done. I've you know, it's like so boring. What kind of conversation do you have?

SPEAKER_07 23:39

Interestingly enough, I was watching the uh uh um and being Gordon Ramsay and he was doing a soft opening of his restaurant. You wonder what I was gonna say there, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 23:49

Oh, I did.

SPEAKER_07 23:49

And uh he was he was saying we can't ignore them, but they are powerful, powerful people, and they can make or break restaurants and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:59

And it's a very powerful tool, as it turns out. It's just irritating.

SPEAKER_07 24:03

Yeah. The people that do are irritating.

SPEAKER_03 24:05

Well, I find that to be the case as well, John. And there's that one street in uh Stockbridge, you know the one I mean that runs under the street. Circus lane. That's the one. And I was standing in a shop, and this woman marched into the shop and she slammed her handbag on the counter. You know, it's a real Edward story. And and I sort of looked at her and said, Are you all right? And she went, That's it, I'm selling my house. And I went flying. I live in Circus Lane every morning, every night, there's these influencers walking up and down with their little, you know, their suitcases over the cobbles. And then she comes out and they're taking photographs of each other for for like you said, you know, half an hour posing, carrying on. And it's not like they're even they even look embarrassed when you walk past them, you know. It's they're all just getting old. Yes, I do.

SPEAKER_07 24:49

It's the Victor Meldrew condition, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 24:53

We're gonna have to change the name of this podcast as Grumpy Old Fart.

SPEAKER_07 24:57

Actually, that's quite a good name. That is good, actually. Yeah, yeah. What's the fart? It's like Watch the Chat.

SPEAKER_00 25:05

Watch the chats with Alison Craig and John Woods.

SPEAKER_07 25:09

So listen, we apologise for not recording one earlier, but our discipline is out the window to be perfect once we're gonna be.

SPEAKER_03 25:16

But we are making a pact. We're actually going to look, let's, look, let's let's go.

SPEAKER_07 25:21

We are doing that. And Venezuela's there as well. Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 25:25

Uh and we are going to do it monthly. Monthly.

SPEAKER_07 25:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:31

And that is and we are going to stick to that. Yes.

SPEAKER_07 25:33

And also remember, you can listen to us on uh Edge 2.

SPEAKER_03 25:35

Yeah, yeah, we do a radio show every week. Every Sunday, we're on uh playing some great music.

SPEAKER_07 25:40

Yeah. Um, if you are abroad, uh huh. You'd as you say abroad. Yeah, I can't.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Oh, you mean abroad?

SPEAKER_07 25:47

But you download the Edge Player app and I go into uh the programs and you can listen again. That's right. So you can hear us at any time, any part of the world. Edge two player app.

SPEAKER_03 26:00

Nobody's gonna bother doing that.

SPEAKER_07 26:01

Probably not. They can come on the podcast.

SPEAKER_03 26:03

And they can realise how irritating we are and they'll never ever listen again. No, but seriously, it's it's drop us a note in the podcast. It was such a lovely uh note you got from this young guy that's that you know John taught a long time ago. So you know, drop us a note in the podcast and we'll say hi next time.

SPEAKER_07 26:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:21

Um and are we gonna do some eating and drinking next time?

SPEAKER_07 26:24

What was that?

SPEAKER_03 26:25

Eating and drinking next time?

SPEAKER_07 26:26

Oh, I think so.

SPEAKER_03 26:27

I mean you just had a lobster pie.

SPEAKER_07 26:29

Oh, I did, I did. Tell us about that before we said uh what was the restaurant called? I can't remember. Mountain. No, what was it? No, what was it called? Anyway, it's down in London. It's down in London. And uh their special signature dish is a lobster pie. And it's a pie, obviously, and it's got the lobster head in the middle of it. Lovely. Uh but it's the it's the sauce. They've obviously boiled down seafood and oh, just too dye for it. Oh dear. Beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 26:57

So anyway, that's that's uh Well, I think we should go and let's go and if we can't seek a lobster pie. We're not going to London for it. I'm gonna make one. I'm gonna make one. Are you?

SPEAKER_07 27:07

Yeah, I'm gonna make one. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

Well, you listen, you're the witness here, listener.

SPEAKER_07 27:13

We're gonna do it. Listen, uh, again, we apologize, but we will be back next month when we watch this.

SPEAKER_03 27:18

The last three minutes of every podcast. Apologize because it's been so long since we did the last one. But the next one will be on the 1st of April, April Fool's Day. Yeah, yeah. That's very appropriate. Take care. Until then, I'm gonna play you one of my songs.

Alison´s (AC Scott's) new single. NEVER TOO LATE.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

All my hopes and dreams stay deep inside. I just heard the line. Guess I missed the boat, it's not my time. Then one day they have my song They believed in me. Stars aligned, lights went on. It's never too late to try.

SPEAKER_04 28:22

It's never too late to find. Never too far to go. Or you will never know.

SPEAKER_02 28:40

Take a leave when you may fly. In her voice say Don't be a stupid girl who's had you take Might have been someone. But the girl you were back then's long gone. Then one day you heard my song You believed in me. Stars aligned and the lights went on.

SPEAKER_04 29:21

It's never too late to try. Never too late to fight. Never too far to go.

SPEAKER_02 29:38

Or you will never know. Take a leap, you may fly. Ignore what's in your head. Listen to your heart for a long time. Round and round the sun. Not giving up until this dream is done. Someone might just hear song. Lift you up and put you right where you belong.

SPEAKER_04 30:24

It's never too late to try. Never too late to buy. I would be waiting for you, waiting for your whole life. Never too much.