4 weeks to go
Our big event during the week was the Access to the Air: Community Radio Conference which we held on Monday 23 April 2007 at AFC Bournemouth.
The purpose of the Conference was to explain what community radio is all about and how organisations; be they commercial, voluntary or local government; can use it to get their message out while also developing communication and other related personal skills.
Various people spoke at the Conference including the YMCA President, the Archbishop of York John Sentamu, Douglas Eyre the Chair of Bournemouth 2026, Blair Crawford the Bournemouth YMCA Director and members of the Hope Team.
The event seemed to go well with around 200 people attending the two sessions.
During his speech, Kevin Potter the Hope FM Launch Manager referred to our impending launch as a time ‘when the cows come home to roost’. I have to say that after that I did not take in much more of Kevin’s talk as I was trying to picture in my mind a Friesian cow sitting peacefully on an oak tree surveying the surrounding countryside. I must admit I found this rather difficult.
Kevin has lived for most of his life in South Africa and he assures me that ‘cows coming home to roost’ is a common saying in South Africa.
So all I can think is that either their cows are somewhat smaller than ours or that trees in South Africa are an awfully lot bigger than those you find in Europe. Have you come across any sayings from other countries that just do not make sense in our culture? Why don’t you share them with us?