It's nice to get out (From South Wales Argus)

It's nice to get out

4:08pm Wednesday 27th May 2009

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It’s always to get out of the station to press the flesh, although one has to be careful whose flesh you’re pressing for obvious reasons.

Last week I wandered off while no one was looking after my Real Radio Renegade-shortened two hour stint and motored off to Carmarthen to deliver some prizes that had been won on my “Pop The Question” competition.

Here's a question; what's so difficult about inventing a car park ticket machine that does two reasonably important functions, namely accepting notes and giving change. Is this really beyond the capability in this era of terabytes, twittering and other words beginning with "t"?

Apparently it is, so you have to park the car, run to the shops before some official gets busy with his ticketing machine, buy a Mars bar you don't really want (other chocolate bars are available) just to get a pound coin to stick in the machine.

All this added to the fact that you don't really know where you're going, if you did you wouldn't have already driven around the town centre twice.

It was a thoroughly pleasant afternoon, I should do it more often.

I often wonder what listeners think when they see “that bloke off the radio” because when you're on the radio you have the comfort of anonymity which means when you meet the listener they inevitably hit you with "I didn't think you looked like that".

It's best not to develop that conversation as it can only end in sadness and heartache.

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