Episode 137 Join Me For A Walk Around Historic St. Bees And Natural English Conversation (Part 2)

In today's episode I continue the stories I was telling you about St Bees yesterday. This includes a story about the hand-carved swimming pool in the cliffs and my Grandma's St Bees Doctor story. We then go around to the church and I tell you a little bit more about the history of the church and area. Again, just like yesterday, this episode is best viewed as a video. If you are on Spotify, you should be able to view the video. In this episode I talk about the church and St Bees man. Please let me know if this interests you and I might organise an interview with the man in the church to tell us all about it. If you'd like to hear the organ in action check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrnvnegjCEI Today's and yesterday's episodes are much more conversational in style than my normal videos, so don't be surprised if you hear an unusual phrase, remember you can always find these phrases and vocabulary below. I should be heading home soon so next week we'll be back to normal. Have a great weekend! Vocabulary some genius - this phrase can be used positively or negatively, entirely depending on the tone of voice. In this case I'm using it positively to say the person who thought of making a swimming pool had a really great idea. I can also use it sarcastically to say someone had a really stupid idea! the farce - this means something that is absurd or disorganised. In this case I'm commenting on the unfairness of the situation taking the mickey - idiom - this is a British idiom that means someone is making a joke against you or something that's happening is an insult to your situation pluses and minuses with sandstone - idiom - pluses and minuses of something just mean the positive sides and negative sides porous - something that easily absorbs water wild swimming - a growing sport in the UK where people swim in rivers and the sea up and downy - phrase to mean hilly or there are many slopes