Episode 136 Join Me For A Walk Around Historic St. Bees And Natural English Conversation (Part 1)

In today's episode I take you on a walk from my parent's house down to the beach in St. Bees. This episode works best as a video. If you're on Spotify you should be able to access the video. In this episode I start at my parent's house, then go down through St Bees village. I have an ice cream on one side of the beach and then continue to tell you the founding story of St Bees on the other side of the beach, under St Bees head. In the middle of the episode you will hear the sea. Most of St Bees beach is sandy, but right at the top is a pebble beach. When the waves roll out across these pebbles all the stones knock together creating an unusual clicking or ticking sound. I hope you can hear it, although the waves were coming in quite quickly on that day. In this episode I mentioned Episode 3 - Home, a video about this area of Cumbria with pictures. I also mentioned the videos I did in Workington, this was a series of 3 episodes, Episodes 60-62 where I read several book excerpts about the sea. In the next episode I will continue to tell you some stories from this part of the beach and a little about St Bees Church. I hope you find this episode interesting. It was quite challenging to put this video together as it required far more editing skills than normal, I don't think I'll do videos like this often so I hope you don't mind listening. Vocabulary the weather man reliably informed me - this is a common phrase in the UK, it's a joke, because the weather report is almost always wrong because the weather is so changeable in the UK. Deigned - to do something considered beneath your dignity. In this case I'm using it to mean that the Catholic Church seems to be the only people able to decide who was important in our history. Back in the mists of time - idiom meaning a long time ago, and often before written history vocal history - vocal or verbal history is a way to describe the stories that are passed down but maybe not written down until long after the story happened sailed across the ocean waves - this is just a phrase, I think I probably stole it from a song They took up the mantle. - idiom - to take up the responsibilities or duties tide is very high - the 'tide' is the moon's influence on the ocean, we can describe a tide as high or low tide was turning - this is when the tide has come as high (or low) as it will come and is now going back the other way