We're All Going To Kazoo Tomorrow
Tomorrow (Friday) is the big Ö÷²¥´óÐã Children in Need day , but all this month we've been celebrating with a series of Pudsey Parties up and down the country. By the end of November we'll have ticked off no less than thirty parties...thirty because we're combining the fund-raising with the celebration of Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Scotland's thirtieth birthday which also happens this month.
Tomorrow those parties will be happening in our studios and on the airwaves, starting with Fred MacAulay in the morning and then Tom Morton live from our new Inverness building in the afternoon. In the evening we're back at Pacific Quay in Glasgow where our sport and music programmes will be continuing the fun.
I've also been given a part to play. Tom Morton has asked me to revive the famous Kazoo orchestra which was last heard of in the days when Tom presented the mid-morning programme from Inverness studios and actually lived in a camper van in the car park.
The other day I went into a kiddie's toy shop in Inverness to buy up all their kazoos. The shop assistants were intrigued and I had to tell them what I was up to.
"You see, " I explained, "anyone can play the kazoo, can't they?"
There was much shaking of heads and I was told that many customers came in, blew into the kazoos, heard nothing but the rush of their own breath and decided the blasted things were all broken.
Then, believe it or not, I was asked to demonstrate the thing right there in the shop. So I gave them a rendition of Jingle Bells and waited for the applause.
A tumbleweed moment, I think they call it.
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