Radio gaga

     Until today, my only experience of the broadcast media was being interviewed by John Humphrys when he was a young reporter and I was eight years old (and when done my little bit wasn't shown)! But Cornflower has moved on from the cutting room floor because your blogger has just been a guest on BBC Radio Scotland's Book Cafe.
    I joined the professionals to discuss the place of book blogs vis-a-vis the newspapers' review pages, and my conversation with Stuart Kelly, literary editor of Scotland on Sunday, and writer Richard Havers, creator of The Great Bookshops Blog, was ably chaired by Clare English and was a very enjoyable and stimulating one.
   I did tell my children that I would try to pull out the plug at the BBC so that their mother would not be heard, but I'm told that it all went fine (it was live but will be broadcast again) and thankfully my nerves didn't let me down.
    My thanks to my hosts and fellow guests for making the whole procedure painless and very pleasant!