Thursday November 12th 2009...Well what a day, following our interview with BBC Radio Oxford on Wednesday morning it was amazing to get a call from BBC Radio 2- they 'phoned just before mid-day inviting us to the London studio for 5pm and all hell broke loose.... Penny ran off to make a couple of Tickled Pinks, Charlotte and Neil made up leaflet and stockist packs and got the telephones on charge while Hollie got online to search out trains times, Matt prepared the samples we needed and produced a couple of small cool bags to take them in and in just a few minutes we had the car loaded and were off to Birmingham International to catch the fast train to London.
The train was in the station so after a quick word with the guard we boarded the train only to find a short while later that there was a £20 surcharge (each!) for not buying a ticket on the platform..and we wonder why we use the car all the time.
However nothing was going to take the edge off our excitement as we made a list of all the things we really must mention and do when we got 'on air' .... a smooth run with only 2 stops found us in Euston Station by 3pm.. 2 hours go so thought we'd fit in a visit to our stockist Sourced Market at StPancras and then a tube ride to Borough Market to look at potential pitches (there are moves afoot to have a weekly slot - will let you know as and when) getting back to Euston at 4.35pm, 25 mins to go!
It was dark by now and the rain was moving in as we dashed along Euston road (Google map in hand) uncertain how far we had to walk to get to the BBC but no worries we had time to spare as we pitched up at Western House the home of Radio 2 at 4.59pm...
Ben came to reception and took us up to the Radio 2 offices where we were able (in theory) to unload our stuff and gather our thoughts, but a few minutes later Steve Wright pops out of his studio and then the infamous Sally traffic was over to snaffle a Vegetabularian before any one else... we're introducing ourselves and calmly cutting up an egg for her when we hear shouting from down the corridor - seems we were on!
To be honest the next half an hour or so just flew by, we'd done our piece and were getting up to say good bye when Chris has a brain wave... 'we have tasted your eggs so why don't you stay and taste the stake tartare that Nigel Barden was bringing in shortly'
The rest as they say is history, we seemed to be in and out of the studio all the way through the show- a real blast we loved every moment and it was such a privilege to be so welcomed by Chris and to see the true professionalism of this highly motivated team, they genuinely deserve to be at the top. (and yes, all that planning on the train went out the window just as soon as we got chatting)
On returning to the streets of London we turned our 'phones back on and they just didn't stop- thank you, thank you everyone for your messages it really made our day- don't think we've actually returned to normality yet.
On Friday Kevin our Web man sent an email over to let us know that our usual hit rate of 100 or so a day blossomed into nearly 3000 in an hour during the show WOW!
So you will probably have guessed it but Christmas has definitely come early to this quiet corner of Herefordshire
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