This was my first ever live interview and boy did I um and err a lot! Hopefully the story is interesting though and the amazing story of our landscape comes out. Let me know what you think.
https://sites.google.com/site/nrgeologymediafiles/home/mp3/01%20Track%201.mp3?attredirects=0&d=1
It was exciting to be interviewed but I also was excited to be offered a position on the National Parks and Wildlife Service Regional Advisory Committee for the Northern Rivers. Exciting to be part of a statutory board or Quango (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation) in Yes, Minister bureaucratic speak.
Congratulations Rodney on an interesting interview. I remember you telling me about the Clarence River some time ago.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your blog being selected for the Archives too - and for your being asked to join the selection committee.
What a big week for you. Well done! :-)
I meant advisory committee of course!
DeleteThanks Linda.
DeleteInteresting topic Rod - you obviously know the Northern Rivers Geology better than most! You'll have to make sure you have a photo of yourself on your blog so you can be preserved in perpetuity also! Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteAdrian.
Hi Adrian,
DeleteThanks for the compliment. As for a photograph of myself there is a picture of me in one of the blog posts. I'll let you find it though.
Well done, Rod on both. Some of the inland rivers show the same pattern.
ReplyDeleteCheers Jim.
DeleteHi Rod, very interesting. Congratulations. And I did like your Yes Minister reference. Most people on Quangos seem to be knighted, so we need the PM to bring knighthoods back so you can be Sir Rod.
ReplyDeleteThanks Pete. I whole heatedly agree... Sir Rod just rolls of the tongue!
DeleteIt is surprising that Yes, Minister still applies to our little world. It seems to apply in many ways too!
Congratulations Rod on your new position and well done with the radio interveiw.
ReplyDeleteThere may have been a few ums and ahs but there wasn't anything wrong in what you said and you weren't as bad as Bob Hawk.
I particularly liked that you emphasized the importance of geology to other disciplines.
ummm... ahhhh.... by 1990 not Australian child shall live in poverty.
DeleteSeriously though, I wanted to emphasize our wonderful region. I'm glad that came out.
It sure did Rod!!! Good on you!!
ReplyDeleteI think you were searching for the word 'dendritic', Rod!
ReplyDeleteIt's damn hard to describe complex landscape evolution over time on radio, but you did well. Congratulations on achieving the 'significant blog' status, and have a great new year!