Sunday 2nd March 2008

The first show was interesting for me in the studio as I attempted to speak to Gwenda in Cork, Ireland but due to technical problems we couldn't talk to her on air, after some groveling we will talk to Gwenda (hopefully) on air and find out about her involvement with Welsh Societies around the world.
Contrary to rumour I'm not totally inept with technical equipment as we took a request via e-mail from Daz 'da fish' Herring listening via the web from Adelaide and we were able to play him a tune from Erasure.
I played an interview recorded a few weeks prior to Sunday with Jeff Cronkshaw who was in Capel Curig training for his expedition to Everest base camp raising money for education in Nepal. Jeff's mother lives in Llandudno and she has since updated me on his progress.
Tuesday 4th March 2008

The altitude is making them feel short of breath. They have
headaches and lots of aches and pains.. yesterday they climbed
1100 metres.
The food is awful but the scenery is very dramatic. The food
consists of mashed potato with bits in. Jeff hasn't worked out
what the bits are.
Though the sherpa cooking fails to impress the sherpa abilities
do. Jeff  is full of admiration for the loads they carry.
A stray dog has joined their party. So far he hasn't been given
a name. There are also 8 yaks. Isabella has befriended one of the
yaks. We don't know which one or whether this yak has a name..
so we will call it, The Highly Favoured One.
At night it is freezing. The party will spent  last night at
aprox 11646 feet.
Tomorrow they will reach.....Namache Bazaar. The last town
before Everest.... They hope to get their first view of
Everest today, weather permitting.

That's it for now, tune in next Sunday from 11.00 am.