Just ticking over
Those that know say things will tick along quite nicely if I pop up now and then to reassure the blog it is still loved. So that's what I'm doing. Keeping it brief in case I'm spotted of course. Hope all good with bloggers everywhere. Back shortly.

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At 11:26 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:Whoop whoop.
Nice one Simon.
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At 11:27 8th Aug 2011, Katy Mac wrote:Feeling the love :^)
Cheers Simon - enjoy the next bit of your summer break.
♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥
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At 11:29 8th Aug 2011, Tortie Cat wrote:Thanks Simon
I knew posting on the old blog would make the new one appear!
Hope you're enjoying your break Simon.
Morning all!
Tortie x
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At 11:29 8th Aug 2011, Ben Gallop wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 11:31 8th Aug 2011, Katy Mac wrote:Hello FairyOne and Alice [from last blog] and Tortie!
:^D
Also from last blog
@742 Pray - Take That
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At 11:35 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@5 - That's the way (aha, aha) I like it - KC and the Sunshine Band
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At 11:37 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:@6
This door swings both ways -Hermans Hermits (15)
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At 11:45 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@7 - Breakout - SWINGout Sister
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At 11:51 8th Aug 2011, Katy Mac wrote:@8 Hello (Turn Your Radio On) - Shakespeare's Sister
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At 11:54 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@9 - On the RADIO - Donna Summer
Good toon #9 Katy BTW
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At 11:55 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:@10
Leaning on a lamp post - Hermans Hermits and dreadful at that! (16)
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At 11:58 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@10 - LEAN on me - Bill Withers
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At 11:58 8th Aug 2011, lord gazza wrote:@11 please mr POSTman-carpenters
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At 11:59 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:#12 - I meant @11
Soz
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At 12:01 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:@13
The man with the cigar - Hermans Hermits (12)
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At 12:03 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@15 - MAN with the child in his eyes - Kate Bush
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At 12:03 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:Oops back to @10
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At 12:04 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:Or shall we carry on?
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At 12:06 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:Just carry on, for ease eh!
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At 12:08 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:Cool.
Hi Gazza, back to work today?
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Comment number 21.
At 12:11 8th Aug 2011, Mrs Boris wrote:Hello All.
Hope all is well with everyone. No sign of PSL yet-probably in a quiet corner somewhere recovering!!!
#18 Morning MTF, we'll just carry on eh!
@ War CHILD- Blondie
Mrs B x
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Comment number 22.
At 12:17 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@21 - This is WAR - 30 seconds to Mars
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At 12:19 8th Aug 2011, lord gazza wrote:hi mtf yeah back 2 work:(
@WAR- edwin star
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At 12:24 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@23 I'm gonna make you a STAR - David Essex
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At 12:25 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:Hi Mrs B.
@23
Here comes the star - Hermans Hermits (7)
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Comment number 26.
At 12:26 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:OOps
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Comment number 27.
At 12:27 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:Still goes with the flow though.
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At 12:37 8th Aug 2011, lord gazza wrote:@25 STARman-david bowie
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At 12:45 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@28 White Ladder - DAVID Gray
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Comment number 30.
At 12:50 8th Aug 2011, AmericaMo wrote:Thank you so much for thinking of your blogpoppets, Simon. Hope you are having a good break. But please come back soon ;-)
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Comment number 31.
At 12:52 8th Aug 2011, AmericaMo wrote:@30 Where WHITE Boys Dance - The Killers
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Comment number 32.
At 12:55 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:#31 - Don't know if your saw my post on the last blog Mo, but it was I on CE, Friday.
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Comment number 33.
At 12:56 8th Aug 2011, Mrs Boris wrote:@31 DANCE away-Roxy Music
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Comment number 34.
At 12:56 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:I meant YOU not YOUR, Duh!
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Comment number 35.
At 12:57 8th Aug 2011, Paul of Sheffield wrote:#4. Welcome to the blog, BenGallop. From your post, I suspect that you are a tad unhappy with the forthcoming F1 coverage, but, given that Simon's show never took coverage of that sport in the first place, and the fact that Simon is away on his holidays, AND the conjecture from your good self that the BBC has 'gagged' it's employees from discussing that subject, exactly what response are you expecting? My advise? I know nobody asked for it, and it is usually flawed anyway, would be for you to forget all about that stuff for a bit, and come and join in the fun and frivolity on here anyway. You would certainly get on with our own Malcolm Powder, at the very least. (Fellow petrolhead!)
@31 Pick Up The Pieces - Average WHITE Band
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Comment number 36.
At 12:59 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@33 - So Close, far away - U2
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Comment number 37.
At 13:00 8th Aug 2011, Paul of Sheffield wrote:Pfff! Missed my catch!
Laters, lovely peeps!
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At 13:23 8th Aug 2011, Mandy wrote:CLOSE to you - Maxi Priest
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At 13:25 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:@38
Oh you pretty thing - Hermans Hermits (15)
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At 13:31 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:@39
The most beautiful thing in my life - Hermans Hermits (4)
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At 13:31 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@39 PRETTY in Pink - Psychidelic Furs
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At 13:32 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:Doh
@40 The most BEAUTIFUL girl in the world - Prince
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At 13:34 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:@42
Wonderful world -Hermans Hermits (7)
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At 13:37 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:@ 43
The end of the world - Hermans Hermits (19)
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At 13:39 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@44 END of the world as we know it - REM
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At 13:45 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:@45
Its alright now - Hermans Hermits (8)
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Comment number 47.
At 13:46 8th Aug 2011, Ken wrote:#4 The BBC gagged viewers swell if you tired to post an alternative cost saving measure they didn't like.
One World - John Martyn. (right-handed version)
Ken whistles innocently and wanders off pretending that he never got censored.
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Comment number 48.
At 13:48 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@46
It's alright, baby's coming back - Eurythmics
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Comment number 49.
At 14:01 8th Aug 2011, Katy Mac wrote:@48 Baby Baby Can You Hear My Heartbeat - Herman's Hermits
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At 14:04 8th Aug 2011, Katy Mac wrote:... or perhaps it's Can't you hear my ....
Wha'eva - there's a double dose of 'Baby' in there which is the word what I caught
:^)
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Comment number 51.
At 14:07 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@50 - Listen to my HEART - Taylor Dane
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At 14:08 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:LOL Katy, (6) had that one :) xx
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At 14:08 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:Doh, it's Tell it to my HEART.
Whatever you got it's catching Katy ;-)
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Comment number 54.
At 14:14 8th Aug 2011, Revster wrote:Summer Holiday.......always play it when we leave...which is tomorrow
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Comment number 55.
At 14:15 8th Aug 2011, Simple with a dimple Sal wrote:# 678 Katy.
Gotta fly. Hope everyones afternoon is a good one.
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At 14:22 8th Aug 2011, Tiggs xx wrote:@51 TELL Me On A Sunday - Marti Caine
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At 14:23 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@56 Every day is like Sunday - Morrissey
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Comment number 58.
At 14:27 8th Aug 2011, Paul of Sheffield wrote:Rev. A virtual postcard might be nice. Either way, have a well deserved break.
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Comment number 59.
At 14:27 8th Aug 2011, Katy Mac wrote:#35 Paul O'Sheff
Always good to read your words of wisdom - however they are spelled ;^)
Butbutbut - MP is not the only regular Mayoblogger [and most of the time he doesn't have the time to be even that] who could be classed as a 'petrolhead' ....
*coughs and points generally in the direction of herself and then over towards Cambridge*
to hint at just two of us. I'm sure there are others in here - laydeez no less.
Personally I don't chat about my enthusiasm for F1, in particular, in here - which kind of links to what you said in response to Mr Gallop - who I notice has been modded now ...
It begs the question ... what kind of person posts in the blog of YDTH* to ask YDTH* what he thinks about issues that have no real connection to his shows - and actually expects a reply!?
An angry person - that's what.
I suspect there are several thousand more out there.
#47 Ken - did you post your alternative cost saving measures in an appropriate place - ie. Jake's blog?
*YDTH - 7th sentence 28.07.11 blog
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Comment number 60.
At 14:57 8th Aug 2011, Paul of Sheffield wrote:Katy.Of course, My disclaimer is that my advise(sic, this time), as I pointed out in #35, is usually flawed anyway. Or should that've been floored, thus fitting in with the general orthographical misuse. (This disclaimer is self referencing, should such action be required)
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At 14:57 8th Aug 2011, Revster wrote:# 58 Thanks Paul much appreciated mate......going somewhere, the name of which you will never forget....!
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At 15:32 8th Aug 2011, Nadine wrote:Afternoon everyone
Flying visit from me today as have tons to do. Hope all had a nice weekend.
Observations from the garden - first of my tomatoes now turning red - hurrah! One tree has leaves turning yellow already - boo!
@57 'Some LIKE it hot' - Power Station
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At 15:42 8th Aug 2011, Paul of Sheffield wrote:#58. Intrigued!
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At 15:51 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@62 Power of Love - Jennifer Rush
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At 16:01 8th Aug 2011, AmericaMo wrote:#59 and me Katy! Was at the Budapest GP last week. Had a really good time. And met Lewis and Mark W on different nights at the same restaurant. How excited were we ;-)
@64 Crush - Jennifer Paige
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Saw your reply JPA. Just as well I did a whoop whoop, then
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At 16:06 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@65 I know him so well - Elaine PAIGE and Babara Dickson
Don't think I've ever had a whoop whoop. Ta Muchly , Mo :-)
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At 16:15 8th Aug 2011, Paul of Sheffield wrote:@66 Wishing WELL by Free
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Comment number 68.
At 16:18 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:Looking out in the garden I can tell you that it is a bumper crop of apples this year. I made jam with last year's appleas but if any one has any good recipes for apples, it will be much apprecaited.
Methinks that family will have their fill of Apple Pie, Apple Crumble, Apple Jam and Apple sauce this year, hehehe
@67 WISHING' I was lucky - Wet, Wet, Wet
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At 16:25 8th Aug 2011, Paul of Sheffield wrote:@68 Walk Like A Panther by All Seeing I (Featuring Tony Christie)
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At 16:30 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@69 WALK like an Egyptian - The Bangles
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At 16:40 8th Aug 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:Hi all the wedding was lovely and the weather just perfect dry and sunny bar a breif shower while we ate :-)
feel shattered!
PSL x
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At 16:44 8th Aug 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:@70 WALK in the night Junior Walker and The All Stars
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At 16:50 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:#71 Glad the wedding went well PSL
@72 Iko Iko - The Belle STARS
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At 16:50 8th Aug 2011, Tortie Cat wrote:#71 I wondered how it went PSL - you obviously got the best of the weather! So glad it went well for you all.
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At 16:53 8th Aug 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:#71 i before e.....beyond tired! Zzzz
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At 16:54 8th Aug 2011, Tortie Cat wrote:@73 STARS - Les Miserables
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At 17:00 8th Aug 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:@76 Heaven knows I'm MISERABLE now - The Smiths
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At 17:38 8th Aug 2011, AmericaMo wrote:@77 Tears in HEAVEN - Eric Clapton
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Comment number 79.
At 17:55 8th Aug 2011, Billie on the Blog wrote:Good Afternoon All
Sorry I'm late!
How lovely is that Simon Mayo Man! Did wonder about a new miniblog this morning.
@77 HEAVEN must be missing an Angel - Tavares
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At 18:04 8th Aug 2011, Brandon wrote:Hello All
Thanks for the post Simon
@79 A Must To Avoid Hermans Hermits (11)
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Comment number 81.
At 18:08 8th Aug 2011, Billie on the Blog wrote:That should have been @78!
What did #4 say?
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At 18:14 8th Aug 2011, Billie on the Blog wrote:Hi Katy - Nice to see you
Hi PSL - Glad everything went well
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Comment number 83.
At 18:20 8th Aug 2011, Tartan Queen Shona wrote:Good evening blogpoppeteers. Have been busy and just getting a chance to catch up now.
PSL Glad the weather held for you and you had a nice day.
(We had the heating on last night! End of summer methinks.)
Paul of Sheffield - are you a moderator for the blog? Wow! How did you manage that?
Off to get thinking cap on for songs.
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Comment number 84.
At 18:32 8th Aug 2011, Tartan Queen Shona wrote:@80 MUST be the music - Oasis
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At 18:52 8th Aug 2011, AmericaMo wrote:@84 MUSIC to Watch the Girls By - Andy Williams
Glad yesterday went well, PSL. Your MotB outfit looks stunning.
Hi, everyone else.
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At 18:57 8th Aug 2011, Tartan Queen Shona wrote:@85 Caifornia Girls - Beach Boys
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At 19:00 8th Aug 2011, Tartan Queen Shona wrote:OOps -California
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At 19:13 8th Aug 2011, Tiggs xx wrote:@86 On The BEACH - Chris Rea
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At 19:13 8th Aug 2011, AmericaMo wrote:@86 Wild BOYS - Duran Duran
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At 19:18 8th Aug 2011, Tartan Queen Shona wrote:@88 Beach Shack - Elvis Presley
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At 19:22 8th Aug 2011, AmericaMo wrote:#89 too late!
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Comment number 92.
At 19:25 8th Aug 2011, Tartan Queen Shona wrote:#89 Sorry Mo, I think you missed the catch Tiggs got. Will let you have a go for @90.
Back to work tomorrow :(((( so need to get a few things ready. (Got the heating on again! Brrrrr)
Be good and catch you all later.
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At 19:25 8th Aug 2011, Tiggs xx wrote:@90 There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's ELVIS - Kirsty Macoll
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At 19:28 8th Aug 2011, Tartan Queen Shona wrote:#91 You noticed before I could post.
Are you flooded up there Mo? Hope not!
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At 19:43 8th Aug 2011, Tartan Queen Shona wrote:#93 Hi Tiggs. Did you hear Liza play that one earlier? I'm sure they take their song choices for the shows from the blog. I seem to remember DeeBee put that one up earlier in the beach ball game.
NYM must scour the blog for the best ones. Do you NYM? Tee hee
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At 20:09 8th Aug 2011, AmericaMo wrote:@93 Some GUYS Have All The Luck - Robert Palmer agin ;-)
Stopped raining here, Shona. Think it's worse inland
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Comment number 97.
At 20:18 8th Aug 2011, John B Good wrote:Hello all
Blimey, this game is running and running and running.
Utterly charming and heartwarming for the DT Dude to serve up a new blog to play on. How very decent.
#68 JP Alice - funny you should mention that - this afternoon we scooped up a full dustbin of windfalls and took them over to a very kind man nearby who allows people to use his apple crusher and press. We have come home very proudly with 17 litres of our very own finest apple juice, which tasted particularly good.
On to business...
LUCK be a lady - Frank Sinatra
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At 20:19 8th Aug 2011, John B Good wrote:Oh, that should have been
@96 LUCK be a lady - Frank Sinatra
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At 20:20 8th Aug 2011, John B Good wrote:Maybe I can just sneak in with...
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