Mr Nibs and Christophe
Hi Guys, Mr Nibs here. I can’t believe that I’m actually doing a bloggy wog for Radio 2. If you listened to last Saturday's show you probably know that I had quite a busy day that involved rescuing Christophe the goldfish. It was from a woman in Birmingham who’d phoned up the show to ask about ways of killing it.
My day began getting on the 8:01 train from Bangor to Birmingham New Street. The first problem I encountered was all the seats where full and I had nowhere to sit, luckily the train manager said there are plenty of seats in the first class carriage. So as I sat down in first class, it was funny to see the look on some of the people as some of them had probably paid around £100 to be there.
The arrangement was to meet Debra and Christophe on Platform 3 between 10:45 and 11:00 as my train pulled in at 10.42 - this meant I could catch the 11:00 train to London.
So I went over to platform 3, there were about 15 people there, and I thought Debra would be obvious carrying a goldfish in a see-through bag or a bowl. However there was no sign of her so I decided to go up to the ticket barriers in case she hadn’t been allowed through. Still I couldn’t see anyone with a goldfish and I even said to the ticket inspector “I know this might sound like a stupid question but have you seen a woman carrying a goldfish?” laughing he said hadn’t seen anyone so I resorted to phoning Mikey. He managed to get hold of Debra and told me she was on her way. This was around 11:05 and I’d missed the 11:00 train to London but was hopeful I’d be able to catch the 11:30 train. Waiting and waiting, I eventually got a phone call from Debra and we met by the ticket barriers. She’d suggested a coffee cup to put the fish in but I told her not to worry as I had a sandwich box. When I met her at the ticket barriers she pulled out a black dog poo bag from her handbag and transferred it into my sandwich box. Apparently, the other bag burst so God knows what happened to the poor little fish until the poo bag was acquired. Anyway it was now safe in my hands but it was 11.28 or something so I legged it to the platform and got on the train with about 30 seconds to spare.
On this journey I was getting quite a few strange looks, an old couple next to me said they’d just seen a guy go past with a snake and so I said to them “oh its like Noah’s Ark on here” which was a good line to say when Russell was to phone me.
Anyway as you know I got a phone call to see how myself and little Christophe where getting on. He had Debra on the other line who said that I was the one who didn’t turn up, the cheek of it- I’d get her back somehow!!
Russell tried phoning a few times but I couldn’t hear as there wasn’t much signal, I just remember shouting "I’ll be at Euston in 5 minutes."
I arrived in London at around 1:10 and hopped in the first cab I saw to the Radio 2 Studios. As I arrived I was given a pass and up I went to the studio. Russell was on the phone to Noel Gallagher and there was only 10 minuets of the show left so they decided to play a song, talk to me, and finish of the show with one of Mr Gee`s wonderful poems. I’d been thinking about what to say when Russell asked me about the day as I didn’t want to sound boring and just say “yeah it was ok”. Therefore, I decided use this time to have a pop at Debra for blaming me. I said “Debra showed me her fishnet stockings, asked me to get my bait out and she was going to give me a whale of a time” but I’d told her “I came to get the goldfish not to get crabs”…I thought it was funny anyway, even if Russ hadn’t appreciated the clever little puns.
That was my day basically, by this time I was knackered but at least Christophe the fish made the journey and is now in safe hands - well kind of.
I wonder what they will be getting me to do next week?
Fetch a Chinese man from Tibet? Fly one of Noel Gallagher’s Milk bottles to the Moon?
You never know, it’s all a matter of time, listen to next weeks show to find out.
Mr Nibs x
Wow Mr. Nibs is doing a bloggy wog. Thankyou the account. Love the show. Mr Nibs how did you come to being russ et matt's 'slave'
yay!!!
A brilliant bloggy wog from Mr Nibs =D
Hope there will be more bloggy wogs from Mr Nibs soon =)
Go mr nibs! one of our own forum kind with his own official radio 2 blog! congratyawelldone muchly mate!
Hello Nibs, I seem to like you. Ow old are you?
Hello Mr Nibs,
I have to say what a delightful end to Saturdays show. Will the funny puns be a regular feature to the conclusion of each show??
Great work, my Welsh speaking friend. Maybe next week you could get Cristophe to belt out some fishy puns too..
Nice work!!
Stu
What a day you had!
Oh the joys to be the 'slave' of Russell and Matt-not that I'd say 'no' myself ;)
Thanks for the wonderful account, now we know what really went on behind the scenes and you didnt transform into an 'android'! It must have taken you ages to write it all up so its only rightful you get a good ole slap on the back to say well done!
I really hope we'll hear more of your adventures and I guess, like you said, anything could happen!
Cant wait for next week
xxx
Great work Mr Nibs, looking forward to reading more from you...xx
Oh Mr Nibs! How we all envy you on the forum. To be Russell's slave! Could this world offer any greater bliss? Do you even know how lucky you are I wonder. It's like that German bloke who won Wimbledon when he was 16 - the greatest thing that could ever happen to him happened when he was too young to appreciate it. I'm sorry to say it will be downhill from now on my lad, you've peaked too early.
Sorry to have to break it to you and that.
Linda x
Bendigedig!
Oy, Mr Nibs, your face is very familiar, it's either one of two things:
a) I've seen you round somewhere, your from Wales right?
b) Your on that cbbc programme about a wheel chair basketball team starring Adrian Adepitan (and you if i'm correct).
Anyway mate, carry on with the ol' blogs about your little adventures, who knows, next week you could have the job of finding a wifey for Christophe.
Thanks guys for all your nice messages, glad you liked my first bloggy wog.
message to lukvandrunen- yeah im from Wales but not from a cbbc programme
Mr Nibs, I salute you for your efforts with the fish, but why do you look like Vicky Pollard in your picture, wiv' that pink thing in your hair??!
Kudos in spite of the state of your photo though - not sure who else would go all the way to Birmingham New Street in quest of a homeless swimming creature!
Fliss xx
Vicky Pollard....are you havin' a laugh?
He she havin' a laugh!!??!!
Take no notice Nibsy!
How come suddenly the fish is called Dave on the Radio 2 website? What's going on? Don't tell me Christophe has died and we're being palmed off with Dave now. Personally I had bonded with Christophe and so had a good many other listeners I expect. I knew Russell's attention span would be too short to care for a fish. He shouldn't be allowed to have pets.
Yours in disappointment
Linda
Christophe has died !
What have you done Mr.Nibs
*shakes head*
R.I.P
Christophe