Blindboy
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They called it Towlerton.
And if you go back into the language, Taurlatan means like a burial place.
So at the very least, they built a new hospital there, they built everything.
But you can at least see the name is there.
And I know what this once was, even though they destroyed a river.
What I'm adoring about the pond information you just gave me is how similar it is to... So, Man Con, when he was alive, God rest him.
God rest him.
He was a great guy.
Fucking magnificent person.
Man Con, he used to work with Home Tree.
And Man Con was all about rewilding forests.
But what he said to me was...
You can't just get an oak and plant it in the ground.
He had to try and go and find ancient forest because what he was after were the microbes in the soil and the fungi.
And where he used to find the best forest was hedgerows.
Yep.
between land where no one has, like, a foot long.
No one's fucked with this for thousands of years.
And if you go into this hedgerow and dig, and if you find a tree, you get that fucking soil and that's the start of your forest.
Go on.