BLOG #26: The cringe factor was nearly so much worse

So I had my interview on the radio this morning. And what a hair raising experience it was.

I've never been on telly or radio and generally avoid speaking publicly at all costs (but make up for that by obliviously chatting away to smaller audiences) so I was quite apprehensive about the call. I mean it was live and unfortunately you know how much I tend to swear...

Stupidly too, I drew attention to it by sharing the news with everyone, what a pressure inducing error if ever there was one.

Anyway I woke up early to listen to the first couple of hours of the show before I was on. I thought it ironic (?) that the other story was about the 'controversial' plans to expand the Secret Garden Party when all I could think was "Bring it on!" because I'm heading there in July. Thought best to keep out of that debate before I made any enemies. But anyway I digress.

They called at 7.45am and after a two minute chat to explain how it would work they put me on so I could hear the intro bit before they invited me to talk. During this time I got completely flustered and accidently pressed a button on my phone and I couldn't hear anything. I had no idea what I pressed so I just pressed the 'Talk' button and thank every beautiful thing on this planet I could hear the intro again. I literally cannot imagine anything more embarrassing than if they'd said "And now lets speak to Leonie"..... *silence*.... " Oh we seem to have lost her". CRINGE!

Luckily, I was put out of my misery and was on before I knew it. I went to say 'Hi Jeremy' and my voice was all hoarse! Unfortunately I must have sounded like I'd just woken up! I managed to subtley clear my throat and after that I don't really remember much else because it all kind of went by in a blur but I knew at some point I'd have to man up and listen to it on iPlayer...

 Having got over the initial "Do I really sound like that?" and the "Stop saying 'like' woman!" I tried to objectively listen to what I'd actually said. Apart from a cringey moment where 'Jez' talked over me and missed the point I was making about having to carry extra stuff it wasn't too bad except it unfortunately sounded like I hadn't learned anything from the experiment!

When I said I would be getting a phone again, I wanted to explain that was because of a safety perspective but then I rambled on about not being able to make calls at work (WTF!?) when what I actually wanted to follow up with was how I hope I'll be a different phone user after this experiment. - more on that when the experiment ends (which is next week not next month - they clearly didn't read my blog closely enough!)

Ah well - I think I did ok up until that point.

But seriously - do I really sound like that?!?!