This is actually the second blog post I’ve written today. I was awake at four this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep so I got up and wrote a 1200 word rant about this Tik-Tok chappy who’s been in the news lately. Missy or Pissy or Cissy or something like that.

Anyway, it took me two and a half hours to write it and when I read it back I felt it was just a tad too volatile to publish. In retrospect, it was just me venting to myself about this odious, weaselly, little runt and to be perfectly honest, I did feel a lot better once I’d gotten it all off my chest. Will it ever see the light of day? Probably not, but it did me a lot of good to write it.

So, on to more pressing matters a la Stevenson. What’s occurring then?

Well, I’m working on a new podcast, that’s what.

Not too sure yet when it will appear but I’ve started to put a lot of the elements into place. I have the logo and the theme tune ready to go and I’ve decided on the format, which is a complete shift from the Blessham Hall Podcast but still retaining one vital part of it, namely My Four Penneth Worth.

Unlike Blessham Hall this new one will be fully scripted as I feel that I don’t ad lib particularly well and I want it to be a darned sight more professional this time around. Ooh, listen to me, using big words like ‘professional’. Anyone who has seen my Stevenson Speaks videos on Youtube will readily testify to the amateurish nature of them and the slovenly delivery of yours truly. That notwithstanding, I would like the new podcast to be so much better. Call it progression if you must. I do!

I’m toying with the idea of telling you the name of the new podcast but I can’t make my mind up on that. What I will say though is that I fully intend to make it a lot funnier than Blessham Hall but also a lot more deadpan in delivery.

And there won’t be a djembe this time, although I do still treat myself to the odd little drumming session now and again. The only thing I can’t fully guarantee is that there won’t be any background noise as there sometimes was during the recording of Blessham Hall. The perils of using the bedroom as a studio I guess. So please bear with me.

Regular listeners of Blessham Hall, and there were some, would tell you that I had all the good intentions when I started out of producing each episode every Monday. That lasted for about nine weeks and after that it got a bit erratic. Sometimes Monday, more often than not Tuesday, the occasional Wednesday and even Thursday one week when I was in a poor state and beside myself with anxiety.

I haven’t yet decided what day of the week the new podcast will appear but what I can tell you is that owing to a wide variety of reasons, such as my bad health and other commitments such as writing those pesky novels and so forth, I will only be podcasting once a fortnight.

I earnestly believe than this will keep it fresh and something that people may look forward to.

There’ll be no Joke of the Week, no quizzes and no news. If that’s got you curious then I see that as a good thing and I sincerely hope you’ll log on and listen when the day comes.

As for hosting platforms, it’s going to be on Spotify and Anchor this time, to begin with, before adding it to Google, Amazon and iTunes (maybe) at a later date. Apologies to all my old listeners on Podbean but it just wasn’t economically viable any more. By which I mean, it cost me a lot of money to host it there. So sorry Podbean users, but hey, give Spotify a try and I’m sure you’ll like it.

Finally, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, thank you so much to everyone that took the time to listen to Blessham Hall. I’ve often been told that I have a ‘face for radio’ but that people like my voice and find it soothing even. So I hope I can do you all justice.

Watch this space…

PS – Oh go on then, I’ll tell you the name of it. It’s going to be called The Curmudgeon. Now, has that made you curious?