I had tickets to go down to the Titanic, but I think I'm gonna cancel don't too soon Hey, welcome back to our tube interaction Instagram, Twitter, more juicy content, thanks for folks to account square like button. That's just nothing that's ever intrigued me Going down. I mean going under the ocean is intriguing, but not that deep end with that shoddy of a Submarine, yeah, I just I just scuba diving intrigues me. Yeah, but I Submarines don't intrigue me. I've been on the submarine deep submersibles military. I've been on a military. You have interesting Yeah Perks of my dad being in the military for as long as he was Okay, we got a Zoya octar interview. Oh good. It's a new one. That just came out great with a Anushka. Yeah, from a film companion. Great. I'm sure she'll talk about the Archies Archies great Which looks like a lot of fun Did you show the trailer to your wife? She like it. Yeah, great And she's like it makes sense because the Archies are actually a band. Oh Yeah, I it's so funny because it's the same as Archie It's actually in the same universe as Josie and the pussycats by the way Really? Okay, so what about the Archie singular comic book? I think it's in the same. It's the same thing. It's the same universe Because there's an Archie person like there's a yeah Archies Well, that's plural. Yeah, but no, it's the same same same just same but anyways, it's interesting because I saw a lot of one one's a person the other's a band. How can they be the same Archie is in The band the band and it are they is the band all comprised of people named Archie? But anyways, I saw a lot of people confused By this trailer because it's a very American story. Yeah American comic book comic book and they made it in India But then like in the trailer or the teaser there was like, you know burgers and shakes and so a lot of people like Oh Indians won't ever be able to relate to this I'm like, have you never seen a western film that you've related to you? We aren't Indian We relate to films all the time you couldn't you can relate to it if like Zoya you broaden your horizons Yeah, I just I don't understand that concept. Oh, oh, this is not fully Indian. You Indians can't relate to this You watch Marvel Yeah, you literally watch Top Gun. No more about American cinema than many Americans So like so what is it about it? You wouldn't relate to like if it's a relatable story It doesn't have to be fully your story. Yeah, it's strange to me very strange to me. Yeah, just whatever Anyways, but it should be good because it's Zoya You know, especially even as far back as how much You know burgers and shakes in the in a modern Indian movie today Do you not recall how much of the 1950s MGM and Elvis movies are in the 50s and 60s Indian films? Yeah, the music the style of the wardrobe. That's very strange. Here we go. I Work with the most incredible crew. I am really lucky with the crew. I have but they've read all the comics I gave them up. I don't know how many how many how many films to watch teenage films films from the six days Musicals from the six days Musicians from the six days then they did different acting workshops. They did dance The crew I'm guessing she's talking about the Yeah, you know when you grow up in a house and you have parents you get on with or parents that you admire You just end up doing things they do and it's as simple as that and who is anyone to say you can't do this or you can't do that So at first I think we need to establish that we both live in Bandra Yeah, but this interview is happening all the way in Brazil. Yes Oh You know it was so lovely to see these debut on actors on the stage and and with the best of the best from around the world Brazil, what was it like for you? You've been it's Netflix thing It's called good. Oh, oh god.  I mean, I got it Yeah, it's been a year and a half since they started the boot camp and then the shoot and everything maybe a little more Yeah, it was insane. It was great that the first They're first coming out literally it was happened at a scale like this. I think they're ready for anything, you know I mean, I was shocked at their confidence and Nobody was nervous. Oh, I think must have been nervous, but they didn't let it show, you know I was I think a little more nervous and then they were very good You know to get out there and like perform in front of 10,000 people that 10,000 physical Yeah, you know people and then online. I don't know how many yeah, it was crazy Yeah, you know your stories, so yeah, whether It doesn't matter who they're about or where they're placed or whether it's going theatrical or streaming There are always stories about You know about having compassion About more layered women, right? How challenging was it to Thread a more progressive worldview into an american comic book that was first published in what 1942 Uh, I mean that the the Trick was like when I got this and when I was asked if I want to adapt it Uh, I didn't want to do a modern take it's been done. I mean riverdale has done it and be uh, that wasn't the archie That's not my experience of archie. My experience of archie is a A simpler time a more innocent time. Yeah, and uh a gentler time, you know, and uh where less was more And I wanted to go back to that and I wanted to keep the original essence of the comic and find a way To have that innocence but find a way to for it to resonate with kids today With young adults today because I was reading it, but I was like 12 like that at tween age. So you wanted to To resonate with kids today. So thematically use what matters to them And weave that into a story Set in that time That is a is that because you know the last time we talked you'd also talked about how it is about the environment Uh, you're you're looking at some of those issues in this narrative So then did you take the framework and say how can I talk about things that I'm concerned with? No, you just see the thing is this is this is the comic, you know and the comic is episodic Like yeah comic is like short stories gags their episodes But there is an overriding essence of that comic you take that comic you take the characters of that comic and you set it into a Structured story narrative.  Why? I don't know. I think I think I think both my brother and we both have that we have very very deep friendships When we were we have friends like family and I don't know if that came from like the fact that when we were kids we you know, maybe things We both had a broken home. I think we came from there and Somehow your friends just became very strong in a sense. I don't know this I think and It's very important to me like I have any friendships and I have very old friendships and they mean a lot to me and I think it just comes out You know, like I'm constantly coming of age in every movie. I don't know what that means. I have Peter Pan syndrome When will Zoya actually come over? It's not happening. I'm not seeing it. It's like a recurring theme I mean, I've now started seeing it and do you do you find yourself consciously? Not repeating things because you know friendship you say, okay, there are five beats In in the sort of friendship saga and how do you kind of innovate within that?  I don't I don't Like I consciously don't want to make the same film Like I find Till now like I haven't felt that like I want to do the same thing But I am doing the same thing. I am coming of age So I'm consciously doing that, you know, so I can't say that I'm so different because Thematically I am touching the same things Which I think most filmmakers tend to do, you know, they have certain themes that they keep going back to but No, I don't think so much like I just go with that tone of that story and what organically would happen to these people and And if you're true to that milieu and you're true to that tone and you're true to that character It will differentiate from another, you know, you know, this tone is such a difficult thing to to actually describe or Or articulate And when you look at the archies trailer, there is such At all As a director, how do you how do you decide what that will be and then how it was kind of given already in the comics? you know, uh, you See like one thing is when you're writing it because We write our own material. I mean this was written with Rima and Ayesha. We write our own material. You already know What it sounds like you already know and that's where for me the tone begins The tone the sound of it. Yeah in the sound of it. My tone begins like What is there? What is their mood? What is the level of drama? What is their pitching? How serious is this? Is this is it make or break or is it teenage life?  It comes organically from the writing and then from that I mean, I work with the most incredible crew. I am really lucky with the crew. I have The minute they read the script we we discuss it and you kind of explain to them and or Give them an image. You know, even if it's a photograph sometimes They just know what you're looking for and they take it to a level. I can't Because I'm not an expert in but they get what you want They get what I want and they get me and we develop your working equation now over a period of time And uh, they are obviously experts in their field and they can they do things that I cannot imagine So I know what I want, but I would never be able to take it there, you know So I I have a crew of incredible artists that I work with and they developed that tone with me A lot of filmmakers stick with the same DPs camera absolutely If they're available Sometimes it becomes like it's too particular not catering to everybody and that's what you have to live with But the people that it does cater to Respect it for that, right, you know, so the people that Understand it or like it or it resonate with it. They respect it that it sticks to that tone But with something like this Zoya where obviously there is no box office pressure Right, so you're not Thinking about like Friday opening. Yeah, right. Yeah, so with the arches. Could you actually Go as vicious you want in terms of a specific look or a texture? No, see, I feel Everything is a double-edged sword, you know So sometimes when you don't have box offers, then you rely only on review Yeah, and you're relying on your people's but sometimes the reviews could be terrible or people didn't relate to it But the box office is huge So you balance out so it's a double-edged sword.  I don't know Okay, tell me what this boot camp was like what did these debutant actors go through everything I mean they started from scratch, you know, they had to read the comments Obviously they have to because it's not their generation. So they had to read the comics I didn't know about the answer. Yeah, some of them knew more than the others, but they knew They've read all the comics. I gave them. I don't know how many how many how many films to watch just from the period like Just or teenage films films from the six days musical and net fenicello Different tonality and different like the beach party movies like musicals from the six days Musicians from the six days Girls from that, you know, just different things great teenage films Things like that. Then they did different acting workshops. They did dance workshops. They did singing workshop They had to do skating swimming cycling. They had to do Everything you can think of that we did an entire workshop with them with camera To explain to them what hitting the mark is because it's a very technical job So catching the light hitting your mark. What does it mean to give shoulder? What does it mean to be in a close-up? What does it mean to be in a wow? So a lot of the a lot of them this is they've never worked on something before What what is set protocol giving shoulder, you know, how to how to hit your mark They went to school. They they went to school. They came to set trained Yeah, yeah, they froze Are you tough?  No, I don't scream. No, no, I don't scream on set I don't like that energy and I think the energy on a set comes from the top. Absolutely And I don't like that energy. I don't I find I don't want I don't want people around me to be stressed I mean, we're making a movie and it's I love what I do and everyone I work with likes what they do and I want that energy to be Productive and I don't like people being stressed. So, no I don't enjoy it.  Yeah when they make that debut and how much There is going to be negativity. There is going to be about nepotism. How have you trained them for that?  See at the end of the day, we all grow up and we all grow up wanting to Follow our dreams and it's very You know when you grow up in a house Have parents you get on with or parents that you admire You just end up doing things they do And it's as simple as that and who has anyone to say you can't do this or you can't do that You know, absolutely. So that's it. But I'm saying how Is there training for them to how do you deal with that when they finally You know as they did yesterday step out into the public You know, you don't you have to like roll with the punches. You have to get out there. It's yeah You have to you have to keep your head down and work hard. Yeah, that's it At the end of the day if you do your job well You'll be unstoppable Do your job. That's it everything else like just I just bubble myself I just focus on what I have to do and if I do it well or if I do it, honestly It'll find its audience and that's it. You can't control anything but yourself. What else can you control? So I advise you can't control anything you can't control what people say you can't control what people think You can't control if they like you you can't control if they don't like you You can just control what you put out And so that's what you should do just Focus be a Jedi. That's it. What else can you do?  Keep your head down and work hard. That's it. Just do your job everything If you do it well little aligned. Yeah tiger baby now has tiger telly which makes as you just launched a music label You know, what's your vision for how Your style of storytelling is going to shape the pop culture narrative in India You know, I don't know What do you want? I don't know and Rima doesn't know and we'll know maybe if we manage to do what we want We just want to be a space that enables Stories and when I say stories, I don't just mean films That We feel something about that's it. We just want to be a space where we what we value How we see the world finds a space and like-minded people can come in there and whether it's make a documentary whether it's make a podcast whether it's Cut a song whether it's Be a designer and make something whatever the hell we want to be that space where you can come and just Find something to do and tell your tail. You know if that tail resonates with us, obviously That's just it. We don't know where it'll head. We don't know if you're gonna go there My friend Ankur Tiwari keeps laughing at me. I said next will be petrochemical He's like you He just keeps laughing at me. He's like what is next because we just want to we want to do every We just look at us. We just want to do everything. But that's so great. Yeah, but in our own little small way And do the things we want to do and do the things we like that's it and we don't know where it'll head but it's what we Like what we want to put out into the world How how if if I am a young storyteller somewhere and I completely resonate with what tiger is putting out How do I get an entry? Is there there's an email as a website? Yeah, we have a website Also, firstly, if we want to interview material, please register it because we don't want any problems And just either contact the office contact the website and we are head of content is called work with you Contact him and please send your material in Yeah, sounds amazing cannot wait to see the RG Zoya. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Always good interviews. Yes, she's uh She she radiates, uh Genuine NT. What's the word? Genuineness. Genuineness. Yes. Is that the word? Genuineness. Genuineness. Yeah, you made that up That is a carbonized. No Zoya has a lot of genuinenity. Yeah A lot of genuinenity a lot of genuinenity and it it shows In her in her work and how she just I I love that she I don't think she makes a lot of films in terms of like it I think she does it every few years Yeah, I think she gives herself wholeheartedly to whatever she's working on and she doesn't let herself become distracted with multiple projects simultaneously that can deter her from Her her focus I mean, it's one thing to produce something and say I'm going to contribute the money that's needed over there. But as far as her Directing is concerned. I think she's very particular. I don't know if this is correct But she has a director for an untitled Amir Khan Zoya octar project Yeah, it's in script and then she's got two other things in pre-production That'd be good Zoya and Amir That'd be really good. Uh, yeah, she produced and she just produced that She wrote it And we heard a lot about But I'm excited for the Archies. I I love Zoya. I think she's a Really good unique director. Yeah, she is. She also usually has that I guess that is true. She does a little often times have a Coming of age feel to a lot of her films um and But it's usually I I'm more associated with just like Like it might be heavy at times, but you usually leave with a smile on your face With a Zoya film. Yeah, right? Mm-hmm. That's what I feel. She's very talented director. I would love to talk to Zoya Uh, consider she was the first Her film was the the start of the channel started the channel The trailer reaction and then there's the first film we saw in theaters Indian film we saw in theaters. Yep. And obviously loved it. Yep Rick has a I have up in the time I go on my arm, which I think she has seen We're pretty sure she's seen it. We've had multiple people send that that know her to her They know her personally and said I'm gonna send this to Zoya. They texted her. They texted her like It to Renvier. Yeah to Zoya. Yeah, and others. We haven't heard anything from any of those people No in terms of that's all right in terms of Feed bearing back other than Renvier saying he's watching some like Hawks replying to tweets, but Anyways, that's neither here nor there exactly I'm very much looking forward to it. Please let us know what other interviews We can watch of hers or others down below


about guys I do hope you enjoyed that one so for those of you who are just joining us that was our plate or trash it so maybe I can go ahead and just tell you who we were playing today so today on our plate or trash it we featured clay the song is queen and she is featuring aramide clay is all the way from Nigeria yes yes and she's a rock star I've seen how she dresses even even a music yeah she's more like alternative but she's so rock also to know that she's done a collab with parking lot grass yeah which is really cool yeah that song is somewhere awesome we'll be playing that right yeah yeah it's not today we get the playlist it's in the playlist it's on the play yeah yeah you go awesome dog you got this I told you the wrong activity so I'm that guy Mr he's that guy all right so that's the first song the second song was um right so that's little babe may he rest in peace by the way and then we have fallout boy one of my favorites by the way and we have um I love my I love my calling and the song was uh um waiting I've been waiting so that's our song number two and then number three she was killed the least favorite band imagine dragons the song is bad liar it is okay all right guys so we don't want to know from you which band did you feel most we will go ahead on play to trash it vote for your favorite we are on twitter at white to fair for channel we'll have a we will have a pinned post just now so go over there and vote for your favorite which one is your favorite were you feeling exactly afro afro because today i'm feeling afro i'm feeling black as in like yeah fallout boy i know right fallout boy obviously since kitambo followed by some yes uh clay yeah clay i got stick with clay all right so for me it's fallout boy oh yeah you did imagine dragon people no fallout boy like okay i know imagine dragon yeah yeah but oh thank you okay i still i still like them but fallout boy anyway i have to and i keep asking him to and it is summer it's just like you're told you go sugar you could have lunch you know for me and today i want to do things differently yeah please don't try to on twitter i don't know what to do on facebook twitter we always campaign so much on twitter but right about now we just want to start with facebook that would be cool right yeah so let's show some love to our facebook people we have barraza loren salvatore yes hi salvatore i love that name let me shout out to you by the way i love you can you let me break this rules by requesting hi brother brother the sheriff is gonna come and tie you in you're gonna be arrested and locked down till next saturday because he's breaking the rules yeah why are you breaking the rules man who gave you the permission the reason why i love that song is because um they paid homage yeah yeah big time everybody paid homage but for now let's just zombie that song you don't like cranberries anymore for today for today for today actually for this month you know this we're we're getting my pens my pensy month we are zooming that song until much i'm sorry my friend i love you but i'm sorry including gaming them you remember me on video trashes that was a cool song i love who we um he's like psycha equal locked and lord rep your hood guys represent your hood where are you watching us from um you know i have friends all the way from kissy even you gander even gander people there threatening band valov amunition i see you guys victor i know right and then you have oh and great oh and gotham city locked out a marish big up that's a nice name gotham city maringo marish it's maringo we feel them stay rocked yes yeah okay i love we have lexie stayed one yeah also show up for gigs yeah tell them for the gigs yeah they should do for the gigs yes so for that we have another one coming up on the ninth palette carnival it's gonna be many people and other people are coming that way yeah yeah yeah major major major we are having some very ferocious guys coming all the way from europe they call them ferocious dogs okay so i have lexie stayed what i'm a lembar so he says kakamega represented greetings to you people to come see yeah kakamega is well represented i wish i had to lexie stayed what i'm a lembar one and i have a lot of i have um reason reason hunter loud reason hunter loud he says i love rock you people are the best you don't get these on any other channel i tell you i literally love you and we literally love you back yeah all right guys so make sure you vote for your favorite plate or trash it by the twitter at 1 to 5 for channel i'm a feeling do you need to come push or say handle that right me of course huh his skills one instagram his skills twitter his skills facebook mm-hmm as twitter bakita underscore doris um facebook it's bakita and instagram bakita doris yeah twitter uh at cake mortal uh instagram a underscore summer ranch facebook posay Antonio summer ranch all right so today we're talking about colorism if you're just joining us for the first time we're talking about colorism and if you're joining us and you don't you are not here when we define that i'll just go ahead and repeat it right so colorism basically is known is also known as shadism is a form of pre-judice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group i said to you when you black beauty if you find that chick is pretty you tell her she's a black beauty which is said is not to me according to this is me that's my own opinion i don't think that's a compliment because you mean other dark skinned people are not pretty but true to mozand on pretty i don't think that's a compliment that you're pretty for a dark skinned no it doesn't sit well with me but that's a small opinion but when i hear from you what do you think about this particular topic have you been discriminated we shake at a little job joining dark you know i know me you have no yeah i have tell us about that what happened i don't have to talk about this no no you don't have to mention names okay like i went to this reception place then we catch up my documents i was called for the interview then the moment they okay i was good with everything but the dark skinned thing yeah i was told okay we'll call you back but someone else told me hey imagine imagine bakita is being told she's dark even it's happened to wifey like enough like three times four times she goes somewhere she's okay on everything like yeah and you remember someone like uh cindy we all know we don't see the organe she's already a presenter there's a time she talked about her story on tv she shared it because she wants actually um went for editions i can't attack tv role but she was told she's too dark skinned for tv imagine she's she she has all the other quality she has a nice voice she knows her craft she's good but she was told she's too dark skinned for tv at some point in her career but right now she's still she's on tv right now yeah the likes of lupita yeah that's a good i don't like i tell you i'm gonna certificate your lightness oh you know we're laughing but this is not funny i just ask guys you just have to make everything we just we have to have a light not or something you know on a light not even in music most of these notes are not light i said the blackboard i love the real stuff is written in white shit doer what okay so i saw even in dating especially in dating we want to know uh i would but i just don't date darkskins yeah has that ever happened to you like guy like i'm a when it's a boy and my dream yeah but it's um now that you're here okay let me talk for the ladies no no lightskins are not superior than darkskins for my dame and darkskins are not superior than lightskins for my boys but that's a that's a fact but we still want to share the stories so much of behind so that we know it's pretty i don't know i don't know what happened but but but i think i think i'd go for one date i think everything seemed okay i think i did my part okay my part was okay okay but but i don't know later i don't know during the during the charts she was like she she kind of brought the the the topic in such a wise way if lani like like not not so direct she was like uh she liked lightskins everywhere you know everyone's jeannie like oh oh okay oh thank you sorry about that but you're here you're strong and we're still moving on and that's why you hear that that's why we're talking about it right here i think it's been an issue for a while because also my collections song about it yeah also i remember also lucky dube all people different colors one people yeah yeah it doesn't matter if you're black or white yeah and he also felt to ditch me as a he bleached who mj no but mj people don't know this but uh mj the reason why he bleached actually it was because of um this condition the one we need hollow has uh exam no the one that uh you find that you're dark but for some reason you start you start having patches light-skinned patches okay it's um i don't know why i've forgotten it's a condition it's a condition what is it called sorry when we come back i'll be telling you about that one it's a when hallow came out and spoke about it she's a model right now she's a high fashion model and she has that and she's flaunting it so mj just didn't know better so when he um he developed that condition i can't go and purchase the white and black like um melanin i don't know what happens to melanin so like they are going to actually produce melanin so you find that uh some parts are dark skin parts you know like completely white and so many people even in kenya right now suffer from that so it affected his uh esteem because he was outside like outside there are always different concerts every day he lives in the spotlight so he had to cover it up so when it started that's why there's a lot of gloves you realize like he used to be gloves all the time oh well yeah but now he's not there anymore so he ended up building so that he has to be uniform but i'll tell you about that condition when he comes back i'm sure most people know about that and we have guys even here who suffer from that but a set of another day they were discussing colorism okay yeah you're being told you're too dark to do this you're too light for this has it ever happened to you you want to talk we want you to talk to us so that we read out some of his some of your comments will be something twitter when we come back and keep saying those comments on facebook as well i want to tell them love to you yeah want to tell them love we come back but about now i think we go back to music yeah yeah yeah when you come back we'll be talking about battle of the vines i'm excited about that one oh really yeah yeah okay yeah cool music


I'm leaving that guy parked in the water tonight because I think early in the morning I'm gonna get in it. And I ate breakfast tonight so I can skip that in the morning. Oh, I'm so stuffed. I've been going for like an hour and a half with no sun and I just got the sun. I can hear the electric motor kicking in. Oh, so nice.  And I do have batteries. I'm just saving them. And it's been doing it for the last year.  Anyway, I finally just said, alright, let me stop. And I climbed back there and laid on the back and looked at the propeller. And it's missing a propeller blade. So I guess whatever happened, I was running pretty fast at the time when I heard this terrible noise so it probably hit whatever it hit in the water pretty hard. I guess it knocked one of the blades off because the blades aren't welded on. They're just kind of bit in there and bent in. So I guess one of the blades can come off if it smacks it against the piece of hard something hard enough. Anyway, so for a while there I was worried. I was like, oh man, am I getting some terrible vibration because of a, you know, some kind of problem with my whole system? So yeah, I'm glad it's just a fin missing from the propeller. Now I actually think it sounds pretty good for missing a propeller fin. So yeah, I guess when I get home I'll need to get a new propeller fin in there and attach it better I guess. When it was on there pretty good, I guess I just didn't take into account hitting pieces of wood in the water that I didn't notice under the boat. At least my pedal propeller seems to be fine. I guess I should look at that too. Yeah, it looks like all four pedal propeller blades are still there. I'm driving home. The motor is running on half power now because if I go any faster it starts vibrating too much. What does happen when I was closer to home? Whatever, I'll get there and then I'll fix it. Maybe I'll take this opportunity to make a some kind of fancy new propeller. Although the one that's on it is pretty awesome. I just don't know how I'm going to, how am I going to make another one of those propeller fins? Because I got them from an inside curve of a pipe and I don't have it, maybe I have a piece in it left that I can get one out of. Well, I could do a spiral propeller. Whatever, let's just get home. Oh, look at that. Yeah, it snapped off right there. The metal for those fins is brittle. I was a little concerned about bending them. If I welded it, it would be hard. Hey, bud. You know, I may have raked the propeller along this bottom here because I only have a skinny channel. I need to get a better parking spot. I was hoping to set a new speed record today. So far, my fastest return trip is just under three hours. And it wasn't like I was maxing out speed or anything at that time. I also had kind of a heavy load. Anyway, I'm sure I could go much faster. So yesterday, I took both propellers off, polished them, got them nice and smooth, put them back on. I made sure the batteries were fully charged. And now that I've used it a little bit, I kind of have a better idea of how much battery power I really have. And, yeah, the propeller broke. I think, well, I'll just have to fix the propeller and then do it again. And it was still just over three hours with the broken propeller the entire way back because I'm pretty sure it broke when I was almost there. But it's still not bad. But, yeah, I can go a lot faster. I want to optimize this one day. See what I got here. This guy here is pretty much the best propeller I've made. I wonder if I can make it fit on a... Man, not the right size, anything. I guess I could copy it.  And I made it by stretching a piece of screen across a circle, like a wire circle and then bending the circle, you know, so it would make that saddle shape. I made it years ago. Oh, and after I got the screen in the right shape, I put some fiberglass on it and then took it off the steel ring. And that saddle shape seems to be pretty good for propellers, propeller blades. Oh, Jamie, what did you do?


Good morning everyone.  It's one of those days. So anyway still no word on my mom Sunday morning, April 11th just after 10 a.m.  Is it a friend? Anyway, so we're gonna go for a walk and get some steps in Oh and Lily scared it away Um As you know He barks anyway, so we're gonna go get some steps in and see what we can see I'll be back. Okay, so I don't know if you can hear the faint hum of music in the background But Bob is in the garage working on all the cars. I think you washed mine. Yes, so I drive a Subaru out back Can you even see that? Kind of right there the front end anyway, it's red Anyway, it's filthy. It's probably filthy. So he's downstairs washing the cars and I was upstairs here catching up on some stuff that because of the situation with my parents I didn't get done and that included scanning a bunch of artwork sending out downloads to free down digital downloads of things to patrons and supporters and Getting all the scans done which I did now have two pieces of artwork that are for sale in the Etsy shop That I just really love so much. I scanned and made copies for them for for myself I did share the copies with the patrons and supporters but I really just wanted to Make them into stickers so I made them into stickers and It's that one The originals of course like I said are for sale in the Etsy shop if you'd like to own them to hang them on your wall They're signed on the back and then I have a bunch of copies of vintage and antique ephemera Some of which I had some of which a friend of mine had Laura Gurgain shared with me so with her permission we created a digital file combining the two and And So I printed some of those for myself because I want to use them in my downstairs journals, so those are all going down stairs and The Handmade paper is all dry. I have another coffee filter from the inside of the strainer that sits over my paint water bucket in the first So the first level of cleaning the water when I'm done creating is Running all the water through a strainer with lined with a coffee filter Then after that I use the golden crash paint solids to remove the rest of the solid matter from the water To make the water safe to be something that's dumped down the drain I will put a link to the crash paint solids down below for you. It works really well. Anyway, when I was Cleaning that whole mess up Getting it ready for the crash paint solids the Strainer was lined with some paper pulp I didn't think would come out, but I dumped it out on the table and that actually did so it's kind of dry to another piece of paper So, you know Lily of course is up here because grandpa was downstairs in the garage And she was crying because I was busy and not paying attention to her and grandpa was outside Also not paying attention to her So she was having a conniption fit Poor thing. You're right Poor baby My siblings and I are working to advocate for my parents and getting them the help Equipment and supplies they need no matter what ends up happening with my mom or whether she stays home For care or she ends up going into care so that for both her and my dad it's The way it needs to be so we're all cooperating. That's not happened in decades, but it's nice. All right I think that's it for the minute I'm gonna actually turn the computer off even though it's only 8 to 41. I Could edit the vlog, but I'm not going to I'll do it tomorrow. All right, that's it for the minute I'll be back. It is Monday March 12th. It's about 1 30 p.m. I have spent the morning on the phone with nurses and doctors and on the internet Chotting back and forth with siblings and right now as we speak my mom is at the hospital and they're getting her some outpatient testing that she needs and then taking her around to the emergency room and Hopefully if the right things are said by my dad and my niece Getting her admitted which is one step closer to getting her into skilled nursing It's a lot of ifs though. I mean you guys we are out for our evening walk taking noodle girl Noodle girl out for a walk before she goes home and Yeah Waiting test results for my mom and hopefully some definitive answers because up until then up until now The diagnosis has been speculative So but the good news is they're keeping her in the hospital for the time being She's not going home anytime soon. You need to figure out what's going on and And my dad's made it very clear to the staff. He cannot take care of her at home so I Gave him permission earlier to do and then or say whatever he needs to with with regards to the staff To make his point clear To them that he can't take care of her I Would forgive him whatever it was so It might be a pretty big statement.  You can see that male right there Maybe Yeah That's female. I think that just flew away. Sure. They have a nest over there somewhere Because they probably in the bushes over there because they are over there all the time So a bit windy this morning, I think it died down finally but I Worry we can hear pine cones and branches hitting the roof The driveway and Street are completely littered it's crazy up here in the art room doing a little bit of cleaning and reorganizing I Changed this part right here a little bit to allow for a basket of my handmade papers my Distressed papers some things that I've printed on dictionary paper things Sort of texture paper I've made out of paint and dryer sheets some things I really really want to use and if they're in the bin I'm finding I'm not using them and this way it's a little easier for me to just Kind of flip through and pick out what I want to use. I still have the bin and it has More painting papers and canvas scraps and stuff in it But there's some things in here that I really really I'm enjoying at the moment. I want them out I still have my stack of books to dry flowers and some other things The big thing I moved was the little toaster oven we have for drying clay and stuff I put it over here on the tool desk and model making desk right there rearrange this a little bit kind of put the Disposable cups in a little bin to corral them a little bit Mostly I'm just keeping myself busy My mother has been transferred to a bigger hospital in Washington State.  They're Going to drain the fluid and test it they're going to Do some more testing on the masses one of them is causing the spinal fluid to not drain and they're not sure what's going on with There it might be really bad So I'm keeping myself busy Yeah So anyway, I have to do April's mission inspiration. Haven't done it yet. So I printed that it's on my table I also have my other art journal out because I want to do a page in that Whether today or tomorrow, I don't know but I do want to work in that and I Need to sweep the floor in here because I did make a lot of paper I've put the paper making stuff away for the minute because I have a lot of handmade paper right now And I need to use up what I have made before I make more I have all of this right? There is some handmade paper in my Etsy shop for sale At this moment, I think there's still some pieces in there Could be wrong about that, but I don't think I am anyway. Sorry distracted by paper Um, yeah So that's all the stuff going on this morning It's Wednesday evening April 14th. It is a quarter to 6 p.m. I haven't vlogged all day I did do a couple of journal pages and I actually recorded the process so there'll be some non-speaking Journaling videos coming soon. I don't know that I'll speed them up so much As they'll just be music in the background Um, so I got that then the rest of the day is being filled with phone calls and family conversations and sibling arguments And still no word on my mom And I don't Think this is a case where no news is good news. I think it might be the opposite so Yeah Trying not to eat another bag of cookies. I'm going to cut up some more apples for the ambient friends and Feed them and keep myself occupied because that's all I think I can do right now I'll be back Good morning, everyone.  So anyway, still no word on my mom still waiting and Things are quiet out in the woods today. I think beautiful sunshine. I'm gonna open some windows while I can before the yellow pollen season hits and then I just don't Open at least this side window because The pollen Just gets everywhere. I've got so many things on the window. So it's hard to get open. It's just really difficult I've got a couple of videos I filmed yesterday of me non-speaking videos of me working on some journal pages and I'm gonna start up playing in my journal series episode one is Saving right now and then I did the other journal page was mission inspiration. So I'm going to be saving that one I'm doing that one today too and getting those scheduled and loaded up to youtube and scheduled I'm trying some new music. So let me know if y'all like it or not um What else I think right now because it's 11 57.  I might work on another journal page and film that So I'm working on a journal page in between crazy text messages from my parents.  Can see then and when you do get it to come out does that so I'm gonna just throw it away, but tell me all what you think like I don't know so you look for this in the next Use it or lose it box Because yeah, it's gotta go. Okay. I got two more journal pages done today. You have two more videos Yeah, one of them is saving right now And as soon as I'm done with that two new videos, I'll get them all loaded and scheduled out on youtube I also got a squirrel I also got some ads out for The class I'm teaching in june with bae agrob and a bunch of other really talented artists The link for that's in the video description The link for the stamps and simple stencils I've used in the upcoming journal page videos will be in the video descriptions But they're all available at the Etsy shop. So Go look over there. And what else? I know there's something else. I can't think what it is guys. It is friday april 16th 6 11 p.m I forgot to vlog this morning or any other rest of the time today oops There's a lot going on today including starting off the morning with an eye doctor's appointment that ran An hour and a half deer longer than it was supposed to Yeah, an hour and a half longer than it was supposed to not because there was anything wrong They had a couple of emergencies at the ophthalmologist's office Which pushed my appointment behind she was over an hour late to see me The good news is though, although i'm on a glaucoma watch because of some family medical history and Issues with my eyes. I was born with That I can't do anything about they're just watching things.  I'm safe to drive without corrective lenses. So I should I so choose And I still need glasses to read but you know Anyway, we had a meeting after that a phone meeting. We took care of that. We went grocery shopping My mom is being transferred to skilled nursing care to take care of a couple things for her before she goes back to the hospital for a procedure that she needs so Still don't know if she's coming home at all or not Um, and if so when or if she's going to skilled nursing care for a while. We don't I don't know Anyway, we're headed up to my dad's tomorrow to go check in on him and my sister Karen is in town from Iowa Staying with him helping out with some stuff I'm in the process. You see that That container right there. It's full of sourdough crackers Uh, making regular sourdough crackers and gluten-free sourdough crackers to bring up to dads I made extra crackers some for us some for the daughter and son-in-law because they like them. Anyway I spent the afternoon baking Yeah, it's a thing no art not yet. Anyway, all right. I think that's it for the minute I need some more water some more of that Weird pizza. We're not even going out to go get pizza because we did enough errands. I don't want to leave the house again Yeah, it's a thing. All right, I'll be back dinner I've kind of blown my diet today Just FYI I haven't had that many vegetables unless you count the little bit of broccoli that was on the pizza that I just had for dinner I don't know that that counts And we're going walking It is 9 17 p.m. Or so Saturday April 17 It's been a long day Driving all the way up to my dad's And mom's house. Um, there are a couple hours from here spending the afternoon with them making sure dad ate a good lunch um Talking to my sister Karen about what's going on with our mom's health kind of Making sure we have I have the facts straight According to what she's seeing and that we're kind of all on the same page um My mom's having kind of a risky procedure done next week And Cross your fingers it goes well. There's a lot of things that could go wrong between now and then How do I say this? It may make what's left for her more comfortable Which is why it's being gone ahead with Um, but it's not going to change the outcome of what's happening If you get my drift So anyway, uh Karen and I also for the first time in Quite a few decades maybe 40 years worked together peacefully and we got my Dad's pantry closet and his kitchen cleaned and straightened out because that was a hot mess and um She's helping him with yard work and some things other things around the house That need doing that, you know, dad hasn't had time to do and I see garbage on the floor Dad hasn't had time to do and because he was taking care of mom Got neglected and so um, I think every time one of us kids go over we're helping him with something new That's all we can do while we're waiting to see what happens with mom. So anyway now and we've had dinner and We're just chilling first time in quiet. I think maybe since I started this whole thing. We didn't go walking Maybe the only other time I did that was when we had our first covid shot So Anyway, um, but I have 70 000 plus steps this week already. So I think 72 or 73 I'm not really worried. Let's see. I had 70 000 last night. What do I have now? 3300 at the moment. So I'll be ending the week with 73 000. That's an average of 10 000 a day. That's fine Anyway, um It's been a week bonus though. I'm um Back to doing some more art journaling tonight at 8 p.m The first of those videos came out And I'm trying some new days and times and so we'll see what y'all think. I don't know. You let me know The pages are fun. They're not super hard. I do think I'm going to go back since it's only April and look at Mike Deakins mid-month mini missions and um, I have an idea maybe for doing those. I'm going to go Maybe tomorrow and print as many missions out for january through april Since we're only the fourth month into the year. I can still probably maybe catch up and um do those So I think I might do that. I have a few ideas. So, you know the inspirations like coming back um Now that we just kind of finding know what's going on with mom. I mean now comes Probably not going to be a great one, but I'm finally feeling a little bit inspired to create some stuff So I think we'll do that so anyway. I don't know what else to go with that We're going to take it as it comes. It's all we can do with art with life and everything Anyway, if you have any questions comments or current concerns, please leave them down below If you're in one of my facebook art groups, feel free to tag me in a post over there Especially if you've done some artwork. I'd love to see what you're doing if you're inspired by Um prompts or words or anything else that's going on in one of the groups I'd certainly love to know about it. So please do tag me If you want to join set art groups or following on instagram support the free content by shopping in the etsy store joining patreon All of that stuff. Look in the video description down below It's all down there including my link tree list links. Some of it is in the link tree list links So check all of the things in the things for the things check them out Um, you can get my art foemies at the art foemies website. That's down there You can sign up for the class i'm teaching in june with bae agrob and a bunch of other really fabulously trained artists And that is also down below. Check it out. All right, that's it for right now Give your loved ones a hug say, please and thank you be nice be kind be decent humans And you know we can all make it through. I know we can all right. That's it for this week I will see you all next week. Please stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay creative. Please wear a mask And if you're so Okay with it or inspired get vaccinated. I don't think it's a bad thing All right, that's it for the minute. Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And i'll see you later. Bye guys


Part 2, Section 3 of the Life of King Alfred This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The Life of King Alfred by Assar, Bishop of Sherbourne, translated by J.A. Giles. Of his fixed purpose of holy meditation, which in the midst of prosperity and adversity he never neglected, I cannot with advantage now omit to speak. For, whereas he often thought of the necessities of his soul among the other good deeds to which his thoughts were night and day turned, he ordered that two monasteries should be built. One for monks at Athelney, which is a place surrounded by impassable marshes and rivers, where no one can enter but by boats, or by a bridge laboriously constructed between two other heights. At the western end of which bridge was erected a strong tower of beautiful work by command of the aforesaid king, and in this monastery he collected monks of all kinds from every quarter and placed them therein. For at first, because he had no one of his own nation, noble and free by birth, who was willing to enter the monastic life except children, who could neither choose good nor avoid evil in consequence of their tender years, because for many previous years the love of monastic life had utterly decayed from that nation, as well as from many other nations, though many monasteries still remain in that country. Yet, as no one directed the rule of that kind of life in a regular way, for what reason I cannot say, either from the invasions of foreigners which took place so frequently, both by sea and land, or because that people abounded in riches of every kind, and so looked with contempt on the monastic life. It was for this reason that King Alfred sought to gather monks of different kinds to place in the same monastery. First he placed there as Abbott, John, the priest and monk, an old Saxon by birth, then certain priests and deacons from beyond the sea, of whom, finding that he had not as large a number as he wished, he procured as many as possible of the same Gallic race, some of whom, being children, he ordered to be taught in the same monastery, and at a later period to be admitted to the monastic habit. Note, John, not the celebrated John-Scotus Eregana. End of note. I have myself seen a young lad of pagan birth who was educated in that monastery, and by no means the hindmost of them all. There was also a deed done once in that monastery which I would utterly consign to oblivion, although it is an unworthy deed, for throughout the whole of Scripture the base deeds of the wicked are interspersed among the blessed deeds of the just, as Therese and Darnell are sown among the weak. Good deeds are recorded that they may be praised and imitated, and that their imitators may be held in all honor. Wicked deeds are there related that they may be censured and avoided, and their imitators be reproved with all odium, contempt, and vengeance. For once upon a time a certain priest and a deacon, Gauls by birth, and two of the aforesaid monks, by the instigation of the devil and excited by some secret jealousy, became so embittered in secret against their abbot, the above mentioned John, that like Jews they circumvented and betrayed their master. For whereas he had two servants whom he had hired out of Gaul, they taught these such wicked practices that in the night when all men were enjoying the sweet tranquility of sleep, they should make their way into the church armed, and shutting it behind them as usual, hide themselves therein, and wait for the moment when the abbot should enter the church alone.  They then should drag his lifeless body out of the church and throw it down before the house of a certain harlot, as if he had been slain whilst on a visit to her. This was their machination, adding crime to crime, as it is said, the last error shall be worse than the first. But the divine mercy, which always delights to aid the innocent, frustrated in great part the wicked design of the wicked men, so that it should not turn out in every respect as they had proposed. Then therefore the whole of the evil council had been explained by those wicked teachers to their wicked agents, and the night which had been fixed on as most fit was come, the two armed ruffians were placed with a promise of impunity to await in the church for the arrival of the abbot. In the middle of the night, John as usual entered the church to pray without anyone's knowing of it, and knelt before the altar. The two ruffians rushed upon him with drawn swords and dealt him some severe wounds, but he, being a man of a brave mind, and as we have heard say, not unacquainted with the art of self-defense, if he had not been a follower of a better calling, no sooner heard the sound of the robbers before he saw them than he rose up against them before he was wounded, and shouting as loud as he could struggled against them, crying out that they were devils and not men, for he himself knew no better, as he thought that no men would dare to attempt such a deed. He was, however, wounded before any of his people could come to his help. His attendants, roused by the noise, were frightened when they heard the word devils, and both those two, who, like Jews, sought to betray their master, and the others who knew nothing of the matter rushed together to the doors of the church, but before they got there those ruffians escaped, leaving the abbot half dead. The monks raised the old man in a fainting condition and carried him home with tears and lamentations, nor did those two deceitful monks shed tears less than the innocent. But God's mercy did not allow so bold a deed to pass unpunished. The ruffians who perpetrated it, and all who urged them to it, were taken and put in prison whereby various tortures they came to a disgraceful end. Let us now return to our narrative. Another monastery also was built by the same king as a residence for nuns near the eastern gate of Shaftesbury, and his own daughter, Ethel Geva, was placed in it as Abbas. With her many other noble ladies bound by the rules of the monastic life dwell in that monastery. These two edifices were enriched by the king with much land as well as personal property. These things being thus disposed of, the king began, as was his practice, to consider within himself what more he could do to augment and show forth his piety. What he had begun wisely and thoughtfully conceived for the public benefit, as adhered to with equally beneficial result, for he had heard it out of the book of the law, that the Lord had promised to restore to him tenfold, and he knew that the Lord had kept his promise and had actually restored to him tenfold. Encouraged by this example, and wishing to exceed the practices of his predecessors, he vowed humbly and faithfully to devote to God half his services, both day and night, and also half of all his wealth, such as lawfully and justly came annually into his possession. And this vow, as far as human discretion can perceive and keep, he skillfully and wisely endeavored to fulfill. But that he might with his usual caution avoid that which scripture warns us against, if you offer a right but do not divide a right, you sin. He considered how he might divide a right that which he had vowed to God. And, as Solomon had said, the heart of the king is the hand of God. That is, his counsel he ordered with wise policy which could come only from above, that his officers should first divide into two parts the revenues of every year. When this division was made, he assigned the first part to worldly uses, and ordered that one third of it should be paid to his soldiers and also to his ministers, the nobles who dwelt at court where they discharged diverse duties. For so the king's family was arranged at all times into three classes. The king's attendants were most wisely distributed into three companies, so that the first company should be on duty at court for one month, night and day, at the end of which they returned to their homes and were relieved by the second company. At the end of the second month in the same way the third company relieved the second who returned to their homes where they spent two months, until their services were again wanted. The third company also gave place to the first in the same way, and also spent two months at home. Thus was the threefold division of the companies arranged at all times in the royal household. To these therefore was paid the first of the three portions aforesaid, to each according to their respective dignities and peculiar services. The second, to the operatives whom he had collected from every nation and had about him in large numbers, men skilled in every kind of construction. The third portion was assigned to foreigners who came to him out of every nation far and near, whether they asked money of him or not, he cheerfully gave to each with wonderful munificence according to their respective merits, according to what is written. God loveth a cheerful giver. But the second part of all his revenues which came yearly into his possession and was included in the receipts of the exchequer, as we mentioned a little before, he with ready devotion gave to God, ordering his ministers to divide it carefully into four parts, on the condition that the first part should be discreetly bestowed on the poor of every nation who came to him. And on this subject he said that, as far as human discretion could guarantee, the remark of Pope Saint Gregory should be followed, Give not much to whom you should give little, nor little to whom much, nor something to whom nothing, nor nothing to whom something. The second of the four portions was given to the two monasteries which he had built and to those who therein had dedicated themselves to God's service, as we have mentioned above. The third portion was assigned to the school which he had studiously collected together, consisting of many of the nobility of his own nation. The fourth portion was for the use of all the neighboring monasteries in all Saxony and Mercia, and also, during some years in turn, to the churches and servants of God dwelling in Britain, such as Wales, Cornwall, Gaul, Armorica, Northumbria, and sometimes also in Ireland. According to his means he either distributed to them beforehand or afterwards, if life and success should not fail him. When the king had arranged these matters, he remembered that sentence of divine scripture, Whosoever will give alms ought to begin from himself, and prudently began to reflect what he could offer to God from the service of his body and mind, for he proposed to consecrate to God no less out of this than he had done of things external to himself. Moreover, he promised as far as his infirmity and means would allow to give up to God the half of his services, bodily and mental, by night and by day, voluntarily and with all his might. But in as much as he could not equally distinguish the lengths of the hours by night on account of the darkness and off times of the day on account of the storms and clouds, he began to consider, by what means and without any difficulty, relying on the mercy of God, he might discharge the promised tenor of his vow until his death. After long reflection on these things, he at length, by a useful and shrewd invention, commanded his chaplains to supply wax in a sufficient quantity, and he caused it to be weighed in such a manner that when there was so much of it in the scales as would equal the weight of seventy-two pence, he caused the chaplains to make six candles thereof, each of equal length, so that each candle might have twelve divisions marked longitudinally upon it. By this plan, therefore, those six candles burned for twenty-four hours, a night and day, without fail, before the sacred relics of many of God's elect, which always accompanied him wherever he went. But sometimes, when they would not continue burning a whole day and night, till the same hour that they were lighted the preceding evening, from the violence of the wind which blew day and night without intermission through the doors and windows of the churches, the fissures of the divisions, the plankings of the wall, or the thin canvas of the tents, they then unavoidably burned out and finished their course before the appointed time. The king, therefore, considered by what means he might shut out the wind, and so, by a useful and cunning invention, he ordered a lantern to be beautifully constructed of wood and white oxhorn, which, when skillfully plain till it is thin, is no less transparent than a vessel of glass. This lantern, therefore, was wonderfully made of wood and horn, as we before said, and by night a candle was put into it, which shone as brightly without as within, and was not extinguished by the wind, for the opening of the lantern was also closed up, according to the king's command, by a door made of horn. By this contrivance, then, six candles lighted in succession lasted four and twenty hours, neither more nor less, and when these were extinguished, others were lighted. When all these things were properly arranged, the king, eager to give up to God the half of his daily service as he had vowed, and more also, if his ability on the one hand and his malady on the other would allow him, showed himself a minute investigator of the truth in all his judgments, and this especially for the sake of the poor, to whose interest, day and night, among other duties of this life, he ever was wonderfully attentive. For in the whole kingdom, the poor besides him had few or no protectors, for all the powerful and noble of that country had turned their thoughts, rather, to secular than to heavenly things. Each was more bent on secular matters to his own profit than on the public good. He strove also in his own judgments for the benefit of both the noble and the ignoble, who often perversely quarreled at the meetings of his earls and officers, so that hardly one of them admitted the justice of what had been decided by the earls and prefects, and in consequence of this pertinacious and obstinate dissension, all desired to have the judgment of the king, and both sides sought at once to gratify their desire. But if anyone was conscious of injustice on his side in the suit, though by law and agreement he was compelled, however reluctant to go before the king, yet with his own good will he never would consent to go, for he knew that in the king's presence no part of his wrong would be hidden, and no wonder for the king was a most acute investigator in passing sentence as he was in all other things. He inquired into almost all the judgments which were given in his own absence throughout all his dominion, whether they were just or unjust. If he perceived there was iniquity in those judgments, he summoned the judges, either through his own agency or through others of his faithful servants, and asked them mildly why they had judged so unjustly, whether through ignorance or malevolence. That is, whether for the love or fear of anyone or hatred of others or also for the desire of money. At length, if the judges acknowledged they had given judgment because they knew no better, he discreetly and moderately reproved their inexperience and folly in such terms as these. I wonder truly at your insolence that whereas by God's favor and mine you have occupied the rank and office of the wise, you have neglected the studies and labors of the wise. Either, therefore, at once give up the discharge of the temporal duties which you hold, or endeavor more zealously to study the lessons of wisdom. Such are my commands. At these words the earls and prefects would tremble and endeavor to turn all their thoughts to the study of justice so that, wonderful to say, almost all his earls, prefects, and officers, though unlearned from their cradles, were sedulously bent upon acquiring learning, choosing rather laboriously to acquire the knowledge of a new discipline than to resign their functions. But if any one of them from old age or slowness of talent was unable to make progress in liberal studies, he commanded his son, if he had one, or one of his kinsmen, or if there was no other person to be had, his own freedman or servant, whom he had some time before advanced to the office of reading, to recite Saxon books before him night and day whenever he had any leisure. And they lamented with deep sighs in their inmost hearts that they had never attended to such studies, and they blessed the young men of our days who happily could be instructed in liberal arts whilst they executed their own lot that they had not learned these things in their youth, and now when they are old, though wishing to learn them, they are unable. But this skill of young and old in acquiring letters we have explained to the knowledge of the aforesaid king. Note. Some of the manuscripts record, in a note or appendix written by a later hand, that King Alfred died on the 26th of October, AD 900, in the 30th of his reign. The different dates assigned to the death of Alfred, says Sir Francis Paul Grave, affords singular proof of the uncertainty arising from various modes of computation. The Saxon Chronicle and Florence of Worcester agree in placing the event in 9001. The first, six nights before all saints, the last, with more precision, in Dictione Quarta et Feria Quarta, 5 Cal-Nove, Simon of Durham in 889, and the Saxon Chronicle in another passage in 900. The concurrence of Florence of Worcester seemed to afford the greatest certainty, and the date of 9001 has therefore been preferred. End of note. End of Part 2, Section 3. End of the Life of King Alfred by Asser, Bishop of Sherbourne, translated by J.A. Giles.


You were right in there. I'm doing these LinkedIn things on my face. Welcome back to the Scrum Mastery Challenge Lockdown. This is the fifth challenge, or is it? I don't know anymore, but it's a good one. It doesn't really matter, because you can do them whatever you like. But this one is a cracker. And Paul will explain what you have to do this week. Hello, everybody. Listen carefully. This is your challenge if you'd like to play along at home with the Scrum Mastery Challenge Lockdown Edition. Challenge number five is for you to capture a celebration of a recent collaborative event with your team or with a team and summarize and send us your most collaborative celebration, summarize it for us, and capture it in some way. There you go. Have a go at that. So lots of happy submissions here, hopefully. Lots of achievements being celebrated. And a lot of creativity we're expecting from you. So let's see what you can come up with, surprises and music, and share the happiness and joy of all your fantastic achievements. Have a good week, everyone, and we'll be back with another challenge next week.