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Sunday, 17 August 2014

Spare a thought for me, I was up early this morning and at work; I have the hardest job in the world. It was time to pay the price for my laziness in not recording The Sunday Alternative earlier in the week, and my punishment was being awake before noon on a Sunday. After taking Jack to the park for a run around my head was cleared for the job in hand. Recording went smoothly and the show was available before the metaphorical ink had dried. Half an hour later there had been 100 hits, which is fantastic news as it shows that the podcast audience is growing without the need to have an outlet on radio. I do miss live radio though.

To refer back to yesterday’s blog; I didn’t really bite the shop assistant in That’s Entertainment. I was simply employing a punch line in light of the subject of my dog. It was a genuinely nice thing to have happened as I have never been recognised by a member of the public before. At gigs I often get asked if I’m Steve Oliver but that is mostly from musicians I haven’t met but have supported in some way. I suppose my default profile picture helps (it’s even used as my newspaper byline) as I am mainly known for radio, podcasts, and audio books. Having said that, nobody has heard my voice and recognised me so maybe that theory doesn’t hold water. It’s pretty cool that my name means something to some people though, perhaps more so in Nottingham.

It wasn’t all work today, we went to my dad’s for Sunday lunch and spent the rest of the day doing nothing apart from a bit of catch up with my emails as Sunday is a good day to do this as nobody checks on a Sunday so you should be top of the inboxes on Monday morning.

Jack enjoyed his Sunday lunch

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