Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets



Fantastic news about the audience figures! Well done team once again. And yes, the blog is indeed a good place to hang out.



I know that awful feeling of being phoneless. I carry an enormous handbag around with me, and I'm frequently rummaging in the depths of it for my phone - I get panicky if I can't lay my hands on it straight away. Silly really. It's not the end of the world to be without it for a while, as you found yesterday, Simon.



My ARFO suggestion for today:



NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS by Ike and Tina Turner



Alternatively, I'd still like to hear my suggestion from last week played on the radio:



YOU'RE THE VOICE by John Farnham



Deebee ~X~

Just me then?



If you listen to the end of Chris' show (which I do sometimes if I'm held up in traffic on the way to work) he does a feature where he gets listeners to text in to remind someone not to forget something. Very tempted to text "From Deebee to Simon - don't forget your phone". But I am going to resist...



;o)

Morning Simon and everyone!



How good to know you have a quarter of a million extra listeners!!!! :o))



I hate it if I can't feel my phone in my pocket and feel lost without it, yet I'd manged for many years by waiting until I got home to use the house phone

yet we feel we have to be available every minute of every day!!!



ARF ~ for a change I would love to please hear. . . . . . . .





SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN ~ The Ramones





Please Simon x

Morning Simon, team, (that's a not very sophisticated anagram of "Morning Simon mate" - but I wouldn't be so familiary), and popets du blogue. Oh the joy of being phoneless. Phoneless in London last spring when there were no planes over town because of the ash cloud - that was great!



How do we start the whole darn thing?...we smile, to:



BABY I LOVE YOU - The Ramones



See you later.

Oops... where's the edit button when I need it?



I missed an 'a' in managed (#3) and the word looks yucky without it!



x

Morning all



ARFO suggestion from me:



DIXIE CHICKEN - Little Feat



Was just looking at the photo of Nigel's dish and thinking that it was missing some spuds of some description, then noticed in the write-up a suggestion of serving wit sauted potatos, so phew, all is well.



Deebee, yesterday's mensh was an endoresement mensh so I don't count that. Clock still paused until 1st July :-)

Morning all



Well done on the new listeners .. quite a week what with your team's Sony Award as well ..



I have a very basic phone, the sort that just makes phone calls and texts, and I'm not bothered as to whether it's with me or not .. in fact I'm more worried if I don't have my camera with me (basic again) ..



Please may I request START by The Jam for tonight's opener ..



Off to spend my last day in my old job, so will check in later (from my lap-top) ;-)

#3 and #4 LuciesMum - great minds eh?



Please - anyone - help yourself to the spare "y" in #4 if it is of any use.



Had an email from the beeb last night apologising for th emess up with sign ins and stuff last week, so anyone else who had problems - check your mail, there may be an explanation.



Have lovely days....

Morning Simon, team, NYM and plugged-in and fully-charged bloggers



Congrats on the latest figures. You must be doing something right.



Something rip-roaring to sing along to for the ARFO?



Howzabout a nod to events taking place in Dusseldorf this weekend....



WATERLOO - Abba



Got to be the only credible Eurovision winner ever (unless you watch the video of the original performance, in which case it's still very cheesy), and I know we've all heard it a gazillion times before (esp on all those pseudo music TV documentaries), but not so much on the radio, methinks. Maybe add a little twist by playing the Swedish version?



Or if you're not in the mood, then my suggestion will be



JOHNNY BE GOOD - Chuck Berry



Have a happy and connected Friday, and be good.

From Old Spikey Dog



Sorry for absinthe Simon and beloved Blogpoppets....I can't be online tomoz, so here is my - truly original - ARF request



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-rK4Ee45dk



SWITCHBOARD SUSAN



If one or all of you could kindly re-post on Friday's blog I'd be happier than a happy man in happy land x

Good morning all



Well done Simon on increasing the listenership - my boss got an award too this week, so as Alison says "quite a week"!



ARF today please OOPS UPSIDE YOUR HEAD by The Gap Band



I have no idea why, it just came into my head on the way home last night!



Back later



Tortie xx

Eurovision - pah! Decidedly unimpressed that episode 2 of The Shadow Line was dumped back to 11pm on HD last night to make way for high def singing over backing tracks.

More excellent news, Duke of Drivetime and Constructors -



- and a big smiley Hello to fellow Blogpopsters

:^)



As for an opener, I would love to hear





WHAT IS LIFE - GEORGE HARRISON





♪♫



Fri 13th - I say Pah and Boo to that

Morning Simon, Team and fellow blogsters,



Excellent news about the huge increase in listener figures.



How about DON'T STOP ME NOW by QUEEN as an ARF opener?



Thanks, Madchick x

Great choice Katy - love that song. It's on my list.



Ken, pah to you too. And humbug.

On looking back, it seems that my choice at #14 has been an ARFO before. Soooo Mr Sony Gold Award DJ, how about:



SOLID GOLD EASY ACTION by T. REX?



x

From the papers this morning it seems that listening is up generally for radio as more people listen on-line.



Got to be good news I think - more listeners must encourage them to keep funding levels up.

Morning blogpoppets and Lead Blogmaster Mayo!



My lovely man has one of those super-duper fruit-based phoned wot duz everyfin. Mine is poor-man's imitation but I'm happy with it. At least when my battery dies I can buy a new one whereas I think the fruit-based phones are non-battery replaceable ...!?



So relieved it's the weekend. Not liking these 5 day weeks at all, at all, at all.



B&B, you blimmin' well beat me to it so instead of Baby I Love You, I'll go for the equally wonderful



WONDERFUL WORLD - JOEY RAMONE



simply because (a) it is, (b) I love The Ramones and (c) Joey and I share very similar hair-dos!



Will dip my toes in and out of Lake Blogland today. Because I can!



Deevs

x

'DISCO INFERNO' THE TRAMPS



Doing the 30 day film cahallenge on another site, day 6 today and a film that reminds me of a time/place.....my first under age film at the cinema! Would love to hear it agian and feel under age for a few brief minutes again!

thank you

PSL x

Morning All,



Well done to Drivetime for the increase in listeners.



ARF suggestion:



'You Make Me Feel Like Dancing' Leo Sayer



Have a good day everybody

Will the blog, in the words of Paul Young, "come back and stay for good this time"?

#18 Madame Boo de Deevs - good to see three Ramones requests in the first twenty posts! I love The Ramones - and particularly Baby I Love You... there's for some reason something very touching about it I think. It's like watching a child draw...

#21 - Morning Harry. I think that, fundementally, wherever it lays its hat, that's its home.

I heard through the grapevine (no, thats not my song choice!) that the blog was down again, so just in case, I'd better get in quick with......



*** Twilight *** by ELO please Simon.



It was good enough to get an airing on Alan Carrs Saturday evening show :)



I cant believe how quick this week has gone by.



Happy Days.



MTF.xx

Well done to all on DT for the increase in listener figures.



Now, ARFO ............ may I request:



I WANT YOUR LOVE by TRANSVISION VAMP



I know there are probably 250,000 more people asking for the opener these days but it is a cracking, upbeat tune. And, ass well as driving home to a rip-roaring tune, we can also visualise the positively scrumptious Wendy James in her little pink dress ;-)

B&B



I'm always in favour of a bit of Blitzkreig Bop, y'know! And that Sheena ..... Sheena Is A Punk Rocker!



Hey Ho. Let's Go!



Deevski RamoneHair

x

x

Good morning,



Congratulations on the listening figures. Drivetime goes from strength to strength!



Dropped my phone in a sink full of water last week.



ARF. How's about:



EVER FALLEN IN LOVE (WITH SOMEONE YOU SHOULDN'T'VE) by the Buzzcocks



Have a good day.x

Morning all



Had a very busy week and feeling extremely tired, esp as the boy woke me up at 5.30 this morning.



How about for AFRO



THIN LIZZY - ARE YOU READY



cheers



A

#22 B&B, good morning to you too. The Ramones: only seen them twice, first saw them in the mid-70s when Greg van Dyke, who was a huge fan, brought them to Plymouth, and then again at the Cornwall Coliseum in St Austell in the 80s. Great fun!



Plymouth was a surprising hot-spot for early punk. Saw the Sex Pistols in a little club called "Treetops" above Burton's when they were being banned from almost everywhere as the moral panic began to set in following their appearance on the Grundy show. Plymouth was always slow to catch on; even to outrage!



#27 Julia - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone you Shouldn't 've)? Oh yes ;-)

#29 That's Greg van Dyke the record dealer, not Greg Dyke the former DG of the BBC :-)

Reading back...



#12 I watched The Shadow Line on non-HD last night. Is it any easier to follow the plot if you watch it on HD? I was totally confused. Mind you, I didn't see the first episode, so that might have something to do with it.



#13 A big smiley Hello back to you, KatyMatey - and well done for getting the 13th post on Friday 13th. It's unlucky to be superstitious, you know...



#19 LOL! When I came back from NYC a few weeks ago, the GD and I went through the electronic check-in. I got asked 'are you both over 18' - made me smile.



#27 and #29 Haven't we all ... ;o)



~X~

#31 Well episode 1 made sense Deebee, can't comment on Ep 2 yet :-)

Morning all, bloggers, DT team, Lord Ammo (doffs cap reverentially)

Afraid I missed last night's show, in the service of a friend though, so sorry if I screwed up the viewing SORRY listening figures for that night :-)

My ARFO suggestion is:



Status Quo: ROCKING ALL OVER THE WORLD in honour of the 'great' song fest that is Eurovision (ie Rocking all over Europe does not have the same ring...)

OR ABBA's WATERLOO!!



We always have a Eurovision party - food from the country hosting it (tomorrow tis german sausage and saukraut), dress like it's 1980 (when we last had a chance...) but I have challenged guests tomorrow to all do 'Jedwards' the pics should be interesting - oh and do a sweepstake of £1 per country - and as Abba put it 'The winner takes it all'

Have a great weekend y'all

ps I watched Shadowline last night, we saw episoide 1 the previous night on watch-again TV, and I did have to explain things like PLOT POINTS to my Mr E (well he is 19 days older than me..) oh he said, 'the reason the detective was off sick will not be important to the story'...until the scene with the mother ('the bullet that killed my son is in your head') and of course the briefcase with the proceeeds of the Euromillions in it. Speaking of which, don't forget your tickets tonight bloggers, it's a rollover!

Good morning Simon, Team, NYM and fellow blogpoppets!



Well done on the listening figures! Good news indeed.



I have a bit of a sore head this morning. Last nights drinks do ended up being a bit of a saga as my BF is having maritals and decided that last night was a good time to walk out. Which she did. So, there was I in hot pursuit in a taxi whilst Mr P was left to deal with the extremely drunk husband. Located BF and tucked her up in our spare room but only after a bottle of wine was consumed. All most distressing.



No ARF from me as I will miss the show as am collecting poppets for their final exeat weekend with us :( I did request George Harrison last week so would like to endorse KatyMaty's choice!



Will be back later once I have finished my glucose drink (the one that used to come wrapped in orange cellophane) and restored some brain cells.



A-G

Alex, I used to love taking the wrapper off said bottle and then use it to look through. It turned everywhere golden, as if the sun was shining :)



Hope friend is ok.



The field opposite our house, had its first grass cut yesterday. All nice neat bright green rows. By yesterday evening, the rows had been turned over. This morning, its has been transformed into huge round bales scattered randomly around the field. It seems quite early in the year for this.



Thanks for the reminder about Friday 13th Deebee.



Maybe it will have the reverse effect and one of us will have our ARF played this evening.



Right, must get a move on.



MTF.xx

#35: I think that in the service of a friend is an acceptable reason to miss the show...I had to too, mine sounds like it was a happier outcome though - good results to some scary tests one of my BF's went through....



Re phone traumas, my building has NO MOBILE signal whatsoever, so I happily tap away all day on my PC (phone in bag silently but menacingly awaiting a signal when I leave)...and cannot tell you how many people look AGHAST at me when I tell them not to call/text me during workdays...you get used to it, we are in fact firmly in pre-1995 I would say (apart from the all-singing PC's of course!) We even still have a fax machine.



Enjoy yourself, it's probably later than you think...



Mme E

Deebs, Shadow Line was a mystery to me too - he's the flower man, y'know!



x

First song suggestion -



Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra

Re Shadowline: I will never look at an Arum lily the same again..

PS for the DT collective/IT guru: Now that Simon May is a Sony award-winning show, can his blog be upgraded to have a link from the front page of R2?(ie like Chris Evans's) I always have to dig about to get to it..via shows/Simon Mayo DT/Blog.

Ahem, yes, sorry insert awol 'o' in the word May above. Not enough caffeine...

Good morning Simon, Team , NYM man and ever-increasing blogpoppets (volume!). Hope all is fine and dandy in blogpoppetland.



Internet problems now resolved. Phew! It's a bit like forgetting your moby ;-). Which I did a few weeks ago. Discovered how much of a comfort blanket it's become!



ARFO -



BONNIE TYLER - HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO - I have high standards doncha know ;-)



Meetings, meetings, meetings.......will poop back later when I can.



X

How about the Jedward Eurovision entry to keep it topical and cheer everyone up - I'm not sure it's supposed to be a comedy track but the first time I heard it I howled with laughter all the way through!

#27 - Julia - possibly (for me it's a toss up with another record of a couple of years later) the greatest 7" single ever made.



#29 - early punk gigs passed me by Harry, and I didn't see many of the bands I would love to have seen in retrospect, but I did see Buzzcocks at Cardiff Top Rank, with - I think I remember rightly - the resplendent Nico as support. In '76 I was only just starting my gig-attending career. By the time I was seeing bands more regularly half the punk bands had been and gone.



#25 - I kind of concur on the Transvision Vamp thing, but preferred



CRASH - The Primitives



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J4MCgfF1qg

Three ARFs for The Ramones today... we must all have similar good taste!



Now Simon's show is a Sony Gold one, could admin please remove the 3-minute delay?



Just thought I'd ask!!! ;o)



xx

Chuckling away here now.



Looking at the phone box with desire!!! Does anyone remember 'back in the day' Norty Nigels on air confession regarding a phone box??



Tralalalala ....



MTF.xx

Good afternoon,



#29 and #31 Yes indeed...



#35 MTF you say: "It turned everywhere golden, as if the sun was shining" That's often what happens here when I read your posts.x



Harry and B&B, A cousin of mine was very into the punk scene first time round and has spent a great deal of time in recent years revisiting it. There seem to be loads of punk bands getting back together and my cousin is having the time of his life going to see them. He is also meeting up with old friends who used to be angry young lads but are now respectable men in suits.

#41 Suzie, why not add the main blog page to your Favourites? Then it's always just one click away! Just a thought :-)



#45 I saw a lot of punk in the 70s but no idea who most of them were - but then, that's what punk was all about, was it not?

Julia, what a lovely thing to say :)



Could indeed do with a cellophane wrapper here atm. Light drizzle and the farmers working at top speed to get the field finished.



MTF.xx

Well done on the new listening figures - just out of interest, how do they calculate those numbers? and how do they know that people are actually listening? - or is it hearing? Anyway, a bit of Primal Scream's Rocks would be a delicate and melodious start to the weekend, just for my son Matthew, husband Stephen, my mum and dad and all the ladies from Horsforth floristry course, as we recently won a gold medal at the Harrogate Spring show. I think we are getting the hang it finally!

I am about to attempt a trucky manouevre ....

Congrats on the listening figures! I do enjoy DT.



GIRLS AND BOYS - Blur?



No real reason other than it's my favourite. No other reason required for an ARF, surely?

#52 tell us more, Katy!



x

Good Afternoon All :)



Firstly, on mobile phones - I only have a basic type of the text and make, receive calls, variety. I considered upgrading to the 'fruity' kind recently, but as my mister said "You spend so much time in the virtual world, if you have it on your phone too, you might as well not be here at all." Made me think, and he was right. I might miss not being connected to the internet wherever I am, but it's a good thing that I have a break from it when I go out. Otherwise I would be the same, spending all my time looking at the screen, instead of taking in the world around me. Think what we miss out on, the beauty of nature, or just acknowledging our fellow human beings from time to time.



#45 I remember 'Crash' by The Primitives! I bought the single!!



Harry - Just saw this on Twitter https://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/05/explaining-the-kindle-to-dickens/ Bit of a pointless exercise though.



On the ARFO - I can't remember if the King has ever kicked off proceedings, but he should have! So...



BURNING LOVE - ELVIS PRESLEY



Or failing that, and because I only found out recently that he wrote this song for Elvis Presley (thanks to Johnnie Walker!)...



FIRE - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN



Hope everyone is having a great Friday xx

... to post at 13.13 on Friday 13th.



And until 've posted it I won't know whether I've achieved it.

Whoop whoop, Katy!



Darn that pesky 3 minute wait!



x

Spot on Katymaty.



MTF.xx

#56 - dicing with death KatyMac - well done!

'trucky' manouevre?



Ford heaven's sake! Stupid typo. Acksherly - I'd quite like to know ..

..when does a truck become a lorry?

#56 It wasn't so 'trucky' after all :D

*takes a bow along with carolyno and MediMo and ZoeW who also managed it*





Ay thang you.





psst - I have about half an hour before 'family' land on me for the afternoon and evening. Someone wants their washing tumble-drying, someone else wants me to print out some worky stuff, there's a sweet thai chicken and fragrant rice to make ... life in the fast lane, eh?



Still - it's good to be home, which I know a few of you would enjoy, so I'm not complaining.



:^)

Congrats on listening figures.....Wooooooooooooopy doooop dooop and slappa my thigh!!



My ARF pretty please:



ECHO BEACH - Martha and the Muffins

MAKE ME SMILE - Cockney Rebel



Have a lovely weekend everyone.



Mand x

#63



What a happy jolly post Mandy!

Like your ARF choices.

Have a lovely weekend yourself as well

x

Yes we should definitely have a Eurovision ARF, but how about a UK one not a Swedish one?



C'mon Simon, I know you're Making Your Mind Up!

Hello again!



What a joyful bunch you are! The blog may not be bouncing (at the moment) but you are a lovely lot of bouncy people!



Well done on achieving the trucky manoevre Katy! And a very good question re truck to lorry. I doubt it is a question of gloopiness.



Well, the orange liquid did the trick and I am feeling semi-normal. Or I was until the estate agent rang to book a viewing for 6pm. Once again, there is laundry hanging out and I have made up the poppets bedroom which involves one mattress on the floor - not looking as it should. The mad dash home to remove the smalls awaits....again.



This time last week, I was getting very over-excited about Cambridge. Feels strange that that is now in the past!



A-G

Hi Simon

How about " The Whole Of The Moon " by the Waterboys



thank you and have a great show

.....and the 2 o clock bounce returns!!!



Off to work now.



Fingets crossed for a bloggers ARF.



MTF.xx

*grumble, grumble, grumble*



Just spent all morning tidying up the boss' leaflet presentation in the ole computer (not work related by the way) printed off 100 double sided sheets and put on his desk only for someone to go and spill the entire contents of their coffee mug all over them. Not one sheet survived!!!!!! AAAAAAAGHHHHHHHH!



No glossy papper left and the only comment I got was 'At least it didn't happen 5 minutes before hometime'. Again I say AAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHH!



Breath in and breath out, phew, that's better



Hello All! How ya all doin'?



A.

Good ARFternoon all



Blog bouncing nicely again!



#66 I know what you mean about Cambridge, Alex. Sunday afternoon felt like a bit of an anti climax after the excitement of last weekend!

Ooh Alice - that's a bummer.

I let rip with a few choice words, I didTortie. Culprit has gone to get more paper but he's still not back yet! I finish at three to pick up mi little darlings so he better get a move on.





A.

hi all blog jumping again



my arf song is ROCK THE CASBAH-THE CLASH

#66 Alex Girl... you never know, seeing your smalls, washing etc around your house might make prospective purchasers feel more at home! We sold a house when a couple unexpectedly knocked at the door to ask if they could have a look round, just as I had thrown a bundle of sheets, duvet covers and towels down the stairs...



Horror of horrors... after explaining my predicament to them and trying to get them to return after beds were made and clean towels in the bathroom etc, they said they didn't mind (I did though) so I let them in and the next thing I knew was that they had put in an offer and bought our house... and like my OH said, if we had insisted they come back later, they may not have returned!



Good luck with selling your house!



x

i heard this song yesterday i think its very sad what do you think



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ&feature=share

#69 it's usually clumsy old me that does things like that. Hope your culprit gets back very soon.



Hello and a warm welcome to all new bloggers. Please return and join in.



X

Blog isn't jumping here! Come to think of it, I don't think it has jumped since I installed IE9 but I might be wrong.



I've been reading up on the listening figures and it seems the BBC has been a little economical with the actuality. Yes, most the numbers seem to be up on the last quarter, but the ones I have seen for Radios 1 & 2 are all down on this time last year.



In calculating them, they use the rules outlined in "A Statistician's Guide to Obfuscation".



I wonder if I get included in Jeremy Vine's figures when I'm too slow to the 'off' button after Ken Bruce has finished?

Blog jumpin' like a good 'un here!



I'd better bid you all farewell for now, and wish you all a fantastic weekend :)



I won't be around Monday or Tuesday either, so I'll miss you all, keep the blog fires burning!



Much Love xx

Have a good weekend, Zoe



x

Alice - no!!! You should have made the culprit print out the replacement leaflets. Mind you, it's easily done I'm surprised I don't have more accidents at my desk.



Alex/Tortie - yes, it's funny how you build up to something fun and exciting like that, and then in a blink it's all over. I have precisely zero plans for this weekend. Which means it's going to be 'domestic duties' again... We should plan the next blog meet. Someone else's turn to organise it though...



~X~

#81 I will gladly organise if it's North of the Border :-)



Quiet weekend for me too. Much catching up to do after much time spent away from home.



Fingets crossed for a blogpoppet ARFO!



X

#81 Let's have one in Aberdeen, Mo. I love Aberdeen :-)

#82 Obviously that would be MY preferred location Harry, but it may be a trip too far for most of the blogpoppets ;-)



x

#81. I agree with Harry, we have an office in Aberdeen and I am sure they wouldnt mind me sleeping on the floor for the blog meet.



Hope you all have a good weekend.



Nick.

#81 etc .......... well that's 3 of us, how many went to Cambridge? :-)

#85 And I'll be in Aberdeen on 29-30 October :-D

We should be able to recruit Toots! She has family in the area and I have many GB sitters she can use. Only 2 willing & able peeps to find and we're there LOL



x

#87 Would you Adam and Eve it, Harry! I will be travelling to The Holy Land around then. Will check my schedule but fingets crossed for a mini meet at the very least.



3 minutes to wait and then I'm offski!



x

#87 What about Luciesmum?

#74. LOL!! Mind, the sight of Mr P's smalls could have viewers running for the hills! Difficult balance - making the house look like a lived in and much loved home whilst giving room for viewers to see themselves living in it.



Good luck for the ARFO one and all!!



A-G



Ps. Poppets AND BF tonight - could be interesting.

Time to go home, time to go home, Andy is waving goodbye ........... ooops back to childhood.



Best of luck with ARFO and have a great weekend.

well done on the arfo psl

P......S......L...... !

ARF.... WELL DONE Posh Soul Lady..... :o))

Whoop whoop PSL!!!!!!

Excellent start to ARF! Well done PSL.



Hands up those who didn't sing along to Delilah!!? ;-)

Woohoo!! Well done PSL - our new ARFO queen!!!



Loving the idea of an Aberdeen blog meet, but I'm afraid I won't be able to join you on the weekend of 29/30 October, as it's my birthday weekend.



~X~

Hello all.



Well done PSL.



csn. xx

D spot friday - just like the 'old days' when CLP did drivetime, driving home singing along to Delilah !!!!!!

twigsan

i didnt sing 2 dellah