3 counties radio I'm. Very sad news today about Gary Rhodes and I think Marcus Wareing summed up in the news there when he said Gary's really was at the forefront of bringing British food. To our own tirade I made that may sound odd but you go to remember at the time you know good food was considered to be French or Italian or Michelin star fried Gary Rhodes really drill down into British classics cooked well simply with local ingredients and 2 of his cookbooks are my absolute all time favorite new British classics is an amazing cookbook and that she at the table there is at the table is probably my favorite cookbook ever full stop I say for one of my top 2 or 3 let's put it that way and it's a cookbook that influenced me massively in the way I cook and the it's not always about and the way I cook and the way I enjoy food I worked with him on a few occasions food festivals and events and he was always very charming always very nice clearly quite a complex individual as well but as with all of the celebrity chefs it's important to remember he was 1st and foremost an absolutely brilliant chef sometimes easy to get when you see them on telly in their own you know Saturday Kitchen and easy to get their chefs Gary Rose was among the very very very very best of chefs and it's really sad to see him there to him passing away so young 59 that's no age to just as an aside for crack open the rest the program do your favorite Cooper kits company run a roster that in 10 years of being here what is your absolute you know the one that is is just glued together with syrup and treacle and milk and oil and was your absolute go to cookbook The one that when you're really struggling you turn to as I say Gary's at the table. Is one of mine. A great friend. Is by them during what is your absolute go to cookbook be read the text number 13 double 33 see at the start of your taxes 8133 Start your text with 3 Sell your go to favorite couldn't be without cook book is I'll tell you about the shot of the Bangles the time the fly. Not done deliberately but coming up next so maybe see how I got on the fry the blacksmith standalone farm in that with eternal flame would have been a very appropriate song. It's very very hot every weekday morning from 9 am on b.b.c. 3 counties radio the j.b.s. Was the point of having a nice new loo installed only to have a very cheap rubbish can of seats on the top of it. Not Cheryl that's for sure. You obviously have a very lucky Sheree. 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D'sijla station b.b.c. 3 counties radio in a car the beds hearts and parks as you know I'm spending time in the run up to Christmas finding out about the wonderful things which a made across the 3 counties last week was fragrant very very fragrant as I visited a candle making factory near sonobuoys Yes There went into the surreal world of organ restoration in Chesham you can hear how I got on next to choose their play a few so a lot of fun for me is organs and Stone let's hear about my time an old fashioned traditional blacksmith standalone farm inlets worth Garden City Joe Fry is the man at the coals great name for a blacksmith a very very hot coals I went on there last week on a bitterly cold hard but your morning. Rhyme shows right 58 years old and I've been blacksmithing since the age of 16 forget blacksmithing I just want to stay by your fire it is minus one outside intellect worth it is freezing and you got this beautiful you can dress and red coal fire in front of me I don't know make it the you must have mornings here we just bring up a cup of tea and I'm in this will do me for the day yes. He feels like that some more use this time in here it's great to be a blacksmith especially in this cold looking around your workshop which if I'm honest feels like I've gone back to 823 is a fair description fair here I can see what I'd call old fashioned tools and old fashioned machinery say right here near the charcoal grill that you might give a decent restaurant the tiny tiny coals which of as I say just gone in can decimate read that's where we're going to be doing some making and stuff in a minute but then around me the kind of tools that you might associate with in 1900 so said chisels and saws and hammers and in effect this is a skill in a trade that hasn't changed for hundreds of years right suits me down to the ground why is there is a very light in terms of in terms of what you actually do because you put your welding workshop to our left here this is where the magic happens over and over this for which kind of things are producing these days I'm really running I'm about a general purpose. Steel that I would use most of the time and never look at it so it's a it's a roll it. Is actually fairly heavy Yeah yeah it's still so in a ways but I'd say it's about 2 foot long refer to have long and die what's hot there and the diameter which it does have it's has sort of it's all been Health and Safety has it and the diameter is a I said to me to say so is that going to be stuck straight in the crown of that straight in the car I'm going to I'm going to watch Joe do this climb determine through this myself in a moment and he's stupid all the cows over to decrease or make sure he we've now known to go hey but we've got flames as well so this is good oh you Ok now you know a method in your madness here yes until you bring the start of the tapering tapering making point how quickly do you have to work right now well we could probably witness college material probably getting about half a minute to work it was a temperature and then I'll be going back in a straight back into mouth again actually with what was a lovely round road is now becoming quite a shock load and the color of the skew has gone from Roy yellow to orange and is now flowing back to red and it's slowly dying on this isn't it so let's go back in the Pentagon is what kind of temperature would that still be right now right now it's probably about. 7 or 800 degrees you wouldn't want to touch it you wouldn't want to touch it right I think Joe's got one loss he could go and he's heating up a different part of his big steer rod because it's going in the middle now I love the sound of these coals People must say if you do this something really there are few ticket about this here series is east. What is. Higher I mean I don't want to be a proponent of fire in the negative sense but there is something very magical almost mystical about foyer of this he isn't there there is so many seeds he brings everything back to the basics you need tapes and the 1st way we we found he was informed I could ask you massive favor next time you pull out war me because you keep doing it really quickly and I'm sort of having to dive every So we need to go we're ready to go again the way every guy says 0 2 no again. Absolutely bright yellow and you're going to a case now pending it rammed the envelope because we're trying to create is is that look at the top and I mean no dangerous that here is sort of a 2 way Ok suddenly. A straight a steel road has become a sizzle from a. Given this is a. Massive sizzle and there I have it come on Joe He's done this for 45 years has anyone got it this good so quick. You got to be out there of you know what we're going to say as you're pointing to a bit of a safety steaming it gives you a clue that it's still hot it's still hot don't touch the hook to put it back in the water and given a real call down you know what. I have thank you I have no idea how this is actually going to sound because we've been up against lots of noises but you're a big fan of for a 2nd I have no idea if it's going to make any sense what I will say to my listeners it's an insane amount of fun so they can come to you here on the farm stand alone farm in Letchworth what each take the mean ones and twos Yes I know only take 2 because that's what I'm set up for it means that people get on at their own pace they're not waiting obviously I can take a group that's larger than that but then they understand that they sharing to a degree so they can get a bit less done and in terms of cost what would it cost them do you say if you come along on your own it's $175.00 pounds for the week day 195 or a weekend or do you discount if you book as a group or as pays to people give this is Christmas present they do it's a very popular person yeah where do we find you a line Joe a charity and Dakota u.k. So that's that's your email address the website Joe the u.k. And there's always Google just Google Joe the I and even. Blacksmith will tell you that I got hooked I feel I feel slightly proud I've I've enjoyed this I must just ask you this still looks a little bit chip did I did I work it to her I think maybe it got a little bit hot. When it was sparkly Yeah that's what we don't want to go what you mean is the sheer brute strength coming through my right maybe that was it here Jo this is been a blast Good luck with. With the business in heading rapidly towards its 50th year and I'm sure lots of people come along and enjoy it thanks mc could you hear how much fun I had. The bit where I was bashing the stale. Was incredibly therapeutic quality aggressive because that still is melting very days according down very very quickly say if you don't catch it you're going to lose it and then you have to get back in the coals and then you start getting the new sparks then it gets nerve racking and many calls fired then it's a lot of fun I think those courses sound like they're worth doing a day going back to you know probably 1726 I mean these old trades are being kept alive by skilled craftspeople and skilled tradespeople I think wraps it up and that's why next week you can hear how I get on Mir's organs in Chesham where they restore the older farmyard organs that's a brilliant place as well really enjoying getting out about across the 3 counties and looking at these well you can say why subcultures like things that happen below the line that we had no idea of I must say before I go to the trouble that more eggs here after 1 o'clock because it is of course the last Wednesday of the month mark here with a brilliant book review this is Nick Carr for it is help us 12 b.b.c. 3 counties radio that starts in box travel and striking while the iron's hot Here's James nicely done the anticlockwise up 35 Nick is rather busy towards 23 cell phones just because of the restrictions on the roundabout The m one finally back to normal after a bit of a torrid morning unfortunately with various breakdowns of the last man carriageway fully opened the junction and it's moving nicely it's quite slow to read born though I should have seen on the speed sensors slow heading from Crouch church and side of it before a 7 hour slow in to read board for some reason and in Hemel Hempstead expect delays along London Road by the station at road works are in place at the junction of Fisher road and I think that bt work still telecom works well. So it's been very busy on the London Road has east off a little bit not quite back here want to be a 41 the queues try to cram in Queens absolutely fine and around so Mandeville will be a 413 securing towards those road works which continue accountable just south of Cambone Avenue by the care center I think works on the 413 and on to the trains generally a good service although London Overground are running cost low to high bring healing to Newcastle because of a track fault anything at least was to give us a call James Wally b.b.c. $3.00 counties radio and her heart's in box 3 radio. Hits 1230 I'm Jane Killick the Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn says he has evidence of the n.h.s. Is on the table in post Brooks at trade talks with the United States the conservatives have repeatedly denied that the health service is up for sale but he's investigating the fatal stabbings of 2 teenagers in Milton Keynes have made a further arrest this morning a 45 year old woman from Milton Keynes has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender there has been a rise in recorded cases of drinks being spiked 22 police forces responded to b.b.c. Freedom of Information request that with a total of 2600 cases over the past 5 years this is a British chef Gary Rhodes has died at the age of 59 no cause of death has been given but a production company that was working with him in Dubai on a new t.v. Series said he was suddenly taken ill during a break in filming the b.b.c. 3 counties radio where a lot of cloud the south are known but with a few brighter spells to also be a few showers pushing in from the southwest perhaps heavy Today's high is 10 Celsius 50 Fahrenheit showers are possible for a time this evening but overnight it should be mainly dry with some clearest bells mist likely in sheltered areas or river valleys tonight's low will be 7 Celsius 45 Fahrenheit tomorrow we'll have a sunny start but cloud will build from the north into the afternoon rain will follow especially in the evening and overnight tomorrow. I will be 9 Celsius $48.00 found height. The police. It's b.b.c. 3 counties radio. Coming up after 1 o'clock. She's got some great books to review today she's going to be very annoyed at me. That she left last time and I was meant bring in. She's going to be ready and no in fact she may even come in and discover that she doesn't want to talk to me so that maybe she may come in during about 10 and say That's it I'm going home all the more it's not the kind of person to do that so that's coming up after 1 o'clock little bit later on we'll hear about soup fest coming back to bed for this is a great project she says only they make say raise money and awareness for homeless people and also before 1 o'clock 2 lady of a pub which is celebrating its 100 and 25th birthday. The I'm. Coming let the American. Public and let. The I'm. Blue in the. Lead. a real. Bla bla bla bla bla bla. Let me. Let an election dilemma that I feel like Dawson says this is 221 on b.b.c. 3 counties right is more like your offer. 1 o'clock with her list of books to review if she's still talking to me after I forgot to bring her back a pretty water flask that she left last time I do have a half drunk bottle of coke which I might offer as a peace offering it's not going to cut the mustard there is not going to work this Friday one of the oldest pubs in Luton it will be commemorating its 125th anniversary century in a quarter is the brewery tap is run by Gabrielle McKinnon as she bought the pub 3 years ago we we were just having a chat or fair about difficult customers because in your job you have occasionally difficult customs believe I know you find it hard to believe I occasionally have difficult customers as well in the job I do and we occasionally have to deal with them in the polite is possible way tell me your big garden so it is for you came when someone asked you the best question of the day for me last week in the pub was is the big garden outside and your reply was I to ask her a few times what she meant by like that I think I could understand a question that was just so simple but but yes she did she asked if the big garden was outside because it's very hard to you're looking to create a sense of customer service a sense of community but if people are a bit. I'm trying really really hard not to use the word stupid I'm trying to think of a better word but you can't reason with someone who's just being stupid can you can reason with someone who's who's got a world thought out complaint and that's fine and in fact that's probably a fun part of your job and you try and resolve it but sometimes just being plain stupid to that I mean not in that example it was funny but short of being plain and reasonable then it's hard work isn't it really hard work yes definitely and especially when you have a popular people as well and these people are being unreasonable you know making everybody else in the venue feel uneasy and a sleepy little town since their current rates are in challenges definitely yeah you don't mind well thought out I mean for you just struggle with thought are reasonable yes then when you say comes with challenges do you mean you can take off quite quickly if you're not careful no no talker is in. More social care I think there than I think out especially during the day and late in town center without a generation to come in we don't just stop at 7 point to these people they get around them hi i'm getting their shopping for them or help the book flights you know I said Look at me and you really give them more than edgeways So I say Gemma give them a word in edgeways. Would be no point in that with every It's a serious point you make which is that running a pub and you're one of the rare. Type of light you just tighten your beer for the rest is independent managed Yeah. It is such an important part of what you do to be a glue in the community because people are going to come to you may be the only in fact you're very likely the only social space they have almost definitely there's people we have in that we're the only people that they speak to and you know the majority of my customers that with me during the day we know them by their 1st name and their drink is what you for them before they've even reached the bar you must also have decisions to make sometimes because you know people out there drinking too much you know people maybe even drink too much for the wrong reasons and drinking themselves to oblivion and it's a difficult balancing act because obviously running a pup you're not there to judge you need to sell out the whole but you're clearly a social minded person as well Gabby and you must look at somebody who just think sad really sad and the only thing I can do for them is give them my time which they don't get a lot of from anybody so whether it's someone they say enjoying can t. Much you know or sit with them give them a glass of water even to the point you know my Sundays with the rice potatoes out on the barbecue bowls of chips I would probably time was hard to sit there and talk and talk with them off of the village time and just generally change their mind about about what is there so I sat and drank and I was given a food salute our fans Yes You know when they're. Free frequently thought that I want to cloak and when it's gone it's gone and it's cheaper part as well and it's just a great great Leeson really wouldn't live in town feel. And then I said What are you in for when you when you say you've set yourself a limit how much would you give in a way of a week and is it a 100 quid's worth is it more I'm going to I'm going to tell you how much I paid out of my personal pocket and we said we have a set amount obviously every match now is sold out of the Kenny So there's not even a worry about how about not put enough out you know we know that there's i 1000 people in the town and we have a case that was definitely real and what doesn't it just goes out onto the streets fantastic so you know that no matter who comes in they going to get something they said you know we send the boys off to the candy with a hopefully because the poor boys. Of course when say the moves is that going to restrict your ability to feed the rules you know they'll come down your way and then walk back up the hill I had not told listen this means I'll have to make sure that I got the top top floor of the pub and make it into the 2nd floor Falloon temple that's a good idea as that's your next plan so this pub is 125 years old big old Roman a lot of pubs but to survive that long requires a certain amount of certain amount of energy a certain amount of luck a certain amount of