'On The Road' with Carlisle United

Sunday was an amazing day. I was a bit dubious of what the day would bring when the alarm rang out at 5am, slightly groggy due to the cold I have been carrying since mid week. I switched on my radio to find BBC Radio Cumbria's transmitters relaying the 'over-night' service from Five Live... which happened to be live coverage of the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix! Thanks to Phil Jones at Brough Post Office for allowing customers to interrupt his sorting of the morning papers, yup, that was me. The Grand Prix bus arrived at 6am and carried us to Cardiff, from what I have seen, a very beautiful city.

The Millennium Stadium is an imposing structure, there is no other way to describe it. All the plaudits to Carlisle United, losing 2-1 but united in defeat, defiant and strong. And so back on the bus, for another six or seven hours travel.

I took a couple of pocket FM radios on the journey, pencil and paper noting down stations I heard there and back. I will log the stations, with links to their web pages, in a future post on Reporting From The Fox Tower.
And for the anorak in me, we passed close to the BBC transmitter site at Droitwich, responsible for broadcasting BBC Radio 4 Long Wave on 198 kHz and BBC Radio Five Live on 693 kHz Medium Wave.
Just so you know.

And as for Carlisle United ... I expect to see you all, Saturday, Brunton Park, for the game against Grimsby Town. It's gonna be a good 'un!


World of Blog ( part three ) : Traveller's Tales

CATCH UP ON LIFE in Oslo (Norway) with Stine.
I've mentioned Stine previously in Reporting From The Fox Tower, on the occasion of her Twenty - First Birthday, which included a link to her MSN Space, which I have included again here.

I have subtitled this item ' Traveller's Tales' as Stine has travelled the World in recent years, and for those of you who share Stine's enthusiasm for World travel, take a look at Stine's page on the web site 'Where Are You Now' which might give you some ideas for your holiday this summer.

All change - on (or off) the air

That's all for this edition, as some media outlets like to say, especially some radio broadcasts. The turning of March to April has brought about changes to various radio broadcasts in, or from, the United Kingdom. First of all a wind of change - BBC GMR has now reverted to BBC Manchester, whilst it is end of the line for BBC Radio 4's early morning UK Theme and the BBC World Service closed their Calling The Falklands broadcast after many years.
BBC Radio 2 said goodbye to Colin Berry and Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart, veteran pirate broadcaster Johnnie Walker vacated his weekday drivetime show to take over Stewpot's Sunday show, whilst young upstart Chris Evans (age 40) left his Saturday show to take up Johnnie's drivetime. Confused? Questions later...

Will leave you in peace now - for a day or two at least !

Stay tuned to this frequency . . . . .