A new excitement?

I love new things in all their forms.

I love changes that I can get hooked on – I love the ‘being hooked’ but I also love the freshness that a new thing brings with it; it’s a little like meeting a new person and walking away afterwards thinking ‘I really liked them!’.

So many things (books, horses, music) haven’t been new for such a long time that I can’t remember the excitement of discovering them.

But I can remember the excitement of rediscovering them after a long lay-off (when I competition sailed, when I returned to the UK from a period of living abroad where one of these things – usually horses – were denied me).

In more modern times I remember discovering the iPod (and therefore, in a way, rediscovering aspects of music), digital photography, texting (sad, I know) and the rampant excitement that unlimited storage space that external USB drives bring.

But now there’s a new newness, a new excitement.

Of course, it’s all Colin’s fault.

He has introduced me to the Podcast.

The Lovely S downloads her Podcast favourites regularly (Russell Brand, Scott Mills etc), but I’ve not been taken by any – Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie (despite having the world’s most entertaining four nights a week show on Radio 2 – no hyperbole here folks!) don’t have a Podcast for some inexplicable reason only known to the BBC.

And then Colin asked ‘Have you heard of this guy? He’s a bit in your face but…’.

Needless to say I hadn’t heard.

So I went home that evening and looked.

And found.

And downloaded.

And listened.

And…

Hook, line and sinker.

I’m keeping the precise details under wraps for now because the germ of an idea is beginning to percolate (look, I know germs don’t exactly percolate but humour me) around the inside of my head.

But it’s safe to say that my morning and evening commutes will be shared between my OU media and my iPod media.

Oh yes.

And Colin… Thanks. I appreciate it.

B.