Wasn’t it hot today! At one point when we were in Gerzat in mid-afternoon, the temperature on Caliburn’s thermometer was showing 41.3\u00b0C outside and off the scale (ie more than 50\u00b0C) inside. And it felt like it too.<\/p>\n
Yes, we’ve been radioing today, haven’t we?<\/p>\n
And I had a dramatic change of plan too. At 08:45 – 20 minutes before I’m due to leave here to head off to Marcillat and Radio Tartasse, I was busy scanning the news – to discover that Chris Squire, the legendary bassist with Yes, had died.<\/p>\n
So with just 20 minutes before I had to leave here to record the rock programmes, I was sitting down and totally re-writing the show. <\/p>\n
I recorded the rock shows and then Liz came to join me for the normal sessions. That will take us up to the end of July so we could then head back to Liz’s. After lunch (and finishing off the gorgeous dessert that we started yesterday) it was off to the furnace that was Gerzat and Radio Arverne.<\/p>\n
We recoded another 5 programmes there, which will take us nicely up to the beginning of September, and another couple of goes should see us well on our way towards the end of the year. But we need to be well in advance with holidays coming up. Liz is off to the UK to see family and then when she comes back, I’ll be off to Canada.<\/p>\n
On the way back, I stopped for fuel and a little shopping, and a nice cold drink in view of the heat, and I was back here for 18:20, promptly crashing out for an hour or so as it was far too hot up here to be comfortable. <\/p>\n
And talking of being comfortable, I was on my travels again last night, in my nice clean bed. I was with Trixi and a few other people and we were doing a yoga tour of Europe, ending up in the Ukraine and Belarus, before coming back to the Netherlands via Northern Europe. But to cut a long story short … "hooray" – ed<\/em> … the group of people who had come with us had become fed up and left the tour to the two of us. They went home via<\/em> the south of Europe and had become snowed in in Northern Italy while the two of us carried nonchalantly on in the north.<\/p>\n
