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Mark Robertson of the Northumber-One of the great things about journalism is that occasionally you get to do things you never imagined you'd do.
This weekend, for example, I've been showing an Australian film crew around Newcastle and Gateshead and helping them film a segment for a programme called The Great Outdoors (their version of Wish You Were Here, I think).
This basically meant walking around town with a bloke called Ernie Dingo (honest) and talking to him about local attractions and then trying to teach him how to speak Geordie.
I can't imagine how they'll manage to make good television out of the nonsense that came out of my mouth, but the crew seemed happy enough as they left to film in Northumberland. My personal highlight was when they attracted a gang of self-confessed charvers from a pub in Newcastle and spent the next 15 minutes trying to film them without them swearing every second word.
If you're in Australia this summer, be sure to tune in and see my star turn. (It's also going to be on the internet, I'm told, so I'll post a link for anyone who's got enough time on their hands that they want to see me arguing with an Australian over whether the Tyne Bridge is better than the Sydney Harbour Bridge).
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