Are you ready for your close up?

What a day.

Into Liverpool to the fabulous Liverpool Podcast Studios to make some recordings for an EDI training resource we are building at work.  The studio was further away from the station than I had thought and my knee, which hasn't been in great working order for a few weeks but which I hadn't thought to strap, let me know half of the way there it was time to slow down or stop.  Oh well, any excuse to get the camera out!   Blip is of a piece of street art I found along my route because of course it's Liverpool and The Beatles is our life blood.

I also ended up taking lots of photos in the podcast studio - as I had a camera with me it was assumed I was a photographer... wry internal smiling and summoning the spirit of Folkie.  There were then team photos it was determined I needed to be in - I was NOT ready to be on the other side of the camera, but they will doubtless be useful promo when the resource is ready (hopefully my tired and gloomy face can be edited out).  Then it got even worse as one of the actors was quite late, which left us with some paid-for and unused time in the studio, so of course it was decided that my team would make a short segment about why we are producing the resource.  This will be really useful for various promo reasons, but recording and filming for a podcast was not on my bingo card for the day - albeit there was a slight grudging respect from The Bo about the fact I'd been in a professional studio for this activity when I got home, and I'll take that from a teenager.

On the plus side, I looked out a window and found the warehouse where all the ice cream vans were parked.  This surprises noone - my ice cream senses are finely honed to sniff out flakes at 500 paces and was probably the top moment of my day (to be fair, the recording all went really well and I shouldn't do that down, it's the culmination of months of work and I'm very proud of it... I just didn't plan to be IN it!)

Then a quick dash across the city as I had an online teaching commitment and not enough time to get home, so into the office for the first time in a couple of weeks... managed to survive that in all senses, with only minor technical hitches with the online teaching before heading home...