Got a call from the ABC earlier this week, wanting to know if I would be free to do the Saturday morning breakfast show as the announcer. All four hours of it. Oh, and it's about time you learned how to use the panel and find out what all those shiny button and flashing lights do, so you can run your own panel, Fallon... (Seriously, they call me Fallon at the station all the time... not sure why)

EEEEEK! But, I said yes, (like I was ever go to say no to anything involving a microphone) and after finding out I had to go on air at 6:00, IN THE MORNING, I then had to come up with several stories organise interviews, and, I discovered, learn to tell the time backwards.

You see, on radio, it's never 7:32 am, it's "28 minutes to 8". I am not good at mental arithmatic at the best of times. Under pressure with lots of flashing lights, a deadline to the news and the boss in the producer's booth making wild hand signals throught the glass, and you had no idea what they mean... phew... turns out I'm a complete bozo:)

I don't know my numbers at all because a couple of times, not only did I get the minutes wrong, but I got the hour, wrong too. Whoops.

A few panicstriken people in Alice Springs would have got to work very late this morning if they were relying on me for the time:)

I had a ball, but the problem with this "on the job training" is roughly 10,000 people get to hear your stuff ups:)

Oh well, they've asked me back, although the boss thinks it might be a good idea if I come in and do the show during the week a few times, to get the hang of what all those shiny lights and buttons are for.

This involves starting work at 5:30 in the morning, to which I asked the obvious question... 5:30 AM... they HAVE one of those...?