Any excuse to laze around in bed is fine by me.
Unfortunately, we newspaper people have to be out of the house distressingly early so a lie-in is a rare thing indeed.
Some people think people who work in newspapers are a bit strange but I don't think we're as odd as radio
folk.
Radio folk tend to make a lot of noise. I guess the ones behind the microphones have to. Not only is it their job, there is something about being locked in a padded broom closet with a flight deck of knobs and needles in front of you that would probably drive you a bit nutty.
But radio folk tend to be nutty in a good way, as proven by Classic Hits Hawke's Bay co-hosts Martin Good and Sarah van der Kley who, as you read this, are tucked up in bed together on public display at the Maadi Gras site on Marine Parade.
The observant reader will note the link with the fact that my work gets in the way of a lie-in.
Martin and Sarah, clever people, have actually concocted a way to spend 24 hours in bed while on the job.
I'm not sure what rules their boss, the Radio Network's Rebecca Johnson, has around employees sharing a bed while on duty but they are clearly flexible if the cause is good enough.
And the cause is as good as it gets because, from 9am today, Martin and Sarah are having a 24-hour bed-in to raise money for CanTeen. Specifically, they want to drum up $5000 towards the purchase of a Can-Van, which will be used to transport young Hawke's Bay people living with cancer.
The Classic Hits 89-5 jocks are broadcasting live and one of them must remain on or in the bed at all times.
We're all invited to head along to Marine Parade, give them a bit of encouragement or a rude awakening, whatever takes your fancy, all in the name of CanTeen.
The great news is that everyone who donates will go in the draw to win a luxury Simmons Beautyrest bedroom package, donated by Bedpost Hastings.
So please get along to the Maadi Gras and show your support for a couple of lovely radio nuts lying down on the job.
