Good morning, good morning, good morning!!



Happy Monday one and all.



Troubled Euro?



LEVEL 42 - Hot Water

STATUS QUO - Down Down

DIRE STRAITS - Money For Nothing...

Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets



Full of cold today, so I'm having a duvet day. On the plus side, I'll have more time for blogging...



My song suggestions:



MONEY FOR NOTHING by Dire Straits



MONEY by Pink Floyd



GIVING IT ALL AWAY by Roger Daltrey



WALL STREET SHUFFLE by 10CC



IN TOO DEEP by Genesis



I could go on, but I don't want to be greedy.



Deebee ~X~

Good Morning again -



YOU'VE GOT YOUR TROUBLES - Fortunes



WE'VE GOT TO GET OUT OF THIS PLACE - Animals



THIS COULD BE THE LAST TIME - Rolling Stones

Good morning everyone.



Beautiful, sunny (if very cold) one here in Cumbria.



The oldies theme:



AIN'T GOT NO MONEY by BOB SEGER



Be back later.

Good morning all



With so many european governments possibly needing loans



RUNNING ON EMPTY - JACKSON BROWN



Enjoy the day

Morning All,



Hope you all had a good and safe weekend.



My suggestion would be:-



Final Countdown - Europe



as I think that it is only a matter of time now before the Euro spontaneaously combusts.



Shall have another think.



Maybes back later



A.

Good morning again,



Choons:



LET'S STICK TOGETHER by Roxy Music

LET'S STAY TOGETHER by Al Green

WE ALL STAND TOGETHER by Paul Macartney and the Frog Chorus

IT'S OVER by Roy Orbison

IT'S ALL OVER NOW by The Rolling Stones

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli

JE NE REGRETTE RIEN by Edith Piaf

Hi again everyone



A gorgeous blue sky here again for the fifth day running, so a nice beach walk beckons. I hope MTF heard her beloved ELO this morning, just after the 8 o'clock news!



GIVING IT ALL AWAY ~ Leo Sayer



TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN ~ Steve Miller Band



BLUE MONEY ~ Van Morrison



MONEY ~ Rolling Stones



EUROPA ~ Santana



xx

WE CAN WORK IT OUT - Beatles



WHAT A WASTE - Ian Dury



ALL OR NOTHING - Small Faces

Stay in or leave the Euro?



SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO =-THE CLASH

ALL I NEED IS A MIRACLE - Mike & The Mechanics



GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME - Gerry Rafferty

Gosh - tunes about money troubles yet again.

*heart sinks*



EUROPE – THE FINAL COUNTDOWN



ROTTERDAM [OR ANYWHERE] – THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH



THE GREAT BRITISH MISTAKE – THE ADVERTS



FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN [THEN WE TAKE BERLIN] – LEONARD COHEN

Also:



ZORBA THE GREEK by Sirtaki (a rousing piece of music for a Monday night. Just called it up on a certain site and Little Girl is jigging along)

RED by Daniel Merriweather

BACK TO BLACK by Amy Winehouse



I'm getting greedy now so best I stop.

COME AND GET IT - Badfinger



LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE - Bread

TROUBLE - Coldplay



I THINK I'M IN TROUBLE - Lindsey Buckingham



OH WELL! - Fleetwood Mac

Happy birthday Joni Mitchell



How Do You Stop - Joni MItchell (feat. Seal)



Willy the Shake

x

A couple more....



TROUBLE ~ Coldplay



YOU'VE GOT YOUR TROUBLES ~ The Fortunes

Good Morning All :)



The weekend has worn me out, so I am glad I can just rest up today. It's cold, grey and damp here, but I don't care because I am snuggled down under my Winter duvet, and a nice little nap beckons...



But before I go... Oldie suggestions...



MONEY DON'T MATTER 2 NIGHT - PRINCE



HOMELESS - PAUL SIMON



MY HOMETOWN - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN



LOST - COLDPLAY

A SONG FOR EUROPE - ROXY MUSIC



DANGER ZONE - KENNY LOGGINS

THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS - Phil Collins



THE WAY IT IS - Bruce Hornsby & The Range



AGAINST ALL ODDS - Phil Collins

FIXING A HOLE - Beatles



THERE'S A HOLE IN MY BUCKET - Harry Belafonte & Odetta

Mornin all,



Hope everyone had a fine weekend. We'd like to kick off with the following:



MONEY'S TOO TIGHT TO MENTION - SIMPLY RED



MONEY (THAT'S WHAT I WANT) - FLYING LIZARDS



IF YOU LEAVE ME NOW - CHICAGO



KISS THIS THING GOODBYE - DEL AMITRI



CHINA IN YOUR HAND - T'PAU



THE CHINESE WAY - LEVEL 42



SAVE ME - QUEEN



FREE FALLING - TOM PETTY



Have a good day one and all :o)



- Paul TMFM, Paul G and Richie J.

IT'S NOW OR NEVER - Elvis



IT'S ALL OVER NOW BABY BLUE - Bob Dylan



HOW DID IT COME TO THIS - Take That (Wah!)

GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS - ODISSEY



WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN - THE WHO



TAKE ME FOR WHAT I'M WORTH - THE SEARCHERS

THERE'S A PAWN SHOP ON THE CORNER IN PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA - Guy Mitchell

THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN - FRANK SINATRA



IS IT LIKE TODAY [HOW DID IT COME TO THIS?] - WORLD PARTY



GYPSIES TRAMPS AND THIEVES - CHER

EURO-VISION by TELEX (a Belgian Eurovision Song Contest entry)

TRANS EURO EXPRESS by KRAFTWERK

MOULDY OLD DOUGH by LIEUTENANT PIGEON

YOUR CASH AIN'T NOTHING BUT TRASH by STEVE MILLER

MONEY by THE BEATLES

THE CONTINENTAL - MAUREEN MCGOVERN



VIENNA - ULTRAVOX



TAKE MY BREATH AWAY - BERLIN



TAKE ME OUT - FRANZ FERDINAND

Hi Simon and everyone



Hope all had a "banging" weekend!



Here are my offerings:



1. EUROPE - Final Countdown

2. CRASH - Primitives

3. 48 HOUR CRASH - The Clash

4. WAY DOWN - Elvis Presley

5. NOTHING COMPARES TO U - Sinead O'Connor

6. DOWN DOWN - Status Quo

7. FALLING - Alicia Keys

8. FALL AT YOUR FEET - Crowded House

9. MONEY FOR NOTHING - Dire Straits

10. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - Donna Summer



Oh well, need to sort my deliveries out, just heard I was not successful at the Walsall practice inrterview because they wanted to exploit my network of contacts however I pointed out that there are ethics regarding Restraint of Trade clauses when poaching clients...naive or what??!!!



Anyway I have an interview for a a contract at Worcester City Council on Wednesday and the woman interviewing me I have worked with loads in the world of accountancy contracting and she gave me excellent feedback at one of the places we contracted together which is why I got the job...so its not what you know its who you know!! Also I am waiting to see if I have a 2nd interview in Stourbridge and whether I have been shortlisted at 2 roles in Wolverhampton and Edgbaston.



Phew! out of breath!



Have a lovely day all.



Mandy ;)

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Hello all, I'm back from a great holiday in the west coast of Ireland. Higly reccomend.



How about: Trouble by Ray Lamontague



Rolling in the deep by Adele



If I could turn back time by Cher

EUROPE [AFTER THE RAIN] JOHN FOXX



EUROPEAN FEMALE - THE STRANGLERS



EUROPEAN SON - JAPAN

A couple more oldie suggestions...



GOLD - PRINCE



THAT'S ALL - GENESIS

Morning Simon, morning team, morning all



It's fate - I thought of the absolute perfect song for this topic last week. And you've selected the topic on my birthday!



"There's No Way Out of Here" - DAVID GILMOUR



"When you come in you're in for good" - you know it's a must play!

And I'm going to give the album a spin tonight, that first solo album really is a neglected masterpiece.

Now I have temporarily stopped sneezing, time for a catch up.



Nigella seeds, Simon? The only ones I know of come from the garden centre. I put them outside for the goldfinches to feast on. No idea if you can cook with them though.



From the last blog - LuciesMum, thank you very much for the label ideas. I wish I had your artistic flair!



And last but not least, a very Happy Birthday to Ken!



*crawls back under duvet*



~x~

A cool chill in the air this morning and light drizzel to add to the dank feeling



(european) UNION CITY BLUES - BLONDIE

Morning all



Grey. cold and drizzly here!



Happy Birthday Ken, hope you have a good day!



Hope all poorly poppets feel better soon.



I cooked Nige's carbonara last night - was a bit dubious about not cooking the eggs, but he was right, they do cook with the heat of the spaghetti - and it was wonderful!



Back later



Tortie x

Good Morning Each! I am afraid that I have had to let The Kendo Nagasaki Pretence go. As a disguise, he was most ineffectual. Or should that be ineffective? Anyway, off he goes to that great disguise box in the sky, nary a mansh to his name. New disguise is, as you can see, Edward McCrae. I wonder if anyone aside from the obvious two has any idea of the link between my poor disguises yet. (The obvious two? I know who I mean). Anyway, choons...



'Euro Zero Zero' by Massive Attack



'European Legacy' by Jethro Tull



'Paper And Iron' by XTC



'Danger Zone' by Black Sabbath (ish)



'Worthless' by Dido



'The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks' by The Eagles



'For What It's Worth' by Buffalo Springfield'

HAPPYBIRTHDAYKEN JUDE



48??!?

Has anyone (apart from me) heard of tonight's guest? I know my musical knowledge isn't as good as the rest of the bloggers, but Kenny Wayne Shepherd has completely passed me by!

I seem to remember Kendo Nagasaki appearing on World of Sport on Saturday afternoons from such exotic world sporting venues as Margate Town Hall. Was Edward MacRae his real-world name?

How about



London Calling by The Clash



Bring me to life by Evanescence



I predict a riot by The Kaiser Chiefs



Ain't no sunshine by Bill Withers



Running on Faith by Eric Clapton



Theme from Mission Impossible by Lalo Schifrin, or U2



Inertia creeps by Massive Attack

There's a track on Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds album which fits the bill ('scuse the pun):



BRAVE NEW WORLD - DAVID ESSEX

Yes 48, well spotted. Thanks for birthday wishes everyone.



Kenny Wayne Shepherd, blues/rock guitarist. Anyone listening to Bob's Saturday night/Sunday morning shows would hear him regularly.

#36 Deebee.... was it pickled pears that you made, as Shona said and did you get your labels OK? If not, you could print these off and use as a temporary measure! ;o)



https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6115/6320020770_60db57978a_b.jpg



xx

'What's It Worth?' by Peter Hammill

#42. As far as I am aware, no!

Afternoon all



'pologies for absence had a few busy days. (tax exams etc) :(



Sorry to hear you're not well Deebee, get well soon.



Happy Birthday Ken Jude



#39 - I presume your noms des plume are linked by HMHB but we could do with Wharfdale Andy around as I'm sure he would know for certain.



Cheers



A

Scarf?

#50 Edward... here's a Scarf/e for you!!!



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Afternoon all! Weekend over and already feeling depressed that it's a long way to the next one!



You'll be wanting my U2 selections for the day to complete your afternoon so how about "Moment of Surrender" or "Until The End of The World"?



Coffee calls.



GB

Afternoon Poppeteers



Glad you are having a duvet day Deebee. Keep warm and hope you feel better soon.



Happy birthday Ken! Hope you have a great day.



Very misty today so I can hardly see you all.



Bit late for tune chasing and I think Simon and NYM will be able to get 5 theme choons from what's been suggested - apart from



Euro The Want That I Want - John Travolta and Olivia Newton John



Sorry to hear you didn't get the job Mandy. Fingers crossed for next one.



Must dash



Catch you later.



Shona x

Morning all,



Late to the party again....



FIX YOU - Coldplay



RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN - Orange Juice



NEVER TEAR US APART - INXS



THE GREEKS DON'T WANT NO FREAKS - Eagles



TALK TALK - Talk Talk



Good day all



JBG

Ahem....





PAPANDREOU DON'T PREACH - Madonna

Just read back end of last blog.



Thank you Luciesmum for photoshop - I shall have a look later.



Glad you liked the barking parrot - it's true. This house is barking mad sometimes.



Shona X

Re the latest "rescue package"





STOP ME IF YOU THINK THAT YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE - The SMITHS

#49. The song 'Everythings AOR' from the album 'McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt' contains the following lines...



'But I can put a tennis racket up against my face

And pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki'



Furthermore, in the song 'Tending The Wrong Grave For 23 Years', (from the album 'Saucy Haulage Ballads), the plot that had been recieving the undue attention was indeed the final resting place of one Edward McCrae. Both of these songs, and indeed, albums, are, as you have summised, from the works of that finest of bands Half Man Half Biscuit, and I congratulate you on your ability to 'suss me out' as it were. However, this assumes the fact that the aforementioned is the ONLY link between my two disguises, thus far. (Other disaguises will follow) So, is this the only link? Erm. Yes!

Afternoon all. A bit late today. I hope everyone who's ill, feels better soon. I'm thinking longingly of my own duvet hearing you talk about yours'!



I'm probably a bit late for oldies but I'll put my bid in for:

Brother Can You Spare a Dime - George Michael's version is lovely

Fight for Ourselves - Spandau Ballet

I (Who Have Nothing) - Shirley Bassey

I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor (can't see France & Germany letting it fail), or conversely,

Livin on a Prayer - Bon Jovi

Thank you for my Scarfe. Although, I suspect it wont keep me very warm.

#50 - Edward McCrae features on one of my fave HMHB tracks - nice choice of moniker.



#51 - Lucie'sMum - with reference to your reply re the sunshine on Friday's blog, you made me feel nostalgic. I spent many happy childhood years having my summer holidays in Fife and playing in the sea at St Andrews and Crail...

Hi, better late than never

Grease - Frankie Valli

Rescue Me - Aretha Franklin

All together now - The Farm

Stand by Me - Oasis



PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT PLAY EUROPE- Final countdown or anything else by them, (sorry JustPlainAlice #6 / Team Katcha / #12 / Mandy # 29)

Good afternoon all.



#62 Pap3, negative requests, eh? I'm not sure it work but I'll give it a go ...........



Please don't play:



Grease - Frankie Valli

Rescue Me - Aretha Franklin

All together now - The Farm

Stand by Me - Oasis



Has to be worth a shot ;-)

#46 Yes, it was pickled pears - Saint Delia's recipe from her Christmas book. And I made some of KatyMatey's apple chutney as well.



Off to have some tomato soup. Sometimes when I'm feeling poorly, it's the only thing that will do.



~X~

Get well soon Deebeexxx



I see it's pun o'clock already. Has anyone suggested:



FRANCS FOR THE MEMORY by Bob Hope?

Hi Simon, Sally, Matt and Rebecca hope you all had a good bonfire night.

my songs are Spandau Ballet - Gold.

Harry Enfield - Loadsamoney doin' up the money.

Jessie J - Price tag.

DeeBee - I think it's end of the sailing season-itis. We've started putting the Floating Caravan away for the season this weekend.



Coming home last night North Yorkshire had their gritters out in force - Oooh! Me lips go dry at the thought.



We've noticed that the route for the olympic torch goes right past the floating caravan's mooring at the top of Windermere. Guess where I'm going to be next 21st June! Anyway as The Eagles has already been suggested, how about:



THE LAUGHING GNOME - DAVID BOWIE



To do with the Gnomes of Zurich - geddit? Oh well. *starts stamping bits of paper again*

Hello Harry The Snapper #63



I only asked 'one' negative request - we're all allowed one tune that makes us cringe aren't we?? :)

#68 Papa3, I'm not sure that a "negative request" is really in the spirit of the blog but that's only my opinion and the point I was trying to make. As for being "allowed one tune that makes us cringe", I'll allow you as many as you want :-)

Breakeven - The Script

Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins

#68 #69 I have to agree with Harry really, in that we all have songs that we'd rather not be chosen, but it's more in the spirit of this blog to chose other ones rather than asking for something not to be played.



Also I think Lord A has form for being a bit contrary in that regard and may play it especially as someone has asked for it not to be!

#69 Harry

#71 Andy

I could be doing it as reverse psychology :D



Anyway appreciate your comments and noted :)

My cringe list would kill the blog :-)

#73, Hey, Ken, happy birthday!



My cringe list would certainly make ARF an improbability :-)

#73 Ken I think it has been mooted by others on here that a high percentage of the songs chosen for ARF, (but not the ARFO's) ;) are on thier cringe lists!

Warmth Ter ALL...



Bingo Star 'ere...



After the sad news of the crash on the M5 & having been a truck driver for 14 years & driving my car since 17 (20 and a bit years).... I've written an article about roads & road safety for all to read.



A 3 part article over 3 days on the blog.



The reason i've written this is hopefully maybe by just one of two people reading it they might think twice & maybe we can start to imporve road safety further & reduce the 2,000 people that are killed on our roads each year.... Most sadly that need never be killed!!!



It's good deaths have declined from a steady 3,500 per year to under 2,000 in 2010....

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reported_Road_Casualties_Great_Britain )



This mainly due to stronger & safer vehicles what with higher build quality, built-in crash zones, airbags, sealt belts etc.... But what can be done to reduce the number further.....



PART 1 - In a moment.....

PART 1 – How To Make Our Roads Safer:



VERY sad to see such a bad crash on the M5, And on Friday!!!

Most road accidents always seem to happen on Fridays... I've noticed this in the 14 years I've been a truck driver... Which is why I've written on the blog before about this and even nick name it 'demolition derby day'... It seems that way because every time I work on a Friday nearly always it's the day I will see a road crash/ flashing blue lights at the side of the road.

Friday is the busiest day with a lot of tired people rushing to get home at the end of a long week working. And tired people who don't normally drive much travelling long distance to see relatives for the weekend. Coupled with the fact people now it's the day of traffic jams, which many are caused/ worsened by road accidents. This leads to a greater feeling of tension on the road on Friday in which people rush more to beat the afternoon traffic jams... Thus all these factors leading to more accidents & exacerbating the situation!



I've seen enough over my 20 years of driving & 14 years to make at least a couple of 'Police Camera Action' programmes if I had had a camera recording everything I've seen/ been subjected to.

I've seen a school girl get flung into the air by a car, I've seen a major crash happen on the M5 near Cheltenham in which a HGV driver failed to notice the back of a stationary traffic jam... It ran into the back of the stationary traffic, resulting in a silver Ford Mondeo upside down on it's roof & the HGV up a grass embankment.

Only a month ago I arrived at a crash on the M62 that had only just happened. People speeding in heavy rain had aquaplane out of control. The result a small car hit at force side on by a large Mercedes. They side of the car was very badly destroyed, little left of it... And the female passenger still inside trapped. From the damage I could tell it was not good at all.

The motorway was closed for most of the day after – A sign something very bad has happened.

I've been subjected to road rage & violence from others... I've had my fuel stolen... In fact I've seen most things.

The saddest was a dark evening when 5 horses escaped onto the A55 near Chester. I raced in my HGV up to the next junction & came back on the other side, trying to use my lorry as a road block to stop there being a big crash.

Sadly people would not slow down & were doing everything to get past my lorry. I was driving in the middle of the dual carriageway but cars were undertaking me and swerving half on the hard shoulder to get past me.

The result – Some of the horses were killed outright... All were hit, with the rest being shot right in front of us by police marksmen. I still remember the day very vividly.

We all sat there for 3 hours, including the impatient people who not slow. If only they had given 5 minutes of their selfish little lives by stopping and allowing the owners of the horses to round them up. But no, many people drive with the selfish attitude on the road is all theirs and nobody & nothing should get in their way.

That day as I looked into the eyes of a terrified horse waiting to be shot right in front of my lorry... Something changed inside me. A sadness about why are people so selfish in our society... Especially when it comes to driving.



I do wish I'd documented my 14 years trucking via an always recording video camera – would make an interesting archive of being a truck driver which could be made into a tv programme.



So what caused Friday's M5 crash?



(PART 2 Tomorrow/ On the next blog).

#61 Driver... it is still sunny now and the sky is blue as far as my eye can see... hard to believe for November but the sun is really warm today and I had my lunch outside in the garden sitting in the gazebo thingy which is south facing... long may it continue and I'm going out for another nice doggy walk before the sun goes down!



Back later! xx

#78- *looks out window, sees grimly grey gloom, sighs*

very late to blog today -various reasons...



sad news about that M5 crash. You never know what's gonna happen in a minute do you? Be thankful for all you got now.



Had a lovely hard frost here which meant the mutt came home clean -no muddy mess to wipe up at 6.45am!



Hope all are well, can't think of an oldie so will just send my good wishes to everyone, off to make mac and chees for tea, non gluten free request as the house is coeliac free for a few days, nom, nom, nom....



cheerie-bye



Sparkyhunter xxxxxxxxx

Bingo. I have something to say to you, regarding your last blog entry, but it'll wait until you have finished your 3 parter. I'd like to add, though you are quite eloquent when you drop the accent. I'd always assumed it to be west country, but it is apparently Scouse. I also thought you to be a tad north of my own 54 years, so another surprise. Stick about a bit, owd lad, you and the other neighbours are always welcome.

#76 #77 Bingo - good stuff :^)

I have to confess I enjoy your 'sensible ' posts just as much as your Liverpudlian dialect ones - and they're a lot quicker to read! Keep up the good work

#81. Should've placed a comma after that 'though'.