The Kendal Roller Coaster
Here we go: Just over a week to go the Kendal Mountain Festival and it's starting to move towards fever pitch. It's like being on a roller coaster where, over the last few months, the car has been gradually clunking up the ramp. A couple of days ago, we toppled over the crest and now we're hurtling down the initial first slope, knowing that in a few days we're going to loop the loop, fire through the water pit and at some stage a camera will take a snap of us looking terrified, exhilarated, studiously bored pretending we're in control of the whole thing, or just gurning stupidly with the excessive G force.
We have all sorts of complexities to deal with: films being too short, too long, live events needing to be reprogrammed, and all this needs to go into the programme which goes to print tomorrow. I'm lucky - all I have to do is organise presenters and they can be recruited at the last minute from the willing volunteers on the subs bench, plus last minute appearances by some of the stars of the climbing world. Thanks to Leo Houlding for stepping in just half an hour ago!
So why does it all have to wait until the last minute? It's a reasonable question to ask. The truth is we're always trying to squeeze the last ounce of quality out and, to do that, it has to be finely balanced which can only be done at the last minute. Plus - it's more exciting that way. Imagine being on a roller coaster that was as steep as a cricket pitch. Wouldn't be worth the entrance fee would it?
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