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radio DJ (team) show. The record was broken at 8.30 on 18th March 2011 by Moyles and on-air partner Dave Vitty, aka 'Comedy Dave', when they passed the 51.5-hour mark. In May 2011, Vixen 101 presenters, Bill Horncastle and Dave Henderson set a new world record by presenting a 53-hour-long radio show, beating the record set by Chris Moyles of Radio 1 by one hour. What is it like to do a 60-hour radio show? I asked my copresenter Kaptain Mounsey who joined me in the Eden FM radio studio on Wednesday 25th August for an 8am start, and presented a show with me until 8pm on Friday 27th August 2021.

Kathy (the Kaptain) Mounsey

“Doing the 60 hour Radiothon was an amazing experience! It was brilliant for me to be back in the studio and being live after so long. It was great to catch up with the team and have lots of them in to present with us and keep us going. The support from everyone was amazing and I think we'd both agree we couldn't have done it without them. The late night and early morning ramblings with Lee were definitely a highlight and I honestly didn't know I could stay awake so long! Massive thank you to Lee for asking me to be part of it.” From an idea in July, to a 60 hour non-stop radio show over 4 days, hold that thought! It’s not a world record. What might have set out to have been another crazy idea, with an inspirational team of people in support and an individual equally and in fact madder than Long days and Nights - just 3 hours sleep

me, it was a fun 60 hours, which included three hours sleep for the Kaptain, and two hours sleep for yours truly. What’s next? Well, that’s obvious, but why have a crack at one record when together with local groups, organisations, societies and clubs we can attempt more. Eden FM have identified more than one record we would like to attempt between now and Autumn 2022, and we could do with some help from you. All attempts require adjudicators, just like in a school exam. For one attempt we need 240 hours adjudicated, but from as young as 4 years old upwards, we need people from Penrith, Appleby and across the Eden Valley to register with us now, either to take part or to raise funds for their organisation as an adjudicator. We are currently hoping to attempt our first record in November 2021. We have more planned for 2022. For some we need 6 volunteers, but for one of these we’ll need 200 people, and we hope to stage this at an agricultural show in the Summer of 2022. If you want to help your group, society, club or voluntary organisation raise funds by supporting Eden FM, please contact Eden FM now. We need you to help us to help you. As a business, if you would like to be a sponsor or to get involved in a World Record attempt, please contact us now. With regards to the Monopoly idea, we are still discussing this with the UK licensee, however, time doesn’t stand still and we are now designing a unique board game that we can have produced in the UK, which if trialled in Cumbria as a Cumberland and Westmorland board game, it can be reproduced across the UK. Just another crazy idea I suppose….. if your business is interested in this project, please contact us to express an interest.

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PAM’S FLOWER POWER September – Aster

Rich gold, burnt umber, glowing amber and glorious garnet – the colours of autumn are beginning to show themselves in all their glory and are enhanced by the purple, mauve, pink and blue of the Aster or Michaelmas daisy. I personally always associate bunches of the cut flowers with Harvest Festival celebrations at primary school and church where vases would be filled with the simple but stunning purple of the Michaelmas daisy and placed among the fruit, vegetables and the centrepiece bread wheatsheaf which always had a dough mouse hidden somewhere in it! A hardy perennial, the aster is a firm favourite in the garden with colour from August until mid-October. It enjoys full sun in well-drained soil. It is perfect for the herbaceous border and is complimented with other late flowering perennials such as Rudbeckia and Echinacea. It is also a perfect plant to attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies.

There are over 600 species within the Aster genus in North America and Europe and are part of the same family as the daisy. Some species have seeds that are shaped like parachutes and are scattered and spread by the wind. If you look very closely you can see that they are composite flowers: the centre is made of many tiny flowers surrounded by long petals giving the daisy its distinctive star shape The Aster (Asteraceae) has a long history and takes its name directly from the Ancient Greek word for star. Mythology has it that the Greek goddess Astraea who was renowned for her grace and gentleness. She was a lover of the night but became saddened by how few stars were in the sky and began to cry. As her tears hit the ground they turned into the star shaped aster flower. On a similar theme it was said that it was Virgo who scattered stardust over the earth and wherever it landed aster flowers grew and bloomed. The aster is the emblem of Venus the goddess of love. The other name Michaelmas daisy has its own folklore associated with it. Michaelmas is a Christian festival but there are similar celebrations around the world and in other religions. The date of Michaelmas now falls in September (it changed from October in 1752 when Britain adopted the Gregorian Calendar and ‘lost’ 11 days) and was one of the ‘quarter days’ – these were the four dates in the year when servants were hired, rents became due and school terms started. In the past when most people were unable to read or write it became the practice to link the ‘quarter days’ to significant dates in the farming and Church calendars.