Unscrewing Knees with Kenny Peters

(pic: Christopher J via http://www.fubiz.net/en/2014/09/27/surreal-photography-by-christopher-j-2/ ) I knew it, and I think you did too. I start a new blog and there's a huge gap in-between posts.  It's not that I have nothing to say, it's just that life got in the way and I went deaf in one ear over the weekend. I woke up on Saturday morning and I couldn't hear much in my left ear.  I thought it might be down to earwax so I whipped out the Otex and dropped some into the affected ear.  Nothing much happened but it seemed to clear later in the day.  Then I woke up this morning and the same thing happened, so I repeated the Otex and still nothing.  Normally this wouldnt bother me but the fact I can hear chewing, swallowing etc amplified is annoying the buggery out of me, not to mention the constant tinnitus. I hope I can get an emergency appointment with the Doctor tomorrow or I'll have to do a Van Gogh and cut the bloody thing off.  (On second thoughts, that...

I'm sitting here, in a corner of England that is forever Nottingham, feeling quite chuffed with myself that I've managed to rekindle the urge to blog, the stepson is on his laptop and the wife is watching "Ru Paul's Drag Race" on TV. Despite the down-sounding first post, I'm actually quite blessed in many ways.  It's taken me three decades to get into the job I love but I got there and now enjoy at least 8 listeners to my radio show and podcast. Being in radio is both frustrating and cathartic.  Frustrating in the sense that there's so much more to it than just picking music, pressing a button and talking bollocks in between tracks.  For me, and this might shock anyone who knows me, it's the "talking bollocks" part that I find the hardest task. What do  you say that is both entertaining and informative?  In my case, it's back-announcing the tracks and reminding people of ways to get in touch with the show (which nobody ever does, barr...