well hellooo!

Still here. It's not been the same without you. Welcome back!

NIGHTS ON BROADWAY CANDI STATON......nocturnal mending

Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets!



Great to have you back Simon. Liza did a sterling job but - well it's just not the same without you. And you are so right about the blog. I can't think of a single other place on the old interweb that I'd rather be.



I'm not too bothered about the mensh chasing today - just glad to have the team back. So I'll just throw in one for the pot:



ROAD TO HELL by Chris Rea



Deebee ~X~

Welcome back Simon.



Liza did a great job, but it's good to have you back!



HOLE IN THE GROUND - Bernard Cribbins



Well someone had to - I'll get my coat ...



T x

Good Morning again -



And Hello Simon! Looking forward to the team being back together ...........



suggest -



HOLE IN THE GROUND - Bernard Cribbins



TIRED OF WAITING - Kinks



CAN YOU FILL ME IN - Craig David



I'D WAIT FOR LIFE - TakeThat (Wah!)

Welcome back Simon!



How's about



ROADBLOCK - Stock, Aitken & Waterman



Glad you've had a toodle pip 3 weeks, and yes, I missed you. I must fess up that Liza isn't really my cup of tea so I've spent the last 3 weeks re-connecting with old albums and my CD collection. And some tea-time telly.



I've also celebrated my 43rd Birthday and been "blessed" with a very bad back for the last 4 days - chiropractor and acupuncture at lunchtime today. Thank goodness!



And let's not mention The Arsenal.



Muchos Amore.



Deevs

x

Morning All



Hope every one had a good break



CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC - JIMI HENDRIX



PULL UP TO THE BUMPER (BABY) - GRACE JONES



BABY YOU CAN DRIVE MY CAR - THE BEATLES



Wharfedale Andy



Wharfedale Andy

FIXING A HOLE - Beatles

WELCOME BACK from your holiday Simon....



Pleased you had a nice holiday, finished editing your book and that child 2 had good exam results. Hope your wheezing stops soon and it won't affect your show tonight!



How about....



THUNDER ROAD ~ Bruce Springsteen



HOLE IN THE GROUND ~ Bernard Cribbens



CAN YOU DIG IT? ~ Mock Turtles



ROAD TO HELL ~ Chris Rea



Back after a dog walk and weighing plums, sugar etc!



Lucie's Mum x

Morning All,



Welcome back Simon



'One Way Or Another' Blondie



Congrats to PSL for the ARFO on Friday



Have a good day everybody

Good morning Simon, Team, NYM and Blogpoppeteers



How lovely to have you back Simon!



My offerings today:



We Built This City - Jefferson Starship



Chain Gang - Sam Cooke



When The Hammer Swings Down - Babylon A.D.



I hope everyone has a great day!



Catch you later



S x

STOP STOP STOP - Hollies

Good Morning One And All :)



How great it is to have you back Simon :D Other diversions may have flirted with me and tried to woo me over, but I know which side my bread is buttered on!



Lovely and sunny here this morning, a bit of a chill in the air but I'm sure it will warm up later.



Hope everyone is fine and dandy this fine Monday :)



Roadworks eh? I'm a bit out of practice on this mensh chasing lark *Jump starts brain*



STOP - ERASURE



ROAD TO HELL - CHRIS REA



DIGGING YOUR SCENE - BLOW MONKEYS



ROAD BLOCK - STOCK AITKEN & WATERMAN (an early pitch for the HOIB there!)

Morning all



Stop! - Sam Brown, in honour of those manned, swivelling, irritating pieces of metal on a pole :-)

DOWN UNDER - Men at Work



It's a double!

Hi Simon and everyone else



Glad to have you back as ive really missed all your features.



I think Liza is ok but have been exploring my ipod collection in the car and there are some howlers, maybe the rest of you can start a discussion of the mad stuff that is on your Ipod...i'll start bet you cannot beat The Rupert The Bear theme and The Wombling Song!! lol.



Well hey ho here we go with the Roadworks toonage:



1. DIGGING YOUR SCENE - The Blow Monkeys

2. CAN YOU DIG IT? - The Mock Turtles

3. STOP - The Spice Girls

4. FAVOURITE WASTE OF TIME - Owen Paul

5. HOLE IN YOUR HEAD - The Sugababes

6. ROAD TO HELL - Chris Rea

7. ROADBLOCK - Stock, Aitken and Waterman

8. ONE WAY TICKET - Boney M

9. ARE YOU GOING TO GO MY WAY - Lenny Kravitz

10. HIGHWAY TO HELL - ACDC



May pop back later as mad busy bee at moment.



Have a gorgeous day.



Mandy ;)

One more oldie suggestion from me, before I get back to twin mayhem...



TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME - SUPERTRAMP



Will try to pop back later, have a good one blogpoppets xxx

'All Along The Watchtower' Jimi Hendrix



For the lyrics ' There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Out Of Here' and' There's Too Much Confusion'

ROAD TO NOWHERE - Talking Heads

Ah yes.



Simon, Rebecca, Matt, Sally and the Constructors are home ..



... and all is well with the world



:^D

Theme songs:



ROAD RAGE - CATATONIA



ROAD TO NOWHERE - TALKING HEADS

SLEDGEHAMMER - Peter Gabriel

Good morning Simon, Team, NYM and blogpoppets (those who have stuck around and those who have returned)! How lovely to have things back to normal. Whatever that is ;-). No more tea-time dilemmas for me (sorry, Jeremy if you're lurking).



Coldplay - Fix You



is the first that springs to mind. You played this for me for a pot hole theme previously but would be splendiferous if you could play it again.



In a bit of a work-related grumph so shan't be around much today. Or tomorrow. Having a day in Norway - again work related.



X

'Sledgehammer' Peter Gabriel

Take It To The Limit - Eagles



In honour of them extending roadworks and temporary speed limits much longer than necessary to generate speeding fine revenue. Hatfield Tunnel being a fine example.

thanks Brandon...hope the Hendrix gets played that's my favourite track



BROKEN STONES PAUL WELLER

welcome back - we can have the radio on in at teatime again! Sorry if I am in an minority but Liza drove me mad! Popped in again to check you are definitely back!



Thank you bloggers - I like to read what's going on in the world outwith my shed (I work in my garden shed...on my own...although eldest daughter is at home just now and making good sandwiches for lunch before heading off to Uni on 3rd September, anyone got any good hints to stop me wailing as I wave her into 1st year)?



Laid by James in honour of the lack of raods being Laid......?



SparkyH

xx

I'M STILL WAITING DIANA ROSS

.. and it goes without saying - a daft phrase if ever there was, because any sentence pre-fixed this way usually continues to say what it was that was supposed to 'go without saying' -



- that it's great to see the return of a theme, as well as the return of blogpopsters in choon choosing mode. Speaking of which:



DRIVER'S SEAT - SNIFF 'N' THE TEARS





a choon which I am inclined to crowbar into any theme that may have a vague connection.



:^)

HOLD BACK THE NIGHT THE TRAMPS

HAMMER TO FALL ~ Queen .....don't they use a hammer of some sort?



ROADHOUSE BLUES ~ Doors



ROAD TO NOWHERE ~ Talking Heads



END OF THE ROAD ~ Boyz II Men



EVERY DAY IS A WINDING ROAD ~ Cheryl Crow



xx

IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR WILSON PICKET



NIGHT TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME ARETHA FRANKLIN

Further suggestions :-



KING OF THE ROAD - ROGER MILLER



(W)HOLE LOTTA LOVE - LED ZEPPELIN



THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER - DREEM

#28 Sparkyhunter... it's the same in our house... although I like Liza, she reminds me of my primary school teacher sister-in-law as she alway sounds like she's talking to 6-year old kiddiwinks, so we will be back to listening to grown-up Drivetime now that Simon's back!



xx

One more from me then it's back to the jam-making!





SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD ~ Steve Earle

GOING UNDERGROUND - JAM ( a double whammy)



GO YOUR OWN WAY - FLEETWOOD MAC



BUS STOP - HOLLIES

Welcome back Simon ...



I know it's been mentioned a number of times already ...



HOLE IN THE GROUND - Bernard Cribbins

#35 I enjoyed LiZa but I know where you are coming from I likened her to Joyce Grenfell in ' George don't do that' mode!

Good morning everyone. Welcome back Simon: you've been missed!



The blog seems to back to some kind normality - lots of familiar names and and few new ones (to me) - and the post-count mounting rapidly.



Have a great day!!

SMOOTH OPERATOR SADE

Ooops, why didn't someone give me a nudge? Here you all are.



Nice to see you back Simon. Who won the sweepstake this time??



Off to put thinking cap on for a song idea...there has to be a Herman opportunity in there somewhere?



Fabulous weekend and looking forward to the next one, with the added bonus of an extra day thrown in. Whoop whoop.



Belated congrats to PSL too. (Although I did give you a hearty pat on the back on fb.)



MTF.xx

Yes......



A must to avoid - Hermans Hermits.



MTF.xx

Morning all and welcome back Simon!



Can listen again to R2 at teatime now!



How about Men at Work "Down Under"?



U2 tune to follow.



GB

Bit cryptic I know but I thought of:



"Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (that's the trouble with road works!)



OR "Where The Streets Have No Name".



GB

#36 LuciesMum. Be careful and look out for wasps if you are jam making. Noticed an increase in their activity yesterday as I was gardening at my mothers!



GB

HIT THE ROAD JACK - RAY CHARLES



YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY - SHAKIN STEVENS



ONE OF THESE NIGHTS - EAGLES

Chores done!



Would the single lane of traffic getting you past the roadworks be the:



BRIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD by VAN MORRISON?

#48 If so, the lane with the roadworks would be:



WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD by TOM WAITS

THE NIGHT FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS

I've succumbed and am alternating between Test Match Special on Beeb 5LiveSports and S*yNews coverage of the taking of Tripoli.



#luckyenoughtobeworkingfromhometoday

#48 & #49 But once past the roadworks you'd be on the:



OPEN ROAD by GARY BARLOW.



I do like a narrative :-)

Morning,



9 to 5 - Dolly Parton



Hard days night - The Beatles



Everyday is like Sunday - Morrissey



Daysleeper - REM



Wednesday morning 3am - Simon & Garfunkel



Through the long night - Billy Joel



Because the night - Bruce Springsteen



Nightshift - The Commodores



In the still of the night - The Five Satins.



Road Rage - Catatonia.



Debris Road - Ocean Colour Scene.



Digging your scene - The Blow Monkeys

Why Don't We Do It In The Road? by The Beatles

Working On The Road - Ten Years After

I'm Working On A Road - Flatt & Scruggs

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

Christian Death - Drilling The Hole

Stuck In My Car - The Go Go's

Can You Dig It? - The Monkees

Get Out Of My Car - David Hassellhoff

#52 Harry. :^D

Take This Job and Shove It !- Jonny Paycheck



(For the road workmen who are a tad fed up with their toil)



What a busy morning at work. Yikes!

#55 Hi Katy, how are you?



Have you found any good words lately? I'm trying to shoe-horn 'susarrant' into a conversation.

Hello Again! Coffee break time.



#28 Welcome back Sparkyhunter! Maybe you can stick around for a bit longer this time. And IF you get any tips on surviving your daughter's move to Uni, I'd be grateful if you'd pass them on..



A bit left field*, but how about:



STUCK IN THE MIDDLE (LANE) WITH YOU by Stealer's Wheel.



~X~



*can someone please explain what that actually means? On second thoughts, don't bother... ;o)

#58 Hi Deebee, I was going to point you in the direction of wikiwotsit which gives one explanation:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_fielder



It means "wildly unrelated to the subject being discussed".



But, as you said not to bother, I won't :-)

Good Morning Each! Welcome back, Simon, well rested, I trust. Nice of Spurs to wait for your return, dont you think? Talking of football, I've entered a team in Deevs bloggers fantasy footie comp, and one of my players is the son of regular customers in my little emporium. Watch out for him, Simon, as he is also a Spurs player. Can you see who he is, yet?



Roadworks songs.



I'll offer up...



'Don't Waste My Time' by Status Quo



'Two Way Traffic' by Status Quo



'JCB Song' by Nizlopi



'Hazard' by Richard Marx



'Contraflow' by The Fall



'Wait' by Camel



'No Hard Shoulder To Cry On' by Julian Cope

#59 Harry - LOL! Yes I know what the expression actually means. I just wondered where it came from - I guessed it was a sporting reference, but not being a sporty type I wasn't sure which sport it was referring to. Now I do ;o)

#61 I think American English gets quite a few phrases from its sports, especially American football and baseball. A little like we get many from our nautical traditions.

Welcome back Simon



From my holiday experience I can fully understand you song category for today for which I would like to suggest:-



TIRED OF WAITING - KINKS



YOU AINT GOING NOWHERE - DYLAN or THE BYRDS



TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME - SUPERTRAMP



PIPELINE - THE CHANTAYS



Enjoy the day

I guess ball-park figures come from baseball as well.

#64 Not to mention "reaching first base" ;-)

Hmm, roadworks related...



LEARN TO FLY / WALK - FOO FIGHTERS



UP THE JUNCTION - SQUEEZE



DRIVING IN MY CAR - MADNESS

I've become a bit of a baseball fan in the last couple of months. Started watching one evening on ESPN Ameica, and have now subscribed to MLB TV allowing me to watch my choice of game with either home or away commentary on the iPad.



Used to think baseball was rounders for unathletic adults, but there is an impressive amount of athleticism displayed by 2nd baseman and/or the short-stop when making double plays while hurdling potentially leg-breaking challenges from batsmen sliding into second base. Although there are still plenty of unathletic-looking players earning millions of dollars a year to play it as well.



I'm officially hooked - even found myself singing along to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" durind the middle of the seventh innings of a Chicago Cubs game last week :-).

Afternoon everyone. Welcome back Simon - I've enjoyed listening to Liza on and off, but it is lovely to have the team back.



Suggestions... this is a tough one, so just a few:



The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles

Going Underground - The Jam

Part of the Queue - Oasis

I Feel the Earth Move - Carol King

and for my daily Bon Jovi suggestion ...... Lost Highway

hi all



stop-sam brown



cars-gary numan



drive-cars



road 2 hell chris rea



digging your scene-blow monkeys

Hi Everyone and, of course, Simon the rested and rejuvenated Drivetime Dude, The Team and the NYM,



Apologoes for my absinthe. I had a note but the dog 'et' it.



The boys set off for a long weekend with their dad in Scotland on Thursday so we're awaiting the arrival of the AS level results either today or tomorrow. Well done to all students achieving a fine set of results - I hope we'll be toasting rather than commiserating on the elder boy's return from his travels. I'm under strict instructions not to open them, as if I would!?!

I'm happy to report back that I completed the Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge on Saturday in exactly 11 hours. I'm not sure I can say I enjoyed the experience but I've done it. Apparently some people go back year after year to complete the same challenge, hoping to improve on their time; my friend and I think they're bonkers. However, after chatting to a couple of girls from our group, we think we may tackle the Chatsworth Challenge at some point, maybe next year.

Now then, am I going to have to undertake a mammoth catch up and read back the last couple of blogs or is there some kind soul waiting in the wings with a quick resume of occurences over the last 3 weeks?



I hope all you gawjus blogpoppets are find and dandy.



Lovely to 'see' you all again.



~ xx

Oh, oh and a suggestion from me:-



The Road to Nowhere, Talking Heads.



Thank you kindly.



Oh by the way, who has had the ARFO these last few weeks? I'm assuming Liza did ARF? Blimmin' 'eck, just realised how busy the last three weeks have been - haven't heard much of the show at all. However, what I heard, I enjoyed (but not too much) :)



~ xx

#67 That's funny Ken.



#71 Toots, I'm well impressed that you did the 3 Peaks Challenge. Posh Soul Lady, if I remember correctly, has the crown.



Shona

#71 Welcome back Toots - and very well done on finishing the 3 Peaks Challenge. What does the Chatsworth Challenge consist of?

#73 Toots, if you read back the blog, you will see that I unexpectedly got the crown too. The choon was lifted from a game we were playing and not from ARFO.



Back to work



S x

....and the filling in the ARFO sandwich, was Gazza, what a happy hornet he was.



MTF.xx

#57

Sorry Harry - didn't intend to ignore you - lost my internet connection for a while ... this has occurred a few times lately.

If it happens again I shall be compelled to bring it to the attention of my broadband provider - politely, at first .. a susurrant then if necessary, an angry growl. Let's hope they don't consider my complaint a mere floccinaucinihilipilification ...





Toots - I know I've said it elsewhere but I'll say again in here. Well done and welcome back xx



:^D

Hi Simon, hope you had a nice break.

Not much to add to great suggestions so far, but I did think of...

STAY ON THESE ROADS - A Ha

Otherwise, I will add my votes to...

MY FAVOURITE WASTE OF TIME - Owen Paul

SLEDGEHAMMER - Peter Gabriel



Thanks,

1. WAITING IN VAIN - Bob Marley

2, GO NOW - Moody Blues ( stop and go boards)

3. Anything by ONE DIRECTION

4. Down Under - MEN AT WORK

5. SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND - Girls Aloud

6. PATIENCE - Take That

7. STUCK ON YOU - Lionel Richie

8. Anything by THE JAM

9. Anything by TRAFFIC

10. STOP - Sam Brown



Thats all folks...happy mensh hunting!!!



Mandy ;)

Shhhh......I'm not really here. Just wanted to say hello and I miss you.



Toots - well done on the Three Peaks!



Off again before I get caught......



Much love



Alex-Girl (remember me?)

X

Welcome back Toots, and well done for the 3 peaks challenge!! I've no idea if 11 hours is a good time, but I'm sure it's a lot better than I could have done - I take my hat off to you!



And a special welcome back to Alex-G too - shhh, we won't tell ;o)



~X~

#78 Katy, floccinaucinihilipilification? You may very well say that; but, not sure I could :-)



Personally I was thinking of commenting on the susurrant diction of Bob Harris but I was going to wait until Thursday.

I had a strange dream last night, which I thought I'd share. You know those dreams when you're trying to do something and keep being frustrated at every turn? Well in this dream I was trying to listen to Simon's first DT show after his hols. I was in a hotel with a group of other people, and the radio was on in the background. After a while it was time for the show to start, but a guy got up, said "I don't want to listen to this any more" and switched the radio off. So I protested, and he turned it back on but so quietly that you couldn't hear it above people talking in the room. Then I went upstairs to get changed to go out, and there was a radio in the room but I couldn't get it tuned to Radio 2.



Finally we were in the car, I put the radio on and thought "But that doesn't sound like Simon". And it wasn't. It was Chris - my radio alarm was waking me up!



~X~

#71 Toots, which three Peaks constitute the Yorkshire event? And what does the Chatsworth Challenge involve?



#81 Hello Alex G, long time no see. Hope you're well.

#71 Congratulations Toots - it sounds like bloomin' hard work so well done!

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments. The three peaks challenge is 24.5 miles long and consists of Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough. The challenge is to complete it in under 12 hours so we did it! Phew! Weather was v mixed - dull and misty first thing, bright and breezy in the middle of the day and wet and miserable (some would say dreich) for the third hill.



Will have to check out the Chatsworth Challenge and report back.



Better get outta here or they'll think I'm willing to do some overtime.



Warmest congrats on getting the ARFOs PSL, Shona and Happy Hornet :)



I see Alex~G hasn't been around much either. Hope all's well m' Lovely :)



Did I see mensh of Harry too? Are you back from your self-imposed exile, H?



Cheery bye for now. Hope to get back in to this 'ere blog very soon.



and there she was...

...gone!



~ xx

Welcome Back Simon and everyone else who has been otherwise engaged. Today's blog almost reads like the register on the first day back at school!!! All present and correct and everything back to normal! Yipppeeeeeee!!!!



Congrats in order for the mighty Toots and her sore feet. Plus The Posh Soul Lady for keeping the AFRO crown shining in blogland. Well done you.



Probably a bit late but my mensh chasers are :



PATIENCE - TAKE THAT

TIRED OF WAITING - THE KINKS



Dougal x

Deebee,

thanks for the welcome back - I'll let you know how I get on when I drop her off a week on Saturday!



Love SparkyH

I've seen a couple of comments about Liza, whom I like, but not on the radio at teatime.... sorry Liza and your fans! Personally I think Janice Long would be a really good stand-in for Simon as she always sounds bubbly, has a good knowledge of music, she is good at interviewing people and if you listen to her late at night, as I always do, she always seems to make her guests feel comfortable and it would be good hearing her at a sensible time in the day... maybe next time Simon is off, Liza could do late nights and Janice could do Drivetime!!!



xx

As 'hats' have been menshed in Simon's blog ..





.. the very least we could do is try and get onto the next page. I've resurrected the Award Hat Jan 2011 version ....





:^)

#77 Thank you MTF for reminding me about Gazza, Happy Hornet too!



#88 Loved that comment Dougal about the school register!



Nearly time to go home. Don't want to miss the start of the show!

#90 Janice Long is a legend.



#91 Woohoo - an Award Hat! Such fun. I'm sure we can easily get onto page 2, once all the mensh congrats start...



;o)

Slow blog today....thought there would be mad rush. Nice to see people returning, even if it's with sore feet ;-). Haven't seen the mini for a few days (T10OTS)



It's countdown to drive time dude time...



X

Well, I've treated myself to an afternoon off, left the shop in the capable hands of Josie, and been for a trumpet round the lanes of Derbyshire on the old motorbike. Blimmin' lovely, it was. The one thing I noticed as I pootled about was the amount of Combine Harvesters toilinf in the fields. Another year begins to wend its weary way towards closure, but before that, a quick oppurtunity to use that favourite phrase. A time of mellow friutfulness. Sums it up nicely.



One of the things I really like about being out and about on the bike on days like these, is when you ride along a stretch of road shaded by trees, and can feel that small drop in temperature as you enter the shady stretch. Only a small thing, but you are so completely impervious to such things when you are in a car. I seem to have descended into wistfulness. Come on, Paul, get back to work...

#95 Paul O' - nice. Wistful suits you sir.



:^)

Katy, I wonder if Kev would find floccinaucinihilipilification floccinaucinihilipilification, or a worthy challange on a Tuesday night?

Afternoon All



How lovely! It's nearly 5.05. and Simon's back!

I've failed in my challenge. Futtocks!

#87 Great to see you back Toots :) And very well done on completing the 3 peaks challenge! I've never heard of the Chatsworth challenge, we used to go there a lot with the twins, but we haven't been back this summer, will have to try and squeeze a trip in before the end of the holidays.



#90 Great to see you again too Lucie's mum :) I agree with you about Janice Long, I don't get to hear her show much these days, but its always a good listen.



I tuned in a few times to Liza, and here's the thing...she plays some great music, and she can be very funny at times, but I agree with what a few people have said about her manner of speaking. If she could dial it down a bit at times, and drop the weird inflections, she would be quite listenable.



Counting down to the Drivetime dude...5...4...3...2...1...