That's One In The Eye For Pudsey
I was still in Glasgow this morning when Fred MacAulay and Ali Park launched our Children In Need programming. Poor John Beattie had finally surrendered to his sick bed after struggling through the first four days of the week. It was good to hear so many live link-ups around the country including our SoundTown school in Kelso.
In the afternoon Janice Forsyth and Tom Morton teamed for a three hour mix of live music and guests. I was intrigued to hear classicial pianist Lang Lang reveal that he first began bashing the keys of a "cheesy Chinese piano" at the age of two after watching a Tom & Jerry cartoon. By the time he was five years old he was winning major prizes but still regarded "that cat" as his role model.
By this time I was on the road north and running into a snowstorm on the A9.
Then an accident blocked the carriageway at and a slow-moving line of cars finally came to a halt. I sat there for two hours and noticed I wasn't far from Carrbridge and the exact spot where I'd been stuck in a motionless train a few weeks ago. What it is about that place?
Still, it was a chance to listen to Vic Galloway and Bryan Burnett continue the Children In Need theme. The the car started to move again. Seven hours after I'd set off from Glasgow I was turning into the driveway at home where two little snowmen had been built to welcome me back. One of them looked like a little one-eyed bear.
