Channel 9 TV - my 5 minutes of fame!
Vanessa Milton ABC Open Producer - PS I only just discovered that your story was featured on the main page
of The Drum - this is a high profile part of the ABC News site, they only pick
one of the Open Drum stories to feature, and you’re it!
It all happened last week after a phone call from Channel 9 to appear on their morning program with David and Sonja - Annabelle the producer found my article for ABC Open on The Drum - I didn't realise until Vanessa contacted me that it had been on the front page of their website - amazing.
So off to Canberra, after a morning at the Wyndham market, to stay in a swanky hotel not far from Parliament House where channel 9 have a studio.
I wish I had photographed that studio - it was a blackened room filled with cameras - the backdrop behind me was superimposed and all I saw was a grotty desk with a red button "push it love if you can't hear well enough" - a hairy hair brush which I thought must have been used for their dogs and in front of me a square screen of light - which I stared at like a rabbit in the spotlight - that's where the camera is. Hundreds of miles away in Sydney were the rest of the people I was talking to - I couldn't see them which was rather disconcerting.
So hours of travel to Canberra, hours of travel home and all for this short segment which was wonderful and all scripted - I still have that script to prove to students in schools I visit that everything is set out - it was certainly a great help and my words were taken from the ABC story and a phone call I'd had with Annabelle - all very professional and set out to help me relax.
I left Canberra for home then headed off to Buchan for my first school with 30 students to visit followed by a day with students at Orbost Primary School and calls to Paynesville and my bookstores in Bairnsdale and Lakes Entrance. Next week I'm on the road again visiting schools at Paynesville, Omeo and Swifts Creek!
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