Took Christmas to Scotland and saw the flooding at first hand. A miserable time for many. Goodness knows how people cope, recover and restart. What about all those with medical needs ? It must be a nightmare.
Email exchange N and me.
Me: TV was ok ish they filmed for two hours and showed about 1 minute of me gabbling and washing hands. Was only just back from funeral of awesome lovely young friend of L. We went together. It was one amzing send off. Must have been 900 people mostly the young with their parents too. Brave eulogies brave coffin bearers, brave family, so many of our friends there, I loved the coffin natural reed and poppies all over the white non-hearse…goodness what a sad day. How ever family partner relatives friends cope thereafter. I just do not know.
So then, as the BBC had scheduled, home we went for the appointed interview. My mind not on it. My plan for hair, smart outfit etc thrown by the lack of time…but arrive BBC did and they were so nice.
Picture the scene:in bathroom cameraman, lights, hairy microphone thingy and the journalist… My bathroom too small so we moved into G’s. I’m proud of his Father Christmas loo paper that made it into the shot.
Radio: we were on our way back from Scotland. Stayed in flooded Cumbria. Heard dramatic stories of water filling from the floor boards up and more such horrible disasters. We witnessed for ourselves the sandbags and M6 ‘lake’, so miserable. Atmosphere in the pub on our way home, was fabulous. Such stoicism in adversity…even joking about the ‘Lake District’. We managed a brief ‘WitnNail and I memory! Amazing locals jam-packed in. The landlady said it was the busiest night of the year. Come morning 8:00 am and my scheduled interview at 9:30, I realised my mobile signal had disappeared along with the floods …no phone signal. So rang BBC producer and spoke to pub lady…. Interview ended up on landline ,in breakfast room, surrounded by dogs ,coffee, bacon ,toast , sausages …and ME…trying to answer open unplanned questions while remembering to repeat my three ‘rocks’ #bladderandbowel#youngpeople #itspersonalIt was funny in retrospect but stressy in reality! L telling me to take the call upstairs in my room ….me gesticulating that actually I was already ‘ON AIR’ D munching toast, dogs pouncing on any dropped crumbs….frrrr I’ll never be a movie star.
Me: TV was ok ish they filmed for two hours and showed about 1 minute of me gabbling and washing hands. Was only just back from funeral of awesome lovely young friend of L. We went together. It was one amzing send off. Must have been 900 people mostly the young with their parents too. Brave eulogies brave coffin bearers, brave family, so many of our friends there, I loved the coffin natural reed and poppies all over the white non-hearse…goodness what a sad day. How ever family partner relatives friends cope thereafter. I just do not know.
So then, as the BBC had scheduled, home we went for the appointed interview. My mind not on it. My plan for hair, smart outfit etc thrown by the lack of time…but arrive BBC did and they were so nice.
Picture the scene:in bathroom cameraman, lights, hairy microphone thingy and the journalist… My bathroom too small so we moved into G’s. I’m proud of his Father Christmas loo paper that made it into the shot.
Radio: we were on our way back from Scotland. Stayed in flooded Cumbria. Heard dramatic stories of water filling from the floor boards up and more such horrible disasters. We witnessed for ourselves the sandbags and M6 ‘lake’, so miserable. Atmosphere in the pub on our way home, was fabulous. Such stoicism in adversity…even joking about the ‘Lake District’. We managed a brief ‘WitnNail and I memory! Amazing locals jam-packed in. The landlady said it was the busiest night of the year. Come morning 8:00 am and my scheduled interview at 9:30, I realised my mobile signal had disappeared along with the floods …no phone signal. So rang BBC producer and spoke to pub lady…. Interview ended up on landline ,in breakfast room, surrounded by dogs ,coffee, bacon ,toast , sausages …and ME…trying to answer open unplanned questions while remembering to repeat my three ‘rocks’ #bladderandbowel#youngpeople #itspersonalIt was funny in retrospect but stressy in reality! L telling me to take the call upstairs in my room ….me gesticulating that actually I was already ‘ON AIR’ D munching toast, dogs pouncing on any dropped crumbs….frrrr I’ll never be a movie star.
N: I wish all this background information had made it into the ‘shots’ and ‘talkspace’ for the general public, for added piquancy. it makes it all the more impressive. How did you concentrate and appear so unflappable and unflapped. Youwill be a movie star says the fairy godmother xx
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