Morning All,



A further sprinkling of snow last night, and it must be a little warmer today as the chickens water was only partly frozen. It is snowing very small flakes here, like the snows equivalent of drizzle, so I am not sure that the chap on last nights show with his words of wisdom is correct in saying that the smaller the flakes the colder it is.



Back to my choices for today's theme:



SOUVENIR by ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK



GLITTERING PRIZE by SIMPLE MINDS



GIVE A LITTLE BIT by SUPERTRAMP





and with tongue firmly embedded in cheek:



YOU DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS by BARBRA AND NEIL



WHAT ARE WE GONNA GET 'ER INDOORS by DENNIS WATERMAN AND GEORGE COLE



Keep safe and warm, and mind how you go, Mcw x

Good Morning again



PRETTY PAPER - Roy Orbison



SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED I’M YOURS - Stevie Wonder



IT’S FOR YOU - ’R Cilla



TAKE ME I’M YOURS - Squeeze

Mornining Simon, NYM, team and blogpoppets.



Bit obscure maybe but how about Perfume & Promises by Idina Menzel



This shouldn't be as difficult as I am finding it. Cold must have frozen my brain LOL x

LOVE OVER GOLD please Simon by the inestimable, incontrovertible, outstanding DIRE STRAITS

RAG DOLL - 4 Seasons



TIN SOLDIER - Cliff



SWEET LIKE CHOCOLATE - Shanks & Bigfoot

GOLD - Spandau Ballet

Good morning Simon, Team, Nice Young Man and fellow Blogpoppets



I do believe it is a tad warmer by about 1 degree. Get the shorts out!



Suggestions:



GOLD - SPANDAU BALLET



PRETTY PAPER - GLEN CAMPBELL (It's on his Christmas album)



GIMME, GIMME, GIMME - ABBA



And one from Mr P:



ALWAYS TOUCHED BY YOUR PRESEN(TS) DEAR - BLONDIE (sic)



Good job Mr P doesn't play on the blog on a regular basis........



Later



A-G

Oops - share, Billie?

THE GIFT - INXS



THE GIFT OF CHRISTMAS - Childliners

Could you possible slip in GLORIA by U2 Simon? GLORIA is what the Wise Men and Shepherds would be singing at the sight of the Gift, Jesus

GIMME DAT DING - Pipkins

Roland Gift & his Finer Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy?



Not hopeful of a mensh today ;-) x

*** Labelled with Love ***



Squeeze.



MTF.xx

Mawnin all.



MTF.xx

Morning All,



'The Gift' The Jam



Have a good day everybody

#13 Like your thinking MTF.



Hope your day goes ok x

'Can't give You Anything (But My love)' Stylistics

#13 Like that MTF!

'You Give Me Something' James Morrison

Morning all



"Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses



thanks all

'Wrapped Around Your Finger' The Police

Thanks Mo and Billie. Wonder if nice young man will?



Yes Mo, off out now, to battle whatever is thrown at me. Looking forward to getting back tonight and getting on with Christmas stuff.



Have a great day all and take good care of yourselves ( I worry 'bout you!)



Toddles, ooodles to doodles.



MTF.xx

Where's Deebee got to?



Hope you get here soon Deebee.xx

#13 Oooh! Good thinking MTF! That has got to be played!



Mcw x

Mornin' all...



In the MK office now and had about 6" of snow in about 1hr 15mins. Going home later (18 miles away) will take a while...should have stayed in bed!



NEVER MIND THE PRESENTS - THE BARRON KNIGHTS

CALEXICO - GIFT X-CHANGE

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE - I WANT ALIEN FOR CHRISTMAS (and it's all about presents, specifically an alien!)

I was going to go with the Flowers choice but saw you had got there first Mcw.xx

Morning blogstompers



Give a Little Bit by Supertramp



Have a good day, all.

#22 Safe travels MTF

Thanks Brandon.



Right, I'm away.



Good luck after 5.05 everyone.



MTF.xx

Now the tea has warmed up the brain, a few more:



Give A Little Bit - Supertramp

Fools Gold - Stone Roses

Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger

Tina Turner - Goldeneye

Beautiful South - Good As Gold



Apologies in advance if anyone beat me to them!

Good Morning Each!



'Lost In The Post' by The Wombats



'The Sweetest Gift' by Sade



'The Gift' by The Velvet Underground



'Scarlet Ribbons' by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band



'Surprise, Surprise' by The Rolling stones



'The Goodies' by The Goodies



'Christmas Present Blues' by Jimmy Reed

A bit tenuous, but how about Sister Sledge - Frankie?



Or a play on words...:



Bing Crosby/David Bowie - Little Drum-myrrh Boy/Peace On Earth

John & Olivia - Sum-myrrh Nights



I'll get me coat...

Tom Tom Club - Wordy (W)rappinghood



Don't worry, coat's on... :-)



Guess I better write those quotes. May be back later. Stay safe and warm everyone.

'The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas' by Sherman Allan

Probably best to wake up a bit more before posting, eh? Make that Allan Sherman.

#23 I'm here! Had to leave for work before the new blog, so I couldn't get here till my coffee break.



Oh, and how rude of me. Good Morning All.



Big relief that Simon didn't have a last minute change of plan and decide to go with shepherds. Anyway, earlier I tweeted:



TOY SOLDIERS by Martika



LIVING DOLL by Cliff Richard



TEDDY BEAR by Elvis Presley



I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT MY LOVE by the Stylistics (share, Brandon?)



ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU by Mariah Carey



Deebee X



GOLD by Spandau Ballet (share Billie and Alex?)

#36 whoops - didn't mean to sign off before the last one. Don't know what happened there.

Apologoes for multiple posting, but I wanted to put this separately as it's important. I had a text from GailyB this morning - she and the GBs are all in bed poorly at the moment, poor loves. She asked me to pass on her Christmas wishes to all the Blogpoppets. And to Simon and the team as well. She hopes to be back with us soon.



X

Morning Simon, Team and all Blogpoppets



Well done on all the mentions last night - smile and whoops in the Tortie household!



No suggestions from me today, too busy - last day at work and lots to do!



#38 thanks for letting us know Deebee, I wondered where Gail was - please give her a virtual hug from me when you speak to her.



Hopefully back later



Tortie x

A late good morning all!

Very fine snow falling constantly here in Hertfordshire, haven't seen the goldfish in the pond for days and days - one new baby (Fiona the fish) this year hope its ok.

Need to go out an shop but waiting for new iphone to arrive - eek!

How about Scarlet Ribbons by Harry Belafonte - oldie I know but always brings a lump to the old throat.

Stay safe and warm!

Has anyone gone for ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH? I like the Nat King Cole version.



#13 Brilliant idea MTF. Love that song.



Have a good day.x

Oops. Thought I had sneaked in with a last "Good morning" post just before my #40 but it appears to have disappeared? So now I need to say "good afternoon".

#32 Frankie - That's genius, Skeeve! That song makes me think of a summer wearing three quarter length trousers with gaudy bangles on my arms and having a drastic bubble perm. Happy Days!

Afternoon all



Winchester Cathedral carols were beautiful last night ... if chilly ...



Great suggestions today ... please may I go for You Can't Always Get What You Want by The Rolling Stones



Happy Wednesday x

Aye Up!



Just a quickie as the office has eyes today ...... bah humbug!!



Tweeted a coupole of suggestions earlier from my phone:-









YOU GIVE ME SOMETHING - JAMES MORRISON



GIVE A LITTLE LOVE - BAY CITY ROLLERS







Snow here this morning, so I am now panicking as to whether I'll be able to get to the barnet fixers at 6!



Laters lovelies



Deevs

x

its christmasssssssssssssssss



happy birthday-alterd images(it will be jesus birthday)



jack in the box-moments



gold-spandau-ballet



barbie girl-aqua

3 word wednesday



soon be easter

Afternoon all



'pologies for absinthe, still v busy at work.



Can I add, as I don't think it's been suggested



Neil Young - Heart of gold.



Cheers



A



#47 - Roll on the creme eggs and hot cross buns Gaz eh!

From Me To You by The Beatles

Oh my goodness ... I've never had a 'O' number before :-)

Just opened a Christmas card from an old friend in another part of the country to find a note asking if I was THE Alison from Eastleigh he hears mentioned on Drivetime

Well done Alison for the 50th post. Here's a hat - you can wear it with pride!



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#51 LOL! - yes I've had that a few times. Once I had a message from one of my friends on FB (who I've never actually met) who said she'd heard my name while she was in the car with some other people, and apparently she said to them "that's one of my Facebook friends, that is"!



#39 Tortie, I will pass on your virtual hug to Gaily.



X

# 52 Wearing it with pride instead of red bobble hat



Notice the blog's gone all Albuquerque again (for our new poppets that's jumping, as in 'hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque)

Not sure it'll be as cosy as the red bobble hat Alison.



No eggnog blog here x

Three word Wednesday



CAR PASSED MOT - always a relief the week before Christmas ... tax used to be due this month too, but got 6 months to shift it to the summer

Egg nog blog here!

3 word Wednesday



ANNUAL PDP SLOG

Right wonderful blogpoppets



I'm out of here (the snow is coming down again!)



I will try to poop in when time and commitments allow, so



"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night"!



Tortie x

Couple of songs ...



Fields of Gold by Sting



or for the rockers



Black Gold by Jimi Hendrix

Good Afternoon



How is everyone?



egg nog jumping blog Albuquerque

Afternoon fellow bloggers,



Apologies for lack of postings, but being watched by interweb police in work and have managed to avoid the search light for a quick message.



Just wanted to poop onto here and wish you all a very happy christmas and new year, I hope to be back at a more regular basis next year as I enjoy the banter, the hats and general happiness this forum provides.



Take care one and all.



Nick

#50 Alison. Well done!



#62 Nick - what a lovely post.



From last night #126 Deebee. We need to have an in-depth discussion.

I think Faggots are radically different from Meatballs!

(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear - Blondie



Sorry!! ;-)

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas......

Ok, I'm being a bit leftfield here, but



GIVE by SASS JORDAN



Magnificent tune.



Happy Crimble all

Good Luck Everyone!

Deebee and Brandon hit gold - well done guys

Good Start for Deebee & Brandon! Well Done Both!

How GHASTLY!



I've just turned down that rubbish by The Feeling! YUK!

Mr BP says it's like some-one saying to a child "Sing a Christmas song for Grandma" and the child saying "I don't know any Christmas songs" and the adult saying "Well make one up then"

Well done Brandon and Deebee!



Blondie being played but no mensh for Mr P (or me!!). Never mind.

Shucks Alex! and MR Alex!



It was also suggested by Molineux late this afternoon.

Well Done Alison - and what a clear mensh!

Ooh - good one Alison!!

Hooray ... my first hat and a mensh on the same day :-)

Just love Thea Gilmore. Bought Strange Communion last year and it's really good. Very different. Her new album is excellent too.

WOW! ALISON!



Double mensh!

Well done Alison again! Cracking choice!!!

Enjoyed the show very much. Enjoyed Thea Gilmore very much.

Must admit to not knowing very much about her.



Well done all bloggers especially Alison!



Supper is Pasta with Smoked Salmon in a Crème Fraiche, Lemon & Mustard Sauce served with Crusty Bread.



Btw - Dame Shirley is on the Electric Proms (from last year) 9pm. BBC2



NNGBPGSYAITM



Love



BP

What a great show tonight, well done Alison with your TWO excellent song choices, and congratulations to Deebee and Brandon too. I thought Thea Gilmore was excellent, and like Simon, I was quite smitten with that digital harp.



Revster- I am loving your three word tweets. All those Christmas dinners that you have enjoyed reminds me of a Christmas episode of The Vicar Of Dibley! Will you be eating turkey again on Christmas Day and more to the point, do you like turkey?



Mcw x

MTF- Hope you and trusty Puffball made it safely through the snow, and are both now back at home.



Mcw x

Apologoes for my absinthe, blogpoppets. Mr B went to fetch my Mum today, and they were back when I arrived home from work. So I missed the whole show :( Chuffed to bits about my mensh - and shared with Brandon again (we can't go on meeting like this - people will talk!). And well done to Alison as well - twice! I will definitely be 'listening at a more convenient time' later.



#62 Hi Nick - what a nice thing to say! Look forward to seeing you around in 2011.



#63 Billie, I bow to your superior knowledge re faggots/meatballs. I'm sure you are right.



#82 I second that - been thinking about you today MTF. Hope you're safely home.



Deebee X

# 81 'Fraid not - I've just about had it with turkey! It will just be me and Angela on Christmas Day (we have no children) and a duck!!

Just listened on the i-thingy ... have that big smile that lots of you have talked about on my face :-)))

Hi All,



Just back in,



Congrats to Alison, heard your two mentions.



Missed the start of the show so not sure what the mention that Deebee got was for (that I shared), The Stylistics? will have to use the 'Listen at a more convenient time' device.



#38 Deebee, sorry to hear Gaily & GBs not well please pass on best wishes hope they are on the mend soon.



Is KatyM ok?, you lovely ladies do a splendid job with the hats, but she has a style of her own, with marvellous quips acompanying them



#62, Nick, a very nice message, lovely to read



MTF, hope you are back safe and sound

Brandon, no need to worry about KatyMac. She will be back amongst us in good time. Oh, and I see Deebs said that folk would soon start talking about you and her, if the shared mensh thing carries on. Now seems like a good time. What a foxy pair you are! ;0)



Congrats, menshees all!

It occurs to me. Is this the very last blog, non AR based, of the decade? If so, well done Alison on your place in history.

finished 4 xmas now



gazza x

Good morning!



Sorry, I missed the show again. Xmas is playing havoc with my routine ;-). Well done to Alison (x2), Brandon, DeeBee, Alex & Mr Alex! Hope I haven't missed anyone. Is Rev getting his Xmas dinner 3 worders read out?



Very little to do at work today so fingets crossed I will get away early, get the chores done and be home ready to listen to tonight's ARF.



Has anyone heard from MTF? I know she wasn't looking forward to yesterday.



Get well soon Gaily~ and family and anyone else who is poorly.



Stay safe and warm xx

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