Monthly Archive for December, 2009

Salt of the earth

I was rather ineffectually spreading dishwasher salt on the pavement infront of my house the other day; it was really icy and slippery and I was worried we might not get the car back on the drive. A woman pulled up and wound down her window. I assumed she was about to ask directions but instead she offered me some pukka road grit that she’d picked up from the side of the road in Catford. She got out, spread it around, got back in her car and drove off. A lovely random act of kindness.

Lauren Laverne on BBC 6Music

This made me laugh out loud. So lovely to have mornings back again on 6Music… sigh. And I had that Holly Johnson in my studio a few weeks ago. I was sitting there playing out most of ‘Two Tribes’ on 5Live thinking - hang on, this is a speech network, we shouldn’t be doing this - with a big grin on my face.