Happy Wednesdays All Round

:^)



PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS - DIRE STRAITS



HOUNDS OF LOVE - KATE BUSH



BAKER STREET - GERRY RAFFERTY



KARMA POLICE – RADIOHEAD



WATCHING THE DETECTIVES - ELVIS COSTELLO



WE ARE DETECTIVE – THOMPSON TWINS

Good morning to all Blogpoppets, Mr M and the DTT plus any other popping in people.



Jilly and Jennie-I hope you are feeling better today and hope mum is progressing well KatyMac.



Billie and KatyMac-Looking forward to the Chutney recipes, they sound scrummy.



Toon choices for today:



-We are Detectives-Thompson Twins

-Doctor Doctor- (Also by) Thompson Twins, as Im sure Sherlock would be lost without Dr Watson

-Hunting high and low-Aha



And in memory of his disappearance at the Reichenbach Falls:



-Waterfalls-Paul McCartney

-View to a Kill-Duran Duran



Tea and work calls (in that order!)



Have a good day all,



Mrs B x

PS Can I second KatyMac's Baker Street please!

Hi everyone



It's sunny and quite mild today for late October!



IT'S A MYSTERY ~ Toya



EVERY DAY I WRITE THE BOOK ~ Elvis costello



BAKER STREET ~ Gerry Rafferty



NEVER ENDING STORY ~ Limahl



WE ARE DETECTIVE ~ Thomson Twins



INTO THE VALLEY ~ The Skids



xx

DOCTOR DOCTOR - THOMPSON TWINS



LOOKING FOR CLUES - ROBERT PALMER



SEARCHIN - THE HOLLIES

MYSTERY SONG - STATUS QUO



ITS A MYSTERY - TOYAH



THERE ARE MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS - JOHNNY NASH

Good Morning All :)



I did enjoy the show last night, I'm not sure about mead because I'm not a great fan of honey, but as I have a dodgy throat right now it might be just the ticket.



I thought Steve Earle was great, good music and stories.



I've already tweeted the following oldie suggestions...



BAKER STREET - GERRY RAFFERTY (of course!



LOOKING FOR CLUES - ROBERT PALMER



FOLLOW YOU, FOLLOW ME - GENESIS



(I JUST) DIED IN YOUR ARMS TONIGHT - CUTTING CREW

#2



Thank you Mrs Boris. Mum is doing really well but not home yet.

Nice to see you

:^)

A few more....



WHEN I WRITE THE BOOK ~ Nick Lowe



RAINBOW VALLEY ~ Love Affair



MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR ~ Beatles



HOUNDS OF LOVE ~ Kate Bush



HOUND DOG ~ Elvis Presley





Off to walk my hounds now! xx

WHO ARE YOU? - WHO



BEHIND THE MASK [WHO DO YOU LOVE] - ERIC CLAPTON

STREETS OF LONDON - Ralph McTell

Hi Simon and everyone



Here are my creative juices:



1. PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS - Dire Straits

2. BAKER STREET - Gerry Rafferty

3. PRIVATE EYES - Hall & Oates

4. WHODUNNIT - Tavares

5. JUST THE TWO OF US - Grover Washington ( Watson and Holmes)

6. MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR - Sophie Ellis Bextor

7. SOMEBODYS WATCHING ME - Rockwell

8. WE CAN WORK IT OUT - The Beatles

9. DOCTOR DOCTOR - Thompson Twins

10. WATCHING THE DETECTIVES - Elvis Costello

11. WE ARE DETECTIVE - Thompson Twins

12 ITS A MYSTERY - Toyah

13. FOLLOW YOU FOLLOW ME - Genesis

14. BOIHEMIAN RHAPS0DY - Queen ( as one of the SH novels was titled something Bohemia!) and according to Wiki Holmes was considered to be Bohemian according to Watson!



We have two lad students at our kickboxing club with surnames Holmes and Watson ( both Black Belts)



I have another interview at an accountancy practice tomorrow at 10.30 which was brought forward from nextTjhursday which is a relief because the Stourbridge interview is on the Friday!



Have a nice day.



Mandy ;)

Good Morning all



Lots of good tunes already selected



NOTHING HAS BEEN PROVED - PET SHOP BOYS & DUSTY SPRINGFIELD



QUESTIONS - MOODY BLUES



WE CAN WORK IT OUT - BEATLES



HOW DO YOU DO IT - GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS



Enjoy the day

Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets



A quick visit to say that I've tweeted:



WATCHING THE DETECTIVES by Elvis Costello



WE CAN WORK IT OUT by the Beatles (or Stevie Wonder)



PRIVATE EYES by Hall and Oates



HOUND DOG by Elvis Presley



Laters...



Deebee X

WHODUNNIT - TAVARES



WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE WHY - MANHATTAN TRANSFER

A couple more tenuous oldies...



MIND GAMES - JOHN LENNON



IN THE AIR TONIGHT - PHIL COLLINS

WHO PUT THE BOMP IN THE BOMP -a- BOMP -a- BOMP? - SHOWADDYWADDY





Could it be the same person who put the Ram-a-lam-a Ding Dong?



Perhaps we'll never know

Hi all,



The best tunes have gone already!



Ok we won't tread on anyone's toes, just suggest the following:





BANG BANG - BA ROBERTSON



NOWHERE TO RUN - MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS



Cheers all,



Paul TMFM, Paul G, Tony S.

An obligatory BS suggestion...



MURDER INCORPORATED - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN



Also...



BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - QUEEN



I'm sure there was a Sherlock Holmes story called 'Scandal in Bohemia' or something :-/

Good morning everyone.



Sherlock Holmes? Has to be:



COCAINE (preferably) by J J CALE or Eric Clapton at a pinch.







Or, what about:



THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN by PINK FLOYD

Morning all.



Crime dont pay - Joe Jackson.



Got a house full here for the first time in ages, collected my Daughter from Bristol last night, so some nice catch up times are in order. Will poop in as and when. Hope things are on the up for everyone.



MTF.xx

A FOGGY DAY IN LONDON TOWN - MICHAEL BUBLE or FRANK SINATRA

I was buying a birthday card for my Grandson today. I found a lovely one and was walking to pay for it when I noticed that, although it was marked on the front "1 Today", on the back it said "Unsuitable for children under 5"

CATCH US IF YOU CAN - DAVE CLARK FIVE



PIPES OF PEACE - PAUL MCCARTNEY

I might get the prize for most tenuous song suggestion, if nothing else...



ACDC - Whole Lotta Rosie (Arthur Conan Doyle's initials, plus an extra bit)

You couldn't make it up eh Harry!



Is the little chap going to be one already? What day is his b'day?



MTF.xx

#17 Cutbushers - as has been said many a time in here - we merely suggest the songs - we don't 'own' them. Besides which, many of our prolific choon choosers choose them in direct messages to Simon in Twitter at the same time as we're posting in the blog. The more who suggest the same songs, the better. In my book anyway. Exclusivity doesn't really exist in this blog. lol.

:^)



#20 MTF - sounds lovely! And am I correct on thinking there's a very special birthday occurring this weekend?





#19 Harry - I was thinking about Sherlock's 'reacreational substances' with Pipes of Peace but yours is better ... am sure there must be a song somewhere entitled 'Dear Stalker ..'

;^)

Hi Katymaty.



Yup, an 18th on Friday. Me Laddo is finally going to be able to go out and sup his first pint (ahem!)



MTF.xx

Morning all



Very late to the party today - so no original suggestions from me, but given the title of the Blog, can I second/third, please:



Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty



'Tis a beautiful day here after a dramatically stormy night; lots of thunder, lightening and power cuts!



Back later



Tortie x



PS Is anyone else having problems with the blog, or is it just me?

Yes Tortie, blog problems here too. Have to keep reloading to get to post.



MTF.xx

Hi Tortie - glad the weather has calmed down up there.



I am certainly finding the blog a bit unpredicable today, but I thought it was my dodgy laptop misbehaving.



FOR THOSE THAT MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY POSTING:



TRY PREVIEW - THEN POST - then if it looks as though it's thinking about it and the whirly thing is still whirling - REFRESH THE PAGE.



You may find that your post has appeared. Then again - all the above may be completely unhelpful ..

:^/

#25 MTF, he'll be one on Friday. Time hasn't gone by quite as quickly as you're thinking, this is Grandson no. 1; I announced Grandson no. 2's birth in August.



#26 Katy, you’re correct, there is a song called “Dear Stalker” by the Amplifires (sic) ............... I’ve just had a quick listen on Sp*tify; starts off quite nicely but deteriorates once she starts singing.

#26 Hear, hear KatyMatey! I was going to post something in reply to someone's comment in yesterday's blog (can't remember who) who apologised for suggesting a song that had already been suggested by someone else. But you've summed it up nicely. Also, if only one person was 'allowed' to suggest each song, it would be rather unfair on the bloggers/tweeters/emailers who are unable to get online in the first 20 minutes after Simon's posted the theme...



Seems as though I missed a treat at work yesterday. We had a fire in our MRI suite - thankfully not a very serious one, but the firemen who turned up to deal with it had to de-metalise themselves before entering the facility. Which meant taking off most of their clothes, apparently...



;o)

#27 MTF - Heehee - it's such a very special birthday for SO many reasons. I will build a supersize cupcake and post it in here on ARFO day, then it'll be here all weekend for us to have a nibble x



#31 Harry - two grandsons - am guessing not actually from the same mother? Sorry if that sounds overtly biological. I know it's possible.



Altho' I was just savouring the play on words - thanks for finding that song 'Dear Stalker'. Can't listen on this contraption so will accept your opinion - anyone who requests Show Of Hands and Horslips on the same day has got to be a kindred spirit - and not bother.

:^D

#33 Katy, two grandaughters, too. We've had 3 new grandchildren (one each for our three kids) in the last 14months. We're a fecund clan :-)

MALE STRIPPER by MAN 2 MAN MEET MAN PARRISH

SHERLOCK HOLMES by SPARKS

LOVE IS LIKE A VIOLIN by KEN DODD

SUSPICIOUS MINDS by ELVIS PRESLEY

CLUES by ROBERT PALMER

THE DRUGS DON'T WORK by THE VERVE

STOP THAT MAN by SAILOR

srange weather here this morning, bright warm sunshine then quickly followed by heavy rain. Lovely double rainbow though.



THE LOGICAL SONG - SUPERTRAMP

Hello Everybody



'Who Dunnit' Tavares



Have a good day one and all

Morning, just!



DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET - BILLY J KRAMER

Morning your Lordship, team, NYM and storm-battered bloggers



Another late and quick appearance today



BRILLIANT DISGUISE - Bruce Springsteen



THE SCIENTIST - Coldplay



And finally...



SUBTERRANEAN HOLMES-IC BLUES - Bob Dylan



WHAT'S ON MY MIND - The Cranberries (Watson on my mind...geddit?..ok, I'll stop now)



#134 from Billie yesterday - how lovely of you to say that, nice to be noticed, nice to be liked.



*grabs coat and hat for above auggestions, but leaves with nice smile and warm feeling*

Watch That Man - David Bowie



Willy the Shake

x

'Suspicion' Elvis Presley

'Misstra Know It All' Stevie Wonder



Didnt this get played not so long ago? good tune though

Three word Wednesday...



Chocolate covered sprouts!



Trick or treat, you decide!!!!



MTF.xx

Somewhere in the ether, is my earlier blog...and no doubt countless others - does that make the air heavier??!

watching the detectives-elvis costello



whodunnit-tavares



baker street-gerry raferty



london calling-the clash

Now I've got the thing working (thanks #30!) would like to suggest the lovely MIKE AND THE MECHANICS with OVER MY SHOULDER

Something people should do if they are sleuths...in case it is THEY who are being followed!

Madness here, less than one week before the HRH visit and the organisers have requested that the fold down seat she sits on in the lecture theatre is oiled as it squeaked when they tried it out....made me giggle. We didn't do the other 214 seats though, so with any luck there will be a cacophony of squeaking and she will sit smugly on her silent seat...

#noOBEforme

#36 BRILL!

Sometimes the later the blog, the less obvious the suggestion; getting played though depends if the DT dude and team are in an 'obvious' mood, or go for more obscure choices, never know which way it's gonna fall!

Hey Simon & Blogsters,



How about...



SHERLOCK HOLMES by Katy Perry

The Rocky Road to Dublin by The Dubliners (as featured in the last film)



Thanks,

I've sent an email to the R2Webteam to let them know about the problems we are experiencing. Just shows how many are affected when we've not yet reached 50.





Talking of which:



50th POST SCARF FOR WHOEVER GETS THE 50TH POST

:^)



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❤☆*•.¸¸★¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪★♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸★♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸★♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸★♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸★¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪★♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸★¸¸.•*•☆❤

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Glad it worked Suziee

:^)



Which HRH's are visiting? You say 'she'. Are we talking Queenie or Catherine or Anne mayhap?





Deebee - am still chuckling at your fireman story back up there ^^^^

#49 That'll be me then





Cheers Katy xx

Morning from a cool dry Horsforth. A fantastic atmospheric Baskerville-esque mist rising up from the river around Kirkstall Abbey's ruins on my way in at 8am. If you remember they used it as a backdrop for a special outdoor televised version of 'Frankenstein' earlier this year. You cannot take a bad picture of it!



Anyway - special birthdays theme continues. Say hello to nephew No1 born at 12:45 this morning and weighing in at 7lb 10oz - mother & baby doing well (as are proud grandparents). He's already been named but he sounds like he is going to be 'Oor Willie' from now on. I am reet chuffed :-)



Has - WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT? by DOLLAR - been suggested yet?

Hello all - having trouble posting too! Just written a screed thanking everyone for their good wishes and LuciesMum for the card. Hope your mum is feeling better Katy.And Jilly - hope you are on the mend.



Luckily I have a wonderful Mr who is doing a grand Florence Nightingale job in looking after me.



Weather is strange today - just had a terrific hail storm in bright sunshine!

Good luck with choon chasing everyone - I'm off back to the cranberry juice and gallons of water I'm supposed to be drinking.



See you later

Jennie



BTW who won the Afro crown last week? Can't find any mention of it.

#34 Oh I say, Harry - how marvellous. My parents' grandchildren arrived in neat clusters. Now that the first and main cluster of 5 are in their twenties, they're great chums and enormous fun when they're together..



Do I detect a swagger as you type that word 'fecund' ? LOL

Reminds me of when I was researching my family name way back when - before t'interwebs.

Virtually the first paragraph informed that after reaching English shores "..the D-------- family settled mainly around Cheshire and were known for their fecundity"





:^D

bit late today as am a bit overwhelmed with work - which is a good thing....



My first thought for the oldie was



'HOUNDS OF LOVE BY KATE BUSH'



then I read the blog and saw it was Katy Mac first on the blog with it , I'll third or fourth it anyway as it is a cracking tune!



Good wishes to all with new babies, ill parents and the like, I am not keeping up as I'd like as things are a bit hectic.....but think of you all often!



Eldest daughter is 18 on Sunday (no big party requested just a nice dinner with family and boyfriend at home)...



went to see JAMES last night with the ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN at Glasgow concert hall -it was STUPENDOUS...Please get them on your show Simon, the masses need to be enlightened...



he ho - back to work!



#46 Suzie, the squeaky seat comment made me larf out loud in my shed!



love Sparkyhunter x

Afternoon All



It's only 1.30 but I'm here because I took myself back to bed this morning feeling decidedly grotty! I've been asleep and actually feel a little bit better.



Even so - no suggestions from me today - brain ache .....................

#54 Katy, if there was a swagger, it was purely for the opportunity to use the word.



Have the limericks dried up?

I have just tried to post this message and got told to register my details... yet I'm logged in... what's happening? Let's try again!



Looks like we now have Billie to add to the poorly bloggers' list of Jennie and Jilly... well, not really a list, but the numbers are growing! I hope Jennie, Jilly and Billie will be feeling better by 5.05pm!



We still have a nice blue sky and sunshine, so I'm off to mow the lawn while it's dry!



xx

Just for the record, we are not after a solo mensh, not trying to outdo anyone, and not considering owning any songs as such. Just want to come up with something original. In addition to the tunes we suggested, we also considered:



Cocaine - Eric Clapton

Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello

Whodunnit - Tavares

Looking for Clues - Robert Palmer



Our main aim in all this is to get one or two of the more unusual tunes played, especially those that we wish to hear - though it is great to get some recognition along the way :o)



On a personal note, I would love to hear "Just the Two of Us" by Grover Washington Jr & Bill Withers played. I think it's an inspired choice.



Cheers,



Paul TMFM.

Okay, we'll lighten up a bit now folks :o)

Further to my #19 and #59 Cutbush Crew, of course Cocaine wasn't used by Sherlock Holmes as a recreational drug, he believed it enhanced his deductive powers. Therefore, we could go for another of his 'habits':



GOLDEN BROWN by THE STRANGLERS



He used morphine and opium to give himself relief from his over-active mind.



If any kiddies have wandered in here by mistake from the CBeebies blog .............



Just say, "NO!"

#50 Paul the man from Milton

Oh dear - hope we haven't got our lines crossed. By exclusivity I meant Exclusive SONG CHOICES. There was a time when the blog was full of apologies because several people 'missed' seeing other peoples choices, and duplications weren't exactly frowned upon, but some folks raised an eyebrow here and there.

Being a somewhat genial and self-regulatory bunch of enthusiasts, a soft warm blanket of tolerance was thrown over the proceedings with a tacit agreement to all pile in, whatever had gone before!



Menshes are different. They don't concern me - a well-documented fact throughout the last 20 months. LOL

Oooops - my last post reference should have been #59 for Paul and The Cutbush Crew.







Typo Central for me today - I seem to have scattered them through my various musings like nobody's business ...

And another of Sherlock Homes' 'habits':



TOBACCO ROAD by THE NASHVILLE TEENS

#65 Here's the errant "L" ................ please insert.

Afternoon All;



I was having trouble posting earlier, as I believe quite a few people were, so I decided to leave it for a while and try again later. I guess I'll know if it's o.k now when I try to post this...



Get well soon JillyM, Jennie and Billie - We do seem to have a few poorly bloggers just lately :(



KatyMac - Hope your mum keeps making good progress, and is soon home with you :)



#62 - And there I was thinking you were trying out the sure-fire mensh formula this morning ;)



#57 Harry - Hope your grandson has a lovely 1st birthday & Yes, teh limericks do seem to have dried up, don't they? :-/ I wonder if I can summon up another one...I need inspiration though...Maybe I could have a go at a Kate Bush one, Simon's got a soft spot for her, hasn't he? *Goes to ponder rhymes for Bush...or Kate!*

#57

C&P'd from Monday ...



From Me

LIMERICKS - in response to some requests for information, rather than referring you all back to the original suggestion ...



Deadline: Thurs 27th 5 pm.

Subject: MUSIC [band/singer/act etc]

Maximum FIVE attempts each.



I have gathered all those that have already been submitted.

These will be sent as an anonymous batch to someone [more of that later in the week] who will whittle them down to their favourite 5 as a shortlist.



We'll worry about who is going to judge the final 5 when the time comes, eh?



From Harry

The "incentive" for entering is a copy of Trevor Dann's book Darker than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake. Lord Ammo will know the author as they were at Radio One together in the early 80s. It received good reviews when it was first published and can be found with a quick internet search but I won't post any links here as they all seem to have too much advertising to get by the moderator.

HOw about "Who let the dogs out?" (Hound of the baskervilles)

#50 it's HRH Princess Anne to you (modernists call her Princess Royal no idea when she changed names..), yes, the soon-to-be granny again (2nd by her son Peter - well, technically, by her daughter-in-law.)

I thought I'd congratulate her, as an ice-breaker in case she's a bit nervous!

ps #63 & #65 have you two been on the mead at lunchtime?? tsk tsk

#68 Good one!

Might be a good Friday ARFO too, keep it in mind...

O.K, here goes....



There once was a songstress called Kate Bush

Who in her day, turned many young men's brains to mush

Some called her singing screechy

But they though she was just peachy

And now she's a fondly remembered first crush



I think that one is my 4th entry, and as we are limited to 5, I hope it might get the ball rolling again for everyone else... I don't want to swamp the competition!

#67 ah, soz, missed the part where it's to be about a band/song etc but of course, it would be.

Now, what rhymes with Zeppelin...this could take a while..

I've just had a veggie Oxo drink with broken bread in!



And I ate it with a spoon!

Unless I'm very much mistaken, Kate Bush has a new album out at the moment. Good to have her back. Not that she ever went away, at least not in my heart....



- Paul TMFM.

PEACH CHUTNEY



1 Tin Peaches – approx. 400g - diced

1 tablespoon of juice from the tin

1 tablespoon each –

dried cumin, dried coriander, sultanas, whole black peppercorns

3 tablespoons sugar

5 tablespoons vinegar

5 tablespoons water



Stir all ingredients together in a saucepan. Bring to the boil then simmer steadily until a jammy consistency. Pour into hot sterilised jars.



We found we could easily cope with 3x this amount - giving 6-8 small jars.

The donkey, Hootey, I've mentioned afore,

Re-appears in this rhyme. Yup, he is back, once more.

The reason he's here is to let you all know,

That he's named after D. Rucker, and his fishband that blow,

Thus enabling his consideration in the competition, as he was feeling that he might be left out, due to not meeting the criteria which was mentioned before.



That was rubbish, but at least I got Darius Rucker (from Hootie and the Blowfish) into a poem, without getting myself modded for an obvious potential misdrmeaner.

This post - the 4th time I've tried submitting it - here's hoping ...



#52 LadyStorm - congrats on Auntiedom!



#53 Jennie - glad to hear Man With The Lamp is taking care of you. I also missed the ARFO - I'll update the tune itself on the ARFO list and post some time between now and Friday



#55 Sparky. Lucky you - James are great. An erstwhile Mayoblogger is also a great fan - Deevski's other half, NicRolastic. I think they caught the act in Brum the other night. Oh yes - special birthdays .... a cupcake for your 18-yr old poppet will also appear on Fri alongside MTF's new adult cupcake.





#56 Billie - sorry to see you're not feeling too good. Also meant to say the other day - re. your sore feet thing. My stepdaughter has been suffering exactly the same thing for the last couple of months. Spooky!

#66 .. catching up with Zoe.

Yes - I'm laughing at the mensh formula! I had pretty much the same list as everyone else and no real competition, so I managed to pop about 20 songs in here. Just because I could. I felt a bit dirty, mind

;^)



Yes, you've posted 4 Lims: Tom and Kate but also Matt and Sally from Drivetime.

A LIMERICK



As the ARFO each Friday she’d ask

(It not being an onerous task)

For “The Beat” by The Look

With its opening hook

But in glory she did not bask.

I'm supposed to write a limerick about a band or musician,

I've already tried Hootie and the Blowfish, an'

That didn't really work.

I am such a jerk,

I should have gone Wayne Hussey's 'The Mission'



I now feel doubly pleased with myself, having mentioned both Rucker and Hussey, without any descent into double entendre or somesuch. ;0)

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON



US AND THEM ON THE RUN - SPEAK TO ME

BREATHE in TIME - it's BRAIN DAMAGE you see

An ECLIPSE will belie

That GREAT GIG IN THE SKY

ANY COLOUR YOU LIKE - MONEY's free

It's been one of those days... that'll teach me to take time off.



Trying to catch up - Congrats to Auntie Stormrider, and a very happy birthday to Harry's grandson. Get well soon to Jennie, JillyM and Billie.



I'm afraid my one attempt at a limerick will probably be my only entry. Still, it's quality not quantity that counts...!



#66 #78 there's a mensh formula? Wish somebody had told me - I generally just throw a few likely song suggestions in to the pot and see what happens. Probably why I can never come up with more than about 5 or 6 at most... and that's on a good day!



~X~

#82 - Deebee - & Shona - & Anyone



Peach Chutney @ #75

Man am I late to the blog or what ?



lol, hubbs is gonna kick himself when he gets home and realises what the subject was today (he was offered some extra hours this week at the shop).



Did I mention he writes Holmes scripts for the radio ? Of course I did (shut up woman, they dont want boring with this stuff) :-)

Mmmm Chutney sounds yum !



Had I been here in time to choose a choon, id have gone with NEEDLES AND PINS - THE SEARCHERS, you know 9% solution and all that

Hello poppets,



Well, what a lovely bunch you are ... thanks so much for all the well wishes and for the lovely card LuciesMum. I hope my fellow poorly blogsters, Jennie and Billie are feeling better (Billie your oxo moment sounded like the perfect feel better snack, felt jealous not to be able to have the same!)



Went down hill a bit yesterday and had to get an emergency doctors appointment (after being told the next regular appointment was on Friday!). Was having a lot of trouble breathing, so now have a pump inhaler thingy and lots of steroids (!!) to add to my hoard of antibiotics. And to think I just started with a bit of a head cold. Hey-ho!



So, having endless time to do nothing but wheeze and cough (can't sleep through the noise of the building works) I managed a weak attempt at a couple of limericks.



Seeing regular blogger John B Good (aka Misstra JGB) sneak back on here (good to see you) and also Brandon's choon choice today thought this might be appropriate ..



There was a young Wonder called Steve

Whose music was great I believe

Although he did cause dismay

With his lyrics one day

The word MISSTRA really did peeve!



And a blog based one rather than music/band etc. which might not count but just for the fun of it ...



This blog I discovered one day

And whilst working I do tend to play

It's never too soon

To suggest a good choon

And if menshed I come out with a YAY!



Well, that's me tired out. Just caught a few snippets of the show last night but hopefully will hear more today, some great tunes suggested, so looking forward to hearing a few fellow blogsters menshed.





Keep well out there folks and felicitations to all births and birthdays hereabouts... hopefully I will be well enough for some celebratory cakes on Friday!



Jilly x





p.s. Deebee your Fireman story really made me smile :-)

nice poem Jilly :-)

There once was a Manchester band called James

who with 'Sit Down' had oodles of fame

Their fan base is huge

But hit singles a scrooge

Who cares, they're my fave, is my claim!



Ok, this is my effort! a bit lame.......not quite getting over the emotion when Tim Booth sings 'Sometimes'!



Get better soon all the sick bloggers!



Love Sparkyhunter

cheerio, I'm away to my hoose...bye bye shed, til tomorrow.......

And there was me thinking only Ken Bruce played this song :-) !!

Hellooooo



Inspired by a beautiful walk in the autumnal sunshine, here's my limerick:



There once was a singer called Elvis

Who became allergic to shelllfish

When eating the critters

It gave him the jitters

Which wiggled and wiggled his pelvis!

Three word Wednesdy..... 'waves deep today' or something like that when I was down at the sea front with the hounds!



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Harry Snapper's recommended book "Darker than the Deepest Sea" by Trevor Dann looked very appropriate today while I was out walking my dogs (see pic #92)!



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It's strange to be listening when I haven't suggested anything!



The heavens have opened - was that thunder?





Missed the menshes! Bums!

#84 Gill - well, I'm impressed :^)



#83 Thanks Billie - have popped the Limerick into the LIMFILE. Also ta for recipe for peach chutney.







My Anti-Recipe for the



SPICED APPLE CHUTNEY - that I mentioned yesterday.

Will be ready in time for Christmas giftage



Makes lots if you want - so if you do:



chop up LOTS OF COOKING APPLES



chop up EQUALLY LOTS OF ONIONS



Boil up LOTS OF VINEGAR - any colour. I used whatever I could lay my hands on



adding LOTS OF SUGAR - BROWN PREFERABLY but I added some white when I thought it needed more



Add DATES - about a third the amount of the apples and onions



SPICES TO SUIT - a bag of Pickling Spices hanging in the mix works well. Or a sachet or two of Mulled Wine Spices. Just add what you like. I also added some

FRESH GINGER [optional] and a few CHILI FLAKES [optional]





Cook it all together in a huge pan for quite a long time. Hours rather than minutes. Taste as you go along. The datesadd a natural sweetness as they melt and join it all together nicely.



It should be apply and sweet initially with a nice deep back kick of spiciness.

tee hee thanks KatyMac, it's an american radio series - rubbish rate for dollers at the mo though :-(

Lol, hubbs loves this song (who done it), but mostly because it mentions Ellery Queen one of his other favs :-)

Here's the link to the website for the group he writes for. He, writes quite a lot of things for them and has just released a book through 'kindle' to tie in with the Sherlock stories.

Yeah it would have helped if id clicked 'PASTE' (what a twit)



https://jimfrenchproductions.com/zc137m/



Next one to air is 'The Adventure of The Fatel Anniversary' next monday.

Am astoundingly impressed.



Cocaine - played on R2.



Thanks Simon and thanks Harry The Snapper

Hi All



Missing the show :( No blog menshes at all today? That's unusual...



Billie and KatyMatey - thanks for the chutney recipes. I might just try them both



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