A severe lack of updates

I apologise to all those people that visit every day (according to the statistics that’s about 10 of you) . I’ve been a bit poor with this recently.

When I first started this blog (that’s mostly all the posts that are now hidden and will be used as research for my memoirs in years to come) I was a student who was in class 10 hours a week…… and that was it.

I’m now a student who’s in class about 20 hours a week. And in work on the radio 7 days a week. I’ve gone from being someone who constantly spent the day in bed to someone who very rarely has the time to go anywhere near bed.

And that’s my excuse.  I’m 3 months away from leaving the education system for good, and while I enjoy every second of it, I will breath a massive sigh of relief when it’s over as I’ll be able to concentrate on the radio properly… and this blog… but mainly the radio show.

David

Napster, the real saviour of the party!

New Year was good. Honestly I wasn’t expecting it to be. The combination of having to wear a kilt and working at 6am on New Years Day both rang alarm bells in my head.

My first time at a Ceilidh and it was actually quite fun. More my thing than visiting nightclubs (which was one of the options for New Years Eve).  My first kilt experience was fun too, although I couldn’t get used to wearing a dress and having no pockets.  Sadly Thankfully the only slightly decent photo of me in a kilt is ruined by one of my knee high kilt socks being down and the other one being up, it looks ridiculous.

After the bells it was back to the flat for a party.  Napster once again becoming the true saviour of New Years Eve. I have awarded this position to it for the last 4 years. I pay £10 a month to Napster for unlimited downloading and streaming of music to my laptop. Sometimes it feels like a waste of money, but every New Years Eve I am reminded it is an essential centre piece to any party.  This year the laptop was connected to the telly, Napster music streamed through the telly with an accompanying screen saver.  Well worth the £120 a year.

2 hours of sleep and a then a taxi into work for 6am. Somehow easier to get up and do the show on New Years Day than it is every Sunday. Not sure how or why.

The next 2 days spent lazing about the flat and watching Friends non stop. I used to hate Friends with a passion, but since Emma bought the box set, the one with all the episodes, I have slowly become addicted.

And now everything is back to normal. Christmas and New Year a distant memory. Who knows where or what I’ll be doing this time next year, hopefully not a lot will change.

Happy New Year.

David

Starting Afresh

I’ve decided to start afresh with this blog.  For various reasons.

Mainly, the last blog was 2 and a half years old (which in the world of David Lewis is quite a long time).  Things have changed quite a bit in the last 2 and a half years and quite frankly some of those really old posts make me cringe.  I have kept those old posts just in case I ever decide to write memoirs in years to come.  I’ll maybe go through them one day and decide which ones the world can see again, but for now they are hidden.

I’ve also moved the blog over to wordpress.com, it’s a bit like Flickr, but for blogs instead of photos. Why?  Well like Flickr, I could have put all my photos on my own website, but then no one would ever have found them.  Stick them on Flickr and suddenly people find them.  It’s the same with blog postings, I hope.

I’m going to try and do something useful with davidrlewis.com. Possibly a website which promotes me as a radio presenter, TV production graduate and freelance grass cutting. That is work in progress.

And maybe I’ll blog a little more than I used to. I’ve promised that before, and it is yet to happen.

David

Dr Karl

Everytime I meet a “celebrity” I end up having a little bit of a smile on my face for the rest of the day. I’m sure it is something that will soon wear off after a few years in the radio industry.

Today was the the turn of Dr Karl Kenney from Neighbours (his real name is Alan Fletcher, but he answers to Karl).  What a nice and friendly man.  More than happy to take part in anything you asked him, and more than happy to get your photo taken with him (take note Noel). I suppose he thrives on this sort of thing.

The work load has been increased recently. I’ve gone from 14 hours on air a week to 23 hours (if only it was in one go, I could host nearly a whole day of Original 106).

You can now hear me,

Monday – Friday, 7 till 10pm.
Saturday, 2-6pm, the Saturday afternoon sports show (hosting a sports show still amuses me slightly).
Sunday, 6 till 10am, Sunday Breakfast (strangely was a really good experience despite being up at ridiculous o’clock on a Sunday morning).

106.3/106.8FM in the North East of Scotland, or www.originalfm.com if you want to listen online.

David