With all credit to The Wee Review, things have been a little lively since they published our audition notice. Various emails from people I've never heard of have been sliding into my inbox which is lovely. I did a bit of tweeting of local accounts and they've all been fantastically sharing. And then some man got in touch and said would I be interviewed for the Porty Podcast? 

I'm ashamed to say I haven't bumped into the Porty Podcast before but then I'm not very plugged into local community things to my vague shame. And I'm increasingly learning that this is foolish as the local cultural life is thriving. To be fair, the Art Walk was a perfect demonstration. 

So I met Mr Podcast yesterday and he turned out to be not just any old enthusiast but an ex-BBC journalist with 30 years of experience. He reckoned he'd interviewed did he say 1,500 people a year or 15,000 people a year when he was working? Surely the former. So we had a lovely meandering chat about Portobello and the local arts (and rowing) life and his time with the BBC and he slid in a couple of questions about the show along the way. 

But then he turned on the digi recorder and whipped out his shiny silvery mic and he was instantly professional and polished and so very articulate, focused and impressive. He asked the sort of questions that you can't possibly not answer respectably - and when I answered shamefully, he very sweetly reinvented my halting stutters so I seemed succinct and pointed rather than stumblingly oafish. And my out and out stupidity, he says he'll edit out. 

So watch this space. I shall share when it's live. With all thanks to Mr Porty Podcast.