Flash Bristow ([info]techiebabe) wrote,
2011-09-03 17:46:00
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Radio, what's new?

Just realised I forgot to tell my LJ followers that I was going to be on the radio this week! Whoops!

I was on Today on Monday (Radio 4) first of all. I was in a very brief discussion with Tessa Munt MP but she wasn't interested in debate, she just wanted to say her piece (even though some of her claims were complete tosh) and railroad. Disappointing.

Then I was on Radio Somerset and Radio Bristol the same day.

On Tuesday I rested!

On Wednesday I was on Jeremy Vine show (Radio 2) and it was a lot of fun; I was interviewed first and then responded to comments from callers.

If you are interested you can Listen Again to any of these but I recommend the Jeremy Vine show:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013wvyl/Jeremy_Vine_Should_everyone_in_your_workplace_voluntarily_disclose_what_they_earn_in_the_interests_of_equality/ - I'm on from about 1hr41 to about 1hr53. As I said it was fun, and I hope interesting. It's gained me some new twitter followers anyway!

Speaking of twitter - that, Facebook and Google+ are where I tend to be these days. Is there anyone following me on Livejournal who doesn't follow / friend me on one of those three social media? I'm not sure how redundant my LJ postings are these days. Please speak up if you follow me here, and only here - it would help me to know. Thanks!

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[info]rmc28

September 3 2011, 16:56:07 UTC 8 months ago

I don't do Facebook or Google+. I follow you on twitter but I don't make much effort to read everything on Twitter, just what's there when I check it. LJ & DW are where I always go back to where I last read. I also follow Flash Says on Google Reader.

[info]techiebabe

September 3 2011, 17:01:55 UTC 8 months ago

Fair enough - forgot you were unhappy with Google+ - their name policy is annoying. Thanks for letting me know (I can be the same with twitter, depending on how bored I am - I certainly miss some things).

I'm glad you read FlashSays (eep, I have three half-finished articles, I'd better finish one of them and post something) but unlike everywhere else it's not really the place where I'd announce about being on the radio - at least in advance.

Thanks for responding.

[info]sammason

September 3 2011, 18:01:50 UTC 8 months ago

I read you here and this is the only social network I use.

[info]techiebabe

September 3 2011, 21:01:05 UTC 8 months ago

Hi Sam - I appreciate that you are reading. Thanks for replying too.

[info]nou

September 3 2011, 22:23:55 UTC 8 months ago

I don't use Twitter or Facebook, and I can't use Google+ because they've suspended me and have stopped replying to my requests to be reinstated. I do read Flash Says via RSS though.

[info]techiebabe

September 3 2011, 22:44:03 UTC 8 months ago

Oh no, I didn't know Google+ had done that to you :-( Over your name?

Thanks for reading Flash Says - as I said to Rachel (above) it's a bit different as that's not the sort of blog where I'd mention about being on the radio in advance, this is though.

Thanks for replying, tis appreciated.

[info]nou

September 5 2011, 10:11:14 UTC 8 months ago

I've not heard of anyone being suspended from Google+ over anything but names! Yes, it's because of my name — specifically, it's because they want me to put something other than "..." in the surname field". I did try putting "." instead, in line with this profile (which is clearly acceptable to them), but the system wouldn't accept that.

[info]wibble_puppy

September 4 2011, 08:30:50 UTC 8 months ago

Nice one for your radio appearances! I don't have time to listen to them - what subject was being discussed?

I only use Live Journal; Facebook is too frantic for me and I haven't found anything useful or interesting among the very few tweets I've ever seen (so clearly I don't belong in the UK in the 21st century).

[info]techiebabe

September 4 2011, 12:26:58 UTC 8 months ago

They were all about pylon appreciation - because Liam Fox has written to Chris Hugne to say he hates the idea of more pylons being built and can we please put all the cables underground. They wanted someone to speak up for pylons!

Thanks for responding, and there's nothing wrong with not finding twitter useful, although I do; the other day I put out a request for veggie places to eat and accessible things to do in Brighton and got loads of very helpful replies. Plus some friends ONLY use twitter so it's good to stay in touch with them that way. But that's just me. Sorry you haven't found any use for it - absolutely fair enough though!

[info]wibble_puppy

September 4 2011, 18:19:49 UTC 8 months ago

I'm with Liam Fox - given the current prospects for the area where I live (the whole of mid-Wales is due to be turned into a giant wind farm, basically, with many many lines of associated enormous pylons). It must be hard for you, seeing the beauty of the structures as you do, to understand why people might not want them around. I hope they didn't give you too much of a grilling.

Brighton has absolutely the most amazing veggie restaurant EVAH - the awesome (and pricey) Terre a Terre. My parents took me there and I then bought my mum their cook book - the recipes are astonishing. To be placed at the opposite end of one's cook book shelf from Jamie's 30-Minute Meals. I hope some of your tweets mentioned the place - but I can't remember what the accessibility is like. I don't remember having any problems, and we ate on the ground floor, but I'm not using a wheelchair at the moment.

[info]techiebabe

September 4 2011, 19:05:08 UTC 8 months ago Edited:  September 4 2011, 19:06:09 UTC

Oh, I can understand why some people don't share my view - I don't expect everyone to agree with me, just to hear my point of view and think about it. Just one thing though, they are being advertised as "super pylons" - they aren't. They will be just under 50 metres, the same height as those which have been around since the 1980s. MPs are using emotive language and being economical with facts - no surprise there!

[e2a: wind farms can be huge, though. And repetitive, so not interesting to me at all. They DO engulf the landscape somewhat.]

Today was a bit of a grilling but Jeremy Vine show was fun, I got a chance to explain why I like them and to answer questions of detractors, which was interesting and enjoyable. I love talking on radio.

On to Brighton - you're the third person to recommend Terre a Terre and I think that's where we will go for our anniversary meal (dinner) - I'll book it this week. I've been told it's accessible but I'll check when I ring. Thanks for your comment, it sounds fantastic. I love it when I can choose from the entire menu, too :-)

[info]wibble_puppy

September 4 2011, 19:30:29 UTC 8 months ago

I think for our area there's a bunch which will connect the wind farms to the sub-stations, which are "normal" sized, and then lines connecting the sub-stations to the grid, which are very very large.

And yes, the turbines themselves are now very outsized.

Half of this is about proportion - the appropriate proportions of things introduced into a beautiful, beautiful, ancient landscape of rolling hills covered with little woods, ancient cottages, and small pastures. The other half is the horrible futility of permanently raping the landscape in the name of carbon emissions when wind farms do now appear to be of very, very little help in that respect. If they really were a viable answer I'd feel a bit differently about the whole thing. Dear god, they are even going to destroy our little lane because they will need to widen and straighten it in order to bring enormous turbine parts along it.

However, as I may have remarked in my journal, if the turbines and associated pylons do come, which I feel convinced they will, then I shall join the PAS - one might as well embrace any changes rather than sulking in one's tent ;D

I do hope you are as fascinated by Terre a Terre as I was. I'm quite an experienced cook and enjoy eating out when I can afford it, but was genuinely surprised, thrilled and delighted by their food. Very, very good staff, too. Let them know it's your anniversary.

[info]dve_imperii

September 4 2011, 19:20:45 UTC 8 months ago

Sergey here. Reading your LJ and Flash Says (both via RSS), can't stand Twitter or Facebook (too old for this kind of thing I'm afraid). Played a while with Google+ but don't find it very interesting at the moment and deleted myself from there. Oh well, what a sociopath I am...

[info]techiebabe

September 4 2011, 21:44:04 UTC 8 months ago

Hello Sergey, good to hear from you again. Sorry that Google + didn't work out for you, I wouldn't call you a sociopath though ;-) Thanks for responding!

[info]alexmc

September 5 2011, 11:37:39 UTC 8 months ago

*AND* I saw some of your photography in Leytonstone ;-)

[info]shynesscanstopu

September 5 2011, 17:39:06 UTC 8 months ago

I didn't catch your announcements, but did hear you on Jeremy Vine! We heard him say ..."and we will be speaking to somebody from the Pylon Appreciation Society..." and knew it would be you! Sadly I was on my way out, but N listened to the whole thing and then had it ready for me on 'listen again' as soon as I got home :)

You are becoming quite the pro! You came across really well and Jeremy obviously loved you!

Although Claude has a Twitter account, I don't and although Harveyanne has a Facebook account, I don't, so would really miss you if you disappeared from LJ (I do miss the frequency of you posts already!)... Whatever the faults of LJ, it's a lot more intimate than the others and just feels a bit more controllable,,, y'know?

[info]mammadibiba

September 20 2011, 13:37:59 UTC 7 months ago

Reading your web at the mo. Lots of things to make me think.
I don't do Google + as I am not enamoured (yet, maybe?) and I didn't much enjoy twitter really. That leaves us Facebook... Or you could post more things here ;)!
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