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An update from the yachties at the marina.

The horror of Marina mosquitos and midges was realised and a trip to hospital was averted. News and view from the Countess at the Marina.

hello gorgeous people of the internet welcome to royal clearance radio now i have been temporarily incapacitated for the last few days i'll tell you why i'd gone to bed a couple of nights ago at the marina and i left the windows wide wide open we have we're having an indian summer it's just crazy and it's so close and warm and the windows and the doors they have to be open because i don't have a fan i suppose i should get one of those fans fitted up on the ceiling i think i might do for next fall well next summer actually but the problem with the heat i think in fall is that you get the midges there's there are more midges i think i don't know if this is true anyway my whole my i had exposed my flesh darlings exposed my flesh on the four-post bed um all night and i woke up and i'd been bitten by a mosquito and it had bitten me about 20 times hello romeo romeo is here my persian cat and it had bitten me about 20 times on my forearm okay and i'm very allergic and they came up like sauces little sauces each one and i was sort of fine all day i had to go to brighton i was taking mummy to the grand in brighton for tea so obviously one's committed and you know what i had to go i was meeting my daughter so off we went i started to feel a little bit i would say delirious just slightly delirious come the afternoon um and then all the sugar because the tea was i'll do a review of the tea in a minute but all the sugar but obviously done weird things and then later we had wine and the wine went straight to my head and so by the time we got home i was practically incapacitated and he had two glasses so i couldn't sleep all night and things were becoming problematic i was wheezing i was coughing and then my face began to swell and itch like crazy crazy swelling so i had to phone i didn't sleep at all i had to phone one one one in this count and we're in england by the way and in this country we have to ring one one one if we're dying one one one if we think we might die in the future which is inevitable obviously um so they they said to me well they'd call me but the first thing she said actually was you need to get yourself to qa now qa's bloody miles away darlings miles away i'd have to get a ferry and a bus and i don't have my own transport and driver was off so there was no you know this was for 4 30 i think in the morning maybe five anyway i said well no i'm not going there um i'd rather die literally i would run i'd rather die in the marina than get find some sort of miraculous way of getting to the hospital so um anyway she said well the doctor is going to bring you back very soon and at that point i mean i've been up all night i was so exhausted so i did actually i was on my landline forgotten how to use a landline and it was on my chest i thought i better stay here so that i'm close to it because this is the other thing about marina life you don't get a signal it's really really difficult my neighbors are always hanging out the door i can hear all their conversations some of them make deals on the phone yes indeed anyway i digress as per usual so so uh i went to bed i thought oh do you know what soda i can't i can't sit here with this phone balancing on my chest so i went to bed and i did fall asleep and then i woke a bit later i no idea what time it was maybe nine or eight um to the doctor who was an absolute dream she was a wonderful woman and she said oh poor you boy she's just sympathetic and we need that don't we when we're feeling rotten um anyway she said i'm that i was clearly having a bad reaction to these mosquito bites and that i needed it's quite amusing she said you need to send your husband immediately to get um antihistamine she should buy all the different brands on the shelf i'm not sure why she said that um but of course i'm not sure why she said send your husband...

A big clearout at Royal Clarence means selling trash and dealing with the public. Two things that will tax me today!

Facebook Marketplace Hell and Fancy Dressing at The Royal Clarence Costumiers.

hello gorgeous people of the internet welcome to royal clarence radio and the wonderful marina sun's just starting to shine i'm here with my romeo romeo is my persian cat he's been quite quiet hmm i wonder why anyway i have been very very busy because we're setting up the royal clarence dress hire shop and i slowly slowly i'm not rushing because i get so very distracted and there's so many other things to do as you know i'm a musician so there's a lot of music things going on my lunchtime recitals and what have you um now then because i'm a member of the a fellow of the royal society of art and a very keen eco i won't say warrior because my days of warrioring are well gone um but i'm a bit of a i suppose i i do i am still an activist i would consider myself an activist and uh just before lockdown we were due in the marina to have a wonderful eco fashion show and everything was going to be recycled and it had to be cancelled because uh it was in the june of the first wave very very disappointing um but consequently i have you know lots of things lots of clothes that were going to be used for the fashion show so this all fits in very nicely with carrying on the eco message and the education even part of being a fellow of the royal society of art is about enabling and educating and mentoring and really being a decent manufacturer or inventor or user all of these things they they all um you know they're they're all part of the ethos of the the royal society so i really like this idea of a fancy dress because not really it's it's a bit more than fancy dress i suppose it's a more of a costumier costume higher i mean my target audience is not so much the hen party as the photographer who's doing a shoot or a tv film uh crew you know a director or something who wants a costume because i'm very good at putting these things together so i can do all that i can style it so that's my target audience anyway i've been very very busy now the thing with arranging all this so that i can have people come to my showroom at the marina um is i have to have a big clear out and arrange everything either in alphabetical order or sectional order at the moment i'm doing things in decades so i've got the 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s and even 90s yes i have um it's really good fun but um anyway i'm digressing the the consequence of all this organizing is that i have to get rid of stuff so i've just filled the music room with stuff now of course my commitment to recycling and eco-friendly services and opportunities means i can't throw this stuff away and there's loads of it so i'm selling today on uh marketplace now facebook marketplace the sort of local selling um kind of what do they call it the grey economy basically you sell your trash okay and the thing i the thing with what do i like about facebook marketplace absolutely zilch i hate it just it's just such a god-awful thing you have to take photographs that's boring boring boring boring and it's not like the photographs that i'm taking for the costumias which are photographs that are beautifully set with a backdrop and in character and um you know photo edited etc you're not going to do that for facebook marketplace you're going to take a few snaps and put them up then you've got to measure things people always want they ask questions like how how big is it well of course they do they want to know how big something is don't they but then the other thing is they have to come around and get it and the security here at royal clearance wonderful because no one can get past the gates which that means i have to go down and you know make contact now there's nothing wrong with making contact but as a radio presenter the contact that i tend to make is uh audio oral as in a you not o.r...

Some chit chat over coffee in the recording studio at Royal Clarence Marina to kick start your day wherever you are.
Some great Jazz too by the Tale Teller Jazz Club and another chapter from the Red Cross Nurses in the Trenches.

Let's pretend we are there this lunchtime, good to meet you stranger.

I am putting together my costume for Goodwood Revival and have bought a hat to upcycle. How lucky we are to have such great charity shops here in Gosport and we can all do our bit to help the global warming crisis.

good morning royal clarence marina welcome to royal clarence radio and welcome to everyone from around the world who doesn't live here i know that i get a lot of downloads from india at the moment we're picking india and of course america who are the biggest listeners of podcasts in the world so welcome america and welcome india now then i'm looking for my i'm perfecting my costume now as you know i don't know if you do but i run i'm a stylist and i run one of my businesses is a fancy dress styling business and i'm putting together some 1940s costumes for goodwood goodwood revival on the weekend of the 18th that's when i'm going with saturday only a few weeks away very very excited i'm putting together a 40s outfit i needed a hat and the thing is when you buy a hat you know a professionally made hat a constructed milliner's effort they can cost hundreds thousands thousands of pounds now i met a hat designer to the queen quite a bit recently david i've forgotten his name i should know it was in in london i was at a swanky bar and i'll find out i'll talk talk about him later but for today we're just talking about how to cheat and how not to have to pay hundreds thousands whatever of pounds hard earned actors on a hat for what a one-day event is why i do hire you see but anyway i wanted something that i hadn't worn before and that was quite exciting because my costume is sort of i'm gay i'm not going for this sort of land girls um you know the lower uh the can i say lower class live on air well there we go i've said it i'm going for posh posh totti you see so i wanted something that looked like a 1940s sort of movie star designer and i was thinking oh i don't want to pay you know ebay prices it's all 40 quid up and um i don't want to pay designer prices which are hundreds of pounds up so i thought well i'm gonna go to the church shops i'm gonna and i'm big on eco at the moment of course the whole country is big on eco um we're all trying to think of ways that we can help to our bit and not buy all this cheap imported plastic stuff it's rubbish anyway it doesn't wash it doesn't last it's very hard to clean because once you've worn it once it's really soiled it's over it's done with it that's why we we have to bend this stuff that you know within a very short period of ownership so what do you think i did well i went to i think it was the rspca it was indeed the rspca have a wonderful string of very lovely church shops and the reason i like them is because well the one in gospel is very spacious it's very open to covered concerns can be a bit less worrisome um but it's all very clean and you know some some charity shops are great because they're a bit rummagy um but if you like that sort of thing that's fine but but if you don't if you like your um it presented well and nice and clean and you know tidy and color coordinated that's always quite useful isn't it so you can see where everything is because what i do now because i do the charity shop rounds a lot i walk in and i've i'm like a scanner i'm a little beady-eyed old lady scanners on me like that with my eyes i just i just go around the shop and it saves me doing the rummage darning so i don't want to be rummaging too much um anyway i found a hat it was four pounds from the rspca in yellow and cream of course i'm going to completely cut it up now i'm a stylist that's what we do so i'm going to cut the rim because because i've noticed with the uh 40s hats i don't know it was because of the war because because um uh you know fabrications were uh hard to come by or or i don't know something the hats all seem to be half hats and they didn't seem to wear a whole hat it's just like they cut them in half and stuck a bow on and it's a little bit more...

All angles covered after the bank holiday with chat and commentary plu a chapter from the wonderful book about the nurses in the trenches and a recording of the Entertainer by Tale Teller Club.

hello gorgeous listeners welcome to royal clarence radio now then i'm not going to lie to you the weather is not looking great hello romeo romeo the studio camp has arrived it's because i'm talking he thinks i'm talking to him now then what are we gonna do about this weather i don't know well the thing is we live by the sea and when you live by the sea you're you're very much open to the elements because that's great for sailing isn't it perfect weather for sailing but not so perfect for sitting in deck chairs on the beach so there's no none of that i doubt today i was cold water swimming for a bit uh the beginning of the year and it turned out to be not my thing i liked the idea of um getting half naked and dipping myself into something that was going to improve my mental health and i gave it my best shot guys i really did but i found on two occasions my core temperature plummeted and i was actually quite ill and i just thought after the third time i thought no i'm going to give it a wide berth i'm going to stick to dunking in the summer in the summer months and funnily enough i haven't dunked once this summer for various reasons and but there's a big thing for cold water swimming and there are a couple of groups and i met some lovely people while i was doing it and there are a couple of different groups at stokes bay now the best way to find these people you've got to seek them out um the best way to find anything that's going on in gosport is through facebook if you put in your facebook i mean i don't much like facebook either but you know needs must if you search cold water swimming there's a group a more national group and somebody will pop up and say oh i'm part of this group in at stokes bay i don't think they have their own group specifically so you have to sort of go and sift around same with the sailing you have to go to a sort of national group and then you know they'll point you in the right direction or somebody will pop up and say hey we've got a thing we're doing at stokes bay so that's the best way to find them um anyway i found a bunch of lovely lovely people chap called simon who was a great sport and um beverly and they were swimming by just opposite the second part carpark along there and they'd meet twice once a day depending there are two tides now i looked up why there are two high tides but i'm no scientist and i find these things freakishly nonsensical but it was something to do with the world tipping and if you have a bowl and you tip it twice morning and night you see the swell rises no it didn't make sense to me either really well it did at the time as when i was reading it but i didn't absorb it enough so that i could actually tell anyone else about it but anyway that's why there are two high tides so these guys go out either in the morning or in the evening depending on which time is more humane so um so a couple of them were far too early for me personally i like these sort of 10 o'clock to midday swims or this seven o'clock at night ones and so you have to check the times don't do it on your own never ever ever go cold water swimming on your own apart from it's lonely it's also quite dangerous you can get very cold and you can incapacitate yourself very very quickly and actually get hypothermia and as somebody who's tried cold water swimming i know what that feels like and there was a point where i couldn't actually swim and i'm quite a strong swimmer but your body just goes into shock you know and everything becomes so numb that you don't know what you're doing with it you've got to train up for these things and wearing a wetsuit is advisable because with the first time i did it i didn't wear gloves and my hands felt the pain is something in quite unlike anything else i've ever experienced...

Welcome to Ray Drake who chats about the wonderful work of the Rotary Club and the vehicle rally at Stokes Bay.
hi everybody welcome to raw clowns radio and guess what i've managed to rope somebody in to talk to me on this rather wonderful sunday morning at royal clarence marina and his name is ray drake and he's been designated as spokesperson to talk to um well me basically all about the rotary club in gosport good morning ray well good morning how are you this fine day i'm a little bit tired i came back from wales last night um we had a family holiday a week of um all the uh grandchildren running around and things like that marvelous old um house it was a it was a mano valley um recording studio so people like oasis used to go there and um recall some of their records oh that's amazing how exciting that's very exciting well yes it was a it's um you know there's loads of um um discs around the place with um hundred thousand three hundred thousand um freddie mercury uh even the stones were there but i'm not saying i think they recalled it there but they must have had something to be there to leave a a signed photograph for the place unfortunately you'd probably heard of most of the artists which is always a good thing isn't it well yes but most of them as you might say my era yes

um now funny you should mention that because i've been um now let me tell you how i've come across the rotary club i i'm doing a a trip tomorrow to stokes bay to look at cars because i'm a bit of a car fanatic actually and so i'm going to this rally that you're organizing tomorrow at stokes bay and then i i you know i don't normally look at things i don't you know we don't do we sort of we don't look at the sponsorship or the little details about who's organizing things but then i thought well who is organizing this and i saw the rotary club and then i've i was brought up in gosport i've been away for a while but i came back and um i'm i've always known about the gospel rosary club but i've never known what you do and i thought well maybe it's about time that i found out so consequently i've been doing a bit of research and it turns out oh what was that that was my chair squeaking oh i thought it was some animal i've got a cat around no no i i've got one of those old um captain chairs by my desk and um it managed to squeak more and more each year i think it's trying to emulate me or something yes squeaky bones um so yes i i'm actually quite curious now about what it is that the rotary club does and i had no idea you actually did quite you're a charity basically aren't you and you're doing an awful lot in an awful lot of um departments as it were you're helping quite a few different groups so can you give me a bit of a rundown yeah of course um well the the rotary um is known as rotary international we started um oh about 120 years ago out in chicago when um a chap called paul harris and a few others got together thinking that they should have some forum um to um look at business ethics and um to see what they could do for um improving the life of those that were not so well advantageous them um it spread out there's now about 1.2 million um rotarians around the world so it's it's a worldwide organization um so yes sorry to interrupt but the the gosport branch is that um in support of gosport people yes it is uh each area has um so in the portsmouth area for example there are um 11 or 12 clubs um and they focus on their own particular area so um if we go with gospel it it started over a hundred years ago now um and was one of the first in the portsmouth air force of the south sea started and then we're like their daughter club um and then the pharam club was started near our daughter club um and so it's been going a long time and and um how is your membership structure do people have to um well i know you have to sort of express an interest because i saw that on your site but are they vetted you know do you do you look for people...

Another dramatic day in the life of Sarnia de la Maré FRSA at Royal Clarence and beyond.

News and views from the waterfornt at Royal Clarence with Sarnia and some gogeous Beethoven from the vinyl archives.

hello gorgeous people of the internet welcome to royal clarence radio i'm going to the new forest today i'm rather excited and i understand that uh going to the new forest may not be one of the most exciting things in the world but i'm taking my camera you see and making art and taking a camera just changes the event into something a little bit less predictable because you can never know what you're going to find so i'm really going to get get in amongst the um the wilderness there because it's a wonderfully wild eco um vibrant place so i'll tell you all about it tomorrow we're going to have lunch somewhere i'm not sure where i'm with my godfather and mummy and it's going to be really wonderful now the sun's sort of pretending to shine it's coming in and going out but i think that's that will work in my favor and i'm very good at the post-edit i can add sunshine to my photographs as we all can we can add sunshine to the past darlings if we um if we just edit the truth a bit um and thinking about that actually i'm taking my uh my very very wonderful piece of equipment's called a zoom h6 which is going to um record my radio show because i'm going live well live recorded sort of thing on monday to the rotary event at stokes bay i do hope you can come along i'm going to be interviewing people and uh you know talking about what's going on up there so you'll hear all about that on the tuesday but i'm taking this piece of equipment with me which was um funded by the futures venture foundation who are a radical arts body who funded me at the start of lockdown and i've never used it because of lockdown we've never been allowed out so outside was not really an option unless i was on my own of course um but then you you know you can just use your phone but when you're talking to other people you start to need fairly um robust and high quality equipment so this piece of equipment that they bought me was um more expensive than a month's rent let me tell you so i'm rather excited about it being the first time i'm very excited about the whole event it's going to be super fun so if you're going up there i can uh well you can give me a poke i mean i thought i should have a flag really shouldn't i coming out of a hat that says raw clowns radio or something um because how will people know it's me i mean i'm just going to have to go and accost people aren't i and sort of say to them do you want to fancy a quick interview and there's lots of bikes and cars up there and that's why i want to go actually because i want to photograph them i'm hoping to get hold of somebody from the rotary club have a bit of a chin wag and find out what they've been doing and who are the rachel club i don't know who they are you know obviously i'll do some research um i sort of vaguely know who they are but you don't know details they just you know you've seen something in a town or you've seen the brand you don't necessarily know what they what they get up to so i'll be sorting all that out um but today looking ahead today um i'm just going to take my phone i've got a really good phone and i don't think um i need to worry about taking my big camera i've got a big girl's camera too um anyway thinking about uh doing predictable things that aren't very exciting because futures venture who funded the equipment they're a radical arts um body the charity basically a body and trust from a some people in the 1960s who were radical artists and they had this big house and i think they all made art and then when they died they left it in trust and this money goes on to help artists such as myself so it's all rather fabulous but they were quite radical and i guess going to um stokes bay and going to the uh the forest today to do some photographs it doesn't seem to be quite radical of course i'm going to play 23 minutes of beethoven in a minute and...