What I did: for the first evening I was online, so I found a list of UK radio stations broadcasting online and browsed through. I found out that local radio stations are pretty much the same everywhere... but it's really not that interesting to listen to stations in other areas for long; the novelty wears off pretty quickly, the music is all of a same same and other area's traffic news is of little use. I'd like to try listening to some international stations that broadcast online but finding something of interest takes more research time than I had online this week. Other evenings I wasn't in much, but I did take in some quality snatches of BBC6 Music.
The day that I worked from home I found it easier to concentrate with just music, so I mainly listened to Spotify and Last.fm, with some talking type radio on for doing the washing up etc.
In the car, I found Radio 2 best for the drivetime shows, and KCFM for the evening. I don't have pre-set buttons on the car stereo so I had to scan through the frequencies each time I wanted to change, so I did get in a listen to some things in between - mainly local stations. This week I worked a fairly normal 8-5 type week, but I often have days when I spend lots of time in the car both daytimes and evenings, so I will be trying some of these out again for a bit of variety.
Overall, I really enjoyed the other national BBC stations, mainly Radio 2 and 4 (I still can't think of any reason I'd want to listen to Radio 3!); I found them informative and entertaining. I learned loads of things - including that -40°C and -40°F are the same temperature (what?), listened to the surreal yet soothing shipping forecast while doing the laundry, heard some classic tracks and concentrated on in-depth news discussions. I also listened to some radio shows I'd only ever heard as podcasts before, notably, the Now Show on Radio 4 and some late night talkSPORT.
In other news this week, I undertook some amateur stargazing and fell in a ditch... and I started the challenge 100 happy days.
This week (10 - 17 January), I will be pretty busy, so the challenge is useful if not very exciting:
2 (or more) sessions of the 15 minute clean every day.
