Sadly, internet was not working smoothly and Jed's 2 hour long blog entry has been lost! So I thought I'd add a brief one; just imagine that this is longer and better written and then you will have an idea of what Jed's post was like. We'll try play around with the blog and see if it was saved somewhere.
Its said that everyone has 15 minutes of fame in their life. On Thursday Jed and I were three times lucky and had about 45 mins of fame. for just those minutes, the two Bell sons were the authourity on Zimbabwe for the small Christian audience of Spirit FM. How did we end up on the Irish airwaves? I'll tell you. Danny - with his usual gift for getting involved and excelling at things - has just been recently trained to volunteer as a RAdio Jockey on Tuesday evenings from 10-12pm for the conversation segment of the evening. He hosts interesting people (!) and plays music inbetween 5-10minutes chats with his guests. This Thursday another RJ called in with a lost voice - actually I think she probably texted in! - and Danny very kindly agreed to step in for an hour, saving his Irish listeners from 2 straight hours of continuous music during 'conversation time'. At about 8pm, Danny came into the lounge where Jed and I were reading as asked if we wanted to be his guests on the radio. yikes!
After not a little backwards and forwarding, we decided to say yes! Not sure what to expect, we arrived at a darkened building with a few lonely cars in the parking lot, and followed Danny up empty floors with deserted desks. Sound emanated from a single room on the third room. For the last hour the 'autoplay' of Spirit FM which passed through the empty building beamed across the Irish republic, but to me it was just a computer left playing music in an empty building. Danny got behind the controls, moved the mouse to wake up the computer and we were off!
Danny has quite a gift for radio. It was surreal to speak to him 'normally' one moment and the next hear him through the studio earphones in perfect Radio voice. The talk itself was quite fun! it took a while for Jed and I to get used to the feel of talking on the radio, and for the life of me I couldn't think what to say to great the listeners. Eventually, I ended up greeting Danny "hi danny" - pretty lame... This was by far the hardest part of the program for me! Unfortunately, its very hard to have a deep or indepth conversation about Zim, which is really what the topic deserves but at least we were able to raise awareness of the country with a few Zim jokes thrown in.
As I am writing this, all four Bell siblings are sitting in the lounge together. Jed and Beks talking about Mugabe and homosexuality in Zim. Rach is trying to fix a sale she made on Amazon. I am trying to finish off the post and write an email or two before breakfast. Waffles today! mmmm. Rach's voice is returning. It nice to hear her talk, rather than rasp a reply.
Last night and this morning, I managed to go for a walk in the neighborhood and was reminded gain of how beautiful this part of the world is. I love the strong winds on overcast days with long green grass areas and gnarled old trees.
Last night and this morning, I managed to go for a walk in the neighborhood and was reminded gain of how beautiful this part of the world is. I love the strong winds on overcast days with long green grass areas and gnarled old trees.
Merry Christmas to all as we remember our Saviour's birth.
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