Mirror Image
Planning continues for the new-look Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Scotland website. I know this because Carol Duncan was waiting for me in my office when I came back from lunch yesterday. She's one of the content producers for the site and had come armed with a few mocked-up pages. It was all looking good but I got to thinking how I might shoe-horn in a few ideas of my own. One in particular you might be familiar with because I was writing about it in this diary a few months ago.
"It's called mirror image, " I explained, "just a different way of profiling some of our presenters."
Carol made the mistake of nodding slightly, which I took as encouragement to drone on about my idea for another ten minutes. I explained that we could commission profiles of our presenters and illustrate them with various photographs of them looking in mirrors.
"You see, it's about how they see themselves compared to how others see them. The photographs could all be taken in different situations....little mirrors for applying make-up, those big ones in the TV dressing rooms, the rear-view mirror inside a car..."
At this point Carol stopped nodding. Truth be told she was edging towards the door and pulling a chair between us to stop me chasing her. Later, however, I decided to arrange a little mock-up of my own. You see, I have a personal dislike of those mirrors that surround you in hotel lifts. I'm sure there's a logical reason for them being there. How many hotel guests would arrive for the buffet breakfast wearing pyjamas if it wasn't for those mirrors? OK, none, but you get my drift.
Trouble is, I rarely arrive at a hotel feeling fresh-faced and ready to confront a full-body reflection of myself in the lift. Usually my tie is askew and I'm needing a shave. Sometimes I make the mistake of thinking there's someone else in the lift...a bulky, sweaty, middle-aged man whose beer-belly is out of control.
Then I realise. That's me, that is.
