LOL Chris, you paint such a picture of eloquence where Ms Jones is concerned!

The writing talent this morning was truly astounding - thank you for letting us hear it, and let's hope that the creative juices keep flowing for those little ones!

Nearly home time. I predict an imbibement of wine on the patio, and then Him Indoors is cooking ... heavenly joy behold!

See you on The Sofa (altho probably not at 7 - we tend to record you in HD and watch later!)

Muchos amore.

Deevs
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Hello CE & Everyone.

It sounds like a very happy time was had at Hay. There are some very talented young writers and it must have been difficult for the judges to choose the winners but like you say everyone must have been thrilled to have been there.

I don't believe you regarding Alex and the bacon butties. I can believe the jelly and ice cream bit but I bet it was you who kept on stopping for every 20 miles for them and that you're using Alex as an excuse. I've seen the twitter photo and it is you who looks as though you've eaten quite a few bacon butties LOL. I'm only joking of course as neither of you do.

MM xxx

PS The summer has finally arrived here in Wirral!

The summer has indeed arrived MM, not sure I like it this warm!! Sorry!!

But been trying to cut the lawn for weeks, and it's rained, and now it's too hot to stand out there, for me anyway...

Not caught up as usual, so hugs to anyone who needs them, and a Hi!! to those that don't!!

JG x

If I'd have known DD were going to cancel, I could've been there earlier....

Although knowing me at the moment, I'd have slept through the whole thing...

JG x

Hi Chris and all the usual bloggers!

Just back from Hay! We've had an amazing couple of days. My hubby and son saw Jeremy Strong, while I saw Jacqueline Wilson with my daughter Ruth today. Fantastic!! What an experience. This was hot on the heels of briefly meeting then seeing you with Anne Robinson on Thursday evening. All my Birthdays and Christmases have come at once!!

Ruth was one of the 30,000 who entered the 500 words competition but wasn't lucky enough make the shortlist. Hearing the finalists this morning on our journey to Hay today, we were overwhelmed! How incredible are those stories?!! We met a couple of the shortlisted writers and both of them were beaming with pride! Ruth has her fingers crossed the competition will run again next year so she can keep writing and send in another entry! She is writing away now as I'm typing!!

Thanks so much for falling in love with Hay, coming up with the inspiration for the competition and cutting through the red tape to make it a reality!

Hope you and your lovely family have a great weekend.

Lots of love

JB X

Evening each

Listened to the show this morning sitting in a queue for that damned bridge. What talented children, well done all of them.

Love Alex's dress tonight - the bacon sarnies definitely don't show!!

xxxxx

Meant to say - have opened the Meerlllloooottt. You there Sezza? Or Debs?

Or am I talking to myself yet again!!

Heard from MTD - they got on their boat ok. And, wouldn't you know it, boiling hot today but 13 degrees forecast for Sunday, so her OH will be having a laugh with his snowshoes.

xxxxx

Hello.

Everyone must be out on this fine summer's evening. Or maybe like me all on jigzone.

Rips-if you are about I saw you on Al Murray's game show on Dave last night and you were very good, a natural on TV. I thought it was a good idea to crunch the crisps before opening in order to eat them faster. I do that to make them quieter when watching the telly.

Right back to jigzone which I'm getting addicted to.

MM xxx

PS Chris-you were looking very cool in your blue shirt on The One Show tonight!

Missed most of today's offerings sadly, Chris.
You must be bloody k-nackered though...
Enjoy Seinfeld and your weekend.

Hi to everyone else....I'm currently stood/standing in my kitchen, looking for Elbow and Radiohead videos, whilst chomping on pickled onions.
Might be time for bed!

Hope you're all well or better....

Ali, I love your optimism. It's based on reality and will happen x

Night all x

Rips
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Morning all

Feel like I'm up way too early but my brother the carpenter is coming to replace my bedroom door any minute now so i thought best be up and decent!

Chris, the show from Hay was fantastic and the stories! SO good. Really pleased you're planning to do it again

That Alex Jones though! Trying to lead you into bad ways was she? Doesn't she know you're a reformed soul now! ;-) (Is she reading over your shoulder as you write this?)

Annie, sorry, was at friends last night eeating and drinking and chatting! Any merlooooot left for tonight?

Rips, I watched the first half of the the quiz and have the second to catch up with. Boy1 watched too, probably the first time he's seen Al Murray in full Pub Landlord mode! Oh, what have I done!

Right, best look busy

Laters

Sezza xxx

ps disaster dessert tasted ok!

Ten hour silence broken!

Well someone had to :)

Hope everyone has achieved what they set out to, today. Its been a busy one here.

MTF.xx

Evening CLP and any bloggers out there! Have to agree about the wealth of literary talent on display at Hay yesterday. i only heard the odd one or two story but was mightily impressed, especially with Angus' super scary tale!!

Missed the One Show last night, it was a beautiful day in the 'burgh so after a wee post work sunbathe in the park I then joined some friends for some al fresco rosé. We went to a boat which is permanently moored in the Leith area of Edinburgh and has been convereted into a bar/restaurant, and spent a lovely time sipping wine on the deck until the sun dipped below the buildings . Bliss!

And of course today it has been cloudy and cold, here's hoping that the last two days wasn't our summer....

Hope everyone has had a good day.

Rx

Hi all
great stories and what talented young people we have in the UK.

Hope everyone is well.

kks
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Good Morning All

Just hopped over the fence with a cake for Rips. Lucky I didn't drop it - I thought someone said we were getting a gate...

Anyway, a very happy birthday to you!!

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Hope everyone's well. There was another mini Mayo blog meet yesterday in Dundee - okay, it was only 2 people (Mo and Toots), but the main man mentioned it on his show on Friday, so that makes it official!

Have a good day.

Deebee X~

Morning all on yet another grey day!

Happy birthday to the wonderful Rips xx

Susan x

Hi everyone:

Couldn't let today pass without saying to the lovely Rips: Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day, and enjoy your cake from Deebee! xx

(a lovely gesture from you, Deebee!) xx

kks: nice to see you. xx

Susan: nice to see you too! xx

Will have to go food shopping later - the roast beef we were supposed to be having for dinner tonight was snaffled by MrS as a snack last night! Apparently the excitement of Dr Who made my lovely husband really hungry!

Have a great day, all.

C xx

Morning all

***Happy Birthday Rips x x x ***


Chrissie, I can understand MrS's fridge raiding. it was only the total banality of BGT that bought the younger family members down to earth (and that includes me I'm afraid to say!)

You know it's going to be a long day when the first words you hear from your offspring are "So, if River Song is.........."

Deebee, the gate's on order I think!

It's certainly a grey day after the Hay day here today. A trip to change some trousers -too long - and maybe a detour to the craft shop is in order I think!

Laters

Sezza xxx

Good Morning to you all,nice to see you .

Not much going on here at the mo ,and it's also a bit dull after the lovely day yesterday.

Rips, Just popping by to wish you a Happy Birthday ,and hope that you have a lovely day.

Annie ,MTD ,hope your mini meet goes well today for you..

Take care all....Bids.xxx.

Afternoon All,

Raining down south, which is much needed so I am not going to complain....much ;)

xxx HAPPY BRITHDAY RIPS xxx

Had to work yesterday, so finally putting the feet up now. We had a bring and share lunch after church to say goodbye to Beryl who is moving to the Kent cost, thank goodness it's not too far away. She is a very dear friend of mine, in fact a best friend and I am going to miss her being on the doorstep. But I can see some summer evenings of me jumping in the car and popping down there to take her out for chips by the sea.

I've just made dinner for tomorrow night, got the parentals coming and now I am going to catch up on some recorded TV from during the week.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday.

AliB
xx

Afternoon each

Happy Birthday Rips, hope you're having a great day.

Bids, thank you. MTD read your message on her phone while we were slurping our soup in a restaurant overlooking the Forth. We've had a lovely day on the Royal Yacht, and their cruise ship looks stunning parked by the Bridges. Would have been nice to have some sun but at least it wasn't snowing for them!

xxxx

Hello All

Had a lovely day here in South Queensferry. Thank you Annie for the lift and your company today. We're now back on the ship and we just won our second quiz of the cruise (you must have brought us luck Annie).

Looking forward to Invergordon tomorrow (I hope we do get some sun as it is a bit chilly here).

btw, the OH now knows that you lot are quite normal really so may not be so grumpy in future....

Laters

mtd ffb xxx

Lovely to hear from you MTD. Enjoy the rest of your holiday x

Well done Annie on bringing MTD luck.

Horrid and grey and cold here again today too. Is it really June?

Only the 'small' glass of rose is helping while waiting for the slow roast shoulder of lamb to finish cooking. Trouble is the wonderful smell makes you even more hungry!

Love to all

Susan xx

Howdy doody folks!

Just popped in to wish Rips a jolly good birthday. Enjoy!

Have finished book 2 this afternoon, just flew through the chapters today. What a great read Chris. Hope you achieve all you mention in your post script.

Was up at sparrows f**t this morning, to do a boot sale. Came back £100 richer so well worth the effort. It amazes me what people will buy though, he he!
Must remember to go to bed earlier the night before the next one though! Am kerkn@ckered now!

Tatty bye, Lin xx

Evening All,

I've had a busy weekend catching up with some lovely friends xx

MtD - welcome to Scotland. I really do hope the weather picks up for you and Mr MtD, enjoy the rest of your cruise. Glad you got to meet up with Annie xx

Lin - well done on the boot sale well worth getting up at silly o'clock.

I'm going to listen again to Chris' show from Friday to help me get through the pile of ironing i have to do! Another glass of Rose might help too ;o) xx

And last but by no means least.....

A very happy birthday to Mr Rips - I'm sure you are having a wonderful day being spoiled by Mrs Rips and your gorgeous children xx

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday folks!

Take care
Mary xx

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Oooh yummy cake. If Rips doesn't drop by to claim it, I'll look after it for him.

MTF.xx

Hi all

MT, have a lovely holiday!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIPS!!! xx

Just having a chill out day here, was supposed to go to Oulton Park for the touring cars, but have decided now it's all on TV, I'm more of a fair weather race fan unless it's F1...

Currently watching golf and streaming Nascar, so a good day all round!

Hope everyone is OK? Hugs to those who need them {{{Hugs}}}

JG x

Evening all

Just listening again to Friday. Caught the end of the story read by Richard Hammond and the Candyman and that was about it, so now trying to fill in some gaps in my groggy, worn out state. Not quite sure what I've done to feel as run down as I do now, not done anything out of the ordinary. Still, hopefully an early night should sort me out.

Happy Birthday Rips, I'm with MTF if that cake's not claimed soon I'll be happy to take care of it ;)

Hugs to all
Oz

The odds are looking good Oz. Half each?

MTF.xx

MTF: half sounds good to me, it is, after all, a big cake :)

Just finished listening to the top 10 stories. Don't recall my scribblings at those ages being anywhere near as good those stories.

Must be bed time. Night all.
Oz

You are all too kind.......

The cakes are not only amazing to look at, I can enjoy them in calorietastic way xxx
Thank you, for all of the birthday wishes........Love you all x :0

Cakes? I'm sure there is only one?? LOL!!

Happy whatever is left of your birthday Rips.

MTF.xx

Morning friends

Dull, grey and overcast here, but sunny in my heart!

I hope you all had wonderful weekends and didn't do anything as daft as CLP and buy a polo lesson at auction ....?!?

We had a lovely time, although the weather took its toll yesterday. We drove to Worcester (50ish miles each way) to watch the cricket. The rain started to fall as we drove into the town to park up, and it didn't stop all afternoon. By 5pm the Umpires deemed it unplayable and the match was abandoned without a single ball being bowled. Picnic was nice tho!

Who knows what the week ahead has in store? Boss back from her holibobs this morning and the air is awash with huffle puffing already .... hey ho.

Muchos amore!

Deevs
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Hi everyone:

Can't believe it's Monday already! I also listened again to Friday's show - some of it on Saturday morning and the rest yesterday morning. MrS said: "it's kind of like Groundhog Day around here"!

Annie and mtd: glad you had a nice meet-up, and mtd: it's good to hear that your OH has discovered we are all quite normal ... I well remember my first couple of blog meets when MrS was sure I would be kidnapped by mad axe murderers!

AliB: Shame that Beryl has had to move away, but yes, a great excuse for meeting up with her for chips!

Sezza: did you get to the craft shop?

Bids: hope you had a nice weekend.

Lin: well done on making some extra money - if I decided to sell all my "junk" in a car boot sale, I would just end up buying the "junk" from the person next to me - I just know it!

Mary: hope you managed to get all the ironing done!

JG: hiya!

KatyMac: lovely to see you drop by with a cake for Rips, and your wee song to him was lovely. Yep, as I have said here before, he is a bit of a babe!

Oz: hope you are feeling ok today.

MTF: just to let you know, Deebee popped in with a cake for Rips yesterday, too. 10.03 to be precise!

Cheryl: sorry to hear your weather was so bad yesterday - but a picnic is always good news!

Sorry if I missed anyone, there was just a lot I wanted to comment on!

Happy Monday everyone.

C xx

Hello?

ok, that worked

Been trying all morning but just got the grey swirls then lost the post

It has actually been raining here today! Haven't been able to say that for ages but I think i've figured out the problem

Up darn Essex has had the driest spring for 1000 years!!! Sorry too much kids TV influence there! The driest spring for 100 years but Scotland had 122% average rainfall this spring! So next year we need to do more to tempt our share of the the rain down south a bit!!

Chrissie, we did go to the craft shop - what a surprise! in my defence, Mr Sezza bought me a new paper cutting gadget and I needed some bits for it. Oh, and some more card. And some sparkly glue. And...you get the picture!

Deevs, keep your head down and keep smiling! That'll wind her up!

Laters

Sezza xxx

Just remembered the other thing I was going to say

Lin, We had a garage sale in the village on Saturday. I'm going to save up my junk for next year and have a stall. then I can try and sell more than the boys go off and buy!

Sezza xx

Thanks Chrissie and Rips and MTF and Ozgirl for commenting on t'cake.

Actually - when I delivered mine, I hadn't read back and didn't realise that Deebee had popped in earlier and delivered the very same! [You can never have too much of a good thing]

It's the cake I'd designed 'specially for the Evansblog - so please feel free to Copy & Paste it whenever the moment/birthday/celebration presents itself ..

Katy
xx

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Afternoon each,

Anyone want to do a quick appraisal for me of everything thats been going on....?! No? Didnt think so! Promise to try and keep up more!

Hay sounded amazing Chris and the winning entries for the 500 words comp were amazing...I`m sure i could only just write my own name at the age of some of the youngsters (no comments about my spel-ling, tye-ping now thank you very much!) I`ve `persuaded` the GM that we need to go to Hay one year..although I think the thought of me surrounded by books/authors and other literary minded bods brings him out in a cold sweat. I have just done a `cull` of books and still have 2 very full, triple stacked bookcases...oops!

Hope everyone is reasonably well and looking forward to the summer....I`m an optimist ok!

And on a last note I cant beleive its only 14.39 on Monday... had a mad busy, tiring but productive and enjoyable weekend chez Scoobs but am now jiggered... oh,and i have the delight of an hours journey on public transport to get me home too... will definitely be needing wine!

Love to all..

mSc x

PS - Ali - please could you send me your diary! I know you sent it but for some reason it went into my spam and I didnt move it quickly enough to stop it being vanished for forever! Thanks..x

Cheryl: oooh, looks like congratulations are in order! Excellent news, well done!

Sezza: you do love your crafts stuff - sounds like fun. I could never get within a mile of sparkly glue, it would be all over my face and hair in moments ... I am so clumsy!

Scoobs: lovely to see you. xx If you read my post from earlier this morning, that will give you a brief synopsis of some of what was occurring at the weekend. Mind you, that post did bring on a very long spell of tumbleweed, so perhaps not!

C xx

Oh yes..well done Deevs! assume you have someone for the food diary thingy but if not then let me know...although my daily meal plans lack a certain something... think its the planning bit....

Thanks Chrissie..i did indeed see your post and very well put together it was too! i`m sure the tumbleweed was more relevant to posters making a brew/playing jigzone(what am I missing?!) or gluing themselves together with sparkly glue than anything you did write... hope you doing ok..x

Speaking of a brew...kettle going on.. anyone?

mSc x

Scoobs: just popped back, but I have probably missed your tea break - catch you next time, and I'll bring the Kit Kats!

xx

Afternoon All,

Scoobs lovely to read you and it will be my pleasure to re send my diary. I am glad all is well at chez Scoobs xx

Oh and step away from Jigzone - it's addictive - I blame Bids ;) xx

Chrissie, I have a thing about glitter, can't stand it! It's a bit of a phobia, which I am sure has some fancy name, but if I get a card with glitter on, it makes me go all funny....well funnier than normal!

Deev, Well done on passing your assignment xx I don't mind helping with the food diary, although it might shock you!

Hello Sezza xx

Where's Debs, MTF, Bids, csn etc ?? xxx

AliB
xx

What's Jigzone?

Thanks for the grats - yep, passed Assignment 6 and have my mystery person doing a 3 day food diary for me for Assignment 7. It's starting to feel real now ..... yikes!

Having the longest, most dullest day ever, but I did treat myself a pink and cream cardi at lunchtime....!

Can someone wake me up at 5pm please.

Ta muchly.

Deevs
x

Hello everyone.

Ali. I am here. xx

Just having a very busy time with all family members at the moment.

Hope you are all keeping well.

Lots of love.

csn. xx

Cheryl: only 15 minutes to go - you might want to start tidying up your desk!

CSN: lovely to see you!

C xx

Evening peeps

JG, Just had a thought, was this your first day at your new job today? if it was, hope it all went well for you

CSN, hope all's well with the family

Deevs, are you tucked up at home now?

Chrissie, sparkly glue is brill as it doesn't go everywhere when you sneeze!

Ali, I'll remember that for the future!

Hi Scoobs

Boy2 bought a book of magc tricks at the weekend garage sale. Now he's asking for a saw and a box big enough to out his brother in.! Should i worry??

Sezza xx

Evening all

Is anyone else having trouble posting, I just get a squirly circling thing for hours?

Hi Sezza, no not started yet, still a lady of leisure until a week on Thursday....

I'm heading down to Mum's at the weekend, and off to Take That in Cardiff on Tuesday. Back home Weds and start work....

It all seems to have gone so quickly :(

JG x

Evening each

Nice to see everyone

So Mr MTD thinks I'm 'normal'? And I was trying to be sooo interesting! Bums. (joking, joking!!). Hopefully he'll come to the next meet and you can all see how lovely he is.

Ali, like Sezza, I'll try to remember sparkly stuff gives you the heebie jeebies.

Deevs, well done you.

Back in a bit. xxxxxxx

JG: That posted ok so hopefully the problem is sorted.

xxxxx

I think I just need to hit refresh earlier Annie xx

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Evening All,

csn, Phew, I was getting worried about you xx

I too sometimes have trouble posting but if you press refresh it usually works. Perhaps that's why the blog has been so quite, as people think they can't blog!

Annie, Glad you had a good time with mtd and her OH.

I've got a lemon, so I might make a LDC tomorrow. Thanks for putting the idea in my head LDC :)

AliB
xx

Evening all,

Hello,hows everyone today ,looks like it's a Happy chatty ship.

I thought it was just me not been able to post ,I did a post yesterday but gave up in the end ,it just wouldn't clear so yes I gave up sorry.

It's been a busy w/end here ,errands ,Daghters BBQ ,out to lunch today with MR B ,he didn't have a choice it was made for him hehe!!!.

And late this afternoon as we'd just not long been back there was a ring of the door bell only to see a face standing there that I'd not seen for thirty years ,wow !!! that was some surprise.

Deevs ,well done you .

Ali ,I'll have a slice of that L D Cake if you'r offering .

Hope everyone else is A O K.

Bids.xxx.

Chris

I'm afraid that Hay has become the "Glasto" of the literary world.

It has become the place to be seen and there seems to be more celebrities with books to sell than genuine writers.

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Evening All!

Am SO ashamed at my neglect of Mr. Chris's blog just lately. It's all Jasper's fault - for some bizarre reason he likes to spend the warm summer evenings outside! Selfish beastie...! ;-) Hope everyone is well and happy.

I was TOTALLY blown away by the quality of the writing in the stories that were read out on Friday; some incredible talent there. As well as the enjoyment of the excellent competition, it was really nice to hear such encouragement of the youngsters from Chris and his colleagues. There's always SO much that's negative being bandied-about regarding kids these days, and it was nice to hear polite, articulate, intelligent children being rightly praised and encouraged. Hope they all go on to do nice things in life.

x

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Surely if it was just you and a person of restricted growth, then it would be a mini, mini meet but if you just met fleetingly in ELH or Sainsbugs, then it would be a mini, mini, mini meet.

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Well, Lemon drizzle cake and Concerned.

Takes one to know one darlings!

You wonderful old bags!

LOL!

csn. xx

Lemon_drizzle_cake

But when does a mini meet become a midi meet or indeed a full blown Blog Meet?

Is the length of time, the number of people involved or even the size of the people involved?

There must be a complicated logarithm to establish such things that only those in the know are privy to.

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I don't think so love.

I don't come on here much now because of people like you!

csn.

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Night everyone.

Take care Lemon drizzle cake!

Ali, Chrissie and Sezza, thank you for thinking of me. xx

Sleep well and take care.

Not sure when I will be back.

Lots of love to you all.

csn. xx

Lemon drizzle cake.

Are you talking about Simon's blog?

csn.

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Lemon drizzle cake.

Can I ask you a personal question, how old are you?

csn.

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Are you Billy Pepper?

xx

In your forties!

xx

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Well, Lemon drizzle cake.

It has been lovely chatting to you but I now need to fly off on my broomstick!

csn. xx

So you go on Simon's blog too.

xx

Sorry, meant Billie Pepper.

xx

Night, Lemon drizzle cake.

csn. xx

Good morning all,

Well what a difference a day makes ,It's a beautiful sunny day here on the south coast and I have to go to work, oh well!!!.

I also had a good nights sleep so I'm up and looking forward to my day. And whatever you are all doing today ,I hope that you'll feeling the same.

Take care all ....Bids.xxx.

gorgeous here in Swinesdown too Bids, bit chilly but glorious nontheless

love to all bloggers and Chez, many congrats on passing all your modules so far, good on yer

laters
Tiggs xxx

Morning chums!

Fanx for all the congrats - I'm so enjoying this course, and I really, really hope it leads to a new career path, one way or t'other.

Bright and breezy here in The Midlands with rain due later. Frizzy hair guaranteed,

Lovely to see you back blogging Roo, and a woof woof to Jasper.

I was loving Chris's talk of "The Best" on the show this morning - for food combos it's got to be a bacon and egg sandwich. Simply The Best. Although that may possibly change by lunchtime!

Back later.

Deevs
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Plum/Drizzle/Croc/Jill .... WHY?!? What is your problem? If you don't like the content here, why drop by at all?

Morning everyone! Congratulations on the results Deevs. It's not easy studying and working, so hats off to you, my friend.

Speaking of friends, I enjoyed The Track That Takes You Back this morning. Oh, and happy belated birthday to Rips (eating pickled onions late at night - never a wise move).

By the way Plum, if you feel that this blog isn't meeting your intellectual needs, I note that Nick Robinson's BBC blog is discussing the IMF's analysis of the Chancellor's strategy to eliminate the structural deficit. I had a scroll through the list of contributors but I couldn't see you anywhere.

Better do a spot of work. Have a great day, everyone.

Love Barmy x

Good morning all,

Overcast and a tad chilly here - no surprise there then!

Hiya Clodagh - hope you are all well. Thanks for Moon River - loved the story behind it. xx

Christoph - Thank you for mentioning our Lanark Blue made here in Lanarkshire. I love blue cheese and that one is a particular favourite. Really enjoyed the foody chat this morning and had to agree about the French Baguette I can't stop eating it when I'm in sunny France especially when it's covered in lashings of tapenade! I did have my porridge this morning but all that talk of food has me hungry and lunchtime seems a long way off - good job my chilli is still frozen!

James May was great could have listened to him for hours - naughty journalist!

Well best get my nose to the grindstone as they say.

Have a good day folks!

Mary xx

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, blue cheese and crusty baguettes!

Picnic anyone?

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Morning everyone.

Lovely and sunny here.

Hope you all have a good day.

csn. xx

Hi everyone:

Just feeling a little mad this morning, so mad that I might actually think what I am about to say will interest anyone! (#71).

Just want to say to Roo, nice to see you last night.

JG: I know just what you mean about your break going so fast. When you have time off, it seems like it will last forever, and then it just disappears in a flash! Hope you have a nice time with your mum, and a great time at TT!

Bids: how lovely to have a visitor from the past! Hope you had a nice time with your friend.

Tiggs: hope your day gets a little warmer.

Barmy: nice to see you.

Hi Mary: yes, wasn't it nice to hear from Clodagh this morning? I miss her stories of the DDF!

Cheryl: I love picnics!

CSN: lovely to hear you have the sun - I am wearing my thermals this morning! Only joking - enjoy your day!

Hope everyone is ok.

C xx

Morning All,

Looks like I missed the rest of a cracking show this morning.
Stuck in a VW dealership at Heathrow, waiting, while they replace the wheel bearing that I told them was on its way out four weeks ago.
They told me it was the tyre which I dutifully replaced at a cost of £280, all for nothing! Cheers....

Anyway.....Looks like I missed James May and Clodagh....bugrit!

Thanks for the birthday wishes Barmy and to everyone who joined in.
I, like Chris, had a heavy old weekend and am playing catch up now.
Do you think they'd mind if had a snooze here?

Got a 4 person (pc!) tent for my birthday, so we're off on our first camping expedition as a family this weekend......any tips?
Stay in a hotel is not a tip!

Hope you're all well

Rips
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Testing, testing 1,2,3......tick, tock!

hello everyone

Morning All,

Warm but a bit dull in North Kent.

Looks like someone was having a conversation with themselves last night, and she calls us mad!!! Yes that's you LDC and CLP!

I personally come on here because I consider these bloggers friends and I am genuinely interested in their goings on. I have never sought to have my name mentioned on the radio and if Chris walked past me in the street I don't expect he would have a clue who I was (and why would he). I like his Breakfast Show, but sometimes he does get on my nerves. All of this is my personal and humble opinion, which I am entitled to.

Barmy, Good to see you xx

Rips, You should have listened to the JV show a week ago Friday, there were lots of tips for first time campers. The main on being don't pitch at the bottom of a hill or where anyone else hasn't pitched. The chances are that if it rains you will get flooded! Happy Camping :)

Just to wind up LDC/CLP/or Whatever - As Mary seems to be having chili for lunch, I shall tell you what I'm having - a chicken salad, concocted myself this morning, which some of my Dad's home grown radishes. Yum.

Oh well back to the grindstone.

AliB
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Hi AliB: terrific post from you this morning! Oooh, I do love a radish!

Yes, absolutely fascinating to watch someone have a chat with herself - must be the equivalent of when I talk to myself when I'm at home alone ... except I am not doing that in front of thousands of people!

Rips: nightmare scenario with the car. No redress, I presume? Have fun camping ... sorry to say my tip would be to stay in a hotel!

Keith: having problems with the squirly thing? When you have completed your post and click "post comment", then hit F5 or Refresh, and your comment will appear!

aclass: hello to you too.

C xx

Hiya Chrissie and Ali and everyone else!

Camping tips for Rips:

1. Take a Valium before trying to put the blasted thing up. Man, it's stressful.
2. Tie something bright around the guy ropes either side of the entrance. These are the ones you'll trip over the most.
3. Don't get undressed next to the lamp inside the tent when it's dark outside - you know why. You've seen Carry on Camping.
4. Take a temporary vow of chastity.
5. Lay off the pickled onions, for everyone's sake.

Love Barmy x