Morning Simon



How's about



PLAY THE GAME - QUEEN



Deevs

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'IT'S A MAN'S MAN'S MAN'S WORLD' JAMES BROWN

Morning All,



THE TIME OF OUR LIVES - Toni Braxton (official song for a recent world cup finals)

Good Morning Everyone



I'm late this morning.



Suggest -



AND I'M TELLING YOU I'M NOT GOING - Jennifer Hudson

'MATCH GAME' OTIS REDDING

Good Morning Simon, team and Blogpoppets



Simon, I'm so envious of you and your family going to Suffolk this week. The Suffolk coast is one of my favourite places in England. Pity you have to go into work...



I'm not really into all the FIFA stuff, but how about:



GAMES PEOPLE PLAY by Joe South



NAME OF THE GAME by Abba



LOVE IS A LOSING GAME by Amy Whitehouse



See you all later



Deebee ~X~

CORRUPT - Depeche Mode



MONEY AND CORRUPTION - The Kinks



THE CORRUPT ONES - Dusty Springfield



GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY - Grateful Dead (or Bob Dylan).

Good morning everyone!



How about. . . . . . .



THE GAME OF LOVE ~ Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders



GAMES PEOPLE PLAY ~ Joe South



xx

'get out(and let me cry)' Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes

One more......





FIX YOU ~ Coldplay

'FIX YOU' COLDPLAY

EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD - Tears For Fears



BREAK THE RULES - Status Quo



GUILTY - Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb

PAYOLA BLUES - Neil Young



THE BEAUTIFUL GAME - Udora



BARCELONA - Queen (Or Freddy Mercury as a solo)



BARCELONA - Melanie C (completely different song)

'IT'S ALL IN THE GAME' THE FOUR TOPS

NOTHING HAS BEEN PROVED - Dusty Springield

MONEY-THAT'S WHAT I WANT' FLYING LIZZARDS or BARRET STRONG

'SHAME' EVELYN CHAMPAGNE KING

THE MAN WHO CAN'T BE MOVED - The Script









problems posting!

Morning all



When I last looked in (about 5 mins ago) the blog was broken! Good to see that normality has been restored once more!



Sounds like you had a good weekend Simon.



Back later



Tortie x

Morning All,



Last day that I will be mensh chasing for a while, as I start my new job tomorrow. Not only that but Simon has to choose the theme, of all things, football! D'oh!!!



So if I am allowed to post....I keep getting the message that they are having problems posting my comment, so while waiting I have thought of lots more!!



AN INNOCENT MAN (possibly) by BILLY JOEL



BOTH SIDES NOW by JUDY COLLINS



RIDERS ON THE STORM by THE DOORS



PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS by DIRE STRAITS



WAITING FOR AN ALIBI by THIN LIZZY



QUE SERA SERA by DORIS DAY



I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT by ROD STEWART



NICE 'N' SLEAZY by THE STRANGLERS







Madchick x

And of course we have, for the other football story of yesterday -



URSULA (THE SWANSEA SONG) - Barclay James Harvest

TROUBLE - Coldplay

Morning all,



Fresh form my exploits on Popmaster yesterday (21? I was rubbish. I would have got 33 on the other guy's questions!), here are my choices for today;



SILLY GAMES - JANET KAY



SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO - THE CLASH



Cheers!



Kev

MIND GAMES - John Lennon





very annoying blog

Good morning, once again for those who missed my earlier greetings.



Be back later once the dash for menshes has abated but before I go, how about:



ONE HORSE RACE by TOM VEK

Hurrah! My earlier post posted. The blog went all broke just after I sent it and I had no idea whether or not it had worked. Had to leave and come to work in the end.



In the mean time I have also tweeted:



DIRTEE CASH by Dizzee Rascal



LITTLE LION MAN by Mumford and Sons.



Although that second one may not be particularly Radio 2 friendly.



~X~

MCW - very best of luck in your new job. Can I second your Billy Joel suggestion? Mind you, as you won't be around for a while, I think Simon should play ALL of your suggestions!



~X~

Back again to a bouncing blog - better than being broken though!



Don't think thi one's been chosen, if it has I'll second:



PLAY THE GAME - Queen



Tortie x

Good morning all!



Very frustrating over the weekend as I could lurk but not post as for some reason, the blog would not accept posts from my phone. Seems as if everyone had a good weekend - was lovely reading the insights into your lives.



Kev, well done on Popmaster! I was listening and said to Mr P "it's a blogpoppet!". I thought you did very well.



Toots and Mo - how exciting that you are going to meet at the weekend!



Need to read back over the weekends blog so that I can catch up properly.



A-G

Here's the missing 's' from #28!



MCW - I forgot to say good luck for tomorrow!



I haven't 'seen' Katy around over the weekend, is she OK?

Thanks Deebee and Tortie. x



Thought of another NEWS OF THE WORLD by THE JAM (seeing as it is in all the papers!)

MCW, good luck for tomorrow! Hope it all goes well!

Or a cheeky one that probably wont get played as it was used as the advertising jingle for a certain fizzy drink that are also sponsors associated with FIFA



I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING by THE NEW SEEKERS





I suppose the theme could have been worse, it could have been cucumbers! ;-)

'GIVE IT UP' KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND

hope tomorrow goes well mcw xx

Morning all



Nice to see you all, as the bouncing seems to have stopped.



What about



GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS - PETER GABRIEL (As that's supposed to be FIFA's role)



I WILL SURVIVE - GLORIA GAYNOR



Both for the line - Go walk out the door - and as Mr Blatter appears to be rather Telfon (other non-stick etc) to all these allegations!



A

#33 MCW - LOL!!! Now trying to think of cucumber related songs!!

Good Morning Each! I would be most grateful if all blogpoppets could carry some form of i.d. with them at all times, to avoid any unfortunate misdirection of poor innocents. Thank you!



Sepp Blatter...



'Blind Eye' by Uriah Heep



'See No Evil' by Television



'See No Evil' by Eurythmics



'One Man Band' by Leo Sayer



'Hit The Road, Jack' by Ray Charles



'The Bribe' by Tim Key. With A String Quartet. On A Boat.

#33 #37 I have a cucumber related joke. It's one of Ken Dodd's. It's a bit rude though, so I may get modded. Let's see:



What a beautiful day for sticking a cucumber through your neighbour's letterbox and shouting "The Martians have landed!"



;o)

#39 Not heard that one before - funny!

Hello All

:^)







WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES - DOOBIE BROTHERS



RULE THE WORLD - TAKE THAT



I'M STILL STANDING - ELTON JOHN

Morning All,



'Money For Nothing' Dire Straits



'Everybody Wants To Rule The World' Tears For Fears

Morning all.



Had a bit of a panic when I saw the blog bouncing. Surely not 2 o clock already?



MTF.xx

Morning Lord Ammo of Suffolk, team, NYM and uncorrupt bloggers



Sounds like a lovely weekend by the seaside, Simon. Sorry I'm late today.



Can I suggest:



BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - Dolly Parton

Hot dog! Already? What's occurring?!?



Hi guys and, of course, Simon the Patient Train Traveller Dude, The Team and the NYM,



Sun is shining, washing on the line with a light breeze to encourage drying :)



My suggestions before I catch up are:-



BARCELONA, FREDDIE MERCURY AND MONTSERRAT CABALLE

MONEY FOR NOTHING, DIRE STRAITS



Just had a message from the lovely Mo - we're meeting in Dundee, Saturday lunchtime - how exciting!!!



Rightio, off to catch up on the hiccuping blog.



~ xx

HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON? - ACE



Or maybe what we need is a



REVOLUTION - Beatles

Hello all! Jumping blog?



Not able to play today. Got a Texan looking over my shoulder most of the day. Doubt he'd be interrested in the the goings on here ;-)



Deebee, did My detective work pay off re your aborted train journey on Fri?



Good luck tomorrow MCW, will be thinking of you.



Promise to catch up properly later.



X



PS i got my forst celebrity tweet today - the lovely Jonny Saunders who didn't really answer my question but took time to reply



OK I know there are typos in here but proving too frustrating to try to fix!

MCW - good luck for tomorrow - you'll be fantastic.



Deebee - he he - funny joke - i like it.



PoS - you weren't the only one to be fooled. I extended warmest welcomes TWICE!!! Zoe thank you so much for the explanation on the previous blog - all is clear again.



Nice to see the rovers return - PSL, KatyMac, Alex~G, JohnbG, BrandonB



Cucumber songs??? Don't give him any ideas, MCW. I've struggled with the footie suggestions. I just don't seem to be able to think laterally. Brain clogged up with all sorts of unhelpful stuff.



Kev - how frustrating you didn't get the other questions. I thought you did well anyway. Had a chuckle to myself when I realised it was 'our Kev' on the quiz :)



Hope the blog stops hopping about before long - it's really quite distracting.



Hope you all have a lovely day.



~ xx

Mo - makes me think of the advert for those chocolate bars "Hold on there Bald Eagle"! What was that all about?



Anyhoo, jumping blog is a bit annoying so I'm outta here now.



~ xx

Hello all



A bit late to the game today. How about:



Self preservation society - from the Italian Job

The Payback - Jame Brown

#49 - Mo, just to clarify, I meant your reference to the Texan.



Really outta here now.



Blimmin' 3 minute delay - at least we get a countdown now.



~ xx

#50 ... oops, here's Mr Brown's missing 's'!

Morning everyone



Couldn't think of any.. hiccup.. ostrich songs or.. hiccup.. any that relect my vision of Blatter with head stuck somewhere very dark and constrained.



So I shall nominate the following as an appropriate image when he finally goes, as he surely must 'cos this has all happened on his watch whether or not he has personally been involved:



The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles



Never understood all the "game in good hands" messages that radio and TV stations get after he has been interviewed in the past. He always has been a fool trying to tinker with things that are not his business (Ronaldo "slave" comments) while doing absolutely nothing about those absolutely are in his sphere of influence (the ludicrous amount of bear hugging that Jamie Carragher* gets away with week in week out).



* He's just my preferred example :-)

VOTE FOR ME by MARK WYNTER (ex-R2 presenter?) from the movie, JUST FOR FUN, which doesn't get a screening, these days. Like IT'S TRAD DAD and GONKS GO BEAT.

I don't why channels like BBC4, Film4 or Yesterday couldn't fit them into their schedules.



DO THE FOOTBALL by ISIS (this probably refers to what Americans regard as football)



O TANNENBAUM by NAT KING COLE (among others). The lyrics go "0 Tannenbaum, wie treu sind deine Blatter" Whatever that means.

Hello Again :)



Been for a nap after having only a couple of hours sleep, but I feel worse! The bouncy blog is making me feel dizzy!!



Love reading Simon's blog as usual :) Why do other people think we want to hear a lecture when we are travelling? There's usually always one loud mouth in a train carriage.



I'm not sure about oldie suggestions :/ I haven't really been following all this business with FIFA. Football is one of those things I just don't care about in life, from who footballers are doing the dirty with to what how much money is being pocketed by whom. I just don't care.



But as there don't seem to be that many suggestions, how about...



The Man Who Sold The World (cup) - David Bowie



Scandal - Queen

Thanks for all the good lucks.



I've just been to a famous stationers and got my 'back to school' stuff!



#39 Deebee lol!! Don't you just love Ken Dodd!!!???!!!



Ironing pile to be tackled and end of month paperwork to sort.



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Having now had the chance to re-read Simon's blog, I realise that he's probably travelling FROM Suffolk. I'd assumed he was going TO Suffolk, because of it being half term. Or maybe he is - maybe he's commuting for the week. I don't know...



Whoop whoop for the Dundee mini blog meet!! Make sure you take some photos, girls.



On a more serious note, this is why my train was stopped on Friday night (thanks to Mo and Mr B for some sterling detective work!) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8545602/Red-Cross-murder-victim-told-police-she-was-being-harassed.html



Don't think I want to go to London again for a while. Not on a train, anyway :(



~X~

#55 and Simon, I shall bear this in mind when travelling on the train on Sat for a mini blog meet up with the delightful Toots!



#49 LOL Toots, he is completely bald. Just as well he didn't get to read the blog ;-)



#39 LOL Deebee!



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Good to see regulars returning.

A new flight has been announced between Aberdeen and Azerbaijan. Aberdeen has been doing business with Azerbaijan for years through oil & gas so the only conclusion I can come to is it's to get more peeps out for Eurovision next year ;-)



X



Wisdom of the day = sweet potato and chilli soup = runny nose!

XTC - Senses working Overtime



The world is football shaped , its just for me (or Sepp Blatter) to kick its face

Not sure if this has been suggested already, but how about

SWEET LITTLE LIES - FLEETWOOD MAC



ttfn, Crumpy (from next door) x

#47 Meant to say - well done Mo for getting a tweet from Jonny Saunders. Especially as he only seems to tweet about once a year! Rebecca Pike is also good at replying to tweets. Certain other people, however, are not so generous...



;o)

#56 don't you just love buying new stationery!



X

Hello and hope you all had a nice bank holiday.



1. LETS FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE - Nat King Cole

2. WICKED GAME - Chris Isaak

3. BACKSTABBERS - O Jays

4. DIRTY CASH - Stevie V

5. BRASS IN POCKET - The Pretenders

6. OPEN YOUR HEART - Madonna

7. LITTLE LIES - Fleetwood Mac

8. SILLY GAMES - Janet Kay

9. WORLD IN MOTION - New Order

10.CRY WOLF - AHA

#57 What a sad story Deebee. Just tragic.



Lord Ammo is indeed travelling towards London as his train stopped at Woodbridge then Ipswich which is south of Woodbridge.



#56 & 63 Love buying stationery! If it is a choice between a pot of multi-coloured paper clips or a pair of shoes, I go for the paper clips.



#61 Hiya Crumpy!

Arg wrong button pushed so have to write it all again.

Afternoon all, esp Lord Ammo with his Suffolk sand still between the toes (or shingle, depending on where you took your Paul Smith socks off) - a sunset in that area is a real SUNSET - but we saw scant evidence of any sun this weekend in the Oxon area...

Not knowing any Footie songs, I want to suggest one for SEPP BLATTER who has made himself a demi-god it would appear:

'HEY, YOU, GET OFFA MY CLOUD' by The Stones, of course

Would like to 2nd #12 & #42 Tears for Fears - gotta be an ARFO surely, sometime soon?

And thanks #39 for the Ken Dodd joke, nice one.

Now regretting offering my old man cucumber last night. whilst he was making his sarnies for today in case he thinks there was some 'skullduggery' afoot.



Sorry I didn't realise the pop master contestant was you, # 23 Kev - I heard it (I was hiding in the bedroom from 'Clone Wars' 'apparently' a suitable BH Monday DVD choice)

I must've missed the people intro on popmaster. That Zoe Ball has me in stitches, she is a great stand-in for the Bruce Meister, even if she does sometimes 'break' the studio.



Back to the laptopgrindstone.

Have a nice day y'all esp those at home with young, bored children, I feel your pain.

#61 how remiss of me!



Hi Crumpy (from next door)



X

Ah - there you all are!

Hello to the neighbours as well - Bids, Crumpy et al



A combination of being somewhat over-peopled and broadband downage kept me blog-free over the long weekend. This morning I wasn't allowed in - but can now see that a post I made earlier got through ...



Train rides to and from the Suffolk coast - sweet nostalgia!

My favourite childhood book - Robert Louis Stevenson's 'A Child's Garden Of Verses' contains the poem 'From A Railway Carriage' which I learned by heart .. and recited whenever I travelled on the train from London to my auntie in Lowestoft.

"Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

And charging alone like troops in a battle,

All through the meadows the horses and cattle:

All of the sights of the hill and the plain

Fly as thick as driving rain;

And ever again, in the wink of an eye,

Painted stations whistle by.

Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,

All by himself and gathering brambles;

Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;

And there is the green for stringing the daisies!

Here is a cart run away in the road

Lumping along with man and load;

And here is a mill and there is a river;

Each a glimpse and gone for ever ... "





*sigh*

#65 Elementary, my dear Alex - you'd make an excellent detective!



#66 Suzie, Suffolk sunsets are indeed spectacular. One of our favourite places to go on the boat is a place called Walton Backwaters (okay technically it's in Essex, but only just). We've spent many a happy evening sipping G & Ts on the deck, watching the sun go down.

~X~

Hi Katy!



I too loved "A Child's Garden of Verses" and still have my tatty copy. My favourite was:



"A birdie with a yellow bill

Hopped upon my window sill,

Cocked his beady eye and said,

'Get out of bed you sleepy head' "

#68 Ah, yes indeed KatyMatey. I used to have 'A Child's garden of verses', and I remember that poem very well.



~X~

No Harry or B&B today?



~X~

How about go down gambling by blodd,sweat and tears

for FIFA fiasco Sepp Blatter

Hi Simon,



How about



GO DOWN GAMBLING by Blood, Sweat and Tears.



Ray

#72 Harry popped by earlier on the previous blog so say good morning. Hopefully his shop is awash with customers purchasing books so he hasn't a moment to himself! No sign of B&B.



#73-75 Hello Ray. Once you have posted about 5 times, your posts will not be pre-moderated.



I do wish I had invented self-storage. Buy a warehouse, divvy it up into wee rooms. Rent them out. Count the pennies as they roll in. I am getting quotes for storing the bolthole contents and its making me want to weep!!

Here are my suggestions



1. What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye

2. Tragedy - BeeGees



Ambulance Chaser

Hello Simon, Hello everyone,



Hope you all had good weekends. I had two fabulous holidays in Suffolk a few years ago. It really is a lovely part of the country.



#23 Well done Kev. It was a very fine effort.



Might be too late for a suggestion but anyway: All In The Game - Nat King Cole.



Take care all.



Softy

xx

#76 other ways of making money have occured to me:



Grate cheese for lazy people and sell it at twice the price as ungrated!



Sell bags of washed lettuce that weigh maybe an ounce in old money for the same price as steak per pound...



Slice ham so thinly that it looks like soggy pink vellum and sell that also, at the price of steak per pound - of which 99% is water and salt...



Don't even get me started on containers of (one layer of) raspberries at £26 a KG...#moneyforoldrope as they may say on Twitter..

Caveat Emptor ('Buyer beware'), until you get to the till...then the scales fall from your eyes, as your jaw hits the deck.



The news story that let us know food will increase in cost SO much in the next few years lead me to get out the preserving pan & 'Foraging weekly' mags.

#79 Tell me about it Suzie! I object to fresh fruit and veg being packaged - I've never quite had the courage to take the packaging off before taking it to the till, but I've been very tempted.



Simon and Mark Kermode have just been on Richard Bacon's show on 5 Live (I had a sneaky peek at the live stream while the boss wasn't looking!). Worth a 'listen at a more convenient time', I'm sure.



~X~

#79 It's crazy isn't it? Are the supermarkets encouraging laziness or are lazy people encouraging the supermarkets?



For my part, we go to the greengrocer on a Saturday and buy loose fruit and veg we need (not the amount a supermarket thinks we need), we then go to the butcher and buy the meat we need (not the amount the supermarkets tells us we need) and then into the cheese shop for freshly baked bread and the amount of cheese we will need for the week. It may cost a little more but we are making savings in the long run as we are not throwing anything away.



Suzie, get yourself a stock pot to live next to the preserving pan. I always have a couple of litres of stock in the freezer now so a really nice soup can be rustled up quickly!

#81 Not only that, but the meat you buy from a butcher is generally nicer than supermarket meat. And the staff are friendlier - at least they are at my local butcher. And fruit and veg from a greengrocers will usually be locally grown, so you are supporting local businesses. It's a win/win.



Er - good think Soapgirly isn't around. She works for a supermarket...



~X~

Well, I seem to have broken the blog, or else the tumbleweed has got clogged up in a moving part.



Leaving work shortly - today seems to have gone on for an eternity. Have a good evening everyone - see you tomorrow!



A-G

I'm here Alex! Off home fairly soon though.



~X~

Ooh, I haven't broken blog at all! The lovely Deebee is here!



Really am out of here.................



A-G

X

#85 was it something I said...?



;o)

I'm here too. Hoping to get to the car for 5.05 but it's not looking good :-(



X

Afternoon All

Is this opening song a subtle message to MTF? Hope so!

Evening all



Have just returned from the office with internet access but no time (as opposed to the office with no internet access) and caught up with your news ..



I too had the Children's Garden of Verse as a child .. I'd totally forgotten until I saw it on here .. by the way I have a firs edition Paddington Bear book signed to me by Michael Bond too :-)

Blogger Bill tonight!

Another identity, Billie!



Hello, Alison! Hope you are coping with 2 new jobs.



X

I'm going to attempt a quick(ish) round up...



#39 LOL Ken Dodd is coming to Sheffield on the 17th June, not sure I would want to spend a whole evening with him, but I salute him still going strong at his age.



#57 How awful :( I had heard about that, and wondered if that was your 'obstruction'. I feel for the poor train drivers, it must be awful seeing things like that.



#68 Lovely poem :) I did have a children's book of poetry when I was little, not sure it was that one, but pretty sure that poem was in it.



On food buying/saving I just saw this article https://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/food-drink/10-things-you-should-never-buy-again-blog-11-lovefood.html With food prices due to sky rocket (and being pretty high right now) we will all need to be careful shoppers in the future.



Congratulations on all the menshes so far :) I haven't actually heard any because of twin dramas!

Hi Everyone -



Enjoyed my mensh - Blogger Bill indeed! Welldones to the muggles for "Go Now"



Welldone John - That's a lovely song. You could have suggested GT&T today. I was going to mention it this morning but the blog was a real pain. Only managed to post eight. Wasn't REVOLUTION yours as well? No mensh.



Enjoyed reading back - Thanks to All. Lots of people away?



#68 Katy - Don't know that book, but do know that poem.



From lastnight/thismorning -



Harry - no probs. & Zoe thanks for the explanation.



#298 MTF - That sounds lovely. We LOVE Prunes - with Grapefruit & Yoghurt for Brekky, in a sweet batter pudding which has been mentioned on here (has a posh name which I forget!) and we do a Pork & Prune & Red Wine dish. All Yummy!



#90 today Alison - How are you settling into your new job-life?



And Chickster - Good luck and Best Wishes for tomorrow.



Hope I've not missed anyone.

WAH!

Don't seem to be manymenshes tonight. Did I miss JBG getting one? R2 on radio, tennis on mute on tv and ironing all going on at the same time.



X

Hi Mo



John got a mensh - deserved 2!



No-one got a mensh for "Lunatics". Don't remember seeing the suggestion here.

I do like Bill Bryson!



X

#99

#100?