If you work at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, or just use their free Medilink bus service that occasionally runs between there and City Hospital, (it says every ten minutes, but we all know that a 'bus minute' is equal to about four years), then I may be addressing you directly. If you have ginger hair, and a goatee beard, are a man aged late thirties to early forties, wear a suit to work, and own a Kindle, then it might be you. You are the guy that I sat diagonally behind on the bus this evening, giving me the perfect vantage point to see what you were reading. Thank you.

The man addressed in the above paragraph was reading my blog on his Kindle, which knocked me sideways. Since I made it available in this way, I have had a few subscribers making me a millionaire. When I say millionaire, I mean if I save all the money I earn from this venture until I'm about 350 years old. Amazon take a hefty slice of the cake as far as this is concerned, in fact it would have been more cost effective for Amazon to have sent someone round my house with the money in cash rather than posting me a cheque. Anyway, this man had made the wise investment of 99p a month to read my ramblings and for that I am grateful. After all, it amounts to 3p a day, which you can't do anything else with. To save Amazon taking a commission, I will arrange to be somewhere at a designated time and date once a month, and everyone who reads this blog gives me 99p. I'll bring a few pennies just in case you bring a pound coin and want change. In fact, 200 people a day read my blog (on average) via the actual blog page, which they are entitled to do for free anyway, so in theory this method could rope me in £200 a month. When I do my accounts I'll say that 150 people showed up, as self-employed people always keep two sets of books, (not me of course, I'm only joking around and would declare every penny).

I originally put the blog on the Kindle with no expectations about it making a significant amount of money, and I have been proved right about that. To be honest, I don't know why I still bother doing it, but then again a few people seem to prefer to read about my life in this way. This time next year, I'll be a pound-aire!

The radio show got off to its usual shaky start, and developed into three hours of radio magic. Darren always seems, (and I said this to him in person), a tad grumpy when he first arrives at Trent Towers (not an actual tower), and takes time to warm up. Some of our song choices hadn't transferred into the system, and the manager wasn't in, so we looked a bit knackered from the off. To put the tin hat on it, one of our guests didn't show up either. This worked out in our favour in retrospect because we did tend to ramble more than we normally would. Towards the end of the show we found that we had to cram quite a bit in, but we both walked away very pleased with the show. We didn't mean to be quite so self indulgent with the length of our links, but out of the 666,358 people who live in Nottingham, (according to wherever I just read it from when I looked it up, I've closed the window now), there wasn't a single complaint.

Our live guest was the singer/songwriter Josh Kemp, who I have only seen live once but at one point seemed to always be playing at Trent Towers, (not an actual tower). He plays guitar and uses looping, something I still don't really understand, and has an EP out in May. Also, he is gigging tomorrow night so if you're in Nottingham city centre then catch him at Alley Cafe. My aim is to catch him as one of a three venue gig crawl, so the training for the city festivals has begun.

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