Public broadcasting

A big day for getting the message out there. I spent one and a half hours this afternoon on Radio Southland with Bev Winiata, talking Waituna, apples, driftwood sculptures and gardening with her and her talk-back friends (though most were too shy to speak on air). Good fun. Then it was off to Bill English country (no, not Wellington) to speak to the Gore Women's Dinner Club about the life of a Green Councillor and his family. Robyn and I did a double-act, with pictures and it went, so far as I could tell, very well. I began by saying that the last time I was in that particular room, it was filled with Nats in the form of Don Brash, Bill English, Simon Power and other assorted blue tories and how much better those present looked. Despite Gore being the beating heart of Natty country, they laughed. It was, just like the earlier radio performance, good fun. Now I'm home and ready for some shut-eye.