We had intended to record episode 10 immediately off the back of episode 9, but, as discussed in the last post, we massively overran with recording episode 9 and ended up being kicked out of the school by the site team.
We essentially had a choice of calling it a day, or relocating to Ben’s. I had some errands to run, which were fairly time sensitive and so we agreed to do a ‘split shift’ and went our separate ways for a few hours. During this time, one of my tasks was to exchange a faulty toy that my eldest daughter had bought with her pocket money the previous day. This took rather longer than I had anticipated, due to an overzealous policy on the part of the store to ensure that the product really was faulty and I wasn’t making it up. Exchanging one toy for another toy seems like the worst example of fraud ever, but ultimately that bit of my day made it into the episode, so perhaps I should be grateful.
Having briefly reconnected with my family and having handed my daughter the hard-won device, much to her delight, I headed over to Ben’s and we tried to record episode 10.
In fairness, neither of us were in any doubt we’d made a great episode at the end of the recording. The walk down memory lane, aka Cardiff Queen Street circa the 1990s was pretty good fun. Ben did interrupt my stockroom story before I’d absolutely finished it, but I suppose he showed some restraint in letting me tell as much of it as I did and I think it seems like I probably had finished telling it in the final edit. But just so you know, I hadn’t…
The list this week was also pure gold. We were, I think, actually fairly affectionate about the publishing professional who thought he managed to solve the problem of reluctant readers, with such sage advice as “let them finish after a hundred pages”. His insistence that the only short story worth reading is Go See Costas by Tom Hanks, has become something of a recurring joke in the episodes we’ve recorded since making this one and yet somehow neither of us has yet read Go See Costas.
The biggest problem with episode 10 was we recorded way too much stuff. Clearly enough to make two episodes. So, along with the bit we discarded from episode 9, much of the unused material for episode 10 went straight into episode 11.
As for the episode 10 postcard, it weirdly seems to be cat-themed again. There really aren’t that many cat-themed postcards in the pack I bought so I’m not sure how three of them made it into the show by the tenth episode. Particularly as we only started using that pack in episode 6. But it did, and it’s two cats seemingly in love and it’s weird and it shouldn’t exist. but it does. For some reason Ben pretended to like this one. Possibly because, to date, it’s been my least favourite.