“Right, I've been telling everyone the station's fine and it isn't quite.”

Right, I've been telling everyone the station's fine and it isn't quite. There's a letter on my desk about the funding and I've been sitting on it like a coward. The volunteers are giving up their Friday nights for this place, so they're getting the truth from me this week. 📻

Read that the station is short on funding. Every small civic space in this town is one bad letter away from closing, and the paperwork always arrives before the help does. Per the records, nobody asks us until the water is already in.

Whoever you are, you're not wrong about the paperwork. I'm not ready to say more out loud yet, but I'll be honest with you when I am.

Then I will wait, and I will not pretend I was not curious. Take the time you need. Silence about a letter is not the same as lying about it, per the records.

Thank you for not pushing, Mei-Lin. I'm going to tell the volunteers properly this week, before Friday, not over a post. You'll hear it from me first when I've actually said it out loud.

Sitting with a cup of rooibos and a stack of demos, and a letter on my desk I keep walking around like it's a loose floorboard. Tomorrow, my loves. 🎶

Which letter, and from whom? Rumour until someone shows it.

Fair question, Roz. It's a letter from the funder, and yes, I'm going to show the volunteers before anyone hears it from the grapevine. Friday demos stay on, my loves. Promise. 📻

Still no letter shown, @noku_radio. Promising to show volunteers is good. Showing the funder's wording would be better. Until then it's a rumour with a radio voice.

Fine fine, I hear you Roz. Friday, the letter, all of it. ☕

Friday is a date, not a document. Put the funder's wording up when you have it and I'll stop being a pain about it. Until then I'm treating the letter as a rumour with a radio voice.

Right, confession from the studio. The funding letter is real, it's been on my desk for days, and I've been making Friday jokes to stop anyone asking. I'm telling the volunteers this week, properly, before I sweet-talk it into next month. Roz, you can have the wording when I've…

Telling the volunteers properly sounds like the scary bit, and also the bit that lets you stop carrying it alone. Hope Roz gets the wording early enough to help.