Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire

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Journalist and Producer of 'Jon Smith at Breakfast' on BBC Radio Gloucestershire

A Hartpury Green Perry Pear carved from stone with a wrought iron stalk sitting on a plinth. My clay German tankard is enjoying a prime position. In front of the plinth is a frame holding a sheet describing the pear, how it was made and who crafted it.
Four people, three men and one woman, try to break the world record for eating fish fingers in sixty seconds in a radio studio. They fail.
A crowd of people sitting at picnic tables in front of a big stage where there is a four piece band playing live. Off to the side is a stall selling Sri Lankan street food. There's people of all ages. It's the beer garden of The Black Bear Tewkesbury.
A plastic pint (because there's a music festival in town) bearing a poem (bearing geddit? No, okay..) It says "The Old Black Bear. In forests deep, a bear of age, with fur so dark, a weathered page. He's seen the seasons turn and fall, and heard the whispers of the wall. With gentle paws and wisdom deep, he watches over all that sleep. A guardian strong, a silent friend, the old black bear will never end." It's on a table in The Black Bear Tewkesbury.
Two men in a radio studio in Gloucester. One is wearing a Germany top the other an Ecuador top. They are retro style football t-shirts. The men look very happy about it all, even though the posing is a touch Littlewoods Catalogue.
A pint of Hobgoblin on the arm of a bench overlooking the River Severn in Gloucestershire
A field of wild daffodils at Shaw Common in Gloucestershire's Golden Triangle near Newent in the Forest of Dean.
A glass of perry next to a brown bottle on a blue table in a garden in West Gloucestershire. The bottle has a wood cut label with pears and blossom and the words Severn Cider Perry. The sun is out and all is well.
Two men and a woman in a radio studio discuss their experiences delivering vehicles and aid to Ukraine. Their stories are cut with footage from the journey.
A Cragford Narcissus with three white heads that hold golden trumpets growing in West Gloucestershire
The flowers of five crocus plants in bloom. There's purple and white petals and orange stamen. They're growing out of green grass in West Gloucestershire.
Two musicians playing folk instruments at The Hartpury Orchard Centre in Gloucestershire. It's nighttime in January. They're under the wooden shelter and there's people milling about.
A pint of Wye Valley Brewery's Anchorman at 3.4% on a red beermat on a wooden table in what's argued to be Gloucestershire's oldest pub The Black Bear Inn, Tewkesbury. There's light streaming in from the windows on the left of shot.
A frozen canal in Gloucestershire with the sun rising. The stern of a narrow boat is on the foreground and there’s trees in the distance.
Plenty of sheep (perhaps Badger Faced Mules) all looking at the viewer in a field in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. The sky is leaden, the grass is green and sheep are keen.
Studio 2 at BBC Radio Gloucestershire. There’s a microphone, mixing desk, many screens, a notepad, glass of water, cup of tea, a mobile phone and a newspaper
A radio studio with multiple screens, keyboard, mixing desk, controller, headphones and microphones. There's a jacket hanging on that back of a chair and beyond that a glass window into the operations room.
The Ashleworth Show. A cricket field in Gloucestershire given over to a fun day at the end of summer. There are marquees, stalls and hay bales. As well as a big bouncy castle and a climbing wall.
Two teams of men play football in the River Windrush in Gloucestershire. One team in blue, the other in orange. There's plenty of splashing about.
It's a three photo montage of the Cotswold Designer Outlet near Tewkesbury. It's an outdoor shopping centre, with plenty of the famous local stone colour on display. There's also lamposts, plants and benches among the shoppers.
A photo montage of the glory that is Gloucester Tip. Or The Hempsted Recycling Centre if you wanna be official about it. The various bays for housing your stuff, the one way system, the leaden skies and parched earth. Paradise in Gloucestershire.
The bank of the River Wye. Lydbrook Tump. Benches, trees and people cooking on barbecues. It's a sunny day in Gloucestershire. There are paddlers on the river.
A cycling road race with motorcycle outriders in Gloucestershire.
A Poplar Hawk Moth in a clear case on a white table in a field in Gloucestershire.
Four photographs of The Local Plums of Gloucestershire. And some are in surprising colours, not the purple you'd expect but also yellows and greens.
A large plate with grilled bacon, two fried eggs and two fried slices of black pudding. To the left a smaller plate with four slices of toast. To the right a bowl of baked beans, and just on the edge of shot a mug of tea. The mug is pale with a blue print of historic buildings and the word Gloucester. In the background is a bottle of red sauce. There is one fork, no knife.
An England Women's Euros themed window of a charity shop. Everything red and white and football themed, apart from a small, black and orange drinking cup from Disney's The Lion King which has been modified with a white hand written sticker to now read The Lioneese
It's a field at The Tewkesbury Medieval Festival. The grass is parched. There is a group of three men in shorts to the left of the shot and another man in shorts to the right. But in the middle is a man leaning against the back of a large wooden chair. He is wearing a Wolfskin on his head. He must be warm in that. In the background is a row of trees and a Ferris Wheel. Everyone is having a good time with happy smiling faces.
A field of crops with a farm track cutting from right to left and a farm building on the far left of shot. There are trees in the distance and beyond that further fields of crops. The sky is blue with rolling fluffy clouds. We're in the north of Gloucestershire, to the west of the Severn.
Robbie Savage, a white middle aged man with greying mid-length hair and greying beard, is wearing a white sports top and t-shirt. He has a fist raised in celebration. There is a football ground stand behind him with some onlookers. Also an inset of a corner flag bearing his new club, Forest Green Rovers, crest. He looks rather happy.
The ops room at BBC Radio Gloucestershire London Road studios. Plenty of screens, computers and other bits of technical kit
A green field in the west of England. In the distance are trees, some farm buildings and a church spire. The blue sky has plenty of white clouds but no indication of the imminent thunderstorm that can be heard rolling around the area.
A group of male and female dancers in traditional polish clothing dancing in Gloucester Park with a large crowd looking on.
Two men stand in front of a buzz wire game in the shape of the letters BBC. One in a pale jacket is having a go. He is the local MP Dr Simon Opher. The other in a dark jacket is holding a microphone. He is the BBC Radio Gloucestershire Breakfast Show presenter Jon Smith. Behind them is a satellite truck for outside broadcast. They are in a large playing field in the West of England.
A playing field in England with lanes marked out for Egg and Spoon races. The rope is covered with Union Flags. In the distance is a BBC Satellite truck.
A man in a hard hat and high visibility clothing learns how to build a dry stone wall in the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire.
A city garden in Gloucestershire showing a vixen with her three playful cubs. It is late evening as the light begins to fade.
Two Cragford Narcissus plants. They're a daffodil that has four flowers. The petals are white and the trumpets are orange.
Two pints, a packet of scampi flavour fries, and a newspaper on a table in the bar of a pub in Gloucestershire, England. That's your Saturday sorted.
A meadow completely full of wild daffodils in fat north west Gloucestershire
A group of people gathered around a tree reciting The Hartpury Wassail. There's a man in a smock with a Hurdy Gurdy.
A display in a shop window of a selection of Easter Eggs for sale. Mini Eggs, Wispa, Twirl, Crunchie, Dairy Milk and Smarties are your choices in January.
Two men taking a tour of a brand new building finishing with a view out of floor to ceiling windows across the city of Gloucester
Melting snow on a field in Gloucestershire. Bare branches in the foreground and trees in the distance. There's a line of telegraph poles to the right with birds on the wires.
A pint of beer on a table in a pub in front of a woodburning stove.
The entrance to The Forest of Dean's Speech House. A statue of a stag deer is on the roof of the porch.
A Christmas Tree to the left and a lamppost to the right frame Newent's Market House with a red telephone box in front
Cirencester Abbey against a vivid clear blue sky
A small fried breakfast consisting of two pieces of toast, one egg, one rasher of bacon, one sausage and a mug of tea. There's a squeezee bottle of red sauce on the table next to a salt cellar. While a knife and fork rest on a paper serviette. The scene is from a café in Gloucester.
A pint of Perry on a picnic table outside the Hartpury Orchard Centre in Gloucestershire. The buildings are in the background and there's a packet of salt and vinegar crisps peeping out of the top of an open yellow canvas army style backpack.
A white chicken wearing a hi viz jacket roams her patch as her owner a woman called Sharon explains why.
A white hen wearing a yellow Hi-Viz jacket. On the top half it says The Railway Inn and on the bottom half her name - Billie Jean.
Cirencester town centre looking very ready for Christmas. A tree to the left, Christmas lights in the foreground and a market all in front of the beautiful Abbey.
More than SIX HUNDRED Father Christmases gathering in Gloucester's Kings Square ahead of the city's Santa Fun Run.
A flooded road and fields near the River Severn in Gloucestershire.
Two people in a radio studio. The woman is wearing normal every day clothes, but the man is wearing a Santa Claus suit. The video is filmed from behind the soundproof door by the exasperated producer of the show.
Ed Slater on the left with his family and Kevin Sinfield on the right before Kevin set off on the second leg of his Seven Consecutive Days of 50km.
Two pints of Perry at The Hartpury Orchard Centre's Christmas Fayre. There's people milling about in the background and stalls with festive offers.
A pint of beer on a table in a pub with newspapers and the bar in the background
A flooded car park, beer garden an caravan site in Gloucestershire.