Talofa Lava and welcome to Belly the droolingly delicious food show on the equally scrumptious community radio station in Byron Bay the beeeeaautiful Bayfm – http://www.bayfm.org

Sister Rasela of The Swayingday Saints here in the belly kitchen today to cook up a blisteringly hot show for you live from the very heart of town. We’re about to send out sensationally amorous aromas to YOU and that belly of yours.

The Bayfm fires are heavily stoked and brazenly blazing enough to send out marshmallow puffs of pure white love and hot pink happiness across the Shires airwaves to YOU. It’s less about where and more about there so that we can all share a similar experience at the same time from many different places. I’m so grateful for the gift of community radio and those magical airwaves that help spread the lurrrrve.

Thank you for listening and supporting YOUR community radio station. It’s because of you, out there turning us on, subscribing, sponsoring, enjoying, sharing and actively participating in what we do … that we can do what we do …. and the do today is the Belly show where you’ll hear tasty morsels of deliciousness for the next two hours.

Big love to sister Tess who is getting her leg over at the moment … or is getting over her leg … one or the other?! Either way our sister is out of action so let’s join together and send lashings of limping love and hopping hiccups of hugs in all directions for her. Hope you mend soon sis !!

The fabulous Sister Michael and I had a belly chat over a cuppa at the TWILIGHT MARKETS on a sun setting Saturday afternoon recently and talked about tummy rumbling ways to keep bringing tasty and inspiring radio to the airwaves with the rest of the family. We could well end up attempting to eat our way around the Shire recording our outings and stuffings where required with anyone willing to share the same same but different experience with us. Trouble is it’s hard to record things when your mouth’s full!

So we’ll need a bit of help.

Personally I LOVE hearing YOUR voices on air and that’s why I’ve been getting out and about more with my trusty recorder chatting with mind-blowingly fascinating members of our ridiculously wonderful community. It’s such an honour to be able to hear your stories and record moments in time that will never be again. Please don’t stop talking to me.

If only it were that easy … but I’m glad it’s not for in the editing process I get to blissfully relive and recreate the moments from back then, in present time, and bring them into the right here, right now, to tell a tale from the past that is heading into the future haha I think I need to meditate.

Actually it’s not that hard thanks to the stories I gather as I engage with the beautiful souls willing to share their descriptions of emotions, raw and alive. It’s an honour truly to be in a position to capture such constant inspiration and information. Usually these times of emotional capturing are accompanied by offers of food, hugs, poetry recitals, music, a cheering up, a calming down, an education, a good old giggle, a bite of this, a slurp of that, a realisation, a love generation … and EVERYONE beams the most beautiful smiles into my microphone.

The gentleness and the generosity in the Shire makes it easy for me to follow my dreams and do only what I love. One of those things is to capture heartfelt moments that will never come again but will go on living forever as sound.

Fa’afetai lava.

Thankyou.

Here you are –  BFM Week 7 – at the Byron Farmers Market.

I’m always proud to represent BayFM and I’m forever blown away by how many opportunities come our way. There are so many great people involved and connected to the station and here it stands in the heart of town like our family home. We are all brothers and sisters here, we take the good with the bad because at the end of the day we share the same passion and we’re doing something we collectively LOVE. It’s a powerful thing … it’s magnetic!!

All those original, diverse, entertaining, ever-engaging, often changing, never plain sailing, not always unfailing, hugely adorable, occasionally snoreable, quirky, unique, feathered and freaked beings in one place connected to the same thing.

Together we present the REAL that’s left in the world and we’re spreading it like coconut oil right across the airwaves for YOU … for the pure LOVE of it.

We have Byron’s own ‘Lord of the Chillies’ Lord Stephen Probert coming on to talk about some pretty hot stuff. When I get a ’roundtoit’ I will edit the harmoniously heated discussion about one of my favourite things in the world …. CHILLI !!

Head to one of the markets and look for Steve’s stand. Have a chat with him there or wait til I get a roundtoit and you can hear the story of sweltering Steve HERE … soon.

Here’s my favourite by far for all of it’s flavoursome fire – Chocolate Habanero.

I originally came across Steve and his blazing stall at THE TWIGHLIGHT MARKETS in Railway Park Byron where Sister Michael and I found ourselves strolling on the aforementioned afternoon. We were looking for fanciful delights to enliven the senses and skid marked up to the counter forthwith upon site of the sauces. Steve was dishing out tasters with names like “Steve’s Toughy Pants Sauce” and one simply adorned with a mockingly menacing skull and crossbow. Neither of these however have a patch on my little brothers home grown hand made jars of molten lava.

He calls his ……

“Burning Rectum”

… available now in all good hospitals.

Alofa atu xo Rasela