Good Morning again.



WISEMEN - James Blunt



CARAVAN OF LOVE - Housemartins

'your love is King' Sade

Morning All,



Suggest today because of the opening line: 'Wise men say - Only Fools Rush In'

'(I Can't Help) Falling In love With You' UB40,



and it's a great song



Hope its a good day for everybody

Good Morning Simon, Team, NYM and Blogpoppets



I like school holidays for two reasons. The traffic's a lot lighter in the mornings, and the blogs arrive earlier!



My suggestions are:



WISE MEN by James Blunt



YOUR LOVE IS KING by Sade



CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU by Elvis Presley - "Wise men say,,,"



Laters...



Deebee X

KINGS OF THE WILD FRONTIER - Adam & The Ants

Oops #1 #2 #3 - great minds! Looks like we all posted at once.



X

'Kings of the Wild Frontier' Adam Ant

Just to keep things balanced?



'Queen of the New Year' Deacon Blue

Just leave me over there, nattering away to myself, hmph!



The mornings do get darker for a while, but we start to gain about 34 seconds more a day.



MTF.xx

How about 500 MILES by the Proclaimers? I've no idea whether that was the distance they actually would have travelled, but it was certainly 'afar'.

Morning Again,



CLEVER TREVOR by IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS



ROYAL EVENT by RUSS CONWAY



FROM A JACK TO A KING by NED MILLER



Mcw x

Totally off piste here, but if Simon had suggested 'shepherds', have found a contender by Ted Heath and his Band called Swinging Shepherd Blues, it got to no 3 in 1958 long before I was even a twinkle in my Dad's eye!!

Simon, I love sprouts! They are my favourite vegetable, not keen on cabbage though, how strange is that??

'King of the Road' Roger Miller

Morning all



I don't "get" bread sauce .... bleugh!!



Deevs

x

Morning!!



Working from home and broadband has gone pfft. Bother.



Suggestion:



OLD & WISE - Alan Parsons Project



KING - UB40



Laters



Alex-G

*** The King has lost his crown ***



Abba.



MTF.xx

WE FIVE KINGS please Simon from JETHRO TULL'S excellent Christmas album of 2009 - it is a delightful tune that will put everyone in the true spirit of Christmas celebration

#15 Morning Deevs! Totally agree looks like porridge but doesn't taste as nice!

*** Just can't wait to be King ***



From the Disney Lion King cast!



MTF.xx

Bread sauce, well its all about using the best ingredients.



Home grown shallots, walnut bread and clotted cream with some freshly ground nutmeg might change your mind??



MTF.xx

..and oodles of black pepper :)



MTF.xx

Morning Simon, NYM, team and blogpoppets. Thanks again for my first mensh and the congrats. Still smiling. Hmmm nothing obvious coming to mind yet. Alone in the office again with not a lot needing to be done so off to do some research ;-)



Stay safe & warm x

Bread sauce - bleurgh! It's more of a texture thing with me though. Most of the foods I don't like are texture rather than taste.



Will keep everything crossed for you Deevs for as long as possible. Sounds pretty hopeful but as you say always difficult to tell.



x

#21 Not just bread sauce but MTF's Bread Sauce!! Ever thought about writing M&S commercials, MTF? (other food stores etc..)

Cloves, I forgot the cloves....



MTF.xx

OOoh, Mcw have you seen the peppered Sirloin on the bone that they are advertising atm?



If there was one thing that I could get out for, that would be it. Unfortunately, that is a 50 mile round trip, so I will have to be content with drooling at the ad for now.



MTF.xx

is it too early for puns?



'it's reigning men' The Weather Girls

'long train runnin' Doobie Brothers

Morning all



Please may I suggest King of Rock 'n' Roll by Prefab Sprout x

Love and Pride - KING



Failed to get this played for the royal engagement so will try again x

It's just a white food thing with me. Porridge (the Devil's work!), bread sauce, rice pudding ..... cat yak food and all bleugh!!!



Mo - thanks! I'm trying not to think about it, but the more I think about it, the bigger the potential disappointment could happen. Patience neverwas one of my virtues!



Can't think of any King songs, as I have Paul King of King lodging in my headspace now!



Love & Pride!



Deevs

x

Mo



Great minds eh!?



Hahahahahahahahahahaha!



Deevs

x

In my haste not to be pipped at the post forgot to point out how #30 covered all of today's bases ...



Last night's running club Christmas do was our 3rd cancellation since Friday (rescheduled works meal and friends' housewarming also snowed off) so it is with much relief that I am planning to go to a Carol Service in Winchester Cathedral tonight ... me and one friend has turned into four of us ... and it would be a shame not to eat out after all these missed meals ... so fingets crossed the weather stays in our favour



PS must add Blog-poppet Dicker words to spell-checker as it always tries to correct them!

Good Morning,



Has anyone suggested KING OF WISHFUL THINKING by Go West. Always makes me think of Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in Pretty Woman.



Have a good day.x

RAOUL AND THE KINGS OF SPAIN by TEARS FOR FEARS



FOREIGN SAND by ROGER TAYLOR

#33 of course x

Oooooh .... got one!





King In A Catholic Style - China Crisis



That'll do nicely!



Deevs

x

#28 LOL PSL.



#34 My thoughts exactly, Alison. Very clever suggestion. Enjoy Winchester tonight. Used to run courses for my work at a hotel near there called Lainston House. Have you ever been there? It's gorgeous.



Don't mind bread sauce but can't stand sprouts.

#39 I've driven by and run past Laniston House, but never been in ... it looks beautiful ... some friends went there for a special birthday meal and said it was lovely

Could I please have Your Love is King by Sade for my lovely husband Angus, we were married 25 years ago today! Obviously the shortest day does make for the longest night!! Annie in Guisborough

just got into the U2 moment and surely this is the ideal time for MLK. In fact couldnt there be a U2 song everyday please?

Punnage:



I-MAGI-NE - John Lennon



Hat? Coat?

... and matching gloves Alex!!



x

I LOVE porridge, but like Deevs I don't 'get' bread sauce. It's home-made cranberry for us, a la Saint Delia.



Congratulations on your 25th wedding anniversary, Annie! And I love your cheeky little comment ;o) We spent ours travelling to the British Virgin Islands and due to the time difference we got about an extra 5 hours! Which was very nice...



Deebee X

#43 LOL Alex



#41 Congratulations Annie and Mr Annie



Not sure what I'll be having for Xmas lunch yet (without bread sauce!). Long story which I won't bore you with. What happens with the weather between now and Sat will determine how my day works out. Don't feel sorry for me though, I will make the most of whatever happens. And I'm still hopeful of getting away to the sun next Monday x

I'm with Deevs #15 as I don't get bread sauce either, even though I have never eaten eat and never made it! Give me stuffing, sausages wrapped in bacon and cranberry sauce any day!

PS: Just seen MTF's bread sauce recipe (?) of shallots, walnut bread and clotted cream with some freshly ground nutmeg and that sounds even worse!!!! ;o)

Congratulations Annie and Mr Annie! Simon Ward would endorse your suggestion for U2 everyday!



I must be alone - I like bread sauce! My Mum makes it and it is scrummy. We also have cranberry sauce which I made a month ago and is in the freezer. Not Delia but made with orange juice and zest, sugar and port. Oh, and cranberries!



Getting excited now! Just hope Mum and sister can get here!

KING MIDAS IN REVERSE ~ The Hollies



Please Simon

Not heard it for ages!!!

#post 48, none taken, LOL!



MTF.xx

Do we have a crown for post 50?



MTF.xx

Have just received the new Paul Carrack cd from the river people, thanks to our intrepid postman. The cd is tremendulous..

#53 Glad to hear that, MCW; after hearing him with Simon last week, I bought it for Mr T from the river people.

Well done to Mcw's postman!! Was he wearing shorts?

I really enjoyed him too...not ordered anything from 'river peeps' as the last orders took 2 weeks to get here! but everything has come bar a 'never knowingly undersold' package..still time;-)

#53 I downloaded it (legally) and love it too x

#54 What a voice, Mr T will not be disappointed.



#55 No shorts Alex, just a fetching bearskin!! ;-)

Awwwww. All alone in the office but all glowy and snuggly listening to the amazing James Morrison.



A velvety voice like warm melted chocolate.



:-)



Deevs

x

we 3 kings of orient are-beach boys



follow you follow me-genisis

on a three theme...



'three litte birds' Bob Marley and the Wailers

'GOLD' Spandau Ballet

#53 #54 #57 I have also downloaded Paul Carrack's album, but I only did it last night so I haven't had a chance to listen yet. Looking forward to it.



Just realised I didn't post the answer to my connundrum from the weekend. Mcw guessed it, so gets the prize (actually there isn't one - sorry!) Basically, if you try and translate the French into English it's just nonesense, but if you read it aloud it turns into a nursery rhyme in English, but with a French accent. It's quite funny at parties when the person reading is concentrating so hard on the pronunciation they don't realise what they're actually saying!



So, we have:



Un petit d'un petit

Humpty Dumpty



S'étonne aux Halles

Sat on a wall



Un petit d'un petit

Humpty Dumpty



Ah! degrés te fallent

Had a great fall



Indolent qui ne sort cesse

And all the King's horses



Indolent qui ne se mène

And all the King's men



Qu'importe un petit d'un petit

Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty



Tout Gai de Reguennes.

Together again



Geddit?!

Hmmm, see we have an egg nog blog again......



Telephone repair man has been and performed magic. The phone line is as clear as a bell and broadband is back. Hurrah!



Deebee, might have to try out your French "poem" before the charades on Christmas Day!



Where is everybody?



A-G

#64 Busy working, unfortunately Alex. Can do without the egg nog blog too!

Good Afternoon Everyone



Albuquerque?

"egg nog blog" is good!



#41 Happy Anniversary to Mr. & Mrs. Annie.



#30 Alison - what a brill suggestion.

Hiya Billie! Yep, the blog is doing the Albuquerque thing again. I suggested yesterday that the blog had been on the egg nog! Only seems to happen in the afternoon - very odd.

BP and Mr. BP are feeling decidedly dumb and stupid.



There is absolutely nothing wrong with the sound on our Telly. We had the sound turned down to the minimum (don't know how or why) so when we're "muting" or "unmuting" it made no difference - and of course when we tried a DVD the same thing happened.



Glad we hadn't ordered a new one!



Thick or what?

#69 LOL BP. That is the sort of thing I might do. Glad you don't have to pay out for a new one just yet x

Oh dear BP! AT least you sorted it before parting with any dosh!



I keep pooping in between stuff, but it's been so quiet I didn't want to talk to myself .....



Deevs

x

Note to self - Top Gear starts tonight. Jez sounded very calm and happy on CLP this morning.

We are laughing now!



At lunch time I was seeing what I could find in the way of a Telly on iThingy and Mr.BP said he'd just have another look at the connections on the back. I didn't hold out much hope.

Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Wise Men

Mo - new series of Top Gear? Really!?!?!



Fab!!



x

Aja Daashuur 3 wise men

It's been snowing all day here - heavily. There must be a foot or so on the ground. This is quite rare on Anglesey.

Oh poor Billie!! But that is really very funny!



Just had my sister on the phone in fits of laughter. My Mum decided she needed to take the car out so toddled out to clear the snow off it and start it up. She was out for about 20 minutes and then came back in huffing and puffing and generally gumbling. As she put the kettle on to boil, Mum told sibling that all the car doors were frozen shut and she had to poor boiling water on them to melt the ice. Sibling suggested using de-icer but it seems my Mum keeps the can of de-icer in the car. Quite.



Anyhoo, Mum goes out and pours boiling water all over the car doors but they still won't open. In she comes again, deciding to abandon her short shopping trip. She pats her coat pockets - where are the car keys? Sister says that Mum must have had the keys when she unlocked the car.



Unlocked the car? Hmmm, that might have been a good idea, says Mum as she spots the keys still hanging on the peg by the back door. Yep, car was not frozen, but locked.



I better warn Mr P that when I grow up, I might be like my mother.....

Billie - I meant your telly story was funny, not the snow!!

#75 not sure if it's a Xmas special. Think it's on every night this week leading up to a special on Boxing Day. Hope I was listening properly and haven't got that completely wrong. I know there are a few fans on here.

in terms of wise men, would this work, the beatles with eric and ernie?



The Beatles:Speech: Eric Morecambe And Ernie Wise

#78 Alex Your mum's story is very funny too!

then there is following you around by Morecambe and WISE

#74 #76 Hi to Tony

I don't seem to have any problems with the blog nog at work. It's staying nice and sober for me. But that day I went home ill last month(the day before CiN) and logged on at home, it was jumping around all over the place. Bizarre.



#69 LOL Billie! I'm so glad you're laughing about it. And as Deevs says, at least you hadn't bought a new one.



#72 Whoop whoop! And my spies tell me Richard Hammond has had a haircut*. Can't wait to see it!



Deebee X



*a couple of friends of mine went to the filming last week. They didn't invite me though... maybe I should call them ex-friends...

#78 Alex, that is SO funny! Your poor Mum...



#80 There are two Top Gear specials, one tonight and the other on Boxing Day (I think - but don't quote me). Then the new series proper starts in January.

We're out tonight at the Quiz, so best remembererer to set Sky+ to record.



Thanks for the heads up!



x

Good Afternoon Each! I wonder how late in the day it is possible to pitch up with a suggestion for a song, ansd get a mensh for it. My suspicion is that time would be before now, but undaunted...



'Three Is A Magic Number'. The Embrace version would be lovely.

hi all needs to be wisemen by james blunt merry xmas all

Mr Of Sheffield - was that you I heard menshed on Craig Charles show this arvo!?!



x

Good Luck Everyone

Still full after a stonking Christmas Lunch at the Checkers Inn, Goldhangar

Deevs - well done!

Well done Deevs!

Excellent start Deevs!

Alex Girl...excellent

Well done AlexG.



Isn't it beautiful? BOOHOO!

Yip....sniff....sniff....

Nearly.....

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