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In this episode of Add To Cart, we meet Kelly Walker and Julie Benhammo, the duo behind KLIPSTA, the brand solving everyday problems—one clever clip at a time. What started as a fix for lost school hats has exploded into 40,000 sales a month across 12 countries, with customers ranging from farmers to fashion lovers. With aspirations to rake in $10 million this financial year, Kelly and Julie share how they fend off copycats, scale without burning cash, and turn customer feedback into their next big product. They also reveal how they landed in Akubra stores, expanded into optometrists, and even caught the attention of the US travel industry.This episode was brought to you by: Shopify PlusKlaviyoAbout your guests:Paris born Julie Benhammo worked in NYC for over 15 years where she led business development and wholesale strategy for brands like Versace and Diane von Furstenberg. After moving to Sydney, she became the General Manager of KLIPSTA, bringing over 15 years of global fashion and luxury expertise to the fast-growing accessories brand. Laser focused on scaling KLIPSTA globally, driving growth, partnerships, and expansion into 12 countries, she is passionate about connecting products with the right markets. She does all this while wrangling two little ones and occasionally enduring The Wiggles on repeat.Kelly Walker is the founder and CEO of KLIPSTA, a solutions focused accessories brand. Starting the business in 2020 she has grown it to a multi-million dollar company with stockists in 12 countries. She is absolutely obsessed with solving everyday problems and making life easier. Kelly arrived from the UK as a 14 year old, obtained a degree in psychology and worked in IT and recruitment before taking time off to have her 3 kids. Now wrangling a global business and 3 teenagers, Kelly is passionate about product development and showing other women that it's never too late to start a business you love.About your host:Nathan Bush is the host of the Add To Cart podcast and a leading eCommerce transformation consultant. He has led eCommerce for businesses with revenue $100m+ and has been recognised as one of Australia's Top 50 People in eCommerce four years in a row. You can contact Nathan on LinkedIn, Twitter or via email. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Grab your hot chocolate (or mulled wine!) and get into the festive spirit with our Christmas special as we meet some reindeer, talk Christmas trees and explore a small but mighty wood with huge value for nature in the snowy Cairngorms National Park. We discover fascinating reindeer facts with Tilly and friends at The Cairngorm Reindeer Centre, and step into a winter wonderland at nearby Glencharnoch Wood with site manager Ross. We learn what makes a good Christmas tree, how the wood is helping to recover the old Caledonian pine forest of Scotland, why the site is so important to the community and which wildlife thrive here. You can also find out which tree can effectively clone itself, and is so tasty to insects that it developed the ability to shake them off! Don't forget to rate us and subscribe! Learn more about the Woodland Trust at woodlandtrust.org.uk Transcript You are listening to Woodland Walks, a podcast for the Woodland Trust presented by Adam Shaw. We protect and plant trees for people to enjoy, to fight climate change and to help wildlife thrive.  Adam: Well, today I'm in the Cairngorms in Scotland. In Scottish Gaelic, the area is called – I'm going to give this a go - Am Monadh Ruadh. Apologies for my pronunciation there, but we are in the midst of a mountain range in the Highlands, of Scotland obviously. Generally we're about 1,000 metres high here but the higher peaks I'm told get to about 1,300 metres odd, which is going on for, I don't know, 4,500 foot or so. So this is a very dramatic landscape. We have rocky outcrops, boulders, steep cliffs. It's home to bird species such as the dotterel, snow bunting, the curlew and red grouse, as well as mammals such as mountain hare. But the reason of course we are here this Christmas is because it is also home to Britain's only herd, I think, of reindeer. Now, the reindeer herder is Tilly. She is the expert here and I've been braving, I am braving the snow and icy winds to be introduced to her and the herd. And from there after that, we're going to take a drive to what I'm told is an amazing wooded landscape of Caledonian pine to talk all things pine, and of course, all things Christmas trees. But first of all, let's meet Tilly, who looks after the reindeer.  Adam: OK, we are recording.  Tilly: That's good. OK. I'd better not say anything naughty then.  Adam: I'll cut out any naughtiness, that's fine.  Tilly: This is a bit of a rustly bag. It's more rustly than normal but never mind.  Adam: What do the reindeer actually eat?  Tilly: Well, so. We're now up in their natural habitat and we're looking across a nice heathery hillside with sedges as well. You can just see them poking through the snow and they'll pick away at the old heather of the year and the sedges.  Adam: Right.  Tilly: But we manage the herd and we like to feed them. So what I've got in my bag is some food for them, which they love.  Adam: Right. And what's in your Santa sack of food now?   Tilly: Oh, that's a secret.   Adam: Oh, you can't tell me. Oh, God.  Tilly: No, no. I can tell you. So it's a cereal mix and there is something similar to what you would feed sheep. Bit of barley, bit of sheep mix.  Adam: That's awesome. So not mince pies and carrots? That's only reserved for Christmas Eve. That's probably not very good for them, I would have thought.  Tilly: Yeah, no, I hate to say this, but reindeer don't actually eat carrots.  Adam: Oh right okay, well, that's good to know.  Tilly: But if ever children bring carrots for them, I never turn them away because we're very good at making carrot soup and carrot cake.  Adam: Santa's helpers get the carrots.  Tilly: And I'm absolutely certain that Santa eats all the mince pies, so all good. So anyway, come on through here. We're going now into a 1000-acre enclosure. It just hooks on there, that's perfect, it goes right across. We could actually once we get close to these visitors are coming off from a hill visit this morning. So you'll be pleased to hear that I am the boss. I'm Mrs. boss man and I've been with the reindeer for 43 years. Now, their lifespan is sort of 12 to 15 years, so I've gone through many generations. I've known many lovely reindeer and there's always a favourite and you would have seen some real characters there today. And you couldn't see them in better conditions. Anyway, do get yourself down and warm yourselves up. Oh, you've done very well to bring a little one like that today.  Walker: He did pretty well until now!  Tilly: You've done extremely well. Of course they have. He's got very red, a bit like Rudolph. The thing is there's just that wind, and it's the wind that drops the temperature, that chill factor.  Adam: Yeah. So where are we going, Tilly?  Tilly: So we're heading out towards what we call Silver Mount. They're not in here all year. Different times of year, sometimes they're all free range, some of them are free ranging, some are in here.  Adam: When you speak about free range, literally they can go anywhere?  Tilly: Yes they can.  Adam: And they come back because they know where the food is?  Tilly: Yes they do. They know where the food is, they sort of know where the home is, but they do wander out onto the high ground as well, more in the summertime.   Adam: Right. And is that, I mean Scotland has different rules. There's a right to roam sort of rule here. Does that apply to reindeer? Is that the issue?  Tilly: That is a moot point.  Adam: Oh, really? We've hardly started and I've got into trouble.   Tilly: No. Well, we lease 6000 acres, right? So we lease everything out to the skyline.  Adam: So that's an extraordinary range for them.  Tilly: It is an extraordinary range, but they know no bounds. I have to say reindeer sometimes do just pop over the boundary.  Adam: And that causes problems with the neighbours?  Tilly: Well, some like it, some aren't so keen. And we herd them as well, so we can herd them home. And we herd them by calling them.  Adam: I was going to say, do you have a skidoo, or?  Tilly: No, no. Absolutely no vehicular access on the hill. It's all by Shanks's pony, everywhere.  Adam: Really. So you walk, and then you just ring a bell to herd them, or what do you do?  Tilly: And you ‘loooooow, come on now!' and they come to us.  Adam: Right. And so what was the call again?  Tilly: ‘Looow, come on now!'  Adam: Come on now, is that it? OK, very good. OK, I now move.  Tilly: Yes. But hopefully they won't all come rushing from over there.  Adam: I was going to say, yes, we've now called out the reindeer.  Tilly: We've just joined a cow and calf here, who have just come down to the gate, and you can see just for yourself, they're completely benign. They're so docile and quiet. There's no sort of kicking or pushing or anything. They're very, very gentle creatures.  Adam: And is that because they've been acclimatised because tourists come, or would that be their natural behaviour?  Tilly: It is their natural behaviour, bearing in mind that reindeer have been domesticated for thousands of years. We're not looking at a wild animal here that's got tame. We're looking at a domesticated animal.  Adam: Right.  Tilly: It's probably more used to people than some of the reindeer up in the Arctic. So we have domestication embedded in their genetics.  Adam: So what we're saying is, genetically, they're actually more docile. It's not because this particular reindeer is used to us. But originally then, if one goes back far enough, they were wilder?  Tilly: Yes so, it's a really interesting process of domestication of reindeer, which happened in the Old World, so Russia, Scandinavia, inner Mongolia, outer Mongolia. And that is reindeer and many, many reindeer in these Arctic areas, are domesticated. They're not wild.  Adam: And that started happening, do we have an idea when?  Tilly: Probably about 10,000 years ago. But if you go to the New World, to Alaska and North Canada, exactly the same animal is called a caribou. Caribou are never domesticated. The indigenous people of these areas never embraced the herding and enclosing of reindeer, which was caribou, whereas in the Old World it became very, very important to the men, the people's survival.  Adam: And then the caribou, do they have a different character?   Tilly: Yes, they're wilder. And it's a little bit difficult to show today – you see quite strong colour variation in reindeer, which you don't see in caribou, and colour variation is man's influence on selecting for colour. So you'd get very light coloured ones, you'd get white ones in reindeer, you'd get very dark ones, but in caribou they're all the same, brownie-grey colour. Yeah, they felt that the white reindeer were important in the herd for whatever reasons, Germanic reasons or whatever. Interestingly, the Sámi - and I'm not sure if there could be a white one up in the herd here at the moment - describe them as lazy reindeer, the white ones.  Adam: Why?  Tilly: Well, I didn't know why until I worked out why white reindeer are often deaf. So they sleep, they don't get up when everybody else gets up and moves, and this white reindeer doesn't realise that the herd has left them. So they're not all deaf, but certain white ones are.  Adam: Very important question, obvious but I didn't ask it to begin with because I'm a fool. Why are reindeer connected to Christmas?  Tilly: Well, that's a really good question, because actually they think it stems from a poet called Clement C Moore, who wrote a poem in America, he had Scandinavian Germanic connections, called The Night Before Christmas, where Donder, Blitzen, Cupid, Comet, fly through the air with Saint Nick in the sleigh, the little Santa.  Adam: Yeah.  Tilly: But, so that really set the scene of eight reindeer and the sleigh, and that was based on the Norwegian God Odin, who had eight legs and strode through the sky with these eight legs and eight reindeer. Then we have Rudolph, who turns up, but he doesn't turn up until the time of prohibition in America.  Adam: So Rudolph isn't in the original poem?  Tilly: Absolutely not. Rudolph is an impostor.  Adam: I didn't know that!  Tilly: He, so he, it was a marketing exercise for a department store during alcohol prohibition. And it was Rudolph with his red nose, and his red nose is because of alcohol.  Adam: Because he drank too much? So was it in favour of alcohol or was it going ‘what terrible thing happens to you when you drink'?  Tilly: I'm not terribly sure. But anyway, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was the song, so that adds to it. And then along comes Coca-Cola who used a red and white Santa to promote Coca-Cola at Christmas time. So the red and white Santa is Coca-Cola.  Adam: Right. And the red-nose reindeer is from alcohol and reindeer comes from an actual American poem, of which Rudolph wasn't part of anyway. That's all simple to understand then!  Tilly: Exactly. Perfect.  Adam: Well, we're moving up to some of the more exposed slopes. Tilly has gone ahead. I'm just going to catch up back with her, and ask how she started as one of UK's first reindeer herders. Well, certainly, one of our few reindeer experts.  Tilly: I came up to volunteer and I met the keeper who was looking after the reindeer for Dr Lindgren, who was the lady who brought them in with her husband, Mr Utsi, and he was quite good looking.   Adam: Is this a revelation you wish to make to them?  Tilly: And the reindeer were endearing, and the mountains were superb, and so I married the keeper.  Adam: Right, you did marry him! I thought you were telling me about another man other than your husband.  Tilly: So I married Alan. We married in 1983 and I've been here ever since.  Adam: And so the purpose of having reindeer here originally was what?  Tilly: Ah, good question. Mr Utsi came here and was very taken by the landscape and the environment, the habitat, because it was so similar to his own home country of north Sweden. And he begged the question where are the reindeer? Why are there not reindeer here? And it was on that notion that he and his wife, Dr Lindgren, devoted the latter half of their lives to bringing reindeer back to Scotland.  Adam: So that's interesting. So, it raises the difference of ecological or sort of natural question, of whether these are indigenous animals.  Tilly: Yes. So it's an interesting idea. Certainly, the habitat's available for them and they live in their natural environment. But when they became extinct, or not extinct, but when they weren't in Scotland, some people say as recently as 600 years ago and some people say as long as 2,000 years ago. If it's 2,000 years ago, they're described as a past native.  Adam: So OK, I didn't realise that, but is there any debate around whether they were originally - whatever originally is –  Tilly: They were definitely here.  Adam: So they are native? They're not sort of imported, they have died out and been brought back here.  Tilly: Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, they were reintroduced, but how, what that time span is, some people say sooner than later, and Mr Utsi certainly identified this as a very suitable spot for them.  Adam: Any idea why they might have died out? Do we know?  Tilly: Probably a bit of climate change and also probably hunting. Very easy animal to hunt. Are you OK with this chitter chatter going on?  Adam: Yes, it's all good, and a bit of, do you call it mooing?   Tilly: Oh no, the reindeer aren't making any noise, they're clicking.  Adam: Someone was mooing!  Tilly : I think it was the people.  Adam: I thought it was the reindeer making that noise.   Tilly: Not at all. They're very silent.   Adam: They'd have left this podcast thinking reindeer moo.  Tilly: They would have. Exactly. No, they are really, really silent animals.  Adam: There's a very large reindeer there coming down the road.  Tilly: Oh, that's OK, that's Akubra, he'll do nothing to you at all. He's an absolute genuine reindeer. He's lovely. But he listened to the clicking as they walk. You can't hear it because of your headphones.  Adam: OK, so I guess later on I'll put a microphone on a reindeer. That will be a first. One other thing I always imagined when you saw a set of antlers on a sort of grand Scottish mansion, I thought, oh well, they've killed that the reindeer. And actually, that's not true, is it? They fall off.  Tilly: They do. You're absolutely right. Having it depends how you see the antlers. If the antlers are still on a skull, that animal has been killed and there's nothing wrong with that. There is a, you know, the animals need to be controlled. But you're also right. Antlers are lost every year and regrown again, so they cast their antlers and they regrow their antlers. So in a reindeer's life, if a reindeer is 10 years old, he will have just grown his 11th set of antlers.  Adam: And the purpose of antlers is fighting? I'm a big girl, I'm a big boy, whatever.   Tilly: Yeah, mainly for fighting, a weapon. So for the big breeding males, it's for claiming harem for females, so in the breeding season. And those big breeding bulls will actually lose their antlers around about now, their antlers will fall off and then they won't regrow their antlers until next spring, right? The females, little females like this, keep those boney antlers all winter and they use them for competing for food, so they can jab another reindeer and push it off and they can get into the food as a result.   Adam: The other thing I can notice about some of them, but not the reindeer in front of us, but I think the one walking away, although this looks very bony, the other one has sort of felt on it, and what looks like blood. So what's going on there?  Tilly: Yes. So they are the velvet antlers on the Christmas reindeer that have finished growing, but they don't lose the velvet properly and there is still potentially blood in the bone, as it were.  Adam: So there's this sort of capillary underneath the felt.  Tilly: Yes, exactly, because the antler's a really interesting appendage because it grows from the tip. It doesn't grow from the base, so the blood supply has to go all the way to the tip to grow. And the velvet skin carries that blood supply.  Adam: Right. I see. So now the reindeer in front of us has no velvet so that can't grow.  Tilly: And no blood supply. Exactly. And the only way she can grow, get more antlers or bigger antlers, is to lose the whole thing and grow it again next year. Yes.  Adam: So any other serious facts we should note, to inform ourselves about reindeer?  Tilly: Oh, lots of serious facts. So they're the only deer species where the males and the females grow antlers. Every other deer species, it's only the males that grow the antlers. They are the only deer species that's been domesticated by man. All the other species of deer, we're talking about 40 different species, are all truly wild animals. They can survive in the coldest parts of the world, so in the middle of Siberia, the temperature can go down to -72 and reindeer are still living there quite happily.  Adam: It's cold today, but it's probably -2 or something.  Tilly: Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Man cannot live in the Arctic without an animal to live by, and it's reindeer that he lives by. Man would never have gone into these areas. Obviously now they're all digging up, you know, getting the oil and the gas and everything. But indigenous man can only survive in these areas if he has reindeer as his farm animal of the north, so they're really important to the indigenous people of the north.  Adam: And in that sort of role, then, you can clearly eat reindeer. Then what else does it provide us?  Tilly: Absolutely. So it provides with meat. There are indigenous people that milk them in season. They have these tremendous coats that are used for covering tents and for people's, you know, clothing. And the antlers? Not now, but the antlers would have been used as tools in the past.  Adam: And have you ever had reindeer milk?  Tilly: I have tried, yes, we have milked the odd reindeer for one reason or another. It's very rich, very rich.  Adam: You have! Rich, is that good or quite fatty? Is it drinkable?  Tilly: That's good. Yeah, it's totally drinkable. Totally nice.  Adam: Yeah, I think yaks or a drink made from yaks, which was disgusting, I found in Mongolia, but I really found it difficult. It wasn't my thing.  Tilly: But it wasn't the fermented one, was it? Because in Mongolia they're into fermented mare's milk.   Adam: That might be what I had.  Tilly: And that is revolting.   Adam: Yes, OK, that's maybe what I had. How unusual is reindeer milk then?  Tilly: Yeah. It's got a very high fat content. They produce very little milk, because if you had a great big swinging under in in freezing conditions, you'd have ice cream, you wouldn't have milk.  Adam: The other thing I noticed that we haven't talked about is their hooves which look quite large and they look, I mean just from a distance, quite mobile.  Tilly: Yes. They are very, very, very flexible animals and their feet, their hooves are very big. Of course, for snow. Walking on the snow, spreading the weight, but also great shovels for digging. So they dig. You know, if you're in two feet, three feet of snow in north Sweden, you've got to get to the food underneath and to get to it, they need to dig. So they're great diggers.  Adam: And your life now here. It's quite a change from where you grew up, I appreciate.  Tilly: Certain years, a very rural life I had then. I have an equally country-wise life now. I will go to my grave with reindeer. They are my complete nutter passion. They are the most wonderful animals to be amongst, they put a smile on your face. They live in a beautiful area. They're just, they're just lovely animals and they give me a lot of pleasure. Yeah, yeah.  Adam: Fantastic. And if people are in the Cairngorms and want to have their own trip to see the reindeer, they call the what?  Tilly: They call the Cairngorm Reindeer Centre. You could do it on the website, you can ring us up and they need to dress up. I'm sure you appreciate you, are your feet cold yet?  Adam: No, look, I stopped off and bought extra thermals on my way.  Tilly: Very good.  Adam: Well, thank you very much. It's been a real treat, thank you very much.  Tilly: Brilliant. Oh, well, thank you for coming.  Adam: Well, I'm afraid I'm having to leave the reindeer behind because we're now heading to a little lower ground to see what I'm told is an amazing forest of Caledonian pine. And to learn a bit more about the trees and their relative, the other pine, which we all know as the Christmas tree. And we're off to meet a guy who looks after the Glencharnoch Wood in Carrbridge, near the River Spey and Dulnain. And now, despite it, it's a quite a small forest, I think. But despite that, it's quite well known for being really important, really big on biodiversity. And it's home to a number of species including, but not just them, but including the red squirrel and the crested tit.  Ross: My name's Ross Watson. I'm the site manager for North Scotland for the Woodland Trust.  Adam: Brilliant. Ross, we have come on an extraordinary day. It has snowed. It looks picturesque, chocolate box, shortbread box maybe, type stuff, so fantastic. So just tell me where we are.  Ross: Well, we're in Glencharnoch wood. It's a wood that the Woodland Trust owns and it's part of a series of little woodlands on the back of Carrbridge between Carrbridge and the railway. And the Woodland Trust has had it for a number of years. It's a little site, only 36 acres, but it's a pine wood site and a really important pine wood site at that, in that it's a small part of much bigger Caledonian forests.  Adam: OK. Well, I want to talk to you about pine wood, because I think it just sort of gets dismissed – ‘oh this pine wood, not important, not interesting'. Apart from Christmas, perhaps, when suddenly it becomes really important, but I want to unpack all of that with you, but just explain to you we're going to go on a little walk. Hopefully you know where you're going. Good. All right, so just explain a bit about where we're going, give me a sense of the pattern of where we're going.  Ross: Absolutely. We're going to take a circular walk around the woodlands. The woodlands here, it's all about community. Everything we do here is around that tree. We're going to walk through a piece of land that's owned by the local authority and then go through our own land and onto privately owned land and then come back to our own land. And it really shows the connectivity of all these different habitats, all the different landowners. But really the path network is there for the community that's here and they are involved in practice as well.  Adam: So. Pine wood. Yeah, it sort of gets bunched all together, and especially the Scots pine I hear a lot about. But there are there are big, big differences and varieties are there? Tell me a bit about them.  Ross: The Scots pine we are walking through are really special species. That's the only native conifer in the UK, right? And that's why they're so special here. Really these Scots pine provide their own habitat all of their own. They're incredibly threatened. As a habitat in Scotland, we've got just a number of Caledonian pine inventory sites. We've got ancient woodlands, designated sites.  Adam: Sorry, just to stop you - Caledonian pine, Scots pine, interchangeable words?  Ross: Yeah, good point. The Great Wood of Caledon was the reference of the name of the forest that was here, the old, the original boreal forest that gradually reduced in size. Partly through climate change as the country became cooler and wetter, but also through human intervention through felling, fires, grazing, all that kind of thing. So now we tend to talk about Scots pine and Cally pine which can be fairly interchangeable, but the Cally pine tends to be the bigger, grander kind of granny pines, these really lovely old things you see in some of the landscapes.  Adam: But that's sort of just the way people use the word. Technically, they're the same thing, but we refer to the Caledonian pine as the big grand ones, and it comes from… so I just want to make sure I understood what you said. The word Caledonian pine then comes from a Caledonian, a forest called Caledonia?   Ross: Yeah, the Great Wood of Caledon.   Adam: Isn't that a brilliant name? So mystical and it sort of talks of Tolkien and other worlds. Wow, wow. OK. So we have the great Scots pine, the Caledonian pine. If people have a general thing in their mind about pine trees, what is special about Caledonian pine? How that distinguishes from pines in other parts of the world.  Ross: Well, Scots pine, as we're walking through this woodland, just now as you look up the trunks of the trees, as you look up the bark tends to go from a kind of grey-brown to a real kind of russety red, like a red squirrel colour. And that's a lot of the red squirrel camouflage comes from that, that rusty colour. So they're skittering around these treetops and they can be jumping around and they're nice and camouflaged because of that colour. So is that redness that you really see? But what we can see in here, a lot of these trees are very even age, it has been quite heavily thinned in the past, but then you come across a tree like this that's got a very deep crown. So you see there's live branches more than halfway down that tree, whereas there's a lot of these other trees -  Adam: Yes, I was going to say it's weird that they've got no foliage until very high.  Ross: Yeah, so this tree here, and foresters may call this a wolf tree, a tree that has occupied a space and it's just sat there and doesn't allow anything around it.   Adam: It's called a wolf tree?  Ross: Some people would refer to it as a wolf tree. What we would refer to that is it's a deep crown tree, not very imaginatively named, but a deep crown tree is really important here because of capercaillie. Now, capercaillie, you imagine a capercaillie's a big bird, a turkey-sized bird, almost waist height, a male capercaillie. And in the winter it will walk out across these branches and it will nibble away at some of the needles, and it will sit there and it will rely on that during deep snow for shelter, security, food. So without these deep crown trees, there isn't anywhere for them to go. So if you imagine a plantation, a very dense pine that are much denser than this and they don't have the chance for any deep crown trees. Then the opportunity for capercaillie here is much reduced.  Adam: Right. So there's sort of, I mean, look the elephant in the room. Well, it's Christmas around the corner. People have Christmas trees. Sort of most people know anything about pine, it's because they have it in their house at Christmas. That's not a Scots pine.  Ross: No, your traditional Christmas tree is a Nordmann fir. A fir tree tends to hold onto needles a little longer than a pine tree. And if you look after the pine, it will retain its needles, but quite often the pine trees will grow slightly too quickly, so it'll be a bit bare as a Christmas tree, whereas a fir tree is kind of hairy enough to be a good Christmas tree.  Adam: Right. And do we have, do we have them planted in the UK as well? I mean just for commercial cropping?  Ross: Yes, as a Christmas tree.  Adam: Right. So the other thing, look, we're in a really lovely forest at the moment. We're the only ones here. But Scotland, the iconic pictures of Scotland, are bare, bare mountains, aren't they? They're not wooded, and yet I've always read that that's not how it used to be. It used to be a wooded part of the country. Why did it lose so much of its woodland?  Ross: Well, it's looking back to, what, centuries ago as the climate became cooler and wetter, the tree line reduced in height. But more recently in the 1800s the Cultural Revolution created huge periods of felling where they needed this timber for industrialization. Trees from the woodlands near here were cut down, they were floated down to the river Spey and then out to Spey Bay and the Moray coast. They were used for underground water piping for ship's masts. Because these trees are, as you can feel today it's a cold place to be, they've grown very slowly. So because they're nice and straight as we can see, they are, the rings are very close together, so they're very sturdy. They're an ideal timber source. But then we start to look at deer numbers increasing and sheep numbers increasing. The more mouths on the hill meant that once you cut these trees down, it was much harder for the trees to come away again. And really, that's the landscape we're in now really. And when we're talking about those very large, deep crowned trees on open hillsides, these kind of granny pines are so picturesque, and really a lot of these trees, there was no timber value in them because they were already so crooked and they were left, and this is almost a remnant that's showcasing the old forest that once was standing there.  Adam: A lot of times, site managers, they're trying to keep things steady in a way, I suppose. Just trying to maintain what's going, keep that going, that's hard enough. Is that the job here or do you have bigger plans? Are there, you know, times are changing?  Ross: Well, this is one of eight woodlands I look after across the north of Scotland. Whenever we're doing anything, no matter what the scale of it, it's not just how do we keep the site going and kind of steady. It's about when we are doing work, how do we add value to that to make it better for the people that are living here? And how do we use that to continue to showcase these sites as the shop window for the Woodland Trust?  Adam: And is the idea here to try and remove the non-Scots pine, so you'd have a pure Scots pine forest?  Ross: Well, the Woodland Trust works on a on a threat basis really. So any tree is better than no tree, right? But if you have got a lot of spruce regeneration that's threatening this ancient wood then we need to begin to remove that. And that's been the case here.  Adam: Sorry I'm pausing because there's a lovely spaniel who I can see wants me to throw a stick, but I won't throw the stick. Very cool dog. There we are. Sorry, we were saying yes, so any tree is better than no tree. But are the other trees a threat then or not?  Ross: Well, the Norway spruce here has been seeding regeneration into the woodland areas and over the last few years we've cleared a lot of that and in some of these nice young spruce, we've been able to provide to the community for Christmas trees, which has been really handy. But all of that is gone now and we're left with this core of, of mature Norway spruce, that a number of them have started to snap so are becoming a safety issue for members of the public using footpaths next to it. But also there's an opportunity there where before that timber dies, we can extract it and it can be useful for the community.  Adam: And you'd replace it with Scots pines.  Ross: No, we're going to replace it predominantly with hazel and aspen. Because one of the slight concerns in having a single species stand, like we have here, where it's all Scots pine, is that there's only one species for the likes of red squirrels or the crossbills. And on a day like today we might hear crossbows coming over. There's only one species here for them, whereas if we're planting hazel, which is under-represented species here, that provides a different food for red squirrels in a different part of the woodland. And aspen is one of the most biodiverse species that we would have in this part of the world. And there are very, very few aspen.  Adam: When you say it's the most biodiverse species, you mean it attracts biodiversity?  Ross: Absolutely yes. In terms of the lower plant assemblage that's on there specifically and insects. And aspen, their Latin name is Populus tremula and the tremula comes from the oval shape on the leaf. Just in the slightest breeze, it's adapted that to try and shake off the insect burden because the leaves are so palatable for insects.  Adam: So the shape of the leaf in wind -  Ross: The shape of this stock of the leaf is oval.  Adam: And that helps shift any insects.   Ross: Yeah, yeah.   Adam: It's interesting because aspen, in my ignorance, I associate with aspen in America, but it's a native UK tree.  Ross: It is, yeah. And it will be one of the first colonisers after the Ice Age. That's, an aspen will have, the seed will have blown down as the ice is receding. But some of the aspen that are here now will be some of the oldest trees that exist in the UK and aspen generally now grows rhizomatously, so you'll see the roots through the forest and all of the suckers will pop out. And the aspen that we can see in the woodland today, they could have been here for hundreds, maybe thousands of years, and they've just, as the clone has marched through the landscape, it's just it's moved and colonised these different areas. They're fascinating trees. So when you look at some of the images in North America, you might see entire hillsides of aspen and that could all be the same tree essentially, they're amazing organisms.  Adam: That's amazing. So it's sort of cloning really.   Ross: Yeah, absolutely.  Adam: That's amazing. And also I can see right on the Scots pine behind you, beautiful lichen, which is just a real sign of the air quality here, isn't it? I mean, it doesn't grow and it's just often further south. We do see lichen, obviously, but often I see a bit. This is everywhere. It's a real sign this is good land.  Ross: Absolutely, yeah.  Adam: Good land, good air. Wonderful. Well, I'm going to take another shot of our colleague down below. Hello. Wearing a lovely red hat, almost looks like Santa. And then we'll move on. So we're going uphill a bit, you might just hear the snow crunching under my boots. So this is amazing. A wolf peeking out from the woods, which adds to the fairy tale quality of all of this forest walk. This is not a real wolf. This is carved in wood. It looks really beautiful and it's covered in snow at the moment, which maybe is why I didn't spot it at first. So what's the story here?  Ross: Well, the story here is that Carrbridge hosts the Scottish chainsaw carving competition every year at the end of August, and there are chainsaw artists coming from all over the world to compete here to do some incredibly elaborate carvings. They do benches and three-to-four-metre statues and it's absolutely incredible.   Adam: This is very delicate that I'm surprised this would be done with a chainsaw.  Ross: Yeah, it's a very specialist skill as you can see, and people have to be very artistic. You have to be very good with the saw, but also the bar of the saw is a specialist carving tool. But then they also can use all sorts of other implements to try and refine the artwork itself. And this is just one part of that much larger chainsaw carving trail that's in Carrbridge that really commemorates this annual event.  Adam: Amazing. Well, we'll leave the wolf. It's got even a little dark nose. Amazing. A little dog, a real dog this time. Well, yes, just to prove it. We've just seen some reindeer. Obviously they're a type of deer. Are they as much of a problem as the normal red deer that we know about? So what's your view on them?  Ross: Well, red deer, the numbers are extremely high in some places and in the Cairngorms, they're generally much better managed. But in other places where there just isn't that, that integration or the objectives are yet to be aligned with protected areas, the numbers in those places need to come down, but recognising that there are different objectives, there are different landowners who want to do different things with land. So in recognising and respecting those objectives, but generally, ideal numbers need to come down and they need to come down a lot in order for trees and woodland to recover.  Adam: But that's deer in general, just because it's Christmas, I just have reindeer on the mind. You don't see many reindeer here. Or any reindeer here?  Ross: No, you see them up in the Cairngorms, right?   Adam: Right. Another pitstop. I see some lichen with some snow on it. I should turn them into Christmas cards. I won't, but that's what I should do. So if there was a sort of a final thought you wanted people to take away about this forest or about Caledonian pines you're trying to protect and grow here, what might that be?  Ross: Well, for this woodland, and as I say, it's only 36 acres in size, it's a fairly small wood. But it's not to discount that, and we talk about the hundreds of ants nests, the crossbills, the crested tits, it's woodlands like this can punch way above their weight. But also woodlands like this connected together provide a much larger, integrated robust habitat. And it's just thinking along these lines that this, this woodland, although it has the A9 on one side, it's got roads on two other sides, it's got a forest adventure park there and to the other side, it feels like a woodland that could be squeezed, but it can also feel like a woodland that is a part of this much larger landscape and contributing to that. And I suppose in part it depends on how you view that, yeah. But the woodland is connected to its woodlands round about, so it's definitely playing its part and part of that recovery of the old Caledonian pine forest of Scotland, as small as it is.  Adam: It's been a real treat for you to guide us through it on such a special snowy Christmas-y day. So thank you very much indeed.   Ross: No problem.   Adam: Well, it's been a fantastic day. Which leaves me just say from the land of reindeer and Caledonian pine, can I wish you a very happy, peaceful and joyous Christmas and New Year? And I do hope that wherever you are, you are able to share the joy of this season and that you'll join us in the New Year for lots more podcasts and tree adventures. Until then, from all of us in the Woodland Trust podcast team, to all of you, can we wish you a happy Christmas and a great New Year and of course, happy wanderings.  Thank you for listening to the Woodland Trust Woodland Walks. Join us next month when Adam will be taking another walk in the company of Woodland Trust staff, partners and volunteers. And don't forget to subscribe to the series on iTunes or wherever you are listening. And do give us a review and a rating. If you want to find out more about our woods and those that are close to you, check out the Woodland Trust website. Just head to the visiting woods pages. Thank you. 

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OUTBACK's art director Peter Pap recently captured the Akubra workshop in action to mark its 50th year in Kempsey, NSW. He says that on entering the corrugated-iron building, the nearly 150-year history of this Aussie icon was apparent.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on The KOKO Show the lads are horsing around and bathing in the sweet sweet nectar of the Brumbies win over the previously undefeated Hurricanes. Much like a pack of hungry ‘Junkyard Dogs' we forage through another spectacular round of Super(b) Rugby and thanks to our friends at BeefEater and AppliancesOnline we have a tender little lineup of ‘Super Sizzlers' fresh off the grill. The fellas also have a deep dive into the triumphant Super(b) Rugby W final, breaking down how the Waratahs dismantled the Drua to run the board in a spectacular undefeated winning season. Obviously, we understand that we have fans from both sides of the equator that join us week in and week out to bloody ‘Schmidt this thing in', so we have served up an extra juicy NHL's segment this week with flavours from Japan, England and the self-proclaimed leaders of the free world. Plus, it would be completely LOCO if KOKO didn't have a special guest, so we have lined up a Brumbies young blood that is on his way back to the promised land. A man that has more footy smarts than Gits has gold bullion buried under his house, the fresh faced flyhalf of the future, the Ken amongst us mortal men, the one and only ‘bad boi Brumby' himself Mr Noah Lolesio. So dust off your chaps, tighten your bridal and tip your Akubra to another real roughie of a podcast. It's time for Kick Offs and Kick Ons. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - HELLO AND WELCOME01:10 - INTRODUCE THE BOYS 03:27 - BUSTA RHYMES RESPONSE VIDEO 05:34 - MERCHANDISE/SOCIAL PLUGS 07:16 - SOCIAL SNITCHES09:54 - SHOUT OUT TO PRODUCER OLLIE 10:39 - RUGBY ROUNDUP 24:20 - SUPER SIZZLERS30:39 - BRUMBIES BEATING THE HURRICANES34:15 - INTRODUCE NOAH LOLESIO 36:11 - NOAH ON THE HURRICANES WIN38:32 - NOAH'S TIME IN FRANCE AND FRENCH STYLE40:28 - GITS REACHING OUT TO NOAH42:51 - NOAH ON THE WALLABIES AND JOE SCHMIDT48:56 - WHICH THREE PEOPLE WOULD NOAH CHOOSE IF STUCK ON AN ISLAND 50:19 - BRUMBIES QUIZ WITH NOAH 57:00 - NORTHERN HEMISPHERE LEGENDS01:05:54 - FIRE UP WITH FIREBALL SEGMENT 01:08:15 - MERCHANDISE AND SOCIAL PLUGS 01:10:17 - GOODBYESBUY YOUR KOKO MERCHANDISE RIGHT NOW - www.budgysmuggler.com.au/thekokoshowMake sure you follow us on all socials:INSTA: @kickoffskickons TWITTER/X: @kickoffskickons YOUTUBE: @kickoffsandkickons TIKTOK: @kickoffskickons If you do want to talk about sponsorship or anything business related then please do get in touch with us at info@shtn.com.au. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we hear from Suzie on the last of her week away in Noosa. Anita shares her first theatre experience. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/callyourmumpodcast/message

07.01.24 The story of the Akubra hat is an inspiring one... So is the story found in 2 Kings 6 The Lord bless you and keep you.

Sam Altman is back at OpenAI as CEO, Greg Brockman, and the rest of the team is reinstated. Guess what? Open AI has new board members. Fresh RBA minutes from its Melbourne Cup Day meeting revealed the central bank had left the door open for further rate hikes should inflation prove persistent. Kelly Bayer Rosemarie has stood down as OPTUS CEO. She should get a generous payout as she goes. Say about 200 Terabytes of OPTUS mobile data? Iconic Australia hatmaker Akubra is set to change ownership for the first time in five generations after being snapped up by Andrew Forrest. Australia's top housing markets will see falls next year as interest rate hikes hit households just as the economy slows, according to forecaster SQM Research Follow my socials on:https://twitter.com/leongettlerhttps://www.instagram.com/leongettler/https://www.linkedin.com/in/leongettler/https://www.facebook.com/talkingbusinesspodcasthttps://business.google.com/dashboard/l/17460167277811417147?hl=en&gmbsrc=au-en-z-z-z-gmb-s-119-u~mhp-ns_hom_8-u&omec=EI_z6RYYASIBATIBATotZ21ic3JjPWF1LWVuLXotei16LWdtYi1zLTExOS11fm1ocC1uc19ob21fOC11QAFKEwjq4cCIj5D3AhXNnWMKHUB5Cqg%3Dhttps://www.youtube.com/c/LeonGettler/discussion?app=desktop Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Akubra, the 147 year old Australian hatmaking company, has been acquired by Andrew Forrest's investment group Tattarang in another big Aussie acquisition. Open AI staff have threatened to quit after the Board fired its CEO and Founder Sam Altman over the weekend. Culture Kings has been shelling out massive discounts to clear stock after facing low consumer spending. — Build the financial wellbeing of your team with Flux at Work: https://bit.ly/fluxatwork Download the free app (App Store): http://bit.ly/FluxAppStore Download the free app (Google Play): http://bit.ly/FluxappGooglePlay Daily newsletter: https://bit.ly/fluxnewsletter Flux on Instagram: http://bit.ly/fluxinsta Flux on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@flux.finance —- The content in this podcast reflects the views and opinions of the hosts, and is intended for personal and not commercial use. We do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, statement or other information provided or distributed in these episodes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

51 out of Queensland's 77 local councils do not have fluoridated water, including major regional centres such as Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Mackay and Cairns.

Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigns after the mass outage two weeks ago, full analysis with telco expert Paul Budde. Plus, NAB's CEO heads to the bush to speak with rural customers and the Forrest's buy iconic hat brand Akubra.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The S&P 500 rose on Friday and clinched a third straight winning week amid a red-hot November rally.The broader index added 0.13% to settle at 4,514.02. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day higher by 0.01%, or 1.81 points, closing at 34,947.28. The Nasdaq Composite crept up by 0.08% to end the session at 14,125.48.The major averages each notched their third straight positive week. The S&P 500 added 2.2%, while the Nasdaq jumped about 2.4%. The Dow closed the week with a 1.9% advance. This is the first three-week win streak for the Dow and S&P 500 since July, and the first since June for the Nasdaq.ASX SPI 200 up 28 points. Wall St Week Ahead-After breathtaking surge, US stocks' path may rest on economic soft landing.ASX to rise; energy stocks in focus after oil boost. OPEC meeting Nov 26th.Israel-Hamas hostage deal edges closer despite fierce fighting in Gaza.Argentina votes in nail-biter election with libertarian slight favourite.Germany, France and Italy reach agreement on future AI regulation.SpaceX Starship launch failed minutes after reaching space.G20-led summit for Africa highlights renewed interest in fast-growing continent.Finland's Olkiluoto 3 - B3 nuclear reactor is expected to restart.Australian Forrests' Tattarang acquires 'iconic' hat company Akubra.Why not sign up for a free trial? Get access to expert insights and research and become a better investor.Make life simple. Invest with Marcus Today.

Monday 20 November 2023 Israel, Hamas and the US are close to a ceasefire.  Also today: The local housing market is ending the year with a whimper  Andrew and Nicola Forrest buy Akubra OpenAI boss ousted - but efforts are already underway to bring him backFind out more: https://fearandgreed.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Check out Duayne's work here...www.dpearceconstructions.com.auDuayne chats with Craig Stuart from Stuart Homes and Renovations about his early life working on cattle stations, shaping cowboy hats and running a building business. Craig emphasises the importance of building great relationships with your clients and how having that solid connection can set all parties up for a successful build.If you're a builder looking to run a more profitable business go check out Duayne's other passion Live Life Build...www.livelifebuild.comFarmer to Fridge - meat directly to you. We want as many local farms as possible to be able to sell fresh local meat, to local consumers. check out more podcasts here...https://levelupwithduaynepearce.buzzsprout.com

Send us a Text Message.Grab your Akubra and get ready for a road trip to the NSW bush for the Country Pool Managers conference. The voices may be a little quieter and the accents a little broader but the challenges in managing the consumer, the facilities and the business are all too similar.   As is often the case the reserved but considered voice of those in the country sounds a warning that should be heeded by those on the coast and the in the cities.  What affects them now may affect us in the years ahead. Our interviews today really are an apt culmination to the discussion we have been deliberating on trying to  determining if experience trumps a qualification. I encourage you to lean in, listen and connect with our cousins calling from the country.Ready. Set. SPLASH! For you free industry news updates and SPLASH! Magazine copy simply go to:https://www.splashmagazine.com.au/subscribeWith thanks to our sponsors:FluidraAIS WaterPentairFor you free industry news updates and SPLASH! Magazine copy simply go to:https://www.splash.online/subscribeWith thanks to our sponsors:FluidraAIS WaterPentairHayward

Pip Courtney.What else should we say? She started at ABC's Landline in 1993, became the host of the program in 2012, and continues to thrive in the role today - - but there's so much more to the storyPip didn't grow up on a farm, but she grew up around ag - cultivating an express interest for the inner workings of farmers, farms and farming. Pip's work in the Australian media scape has brought so many amazing stories to our screen and we're so excited to share a bit of her story with you after she has spent the best part of thirty years sharing the stories of others. In this week's chat Pip covers: Her first introduction to agriculture Growing up in Launceston and her dream to get to the mainland When and how did she start her career in journalism? How does she navigate telling the difficult stories? The ways agriculture has changed since she began covering the industry How does she find her stories and get people to talk? Why is Landline succesful? What is was like to having a working partnership with her husband We also got to find out her "coffee" order, what Akubra she wears, what job she'd do if she could do anything and her influence on the next generation of people in ag - from storytellers to scientists. 

The Victorian Government is considering bail reform that could relax laws toughened in the wake of the Bourke St tragedy. A record number of suspended, disqualified and unlicensed drivers are being caught flouting the law on Victorian roads. Food prices at Coles and Woolworths jumped by over 9 per cent in the final quarter of 2022. Demand for Australia's iconic Akubra felt hats has gone through the roof, For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at heraldsun.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"That was probably one of the most sarcastic pieces of satire ever created - I run a bit on sarcasm, it's a great form of communication" - Craig 'Macca' McGown responds to fact-checkers or 'fact controllers' in an Akubra hat-tip to Thomas the Tank Engine

No surprises here but Gabe Jaramillo, with his trademark Akubra hat, is going to become a Coaching Podcast favourite! Gabe is in the business of building confidence and believing in the power of the dream - BIG dreams! His compelling coaching moments, of which there are many, recount the struggles and success stories of working with world-renowned tennis players, including Kei Nishikori, Andre Agassi, Jimmy Arias, Jim courier, Pete Sampras, Maria Sharapova and Monica Seles. Gabe's stories are guaranteed game-changers in unlocking our own potential; so stay tuned-in until the very end to discover Emma Doyle's dream! Gabe's knowledge, wisdom, planning, passion and declaration of purpose, have seen him accomplish incredible results and amass a huge ‘Tennis on Demand' social media following, spreading the word on what it takes to be a coach and/or parent of a talented player. Speaking of innovating, fast-track to; Best Coaching Moment 3:15 The difference between talent and potential 5:30 Coaching moment that didn't go so well - You call yourself a coach? 8:20 Sliding Doors Question – My player, my athlete, my student 14:43 What is your dream? – No.1 in the world…a declaration of purpose 18:00 What makes a great coach? What did you learn? 19:25 How do we find balance? 23:10 Best coaches in the world…we never stop learning 25:20 Responsibility of social media 27:05 Talent & Potential - negotiation from a very early age 30:00 9-year-old Maria Sharapova ‘what is my objective for today?' 34:14 What is Emma Doyle's dream? 38:30 Let us know, what did you learn? What is your dream? About Gabe Jaramillo Gabe Jaramillo is a Colombian/American renowned Tennis Coach, Entrepreneur, Innovator, Consultant, Influencer, and Motivational Speaker. Jaramillo is Senior Executive Vice President, Director of Tennis Training at Altitude International Holdings Inc. and serves on its Board of Directors, (pun intended!). Jaramillo worked with and developed many of the greatest players in tennis history, including training 11 of the world's No.1-ranked players and 27 top-10 players, such as Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Mary Pierce, Maria Sharapova, Monica Seles, and Kei Nishikori. Jaramillo is the co-founder of Club Med Academies, now Altitude Academies. His Tennis On Demand YouTube channel has over 10 million viewers, Facebook reaches over 100 thousand, and his Instagram in excess of 65 thousand followers. Tennis on Demand YouTube https://youtu.be/fyB0z-xtMMc

Episode 111 feat. Adam, SMac and Taylor. Come send it with the boys, as we discuss, The return of Jesus, Taylor's new look, The great Akubra shortage, Every woman's quest, Water weight, Horse girls, Internet gore, TikTok cooking, Barcode tattoos, Jada, Nans ashes, Elon Musk, Max King, The Academy, and much more... Please forward all complaints to: bigsendbigchat@gmail.com  

Australian country music legend Lee Kernaghan joins us on Triple M ahead of Meatstock festival this weekend in Toowoomba. A festival celebrating barbecued meat, rodeos, classic cars, and most importantly country music! We talk about Kernaghan's excitement for his upcoming appearance at Meatstock, as well as the recent explosion in popularity that Country music is going through! Revealing his favourite upcoming artist to keep an eye on. And if you're a fan of Akubra, Lee tells us his size! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 110 feat. Adam, SMac and Taylor. Come send it with the boys, as we discuss, Steve's appeal, Road rage, Going back to school, online dating, That thing that happened at the Oscars, Open marriages, Hollywood, Streakers, Akubra theft, Naughty nurses, Shit mates, Buying vs renting, The big short, Adelaide Crows, Chris Rock, and much more... Please forward all complaints to: bigsendbigchat@gmail.com  

“Bushman” John Norrish, who always wore an Akubra-style hat, went missing from the tranquil East Coast of Tasmania in 2018. In episode two of The Lost Ones, John's family reveal how they they had to the investigative work themselves after he disappeared, and are sure he was murdered over a $200 debt. Not long ago, a clue was discovered hidden under foliage and tree limbs. You can listen to every episode of The Lost Ones, ad-free, plus access award-winning journalism at truecrimeaustralia.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I knew I'd click with Dr. Stan Beecham when he showed up to the recording with a didgeridoo, while wearing an Akubra and then proceeded to play for me. And when I say ‘play'… well, you know. Not totally weird considering we're an Aussie podcast but somewhat weird considering he's an academic, author, psychologist and leadership consultant living in Roswell, Georgia in the States, who's never been to Oz. I loved his energy, his personality and his ability to explain ‘sciencey stuff' in a totally user-friendly (no BS) manner. Among other things, we spoke about fear of failure, being judged, why we care about what strangers think of us, our need to belong, identity and where it comes from, over-thinking, where our beliefs come from and why we are so attached to them (even when they're wrong), the value of curiosity, the conversations in our head, being present, work-life balance, the gift of mediocrity and our obsession with success and happiness. Enjoy.drstanbeecham.com

Emily Jade throws her back out, Christo's deciding on whether or not to get an Akubra, Sea World is turning 50, how awesome is room service at a hotel, and the winner of The Masked Singer Australia - Anastacia - chats to the team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Jade throws her back out, Christo's deciding on whether or not to get an Akubra, Sea World is turning 50, how awesome is room service at a hotel, and the winner of The Masked Singer Australia - Anastacia - chats to the team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Jade throws her back out, Christo's deciding on whether or not to get an Akubra, Sea World is turning 50, how awesome is room service at a hotel, and the winner of The Masked Singer Australia - Anastacia - chats to the team.

Bradley Bishop talks about the power of the Akubra hat. How $300 for a jab is great marketing. Wayne Gretzky Matty & Joey Johns and more.

There's a clear uniform for men in politics: a suit for weekdays, no tie on weekends and an Akubra if you are making a rural announcement. But fashion isn't so straightforward for women. Annabel and Steph ponder why we are so obsessed with how our female politicians look and how much time is wasted on hair and makeup. It is estimated that during her time as PM, Julia Gillard spent about 1100 hours having her hair and makeup done.

There's a clear uniform for men in politics: a suit for weekdays, no tie on weekends and an Akubra if you are making a rural announcement. But fashion isn't so straightforward for women. Annabel and Steph ponder why we are so obsessed with how our female politicians look and how much time is wasted on hair and makeup. It is estimated that during her time as PM, Julia Gillard spent about 1100 hours having her hair and makeup done.

We kick off the show talking about Kate's deodorant situation, then get into if you have a famous relative? Kate starts to tell a story about on of her famous relatives… but she can't say it on the radio. Kate also opens up about her giant head. Does anyone else know what a '59 Akubra' means? Then we ask Why You Eloped? We cover the video of the French President getting slapped. Then we get into some Body by Loud Luxury chat then chat about Waxing fails… Then Kate starts to tell us another story she can't finish about her Merrick & Rosso days. Then we play the Museum edition of Povo on the Wednesday Wheel! Then we cover an odd case of Road Rage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Increases in regional tourism has seen demand for the iconic akubra not experienced since the 1980s. A couple of hundred thousand hats are made every year, but supply shortages teamed with more people holidaying is seeing supply delays across the country. As part of Aussie Made week, rural editor Eddie Summerfield caught up with Akubra General Manager Andrew Angus: Subscribe to the National Rural News podcast: http://bit.ly/RuralNewsPodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The NSW Government has announced $50 million in funding to tackle the ongoing mouse plague, this comes after two of the state's most influential rural lobby groups labelled it an 'economic and public health crisis'.

Fire up the BBQ and rip open a packet of Tim Tam biscuits, The Great Aussie Coin Hunt is back for another year. We've teamed up with the Royal Australian Mint to celebrate Aussie icons by releasing 26 new collectable $1 coins.In this Products & Services episode of Ready to Retail, we are all very excited to welcome the return of the 2021 Great Aussie Coin Hunt this week we will hear from Michael Zsolt (Group Manager, Philatelic) Stephanie Hewish (Senior Marketing Manager at Australia Post) & Maria Gumina (Postal Manager at Maddington PO)Did you join in on Australia Post's ground-breaking Great Aussie Coin Hunt in 2019? Well, from 10 May 2021, Australians across the country can embark on the Great Aussie Coin Hunt 2, with a whole new set of 26 special $1 coins to collect that are Aussie Az!The coins are a fun and nostalgic celebration of Australian life and help to connect families and communities through the fun of the hunt. Each coin features a classic Australian icon beginning with a letter of the alphabet, ranging from an Akubra hat to Zinc sunscreen.Simply visit a participating Post Office, make a cash purchase and check your change to see whether it includes one of 26 new coin designs.This exciting treasure hunt is aimed at collectors of all ages (even collectors in the making), so why not bring your children or grandchildren into your local participating Post Office and join in the fun! Hunt for all 26 coins or collect specific letters to create personalised sets and spell your name or the names of family and friends!The Great Aussie Coin Hunt 2 begins on 10 May 2021, at participating Post Offices. Coins are subject to in-store availability.To learn more, visit: aussiecoinhunt.com.auAs always, if you have any comments, questions, suggestions or queries, please feel free to contact our team by emailing them on: retailacademy@auspost.com.au

In Visible Ink is a Museum of Freedom and Tolerance endeavour that makes visible the invisible. Through sharing and amplifying stories, histories, art, conversations and projects that inspire people to see differently, it aims to make changes towards a more just world. The Furnace is a Western Australian film that illuminates the forgotten history of Australia’s ‘Ghan’ cameleers, predominantly Muslim and Sikh men from India, Afghanistan and Persia, who opened up the Nation’s desert interior, and formed unique bonds with local Aboriginal people. It shines a light on a crucial yet little known chapter of Australia’s history, celebrating the cultural diversity of early pioneers. We convened a screening of The Furnace and a following conversation about the importance of shining a light and giving visibility to the multiple and diverse histories of the Australian landscape. This discussion includes our incredible speakers (bios below): Affy Bhatti (Chair) Roderick MacKay Harjit Singh Rosie Sitorous Gary Bonney and features a short clip with the voice of Godfrey Simpson Speaker biographies: Affy Bhatti (Chair) is a British Pakistani man in Australia. He is Director of The Crescent Institute, Co-Founder of the Muslim Professional Network Perth, and a Management Consultant. Affy was a key supporter of The Furnace and assisted production with consultation within the Australian Muslim community. Roderick MacKay is a writer/director from Perth, Western Australia. With a formal training in visual arts, Roderick is a highly visual storyteller. In 2020, Roderick's debut feature film, The Furnace, premiered as part of the official selection for the 77th Venice Film Festival. Roderick's short films include Trigger and Factory 293. Rosie Sitorous is an emerging writer based in Western Australia. She has an established creative practice in spoken word performance, music and comedy, and works as a linguist with rural, regional and remote Aboriginal communities. Much of Rosie’s writing reflects on her relationship with her late mother, a great influence on her love of language, as well as her search, as a ‘third culture kid’, for place and belonging in contemporary Australia. Rosie consulted for The Furnace on the Badimia language along with Godfrey Simpson. Gary Bonney is an educator and storyteller and has undertaken a number of roles in regional and remote areas of Western Australia. Gary’s experience has included work in secondary education, with at risk youth, young people in residential settings and with Indigenous people in the Goldfields and Kimberley regions of Western Australia. Gary has a passion for working in community with marginalised people, and educating others to increase awareness, access, social equity and understanding. Gary is an early career screenwriter and works with Revelation Film Festival and was Associate Producer for The Furnace. Harjit Singh is one of the founders of the Australian Sikh Heritage Association which documents and shares history on the early contribution of Sikhs in Australia. Harjit is also one of the founders of Turbans and Trust, which has generated over 10,000 one on one conversations between strangers to build an understanding of respect and equality. Harjit’s passion for civil rights has driven him to work on close to a hundred civil rights matters across Australia, building understanding without confrontation wherever possible. Harjit wants the turban to be recognised as being just as Australian as the Akubra! Harjit worked as the primary Sikh Consultant on The Furnace.

Larger than life, usually wearing an Akubra, with a huge smile and a joyous laugh Katrina Goldsworthy loves the bush and is an artist with flare. Her leather paintings of bulls are warm and sensuous, and the rodeo riders and industry leaders talk to you. Katrina describes her paintings as an engineering feat, involving months of work. They truly bring the bush alive and bring the city and country closer together.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

G'day farmers, In today's show, we've got the famous Alex Taylor on from Farmer Wants A Wife and get to catch up with him and see how he is fairing after the show has ended. Coming from country Cunnamulla he's remote, to say the least, and finding a girl can be hard. Tune in and see how it has all panned out for the Akubra loving farmer! Share a snap of this pod on your Instagram story to help us reach the 135,000 agribusinesses across Australia. Farms Advice features a new episode every WEEK talking with the leaders of the industry. By having a transparent approach we are able to reveal the techniques and skill sets so that can help YOU improve your own agribusiness. Leave some feedback so that we can improve how we do agribusiness in Australia What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with Farms Advice: FA Twitter, FA LinkedIn, FA Facebook Connect with the host Jack Cresswell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/farmsadviceau/message

Have we solved the time travelling paradox?   Meeting a Time-Traveller. Witnessing a worm hole. When have you been put in the spotlight?   Nic & Lucas from Orange Sky give us an update. Is the Moon a planet or a star? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Set in the raw beauty of the Australian outback, this story is about a road trip, the red dirt, a chance encounter, an Akubra hat and is a reminder that we are all the architects of our own destinies...----------Music: Hot October by Wood Spider from Free Music Archives Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/andDance for One, Wonderland, Juncture and Seeing the Future by Dexter Britain from Free Music Archives Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/and  Convergence and Horses by The Pictures of the Floating World From Free Music Archives  Copyright: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/  and Gaya Trip by Pranavibes  from Free Music Archives Copyright: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Blakey divulges how the Akubra is made, he is also a font of knowledge on the Easybeats and then he renames the City Council, plus a new episode of Behind Closed Doors.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My guest this week is Guy Hills, fashion photographer, and co-founder of Dashing Tweeds.We chat about the challenges and joys of life as a creative professional, photographing Savile Row for the internet age, collaborating with Converse and Pharrell, and wearing what you love regardless of what anyone else thinks about it.Follow Dashing Tweeds on InstagramNOTES(04:40) Snuff Boxes(13:50) Photographers: Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, Norman Parkinson(17:58) The Origins of Problem Page Photos(27:11) Jaguar  // Cartier // Freddie Windsor(29:53) Andrew Bolton (29:57) Anda Rowland (Blamo! Interview)(30:58) Savile Row Bespoke(31:15) Anderson & Sheppard // Huntsman // Henry Poole(31:33) Angus Cundey of Henry Poole // Carlo Brandelli of Kilgour(33:40) James Sherwood(35:00) Bespoke: The Master Tailors of Savile Row(38:29) Harris Tweed jacket // Akubra hat // RM Williams boots(40:06) Royal College of Art Showcase(40:27) Kenzo(40:47) Kirsty McDougall (Dashing Tweeds Co-Founder)(46:05) Betty Soldi (Calligrapher)(48:07) Icebreaker(50:42) The Tweed Run(51:13) The Correspondents (music video)(55:47) Daily Candy Magazine(56:05) Converse(57:58) Billionaire Boys Club(59:57) Gaudi(1:07:06) Beau Brummell(1:10:25) Vivian Westwood // Sex Pistols**Want even more Blamo? Join the BlamFam and get access to additional interviews, a community slack, special events, and more!

What an extraordinary week.  Stories that have gripped and horrified the nation.  Events that have caused history.  And issues that require us to look deep into ourselves as to who we are and what we believe it.Leading the way was David Seymour's incredible success with the End of Life Choice Bill passing it's third reading.  And yet it may all come to nought. The Parliamentarians have passed the bill but now it comes to us in a referendum.  You wonder what would have happened if the third reading was the final hurdle and whether the parliamentarians would have had the courage to go forward, but we'll never know.But as Andrew Little warned this next year could get ugly, emotional and full of misinformation.  Certainly my inbox filled up immediately with anti-euthanasia press releases immediately after the vote. Andrew Little says an education campaign will be needed because he knows that your average voter is not going to plough through the legislation before casting their vote but that will also be branded propaganda.  As I said during the week it's up to every one of us to take this seriously and school ourselves up.The country has been transfixed by Grace Millane. (Photo / Supplied)We were also transfixed with the Grace Millane case.  Every day the horrors of her passing were broadcast to a slavering audience keen for details.  I had a number of emails asking why we gave such comprehensive coverage.  It's because the audience wanted it.  Grace Millane articles are setting records. We're not here to censor due to sensitivity, we're here to tell the story for those who want to hear it.At ZB, we took this all very seriously.  While some thought we were dining out on it I can tell you that we dedicated only five minutes a day of programme time to the case.  Breakfast didn't talk about it.  There was no talkback.  Our news bulletins covered it and then in the drive show our reporter recapped the day. There is no way we want to endanger this case.  But it is fair that I've heard other stations being reckless.  On your head be it if you go too far.Shane Jones also burst into life like the spasmodic volcano he is. He is an enigma. He wrote a very good piece about forestry.  He said that the billion tree programme will increase our forest area by over two per cent but he points out that because harvesting of forests it will take the proportion of forestry land back to the same level as 2006.  I don't remember it being a problem then.Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones, centre left, next to National's agricultural spokesman Todd Muller, centre right. Photo / Jason WallsBut then he goes and ruins it all but singing Tutira Mai Ngaiwi over farmers speeches and calling them rednecks.  To be fair the farmers were booing and jeering first but still, Shane, keep it under your Akubra hat.  But then remember that New Zealand First are out to spend the next year proving they're nobodies puppets so perhaps it was a calculated snub.Finally we have a story that could blow up spectacularly.  Berhouz Boochani arrived in town.  The Manus Island refugee had his first taste of freedom.  He here to speak at a festival on a strictly limited one month visitor visa granted by Immigration after an application sponsored by Amnesty International.Behrouz Boochani. Photo / Hoda AfsharBut when I talked to him on Friday I asked if he was going to go back to Papua New Guinea or travel on to the States where he has been granted status.  He wouldn't answer.  He may very well just decide to do a Zaoui and plead for asylum here. What a bed of thorns.  If he does and we accept him then Australia will be livid. If we don't and throw him out we'll be the bad guy.  Watch this one carefully.

Sammy Courtright is an attention to detail aficionado from the land down under who’s been with Fitspot from the very beginning. With a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Miami, she’s a nationally certified Pilates instructor who brings a blend of grit and imagination to the zillions of tasks that confront every startup. While she wears many hats at Fitspot, doing everything from sketching app screens to managing the customer experience, she can’t leave the house without her Akubra. Follow Worthix on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/worthix/ Follow Worthix on Twitter: @worthix Follow Sammy Courtright on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sammycourtright/ Follow Sammy Courtright on Twitter: @sammycourtright Follow Mary Drumond on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marydrumond/ Follow Mary Drumond on Twitter: @drumondmary

Sammy is an attention to detail aficionado from the land down under who’s been with Fitspot from the very beginning. With a BA in fine arts from the University of Miami, she’s a dancer, an actor and a nationally certified Pilates instructor who brings a blend of grit and imagination to the zillions of tasks that confront every startup. While she wears many hats at Fitspot, doing everything from sketching app screens to managing the customer experience, she can’t leave the house without her Akubra.

This week Alice and Mark chuck on an Akubra and find out what deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce really thinks about Johnny Depp (hint: it’s not good). We also find out wtf paleo pear and banana bread is, predict Australia’s new prime minister with Sky News’ Samantha Maiden and debut our new gossip section ~gallery whispers~.

Learn English while learning about daily life in Australia, with Rob McCormack Podcast Number 75 – Australia’s Hat – The Akubra http://traffic.libsyn.com/slowenglish/podcast75.mp3 Hi, In an earlier... Visit slowenglish.info for the full content of each topic.

In this episode I go on an adventure to find the perfect outdoor hat   LINKS: Real Deal Brazil Tarp Hat Akubra - Snowy River Hat David Morgan - Hat Dealer Stormy Kromer Buff USA Headwear O.R. Research - Seattle Sombrero Hats Videos Jeff Daniels takes an RV to Stormy Kromer Factory Story about an Akubra hat Stormy Kromer Testimonial  

The GFAF crew throw some shrimps on the barbie and put on an Akubra as they celebrate Australia Day on this episode. [0:28] "General Chitchat" - The heat wave is discussed, which made Adelaide the hottest city in the world (yep, exciting weather chat), as well as Tyson's recent experience with a film crew following him around, and Australia Day! [10:02] "Theme bomb" - The lads try to recall old theme songs of the cartoons they used to watch on Australia Day during their childhood. [17:31] "Didgeridoos and Didgeridon'ts" - The "do and don't"s are discussed for popular Australian pastimes. [32:31" "Australia Day, but not really Australia Day, because it is in another country..." (worst title of a segment to date)- The GFAF crew discuss what other countries may celebrate on their national day. Don't forget to enter our competition to be the feature of episode 30!