Dave the Dan teaches me a new fact...

Dave the Dan, the man of five coats in the cold, telling me something I did not know until this moment. He tells me that all the oak in these churches would once have been as light a hue as this contemporary wooden screen behind him. The oak darkens with age; a natural process. Well, I didn't know that Dave the Dan, the man of five coats in the cold. I like the cut of yer gib, yer multi-coated scruffian.