Rather optimistically, Danny has given me a running order for his Drivetime show, including slots for traffic and travel, ads, songs and little features starring the Herts Ad team.
A great number of these slots have "This timing is approximate" written alongside them, which suggests either a laissez-faire attitude to proceedings, or an inability to keep on schedule. I guess we'll find out.
(Meanwhile, in my other identity as a dad-to-be, it seems Mrs A has been busy scrounging useful items from friends and colleagues for the Spawn. Today's haul includes a breast pump (not sure if it's plug-in or manual) and a sterilising kit. Lovely. I get quite excited about the gadget side of baby-rearing - it was certainly a lot easier to put our new travel system up and down once I started thinking of it along the lines of a Transformers action figure..)
Danny is talking about "the other side of the office", which suggests we have a much bigger set-up than in reality. Reporter Laura has been chatting on air about her job, which is always weird for reporters, being on the other side of an interview, but she's been bribed with a smorgasbord of different-flavoured doughnuts, so is playing ball for a change.
Being out of the studio has rather limited the choice of songs available for broadcast, hence a playlist which thus far has included the likes of Barry Manilow and Billy Joel. An offer to let them use my iPod instead was sadly turned down...
Running a regional newspaper is a full-time job, involving long hours, commitments in the local community and a general inability to ever switch off . Just like being a father. Juggling the two should be fun then...
What's it all about?
I've been a journalist for almost 20 years, and in that time I've jumped out of planes, interviewed Prime Ministers and visited warzones, all of which is a piece of cake in comparison to being a new dad. This is me, desperately trying to juggle my role as local newspaper editor with my impending responsibilities as a new father, and determined not to fail at either. D-day is May 23, and after that, nothing will be the same again...
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