Commentating

To bring the blog up to date, I've had a nice gentle weekend this weekend. Saturday shopped for birthday presents and running gear, sorted out a mess at the bank, listened to the footy and then went out in the evening for drinks. Today, went to Clare's for a nice roast and have spent the evening frantically cleaning the house.

I want to talk about my new commentating role.. but first to catch up on another couple of things.

1.) The job I am quite settled in now and it's going okay - and above all, it feels great just to have employment in this day and age - I know I am lucky.

2.) A couple of weekends ago, I enjoyed a great trip around some of the sights of York for Residents' Weekend... Firstly visited York Dungeons' (we were the first people inside lol)... It is fantastic - a lot better than I thought it would be - and the series of guides that take you through it are excellent.... The top of Cliffords' Tower, which I've done before - great view over York... And the Army museum - which is right in the centre of York and I had no clue it even existed - and its massive!!!

I'm loving the new commentary role for Hospital Radio - commentating on York City's home games - and right now it's my favourite thing in my life - as well as the commentating, I'm enjoying preparing before-hand - simply because I love reading about football!! So far I've done two games - 60 minutes in the first one, and a full 90 minutes in the second one (with a co-commentator of course - we switch around to share it)

I've also been lucky enough to commentate on 2 wins! The second one being a memorable 4-1 win over Wimbledon. The next game is this Tuesday - against Fleetwood who we are chasing down for the play-off position so it's going to be a really big game!!!

I am hoping to do a good enough job so that I can commentate on the further 5 games in March and the 3 in April before the season ends (unless we get into the play-offs!)

As for the role itself, it's really really enjoyable - getting to watch the games from a great vantage point whilst genuinely sharing my excitement and emotions with those listening in the hospital. And of course, it fulfils a childhood dream.

This week is really busy and I'm getting a bit stressed out over it already - and on how I'm going to fit everything in!

Monday I prepare for the commentary, Tuesday I commentate, Wednesday I have my show and we're hopefully meeting in the pub to plan our training schedule for the run, Thursday I'm really really hoping to get off work - so that in the morning I can catch up on sleep and then Paula is visiting in the afternoon and evening :-)

Friday is Lexi's 30th birthday which involves dressing as a cowboy and barn-dancing/ceilidh-ing!! Should be a lot of fun!!! I'm looking forward to it, although a bit stressed about fitting everything in this week!!!

Finally, I have started doing stuff to the Web site www.yorkhospitalradio.com - long overdue!!!! I'm putting weekly updates on there - 3 are on already.