Good Morning again!



Obviously -



COME AND TAKE ME TO THE MARDI GRAS - Paul Simon!







TOSSING AND TURNING - The Ivy League



NO DON'T STOP THE CARNIVAL - Alan Price Set

Morning All. A couple of obvious ones spring to mind...



THE ARCHIES - Sugar Sugar



LED ZEPPELIN - The Lemon Song



Will go away and try to be a bit more creative!

Hello again everyone



TOSSING AND TURNING ~ The Ivy League



TURN, TURN. TURN ~ The Byrds



TAKE ME TO THE MARDIS GRAS ~ Paul Simon



SUGAR MOUNTAIN ~ Neil Young



SUGAR SUGAR ~ The Archies

Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets



How about:



TAKE ME TO THE MARDI GRAS by Paul Simon



ALL NIGHT LONG by Lionel Ritchie



BEAT IT by Michael Jackson



SUGAR SUGAR by the Archies



~X~

SUGAR SUGAR - The Archies



RIO - Duran Duran



RIO - Michael Nesmith

Good Morning Simon and Poppeteers



Yummy, Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express



Sugar Town - Nancy Sinatra



Sugar Baby Love - The Rubettes



Ma Baker - Bony M



Catch you later - e-mails to answer :(

Hello All



Tune Choice:



Sugar Sugar-The Archies



Work calls (still) so sorry for the non-blogging-have been popping in for a read though. Did anyone miss me? A little bit?



Mrs B x

A couple more.....



I like to roll my pancakes.... so



ROLL WITH IT ~ Steve Winwood



ROLL IT OVER ~ Oasis



ROLL TO ME ~ Del Amitri



SUGARTIME ~ Alma Cogan

Or how about:



THE CARNIVAL IS OVER by the Seekers



~X~

RUBY TUESDAY - Rolling Stone or Melanie



SAMBA DE JANIERO - Bellini

Another one then I've got work to do



RUBY TUESDAY by Melanie or the Rolling Stones



~X~

#10 - Any Rolling Stone you like!



Using things up before lent -



USE IT UP AND WEAR IT OUT - Odyssey

Good morning everyone.



The theme? How about:



OUT OF THE FRYING PAN by MEAT LOAF

Morning Sir, team, NYM and flippin’ marvelous bloggers



SHAKE (some sugar on) RATTLE (the walnuts and hazelnuts) and ROLL (up the pancake) - BILL HALEY or JOE TURNER ("Well get out of that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans")



BROWN SUGAR – Rolling Stones



ROLLING IN THE DEEP – Adele



FILL MY LITTLE WORLD – The Feeling



STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU – Stealers Wheel (cos there’s always there that pesky bit in the middle of the pan which sticks...)

#10 Sorry Billie - I didn't refresh before posting. Share?



~X~

Good Morning Each!



'Oranges and Lemons Again' by The Jools Holland Big Band featuring Suggs



'If I Had Possesion Over Pancake Day' by Half Man Half Biscuit



'Flat On The Floor' by Nickelback



'Batter Up' by Chet Baker



'Jammin' by Bob Marley

UPSIDE DOWN - Diana Ross



I MISSED AGAIN - Phil Collins

Read back a bit more now, and



#7 Of course we missed you Mrs Boris. Welcome back!



Really going to do some work now...



~X~

Like your pancakes savoury?



'Sweet About Me' by Gabrielle Cilmi

IN THE AIR TONIGHT - Phil Collins



SOMETHING IN THE AIR - Thunderclap Newman

THE RACE - Yello



Talking of which, whatever happened to the idea of doing Pancake Races? They were once really popular in every school/community, but it seems they've gone out of fashion??? Unless you know better??

For making pancakes:

NICK LOWE - I'm A Mess



For dressing the pancakes:

LIGHTNING SEEDS - Sugar Coated Iceberg



ROLLING STONES - Brown Sugar



BOBBY GOLDSBORO - Honey



MADONNA - Dress You Up



For pancake tossing:

THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN - Something in the Air



BLANCMANGE - Living On The Ceiling (for the remains of some of my pancakes)



and on a silly note

RADIOHEAD - Crepe...

Morning all. Never been much of a pancake fan and as we're a Scottish household we only had 'scotch' pancakes and not the 'crepe - ie' ones anyway. However school today is running a 'pancake-bar' at lunchtime so maybe I'll give it a go...



I'm afraid my inspiration for oldies seems to have gone out the window so will settle for 2nd-ing:

Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones

Rio - Duran Duran



I'll also add:

Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard

LEMON ~ U2

Beating the batter -



THE BEAT - The look



BEAT IT - Michael Jackson



EAT IT - Wierd Al Jankovich

GIVE IT UP - KC & The Sunshine Band



I"M DOING FINE NOW WITHOUT YOU - New York City

Lemons? Pah, I've got my...



ORANGE CRUSH - R.E.M.

LEMON TREE - Fool's Garden

LETS STICK TOGETHER - BRYAN FERRY



#7 - Hello Mrs Boris!



#17 - Hello JBG - like the choices.



#23 - Autumn_Gale Def Leppard - now there's a firm family favourite here.



Posted a pancake joke on the old blog this morning, nobody has groaned so I guess I'm still welcome.



Have a good day everyone.

Good Morning All;



Sorry to hear about the exhaustion, Simon, I hope your health regime does set you to rights :-S



Pancake day, eh? I might scrape some together later, scrape being the operative word!



I need to read back, so apologies for any oldie suggestion duplication...



POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME - DEF LEPPARD



BITTER SWEET SYMPHONY - THE VERVE

In our house it's more a case of:



ON THE FLOOR - Jennifer Lopez



STUCK ON YOU - Lionel Ritchie



BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU'VE GOT - Massive Attack

Morning All,



'Golden Brown' The Stranglers



Have a good day everybody

Good morning Simon, Tea, NYM and fellow blogpoppets!



Ziggy-less today but I do have Stan the Electrician. It's a constant whirl here.



Suggestion for today:



CITY OF NEW ORLEANS - Arlo Guthrie

or

SUGAR BABY LOVE - The Rubettes



I won't be pancaking today - unless Mr P insists, of course!

Beat It - Michael Jackson

Brown Sugar -Rolling Stones

Golden Brown - Stranglers

Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard

Sweet Surrender - Wet wet wet

Use it up and wear it - Odyssey

Good morning,



I really like Larry Lamb but unfortunately I won't get much chance to listen to the show tonight. May have to listen at a more convenient time. His Who Do You Think You Are was an outstanding one. Simon, I'm sure he will probably say but in case he doesn't can you please ask him if his mum and her long lost brother have met yet.



Billie, a chance to ask for The Beat!



Deebee, why are you reading this - you should be working ;-)



Mrs Boris, lovely to see you ***waves***



Not doing well on the choon front. Howsabout:



RUBY TUESDAY by The Rolling Stones

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU by Stealers Wheel (my pancakes get stuck in the pan)



Have a good day.x

'Solid Gold Easy Action' T Rex

Hi Simon and everyone.



Late to the table today as just had a planning meeting to discuss the renovation grants process at Redditch Council...my head is going to blow off!



Nice to hear you all again Simon, kinda comforting!



I only made and tossed my first pancake about 4 years ago at my sisters using Delia's recipe, well yummy!!! I like my pancakes totally naked as they come tossed out of the pan....best way... same as I like my gingerbread men....naked without icing paraphernalia splattered on them!



Time to toss away:



1. RUBY TUESDAY - Rolling Stones or Melanie

2. TUESDAY AFTERNOON - Jennifer Brown or The Moody Blues

3. MARDI GRAS - Paul Simon

4. Shooting Star - FLIP N FILL

5. Waiting for a train - FLASH IN THE PAN

6. SUGAR SUGAR - The Archies

7. TOSSING AND TURNING - The Ivy League

8. The Pushbike Song - THE MIXTURES

9. OVER AND OVER - Madonna

10 UPSIDE DOWN - Diana Ross



Oh well must crack to it.



Have a lovely day.



Laters



Mandy ;)

Morning everyone,



I love a pancake - sweet, savoury, crispy or stuffed - all good in my book.



'Banana Pancakes' - Jack Johnson

'The Lemon Song' - Led Zeppelin

'And The Beat Goes On' - The Whispers

'Eat To The Beat' - Blondie

'Shake Shake Shake' - KC And The Sunshine Band

'That's The Way I like It' - KC And The Sunshine Band

'Hard To Handle' - Otis Redding

'Can You Handle It' - Sharon Redd



Have a flippin' good Tuesday one and all.



N xx

Pancake Day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_aHCpZl4k

PETER PAUL and MARY - Where Have All The Flours Gone? (ok, it's flowers, but we had DOUGH for D'OH yesterday...)

A few more....



BEAT SURRENDER ~ The Jam



THE BEAT GOES ON ~ Sonny and Cher



BANANA PANCAKES ~ Jack Johnson



TUESDAY MORNING ~ The Pogues

#23 I love scotch pancakes - they're a bit more like American ones, aren't they? Thicker and smaller than crepes.



Mr B and I will be having pancakes this evening, although I'll have to be a bit quick about it as it's choir practice night. Why does pancake day always have to be on a Tuesday? Oh, hang on...



;o)



I'm with Simon re the covering - it has to be sugar and lemon. Mr B however will probably go for maple syrup. If he's still around when I get home, that is - the man flu is really kicking in and he might not last the day...



#29 Like your pancake joke, Hoffs! Teehee!!



#35 LOL! I'm having a coffee break, if you must know...



~X~

Pun time?



YOU BATTER, YOU BET - The Who

Seems like Pancake Day is one of those events like C****mas where every household has their own special routine of how to do it. I love that!



THAT'S THE WAY I LIKE IT - KC & The Sunshine Band (who knew they did so many Pancake Day songs?!)



MY WAY - Frank Sinatra



JUST THE WAY IT IS - Bruce Hornsby & The Range



In our house, we start with a savoury smorgasbord of toppings, so that everyone is happy: choose from spinach with creme fraiche, pancetta or bacon bits depending on how posh we're feeling, grated cheese, cooked mushrooms, pan-fried leaks or chopped broccoli.



Moving on, we have lemon juice, oranges or satsumas, kiwis, walnuts, chopped hazelnuts, choc chips or Nutella, runny honey, creme fraiche and sugar.



And every year, we say "Why don't we do this again before next Pancake Day?". And we never do.

Couple of obscure ones that won't get played:



INTO THE FRYING PAN - King Crimson



FRYING PAN - Captain Beefheart



#42 Howdy Deebee! Hope Mr B feels better soon. I am sure he wil last the day and greet you with "maybe I could manage just a small pancake with a little maple syrup"!!



The people who used to live in this house need to be shot (said in a Jeremy Clarkson jokey styley). We have had to re-wire. We have had to replace the boiler (and previous people ran a central heating business so you would think the boiler would work). The garage roof has to be replaced. And now the burst pipe in the stable turns out to be not just one section of pipe but the whole bally lot. As one leak gets fixed, another one is found. At this rate, we will have to rebuild the whole house!

Good morning all.



SUGAR SUGAR by The Archies



Tried to post this earlier but was faced by the green box. It has probably been suggested by loads of folk so can I share?



I suppose it would be stating the obvious to suggest



TAKE ME TO THE MARDI GRAS by Paul Simon but there you go!



Off to the opticians today - look out bank account!! Followed by lunch with the Mr.

See you later.



Jennie Wren

EVERYTHING IS TUESDAY by CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD

TOSSING & TURNING by THE IVY LEAGUE

IKO IKO by THE DIXIE CUPS

#45 Alex - sorry to hear about your house problems. Do you think the previous owners knew? I suspect some people just live with things not working properly for ages.



#43 Also Alex - you know I can't resist...



JIF IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY - Sheryl Crow



And one I heard on another radio station this morning..



PANCAKEY BREAKY HEART - Billy Ray Cyrus



Green Box demons at work again....

Good morning one and all................hope all is well................pancake oldies could be........................................................................................



RACING IN THE STREET - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN..........for the pancake race



I AM THE WALRUS........I AM THE EGGMAN - THE BEATLES



LOVE YOU 'TIL TUESDAY - DAVID BOWIE



POUR SUGAR ON ME - DEF LEPPARD



LIFE IS A LEMON AND I WANT MY MONEY BACK - MEAT LOAF



Bye bye for now.....................................................................................



Dougal x...............................................................................................

#42 Deebee, we also like Scotch pancakes or as they're also called up here, drop scones and just occasionally we have them for breakfast with jam or my husband likes them with maple syrup and bacon!



In case some people wonder what I'm meaning... these are the Scottish version of pancakes!



https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5215/5507715308_94d45922f3_b.jpg



https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5216/5507113137_af6e882ba4_z.jpg

#48 Oops, please delete "IF"

THE CAT CREPE'D IN - MUD

#52 Vildeen - ha! Very good.



I"D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TOSSING - New Seekers

JBG - You are on fire today!

SUGAR & SPICE - SEARCHERS



STUCK ON YOU - ELVIS PRESLEY

(mine normally stick to the pan)



BREAKFAST IN AMERICA - SUPERTRAMP

#42 - Thanks Deebee - hope you enjoyed your coffee break. How is Mr DB today? Thanks for message yesterday - good to be a full time mummy at the moment. Smiley faced 5 year old yesterday after school - certainly made a change. He said that it had been the best day ever, without me there and I wasn't at all offended!



Back later hopefully..........

Can I play?



'You Stir It Well' - Rod Stewart

'Thin Line Between Floor and Plate' - The Persuaders

'The Only Way Is Syrup' - Yazz

#57 - Nadine_C - LOL! Especially the Persuaders!

hi all how about this song



life is a minestrone-10cc(crepe suzzette is a type of pancake)

Just a quickie before lunch...



Hope that PSL's mum is OK - having her op today. Thinking of you and your mum PSL.



Bye x

Great choices today re Sugar and Lemon references i.e. Def Lepard, Stones, Led Zep and Neil Young- second/third/fourth all those tunes,

one tenuous one White Room Eric Clapton- too much flour gone wrong in the kitchen. Anyone got a recipe for lettuce with pancakes, have a surfeit?

Too busy to pop by yesterday and wanted to say - happy to hear Simon and the team back tootling along at 5pm!

Maple syrup for me and I'll take a big, American diner style pancake any day.

All song requests sound good to me and Happy Shrove Tuesday everyone!



LB, x

THE EASYBEATS - Fry-Day On My Mind

THIN LIZZY - Whisk-y In The Jar

Or the story of many of my pancake tossing attempts...



ORANGE JUICE - FLIP IT UP... (AND START AGAIN)

#58 tee hee! Some more:



'Careless Whisker' - George Michael

'Come Flambé With Me' - Norah Jones

'Don't Stop Blini-ing' - Journey

#44 JBG can I come round your house please, sounds lovely!

#45 Wasn't a builder by any chance was he Alex? We had the same problem!

#65 Great minds think alike Driver



Lunch finished-Boo!



Mrs B x

I too have been plagued by the green box. Do you think it's catching?

:)

LOL at the punnage!! Most excellent!! Especially JBG at #53. Made me laugh nd snigger at the same time.



SHROVE-R YOU - Roxy Music

Yuck yuck yuck. Another dead bat. Just hanging there in the stable. Yuck and thrice more yuck. I will leave it to Ziggy to remove it when he starts working on the stables.



I lived overseas in tropical climes many moons ago. The first Mr P and I had a house that edged onto the jungle and would often find a bat hanging from the rather revolting chandelier over the dining room table. Or was it just a table? We didn't have a dining room. The addition of the bat made the chandelier slightly less revolting. Gave it a certain something.



Going up to London on Thursday for a meeting. I haven't been to a town since I left the last contract on 15 December. Will I cope?



Talking to myself?

Afternoon all



No Alex, you're not talking to yourself! I'm enjoying all the stories of your wonderful, rural life (excluding dead bats)! No more offerings from the cats recently?



Back later



Tortie x

That would be a yes, then................



I had better go and do something useful.



#67 Not a builder, Mrs Boris. An engineer that loved DIY. Fatal.

One for Vildeen and and our Gallic cousins across the Channel. You know those mobile food stands with massive hot metal plates where they pour the hot batter and spread it about ....



HEARD IT THROUGH THE CREPE IRON - Marvin Gaye



#70 Alex - Good luck with tackling the capital. Take a few dead bats with you and place them on the seats next to you on the train - you'll have plenty of legroom, and space to read the newspaper.

Ah, Tortie is here! Just snuck in as I was typing! Hello too you!



Do you know, I was just thinking this morning that we had gone for over a week without any gifts from the cats. Then I saw Rosie digging up a worm (she likes worms) and then Kira, eldest cat, caught a bird. Rosie stole the bird from Kira, brought it in and put it under the coffee table. I stole the bird from Rosie and put it in the chunder bucket. That'll learn me to think the cats are behaving!



We were working on the fencing in the paddock on Sunday and Kira and Rosie were playing with us, when I saw the Big Blue One who looks like Les Dawson walking down the yard and into the paddock. It was too funny! The paddock is really muddy and the Big Blue was lifting each paw so carefully with a look of distaste on her flat face. "Dirty, Mummy, dirty. Need wellies, Mummy. Hunter wellies". Hysterical!

#73 Excellent idea, John. Love the Marvin Gaye suggestion!!!



I really must do something useful so when Mr P comes home and asks what I have done, I don't have to invent something. "Did the washing up" really doesn't account for 8 hours.

Sugar Candy Kisses - Mac & Katie Kissoon



Sugar Baby Love - Rubettes



Lemon - U2



For you Sarah Jayne :-XXX)

Afternoon all,

Apols for the absinthe, have been away in Paris, consuming - amongst other beverages, Absinthe!!

Catch-up at work (suppose I should, really) and finally a peep through the blog - how nice to see my B'day hat etc on 18th, thanks for all the messages katymac, Gazza, Jilly and anyone else I missed...

That day of the four was spent on an RER out of the city, to Chartres to see it's stunning cathedral (under renovation - it always pays to check these things) and a l o n g liquid entree, plat et dessert in a local restaurant. That cathedral was one of the COLDEST places I've ever been...



Looking back at the blog, it was funny to see the 'pooh' stories, or as I said most of the weekend "watch out for the caca de chien!"

I'd forgotten what a 'pissoire' Paris can smell like - and not just animals taking a crafty leak, either....



It'll be nice to hear the Maestro at the helm this evening, no doubt there will be some pancake makings going on in the background in most homes - ours no exception.



My son told me the night before we went to Paris he was moving into a shared house, with other professionals - his own age. He IS 25 and has been back and forth to wherever I lived since Uni and pre & post gap years, but I was a bit sad, end of an era really...helping him move Saturday and will try and keep a brave face.



Luckily, my mum is in a very funny play Saturday night which we are going to see (think of a play showing a local WI group putting on the 'Scottish play' - they are having trouble at rehearsals cos they keep creasing up!!') that should lift my spirits.



In terms of toons, would like to second

UPSIDE DOWN by Diana Ross, or Jack Johnson

or SUGAR SUGAR Archies...



We always have savoury ones (chicken and mushroom) AND sweet - I love lemon, and maple syrup...



Enjoy your 'fat' Weds everyone, for tomorrow we diet.

#77 ARG so it's Fat TUESDAY, of course...

I did have a late night (Eurostar delay = 2 free singles, or one free return trip!)

Alex, does your Big Blue cat who looks like Les Dawson have a name? Or is she just called the BBOWLLLD? And can she play the piano...? Good luck for your trip to the Big Smoke. You'll be fine as long as you take my granny's advice - wear clean knickers and don't talk to strangers...



;o)



Best wishes to PSL's mum - hope it's going/gone well today.



~X~

#79 She does indeed have a name. And it is written on her pedigree certificate. You will laugh. She is known as The NJ (pronounced Nuj) or Blue or Blue-ski. Her proper name is Miss Norah Jones.

#80 Could explain that track on Norah Jones' first album, "Feline The Same Way"....

Have given up on pancake making already. Full-time-Mummy-Hoffs thought a pancake snack after school would be a good idea. Someone had not put lid on golden syrup tin properly. It got dropped. Sadly, landed the wrong way up. Messy.



My only attempt at (completely gramatically incorrect) punnery is:



CAN'T GET YOU OFF OF MY HEAD - Kylie Minogue (cringe - sorry for the 'off of')

#79 - Deebee - that's where I have been going wrong all these years. My granny told me always to carry 10p and a clean handkerchief (to make into a sling if someone broke their arm). Oh well, at least I could have bandaged a stranger's arm and used the 10p to phone their Mum.

Afternoon All



Just #83 ? Green boxes again?

Hello Billie - maybe everyone is making pancakes and trying all the toppings suggested on the blog today?

Hello Poppeteers



Not had a chance to read back yet but I'm going to have to wave goodbye for a few days :(



Got visitors arriving tomorrow staying with us and more descending upon us the weekend. It would be rather rude to ask them to stop talking while I come and blog with you. So, I'm handing in my absence note now.



Good luck with the choon chasing and I'll listen out for you all when I can: ))



Shona XX

Hello all :-) mother's cataract safely zapped and she is home again, didn't realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day Zzzzz CLP gave my mum a lovely mention and let us both in the breakfast club on our way to hospital, which was nice :-)



savory pancakes here tonight bacon gouda and maple syrup...yummy :-P and sweet ones cooked directly on the hot plate of the AGA for afters...greedy MOI?P?P?P



PSL xx

Bye Shona - hope your visits all go well. Look forward to catching up with you soon x

#60 thanks for you good wishes xx

Hello everyone.



Just returned from optician visit -ouch!! - thank heavens for a flexible plastic friend! Discussing the cost with the Mr over lunch though, we decided it was quite a bargain if divided over several years and the fact that you only get one pair of eyes! Glad your mum has had her eyes sorted out PSL - I bet she'll notice a difference when the after effects of the op wear off.



I hereby claim an OSM (along with everyone else) for Paul Simon!

Off to make pancakes - lemon and sugar for us! Enjoy yours however you have them...................



JW

What about the confession today then? I'm all for pranks, jokes, humour and general japery (if there is such a word), but that's pushing it. A step too far.



Signed



Cross Hoffs on a Windy Hilltop

Aah, feeling better for having got that off my chest.



Congrats to Deebee on the mensh, by the way - yippee!

Florence and Billie - hip hip hooray!!

Hi Again!



I can’t bear to listen to “Sister” by Beth Hart/Slash. It is so beautiful. I just fill up – I’m such a soppy sentimental old get - I’m going to have to start turning it down!



Enjoyed the show. Larry Lamb comes across as such a sober, well-rounded, grounded, intelligent man.



Heard all the show making Pancakes!



Menshees All – Welldone! I’m bound to miss someone out – Florence, Deebee/Debbie, Zoe and The Driver! Congrats!



Oh! And Blogger Billie!



Enjoyed reading the blog today and all the talk of Pancake Toppings and Fillings. I like posts with food in. Liked the sound of JBG’s household. We’ve just made 12 pancakes – 8 of which have been layered up in tinned toms with a filling of Spinach, Cottage Cheese, Garlic and an egg to bind. When it’s heated through, we will put some Parmesan on top to brown. The other 4 will call for some Banana, Maple Syrup and Vanilla IceCream.



We do this quite often.



PSL – glad things went well today!



Hi Jennie! Hi Hoffs!

Hi everyone



I'm feeling full up after rather a lot of pancakes and I daren't own up to the number I have eaten, but it was far too many for me to go to Zumba tonight!!



I didn't like the sound of tonight's confession!! Well done to menshees Deebee, Blogger Billie, Zoe and The Driver and I was pleased to get another mensh tonight... albeit a belated one!

Cooked too many pancakes (28, since you're asking), eaten too many pancakes (5, if you must know), slumped in front of the Brits with a glass of red. Rock 'n' roll.

#96 - JBG - sounds like a good place to be. Enjoy!



Haven't seen Katy and Jilly today, hope they are ok.



See you soon.

s well as Katy and Jilly, is MTF around as I can't recall seeing a post from her today?

Oops... missed the A

I am watching The Brits and felt sorry for Adele being cut off in the middle of her speech for having won the best album award... I'm sure Blur would have allowed her a few more seconds to finish what she had started to say!