Good Morning Early Bird Simon, team and Blogpoppets



Tricky one this, I think. I'm going to go for:



HORSE WITH NO NAME by America



MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS by Maria Muldaur



A HARD RAIN'S GONNA FALL by Bob Dylan or (preferably) Roxy Music



HOT HOT HOT by Buster Poindexter



Deebee ~X~

'heavy cloud no rain' Sting

Good Morning again everyone



Suggest -



COOL WATER - Frankie Laine



I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN - Phil Collins

The instrumental



SCORCHIO - Sasha/Emerson

Good Morning Simon, Drivetime Constructors and Blogsters





NO MILK TODAY – HERMAN'S HERMITS



NO RAIN – BLIND MELON



DRY LAND – MARILLION

RAIN - The Beatles

Morning All,



2 menshes yesterday, so probably won't get any today, but I'll still give it a go :)



COLD DESERT - Kings of Leon



DESERT ROSE - Sting



I'd like to 2nd DeeBees HORSE WITH NO ANME too



DESERT OF OUR LOVE - U2

'long hot summer' The Syle Council

SUMMER IN THE CITY - Lovin' Spoonful

CRUEL SUMMER - BANANARAMA



SUMMER IN THE CITY - LOVIN' SPOONFUL

#7 ANME?



Posting issues today. When I post it just sits there apparently still loading the page, but when I refresh it has posted.



It did that to me a couple iof times yesterday to.



DRY COUNTRY - Bon Jovi



DRY ICE - Green Day



HOME AND DRY - Pet Shop Boys



THIRSTY - Cassie (or Patty Loveless, or Hank Williams Jr)



THIRSTY BOOTS - John Denver



THIRSTY DOG - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

IT NEVER RAINS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - Albert Hammond

How about



HOT IN THE CITY by Billy Idol



Late for work - gotta go...



~X~

Hi Simon and everyone...



"WATER RUNS DRY" ~ Boyz II Men



xx

Morning All,



'Long Hot Summer' The Style Council



Have a good day everybody

DEM DRY BONES - The Wiggles



TUMBLING TUMBLEWEED - Slim Whitman

A YEAR WITHOUT RAIN - Selene Gomez



BARREN GROUND - Bruce Hornsby



HOT DUSTY ROADS - Buffalo Springfield



DUSTY SKIES - Willie Nelson



DUSTY MILLER - Alison Krauss

'Cry Me A River' Ella Fitzgerald or Julie London

Morning .....



WORLD OF WATER - NEW MUZIC



not heard that in ageeeeeeeees!



Back inabit.



Deevs

x

A few more....



LET IT RAIN ~ Eric Clapton



REMEMBER WHEN IT RAINED ~ Josh Groban



THE HEAT IS ON ~ Glenn Frey

Morning folks - nice to see you, to see you.... Been away for a few days, so back for a couple. My suggestions:



I WISH IT WOULD RAIN - Nanci Griffith



I CAN'T STAND THE RAIN - Ann Peebles



Hoping not to get modded - my last day here saw me so treated four times in one day. And I don't know why. So today my contributions will focus on words such as 'kitten', 'puppy', 'pram', 'lamb', 'piglet' - nothing that will offend anyone, hopefully.

Good morning everyone ................ is blog still misbehaving.



Still, the sun is out, the sky is blue, there's not a cloud to spoil the view, but it's ...............................



RAINING IN MY HEART by BUDDY HOLLY



Have a great day ........... be back later

Can't miss an opportunity -



THE FLOOD - TakeThat (WAH!)

#21 A Rented Ex Rabbit... I remember the day when you were modded, when and I used the same word (you first) and yours was deleted and mine wasn't.... but mine related to my son's bike racer friend Scott Smart's nickname.... 'Smart A***' but I hadn't better type it here in case they start modding me too!!! :o))

Good morning Simon, Team, NYM and blogpoppets!



No fear of drought or dryness up here!



In meetings most of the day. If they become too boring I shall do some thinking and get some tunes up at breaks ;-)



X

#24 - I dunno LM - all I can remember doing is using a word used twice by others on the same day, and posting some Youtube links, but hey ho. How about...



MISSING - Everything But the Girl

"I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain..."

I noticed over the weekend that Gazmondo announced his retirement? Happy Hornet - if you are still there, please stay! 9.36, and the blog is jumping....

#26 Morning B&B ........ welcome back.



I was guilty of use the word which I will not mention again in case I cause some poor soul to faint.



Here's one with no chance of being played even though I'm sure Sally would love it:



DRY THROAT by JOHN MAYALL

Or, what about:



YOU'LL NEVER MISS THE WATER (UNTIL THE WELL'S RUN DRY) by RAY CHARLES



Last suggestions way to slow for Drivetime but, if you don't ask, you don't get!

Morning everyone,



Already some fab suggestions - will throw this one in now and have another cuppa and a ponder:



High and Dry - Radiohead

I know some has beaten me to it but :-



Horse with no name - America



or



It Never Rains In Southern California by Albert Hammond

If it's speed that's required, what about a mosh?



DRY SPELL by ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY



No?

Hello again :)



HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN? - JOHN FOGARTY

#33 Morning Zoe, do you need to suggest anything? You'll get a mensh anyway ;-)

Morning all



I don't seem to have much inspiration this week for themed tunes, so will just try to join in with the chat later.



Tortie x

Another one bites the dust - Queen, perhaps?

American Pie - Don McLean

(drove my Chevy to the levee and the levee was dry...)

I will try again because my last post went a bit haywire!



HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN? - JOHN FOGARTY/CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL



I'M ONLY HAPPY WHEN IT RAINS - GARBAGE

Last one from me:



Forest Fire - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

#33 Oh it did post after all, I didn't think it had ???



#34 Hahaha Very strange I got a mensh for Livin' On A Prayer, although I am! Maybe my mensh prayers were answered!! :D



One last oldie suggestion from me before I go to lie down in a darkened room...



I THINK IT'S GOING TO RAIN TODAY - RANDY NEWMAN or BETTE MIDLER did a nice version of this song on the 'Beaches' movie soundtrack.

Vienna Teng - Drought

Morning all.



Having seen how low the reservoir levels are getting last evening, how about ....



RIVER OF DREAMS -BILLY JOEL.



MTF.xx

Morning Simon, team, NYM and well-irrigated bloggers,



Can I suggest:



WELL, WELL, WELL - Duffy (because we'll all have to start using them soon)



DUST BOWL DANCE - Mumford and Sons



DUST ON THE DANCEFLOOR - The Leisure Society

Seconding Missing by EBTG and Desert Rose by Sting...



Fisher - Sand



Jo Dee Messina & Tim McGraw - Bring On The Rain



Nightwish - Sahara (No chance, I know, but gotta keep trying)



Any recording of "Dem Bones"

Morning all - and blimey! It's getting harder and harder to sign in and see a gap in the songs that needs filling - arg! so am going with somethings which are quite left-field, that is anything by

AQUALUNG (see what I did there?) maybe STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL as it is....

or BE BOP DELUXE 'CRYING TO THE SKY' that would wake up a few budgies.

There is some great 'raining' sounds at the end that moves into the next track, that would be cool.



I had the weirdest morning - the alarm did not go off and when I woke I saw that the clock hands were at 8.30 PANIC!

Dressed, rang work (no reply) did make-up, rang work again (no reply) went downstairs...and saw that the time was actually 06.45AM. The clock in the bedroom had stopped last night at 8.30 un-noticed. The alarm on my phone had not gone off because it was TOO EARLY and work had not answered the phone cos it was TOO EARLY!!



I cheered myself up with small dip into interesting Oxford life by attending the local Ascension day/Beating the Bounds ceremony - never been before and next year will take 1/2 a day off and do the whole of the beatings (there is free cake and ice-cream at various colleges!) the bounds include a small area of M&S!



Have a lovely day y'all and get out in that sunshine, I'm happy for the parents on 1/2 term hols at home - at least you can get the little darlings out and about.

Morning,





High and Dry - Radiohead



The Drying of the lawns - The tallest man on Earth



When the Levee breaks - Led Zepplin



Set fire to the rain - Adele



Have you ever seen the rain - Creedence clearwater revival



I think it's gonna rain today? - Nina Simone



long hot summer - Style council

OOh.....



One of my all time fave Neil Diamond songs.



I THINK ITS GOING TO RAIN TODAY.



MTF.xx

Read back MTF, read back!!



First sign of madness....



MTF.xx

Hi Simon and everyone.

1. CIRCLE IN THE SAND - Belinda Carlisle

2. Anything by DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

3. SANDSTORM - Darude

4. Anything by SANDY SHAW

5. SANDY by John Travolta

CACTUS TREE - Joni Mitchell

Just a quick poop back from me as it's coffee time, but I find myself with nothing interesting to say... I know, I know - never stopped me before!



Suzie - oops! Don't you just hate it when that happens? I'd have been tempted to go back to bed. Still, it sounds like your alternative was fun.



Welcome back ARER.



~X~

Last one from me, cos I'm not really here



GOLDEN BROWN - The Stranglers (Cos that's what our lawn, the local park, and the roundabouts are looking like)

Good Morning Each!



'Dry Lightening' by Bruce Springsteen



'No Water' by Bob Marley



'Dust Bowl Dance' by Mumford & Sons



'Thirsty Dog' by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds



'Cool Dry Place' by The Travelling Wilburys



'Til The Rivers Run Dry' by REO Speedwagon



I've dried up.

Three themed tracks from three talented ladies:





CLOUDBUSTING – KATE BUSH



RAINDANCING – ALISON MOYET



HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS – JONI MITCHELL

Late entry from me



The Carpenters - Rainy Days and Mondays



Marillion - Warm Wet Circles



Michael Buble - Cry Me A River



and since it's almost fun time....



Rain Dancing With Tears in my Eyes - Ultravox



X

#28 - belated "Morning Harry!"



#54 KatyMac - let's have Joni's "Amelia" this time...



"I was driving across the burning desert

When I spotted six jet planes

Leaving six white vapour trails across the bleak terrain.

It was the hexagram of the heavens

It was the strings of my guitar....

Amelia - it was just a false alarm."



Sigh.

Only happy when it rains by Garbage

Who sang "Pub With No Beer?"

Something from "The Desert Song" , perhaps?

"Dry County" by the B-52s.

"Hot Hot Hot" by Arrow (MBE)

"High & Dry" songs by Radiohead and the Rolling Stones

"Dry" by P J Harvey

"You Won't Miss Your Water Till The Well Runs Dry" by Craig David

"Desert Rose" by Sting or "Tea In The Sahara" by The Police.

"Thirst For You" by CeCe Winans (maybe more suitable for yesterday's theme).

Time for a bit of half-term punnery



HURRY UP ARID - Sham 69



ALL DRIED OUT - Alison Moyet



NOBODY DESERT BETTER - Carly Simon

I think it's late in the day, but I think it's worth having a request to hear...



SANDY - John Travolta

#59...



DUNE, YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE? - Dionne Warwick



SAND, I LOVE YOU SO - Andy Williams



I suppose "Porcelain", by Gobi would be out of order? Or anything by Show Wadi Wadi? (other O-level subjects are available). Here's a bit of a trivia question - what is the largest desert in the world (and - it's not the obvious one).

#61 I thought it was the Sahara but I guess not.

Apologies for brevity and scant chat - have escaped sledgehammering neighbours and run to mother's relative haven of tranquility ..







CARPET OF THE SUN - RENAISSANCE



IT'S ONLY NATURAL - CROWDED HOUSE



IT'S RAINING MEN - WEATHER GIRLS

well - if we're into Pun Zone ... t'would be rude not to.

You'll enjoy this C_L_P - do join in for some midday brain stretchery

:^)





NO DROUGHT ABOUT IT - HOT CHOCOLATE



PARCH OF THE MODS - JOE LOSS



DRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS - OTIS REDDING

DESSICATED FOLLOWER OF FASHION - KINKS



TICKET TO DRIED - BEATLES



DESSICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE - MAMAS & PAPAS



WHEN DOVES FRY - PRINCE

#65



my last pun was a typo - meant to type 'When Doves Dry' - my alternative 'fry' is a tad extreme, therefore can only apologise profusively to all dove lovers out there ....





:^(

GOOD HYDRATIONS - BEACH BOYS

@KatyMac, you seem to be playing nicely on your own!



What about,



DRY DAY, I'M IN LOVE by THE CURE

And then there's:



AT LEAST WE DRIED by MOBY

have just had time to read back ..



Welcome back to missing regulars and

Hope everyone is having a tolerable half-term, whatever its impact on your lives - and am thinking particularly of Zoe.

:^)



As far as I'm concerned, it just means that Waitr*se is full of sproglets, albeit well-mannered ones ..



Harry - if no-one else has slipped in whilst I've been thinking about this, I'm sure the Sahara is the largest hot desert.

The largest desert as such [less than 10" precipitation per annum) is Antarctica

KatyMac - excellent punning! And you beat me to the Kinks, as my next offering was...



IRRIGATED FOLLOWER OF FASHION



By the technical definition of a desert, the biggest desert in the worlds is the Antarctic Desert!



DUNE LOOKS LIKE A LADY - Aerosmith



DOWSE OF THE RISING SUN - The Animals



ACACIA YOU - Joni Mitchell



WE GOTTA GET DROUGHT OFF THIS PLACE - The Animals

What about Annie Lennox's reply when she was accused of not doing her fair share of the washing up:



I'VE DRIED EVERYTHING by THE EURYTHMICS

#68 yes!

I noticed that the room cleared as soon as I walked in. lol.



PS> It always seems rude to blog at Mum's - so I waited until she had to pop out for a cup of sugar or some such .. hence my haste. As soon as I hear her return, I'll log out .. there are cakes to bake and brothers to chat to ..

#61,62 - that depends on how you define "desert".



By the proper defintion of "less than 250mm of rainfall per year", the largest desert is the whole continent of Antarctica.



Of what people more usually (but wrongly) think of, which is HOT dry places, the Sahara is the largest.

Linking themes - deserts, hot arid areas, favourite movies of all time, I absolutely love Ice Cold in Alex... John "Gritty" Mills and the beautiful, resplendent, gorgeous-in-uniform Sylvia Sims.

#71 ARER, Sorry, I didn't refresh before posting.

#75 Careful there ARER, 'hot arid areas' is an anagram which includes that proscribed word!

#75



The grittiness and resplendency - I'll take your word for it, ARER - can't remember the film...



'Though I have to confess, Sylvia Sims was one of that British generation of actresses that I really looked up to back in the days when I was going to be a famous actress.



There wasn't much in the way of fakery so only the genuinely beautiful and talented ones made the grade. I seem to remember Shirley Ann Field was also much admired.



For me, Steve McQueen could do no wrong.

:^)

#77 Harry/ARAR - 'that' word.

My post above [70] about a certain supermarket chain looks hints at a renaming - Wait*rse

#77 Ooof - well spotted Harry! A change of name to protect the innocent...



#75 - I met Sylvia Sims back in about 1985 - she was lovely, and growing old gracefully, and in Entertaining Mr Sloane with Adam Ant. I believe - sadly - that she was also fairly recently in Eastenders... Wasn't she also the Queen Mum to Helen Mirren's Queen? Or was that Brian May?

#75 Did you catch Sylvia Sims in "The Young Ones", the experiment in caring for the elderly where they put a groupof elderly people in house and furnished it with stuff from the 70s? I think Lionel Blair, Dickie Bird, and Derek Jameson were in it too among others. Syvia Sims was one of the few who seemed to be adamantly self reliant.

#81 - I didn't Harry, no. But she has always seemed a good egg whenever I've seen her as herself. No poncing about in an actorly way, but very down to earth. Once came across Lionel Blair in the forest stage of the RAC Lombard Rally in mid-Wales after the car he was navigating ran out petrol (around 1979?). If I quoted what he said, I'd never be allowed on this blog again, but he wasn't a happy bunny!

#82 This is the BBC's press release for it:



https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2010/wk37/tue.shtml

I haven't been around this lunchtime as I've been finishing off one of the R2 Book Club books, 'Before I go to sleep' by S J Watson. Very good book. Welling up slightly now - bit embarrassing at work...



~X~

#81 Harry the Sanpper... you mentioned Derek Jameson... whatever happened to him? I remember a few years back when he and his wife Ellen used to be on Radio 2 now and again!



I can also remember when Noel Edmunds played a joke on Derek after he had said that Noel would never catch him out... and he said something like "You have to be up early in the morning to catch me", which is exactly what Noel did as Derek was briefly evicted from his hotel very early one morning, after a fake fire-alarm had gone off, and of course, Noel Edmunds was there to trap the unsuspecting Derek... but I can't remember which TV programme it was... maybe Late Late Breakfast or Noel's Houseparty?!

#85 LuciesMum, I remember the "Gotcha Oscars"; best one was when he got Dave Lee Travis (a man who had certainly undergone a sense of humour by-pass). I think Derek Jameson is still alive and living somehwere on the south coast. During "The Young Ones" he became very friendly with Dickie Bird, the ex-cricket umpire.

#86 I saw that series, "The Young Ones" - Lionel Blair was in it as well, wasn't he? And Liz Smith.



On another subject, I'm quite excited to see in next weeks Radio Times (other listings magazines...) that Jason Isaacs is going to be in a new TV drama, based on the books by one of my favourite authors, Kate Atkinson. I must admit to having a bit of a crush on him. Here's a thought - he's a mate of our esteemed leader, isn't he? Maybe Simon can introduce us...



;o)

#86 - I remember that gag on DLT (who I never liked), and was listening to it live. Stopped the car to hear it out as it was very entertaining. Then along came Smashy and Nicey and the game was up for DLT!

Just wiki'd Derk Jameson...he sued the BBC when someone said he was "so ignorant he thought erudite was a type of glue"!!!!

#86 - I think the only person to spot that they were being Gotcha'd, and rumbled the whole thing, was Annabelle Giles, who spotted it straight away. Still got 'gunged' though...

#70 Aww thanks Katey Matey :) I'm afraid that we seem to have picked up some sort of tummy bug here :( Horses may not be able to do this particular thing, but we certainly can!!



#85 I remember Derek Jameson and his wife doing the 10pm to midnight slot on Radio 2 (least I think that was the time, might have started at 10:30pm) I listened to it sometimes and as I recall, Richard Allinson took over that slot when the Jamesons retired.



I do recall Noel Edmund's Gotcha's, and I do recall DLT getting one :D

*sneaks in for another spot of blogpopping*



Deebeedeebeedeebs - am I right in thinking that another of your celeb faves is on Evans Hey I'm in Hay! tomorrow morning?



Talking of films - which we were when I was rudely interrupted by the lady of the manor - a BIG UP for X-Men: First Class

#90 That Annabel Giles - everso popular on Twitplace.

Personally I hate her. She stole my future husband. Then they divorced. By then it was too late. I'd married my second choice. Bah

#92 KatyMac - have you seen it? I'm planning to go in a couple of weeks.



It survives without the gorgeous Hugh then?

#91 Aww - sorry to hear that, Zoe. I can imagine in your situation that must be particularly unpleasant. (((Hugs))) to you.



#92 Are you talking about Sir Richard of Hammondshire, KatyMatey? He certainly is!



:o)

#91 Sorry to hear that Zoe - as if things weren't tricky enough ....

I'm spending a lot of time this week commiserating with a couple of colleagues on the care home scandal .. but that's perhaps a subject for another place ..

Big love coming your way.



#94 Last night. It survives without Huge, altho' if you look carefully ... *nudge nudge say no more*.



#95 I am indeedio. I think I may set my alarm. One assumes it's on film?

Outside broadcasts, eh? That Christoff sure gets around.





PS. Simon - you WILL get to Canada, as long as there's breath in my body ...



:^)



:^)

#96 I'm intrigued Katy!



#91 I forgot to say previously Zoe, so sorry to hear that you're all ill - it's the last thing you need! Hugs to you.



Tortie x

#93 KatyMac - is that Mr U? Did he know you were his future wife? I have corresponded with Ms G on Twitter at some length, and she's very nice. I used to think she was very funny with Ned Sherrin on Loose Ends, back in the 1740s...

BTW - can anyone actually post just using the "post comment" button, or do you have to press that and then refresh to get on here?

*is wondering whether the Snapster or BearTextedBrain are making Hay while the sun shines?*