Good Morning all



VALARIE = STEVE WINWOOD



VALARIE - AMY WINEHOUSE

Good morning!



BLUE MONDAY - New Order



A bit feeble. Will try harder.

Good morning everyone



Simon, you're brave going on Loose Women!!!



I'm sending hugs to Lilac Blue and hope all will be well for you.



OLD SHEP ~ Elvis Presley

MAKE IT WITH YOU - BREAD

Morning all.

Chris Evans is playing a BP oldie now: Sailing - Rod Stewart



The only ones I have are all a bit tenuous:



Living Thing - ELO

The Logical Song - Supertramp

Melting Pot - Blue Mink

The Model - Kraftwerk

Shiny Happy People - REM

Under Pressure - Queen

Your Latest Trick - Dire Straits



There's some logic there somewhere...

Good Morning Each!



'Old Shep' by Elvis Presley

'Honey' ny Bobby Goldsboro

'The Tortoise' by The Corries

'Coathanger' by Clifford T Ward (for the advent calandar)

'Me And The Elephant' by Cilla Black





Ô¿Ô

Good morning, everybody!



Here goes...



BADGE - ERIC CLAPTON

ELEPHANT STONE - THE STONE ROSES

MAKE IT WITH YOU - BREAD (2nd-ing Vildeen)



Off to the coffee machine and then to catch up...



--

cBzz

Morning all



Thoroughly enjoyed the Waterboys last night. A very rocking first half of "vintage" (Mike's description) songs.



And then came the "Appointment with Mr Yeats" stuff in the second half. When that started I wasn't sure - the first three songs in quick succession were a bit odd. But then they played what I think was "The Song of Wandering Aengus" (according to Google search for silver apples golden apples) and that was quite simply beautiful. Add in "White Birds", "Mad As The Mist and Snow", weird masks and I was totally convinced and bought the album at a gig-premium-price of £15 on the way out :-)



We got a half-reggae/half-normal Whole of the Moon (can take or leave that one) and a sublime Fisherman's Blues in the encore and I went home happy. Loved Mike Scott's description of the venue - "feels like a large school hall and we feel like 6th formers up here with electric guitars trying to impress the girls".



Very good night, could have done with a few more people in the audience though.

Some more...

'Badge' by Cream

'Biddy' by The Foghorn String Band

Morning all on the new blog.



Ahhhh Blue Peter - whilst I don't have a single creative or artistic bone in my body I do recall trying to make glittery Christmas cards and a loo-roll covered in brown-checked sticky-back plastic as a pen holder for my Dad's work desk (bless him, I think he did take it in and use it for a while). The Advent Crown, Tracy Island etc were far beyond my abilities - and I knew it!



Oldies - well I'm afraid I can't think of more thean the obvious so will plump (again) for:

Blue Monday - New Order

Valerie - The Zootons/Amy Winehouse / Steve Winwood

The Model - Kraftwerk

Blue Hat for a Blue Day - Nik Heyward (I think?!)



Must dash .... back later

Morning all



BLUE PETER by Mike Oldfield

How about



"Let's Stick Together" by Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music

"Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs" - Brian & Michael?



Ambulance Chaser

GET DOWN ON IT by Kool and The Gang

THE TOY DOLLS - Nellie The Elephant



STATUS QUO - Pictures of Matchstick Men



BARRON KNIGHTS - Get Down Shep!



DIRE STRAITS - Makin' Movies (remember Peter Duncan?)

Good morning Simon, team and poppets all,



A very busy day today so might not be around much. Was lovely to see Zoe sneak in last night and some more hugs go out to Lilac Blue.



As for BP oldies, I seem to remember I was successful with this one when we had a similar theme a while back...



GET DOWN - GILBERT O'SULLIVAN



So I'll stick with that and bid you all good day!

Jillyxxx

Still head scratching....



NELLIE THE ELEPHANT - The Dickies



?

Scraping the barrel now



GET DOWN SHEP - The Barron Knights

Good Morning One and All :)



Sneaking in for a quickie, before I have to be somewhere...



Lilac Blue - Sending many positive vibes your way, and keeping everything crossed for the best possible outcome ((((hugs))))



Simon, I think saying 'summer' will give you plenty of time, because on present form it looks like summer might be a long way away...



Time to squeeze in a few oldies? I think so...



KIDS - ROBBIE WILLIAMS & KYLIE MINOGUE



PUT YOU TOGETHER AGAIN - HOT CHOCOLATE



BLUE MONDAY - NEW ORDER



Wishing a good day to you, one and all xx

Good morning everyone.

Hi Simon and everyone



That's Black Belt Training going into the Loose Women lair that is...best of luck Simon!



Best wishes and thoughts with Lilac Blue and Suzie.



BP oldies it is then.



1. MAKE IT WITH YOU - Bread

2. VALERIE - Amy Whitehouse

3. BLUE DAY - Suggs

4. BLUE MONDAY - New Order

5. ROSE GARDEN - Lynn Anderson

6. LETS STICK TOGETHER - Bryan Ferry

7. REWARD - Teardrop Explodes ( the Badge)

8. TRACY - The Cufflinks ) Tracy Island model)

9. THE MODEL - Kraftwerk

10. LIVING ON AN ISLAND - Status Quo



Well must crack on.



Have nice day



Laters



Mandy ;)

And finally



HONG KONG GARDEN -Siouxsie and the Banshees



ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN - Jimmie Rodgers



TIME CAPSULE - Matthew Sweet



Going for a lie down now

For Blue Peter I suggest...



LETS STICK TOGETHER - Bryan Ferry



LOVE ME LOVE MY DOG - Peter Shelley



and for the elephant incident



SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY - Paul Simon

#8 Ken, I'm so pleased that like me, you enjoyed The Waterboys!!! Seems ages since we saw them, yet in was only last month. I love Mike Scott and especially Fisherman's Blues, which was also an encore for us.



We had a full house of well over 2,000 in Edinburgh, but as he is from Edinburgh, he's maybe more popular than where you are and the applause at the end went on for ages.



Is this a mask like you bought? I couldn't resist taking a picture as it looked so weird!!



https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7092/7214248062_7cd2be7794_c.jpg



The night we saw them, they sang 'A Bang on the Ear' a song he wrote from when he was a shy schoolboy, and Lindsay, the girl mentioned in the first line of the song, was sitting in our audience with her husband. Mike said he was meeting her after the show and had never seen her since 1973 and he had tracked her down on Friends Reunited, via their old school. He said she is a fan of The Waterboys, has all their records but never knew that she was the Lindsay in the song!



"Lindsay was my first love she was in my class

I would have loved to take her out but I was too shy to ask

The fullness of my feeling was never made clear

But I send her my love and a bang on the ear"

Good morning all.



Weather is nothing special so won't go on about it.



NELLIE THE ELEPHANT seems apt and



BADGE - CREAM



De-weeding the pond today! Sorry about the pong!!



JW

Meant to say, @Jilly, loved your Flash Fiction yesterday. Thank you :0)

Good morning all!



Feeble effort from me today. Obviously out of practice ;-)



The Garden - Take That



Valerie - Steve Winwood



Let's Stick Together - Bryan Ferry



Sorry to hear sad news for Lilac Blue & Suzie. And for Shona? Zoe, hope things start looking up for you soon.



Couldn't be a worse day for Norway's National day. All the kids on the parades will be drenched. Some minor "disasters" have led me to change my plans. Lazy morning at home then out for Elk stew for lunch at my friend's.



Loose Women? Sorry Mr M but I won't be watching. *shudders*



have a great day everyone.



x

Hi everyone - I've hopped the fence - hope you don't mind



SOUND AND MUSIC - DAVID BOWIE (for the line blue, blue, electric blue ........)



YOUNG AT HEART - THE BLUE BELLS



Hope you are well



Baggy

Good morning Harry! #19



Good morning All,



My favourite presenter was John Noakes. So I have two suggestions:



FREE FALLIN by TOM PETTY (In honour of John's Five Mile High Freefall in 1973)



&



JOHN I'M ONLY DANCING by DAVID BOWIE (He danced with the Peggy Spencer Dancing Formation on the show)



madchick x

Morning Simon, team, NYM and sticky-back plastic bloggers,



Seems like only yesterday since we had this theme to celebrate the move of BP up to the wilds of Salford (!) Well, not actually yesterday, Sept 27th if you really must know.





REMEMBER THE DAYS OF THE OLD SCHOOLYARD - Cat Stevens



THE CRYSTAL SHIP - Doors



CHANGES - David Bowie



and finally



THOSE WERE THE DAYS - Mary Hopkin



Well done to menshees last night - heard JennieWren and ponyclubmum and Deebee and Dougal, and apols to any others.



And no buffet today, but "à la carte" hugs just for Lilac Blue.



JBG

Morning all :-)



STEVIE WONDER...YESTER-ME,YESTER-YOU, YESTERDAY



what was Val's siamese cat called?



PSL xxx

Morning All,



'Bits and Pieces' Dave Clark Five



Best wishes and thoughts to Lilac Blue and Suzie

I would also like to send a (((hug))) to Lilac Blue at this difficult time.



And thoughts are with Suzie, Shona and Zoe.



x

PAUL SIMON...SLIP SLIDING AWAY



anyone of a certain age will remember poor John 'slip sliding' while being pulled round the studio by that baby elephant!



PSL

#30 PSL - Jason. Don't ask me how I remember that!

ODYESSEY......USE IT UP AND WEAR IT OUT



all those empty cereal boxes and wash-up liquid bottles with the brand name carefuly covered...it was the BBC after all so no advertising.

#28 Singled out, madchick? I thank you! :0)



I read the blog but I couldn't think of anything to say but it seemed rude to poop in without saying hello.



I'm sure you won't find me lost for words for long; much to the chagrin of bloggers everywhere, I'm sure ;0)

WHEN WILL I SEE YOU AGAIN - Three Degrees

#37 is that a theme song or for Harry?

Rum Baba, never made one only ever eaten them, my favourite dessert at the Sgts Mess Summer Ball, the chief new it was my favourite so always kept one under the counter until I can along. . . . Oh happy memories, Yum Yum.



Won't even attempt to offer a suggestion for a good tune, mine are always *()&.



Love to all. X

#30 PSL, according to Wikiwotsit, Auntie Val's pussy was called Jason:



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

'Just Who Is The 5 O'clock Hero' The Jam

Morning all,

DT team, bloggers both poorly, well, and of course the feted DT Dude (let's hope that Sky News don't ask him to comment on the Eurozone crisis..)

Heard this on t'news this morning and thought coffeebuzz might like to see it:

https://www.news-press.com/article/20120517/HEALTH/305170044/Drink-coffee-live-longer-study-finds



No sun here, but it lingered well into the evening yesterday around by us so even though I was home late, still time for a wander up to the rabbit and deer woods up the road. Trying to discern one bird's song from another on such an evening proved pointless, they were all at it LOUDLY!



Re theme,

I have tweeted - and as usual not appeared on DT Dude's timeline - so had to 'unfollow' and re-follow him - sorry DT Dude if you had batted me away as a spambot - I'm back!!



Joni Mitchell's LOVE track, for her (amended line) 'when I became a woman, I put away childish things'



PLUS

Amen corner, Bend me shape me (memories of cereal boxes, cardboard tubes, sticky backed plastic and the famous 'Thunderbird Island' they showed us how to make - which in my house looked more like something that had fallen OUT of a recycling wheelie bin and then been RUNOVER by a truck!)



and

Sham 69 'If the kids are united'



Trying to think of something appropriate for the scrapes that John Noakes got into for the BP producers:



YOU CAN MAKE ME DANCE, SING OR ANYTHING by Leo Sayer or



ACTION MAN by Village People....eek first HOIB of the day, or did #17 beat me to it?



Laters, post-caffeine.



Thanks for all the well-wishes on my sad news yesterday, your hugs were appreciated and the sunshine you sent our way was very nice, too.

'Speak Like A Child' Style Council

#34 #40 thank you....no idea why I needed to know! I could remember Patch, Petra and Shep from my vintage.



*anorak zip up a notch*



PSL

WHEREVER I LAY MY HAT, THAT'S MY (NEW) HOME (ON CBBC) - Marvin Gaye or Paul Young



Hugs too to Suzieeee and nice to see you again Zoe (didn't think you were the the easily-offended thin-skinned type reading too much into a misplaced hyphen!)



Oh, and much respect to CBuzz and Jilly who rose to Harry's flash fiction challenge. Had me hooked.

#23 I bought the CD, not a mask. Or at least I I think I did :-). But yes, that was the mask he wore, doing some wild dancing at the back while masked fiddle and keys players were "duelling", before walking forward with the book as in your photo.



The audience in St Albans wasn't bad, seats upstairs were all sold bar 2 when I looked at around 6pm, but we had plenty of room to move to the music in the standing area. But they all seemed to enjoy themselves and he said he'd had a great time so I think everyone was happy.



It's brave to play the newer stuff in a lump in the second half, as you must run the risk of it going flat after everyones had a great time hearing the older stuff in the first half. Although, the album's been out for quite a while now I think (?), and I gather they were playing some of it a year before it was released, so I guess the regulars will be well versed with it by now.

Great stuff from cBzz & Jilly. Hope there are more contributions. Won't be from me - not where my talents lie. Great challenge though, H.



x

Ok here goes.



Suggestions relating to things from the show:

1. Get Down - Gilbert O'Sullivan

2. Secret Garden - Bruce Springsteen

3. Badge - Cream



And in regards to the show being moved to CBBC:

1. Don't Go - Yazoo

2. Stay (Just a Little Bit Longer) - The Zodiacs (or Dion and the Belmonts)



Phew.

Morning one and all..................................................................................







BADGE – CREAM...........I still have my badge......for a cake design competition!



THE CROWN – GARY BYRD …..infamous Advent Crown



SLIP SLIDIN’ AWAY – PAUL SIMON…….infamous John Noakes/elephant incident



LET’S STICK TOGETHER – BRYAN FERRY …….sticky back of course



HOTCAKES – CARLY SIMON…….for all of the baking



TV DINNERS – ZZ TOP …….because I could never miss a show!



MAGIC GARDEN – DUSTY SPRINGFIELD…..for the infamous garden..now in Salford!



GET DOWN – JAMES BROWN…..especially for Shep



MY GENERATION – THE WHO………for all of the memories above!







I'll be back for a longer post in a tick..........................................



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

Morning all. Hope your all well.



Can I suggest for the video alone,

WHO AM I - WILL YOUNG



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR4kZ8-qrFI&ob=av2e



~gill~

Gosh - This is a hard one today



Blue Peter - Mike Oldfield

Valerie - Stereophonics or Amy Winehouse

Use it up and wear it - Odessey

Life's what you MAKE IT - Talk Talk



Couldn't think of any thing for milk bottle tops or sticky back plastic

Really sad to 'hear' all the bad news my blog-chums are bearing at the moment.



If JBG can re-stock the buffet with feel-good* stuff, I'll get the fire on and we can all have a big cheering up session.



If forgetting about it all for a while is your thing, then the "all sorts of stuff, 24 hours a day" we discuss here is surely the place to be.





...........( . )

.......) ( )

.............. ' . ' . ' .

....( , ) (. ) ( ', )

......' ) ( . ) , ( , ) ( .

..). , ( . ( ) ( , ') .' ( , )

.(_,) . ), ) _) _,') (, ) '. ) ,. (' )

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^



*pun unintentional, but I left it in you'll notice



Off to the coffee machine...



--

cBzz

Back again...............and I really should make an effort to read back before I post my oldies...........Lilac Blue..........my thoughts are with you........what an extraordinary strong lady you are.......remember that this blog is full of people 24/7 to give you support whenever you may need it........................... x



Suzie...........so sorry to read the shocking news you had................ x



Zoe.........great to see you again.............we can only hope that you begin to see some light soon...............always love reading your blogs.........no matter how infrequent they may be in the future...................................................... x





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

Happy Thursdays all round and Hello Simon, the Driveteam & Constructors

:^)



Yesterday just ran away - you know how it is - and just when I found a moment to attempt a thoughtful post [in view of LilacBlue's situation] people arrived in my kitchen/officy place so I abandoned the PC. Anyway, I'm here now. And thank you for all the kind mentions regarding my MRI scan [I have to assume that if something had been amiss I would have had a phone call by now]. LilacBlue - your last post in yesterday's blog brings into sharp relief the wide range of emotions one experiences when presented with the cold hard stats. Many are called upon to deal with cancer but usually on behalf of a loved one. Not so when they themselves are the patient. So it's doubly impressive that you feel comfortable enough to divulge not only your news but also the accompanying feelings. Like our blog chums, I too wish you the very best outcome with positive and hopeful vibes.





Blue Peter eh?

This is the original recording of the original tune. It's lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns_lF5zeSBs

Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets



I remember having rhum babas (I'm sure that's how it was spelled) as a child, they were sticky, spongy, creamy desserts ready-made from a supermarket. No actual rum was involved, it was a rum flavoured sugar syrup. We enjoyed them at the time, but I do recall them being very sweet and as I don't have a particularly sweet tooth these days I probably wouldn't be so keen on them now. Will be interested to hear Nigel's take though.



No mensh chasing for me today. I'm going to funnel my energies into thinking of a tub-thumper of a Noughties ARFO... no, Harry - that's not 'naughties'...



;o)



A (((Hug))) to all poppets who need one.



~X~

How about..................................................................





CAPTAIN OF YOUR SHIP - REPARATA AND THE DELRONS





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



P.S Is it a noughties ARFO tomorrow?

#56 I guessing it might be, Dougal - as we've had 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s in succession. I could be wrong though...



~X~

Oh yes - I KNEW there was something else -

Harry's Flash Stories ... or should that be Flash Har ... ? Perhaps not.



Really enjoyed the two that were brave enough to post - kudos to cBuzz and Jilly.



[I started writing one, then I had to go out to a meeting, then I ran out of me-time - so could only return to it late last night. As usual the whole shebang morphed into two limericks. I must be possessed by the spirit of Lear ... pesky nuisance, I tell you]

#52

CBuzz - thought I'd let you know that your graphic does weird stuff on my browser and is looking vaguely indecent. LOL. I'm curious ... what is it?

:^D



#57 Hi Deebs - you slipped in there whilst I was composin'. Yeah - the Noughties? So something released just a couple of years ago would qualify. Interesting. Incidentally, what do people call the decade we are currently experiencing? The Teenies?

#55 Deebee, if you say so, but I don't see why it can't be both naughty and "noughty"? :0)



#58 Katy, I'd be interested to read your limericks. I wrote one but it all turned out very depressing and given the news around the blog I didn't feel it was appropriate to post it. It was also, characteristically, very pretentious LOL



Perhaps I'll attempt another on a lighter subject.



Of course, although the official "National Flash Fiction Day" was yesterday, no reason we can't celebrate it everyday, is there?

Good morning (just)



Lilac Blue, Just read your post on yesterday's blog. Your strength at this time is awe inspiring. One day at a time.xxx



Have already sent a couple of suggestions in by another method because I had a meeting first thing and feared I wouldn't get the chance. They were:



SHE'S GOT LEGS by ZZ Top (Valerie Singleton)

MAKE IT WITH YOU by Bread



Mention of Blue Peter made me smile. Did I tell you I might Peter Purves a couple of weeks ago? It was at a dog school training session for kids with a morbid fear of dogs (will tell you about that another time). I ended up stood next to him holding the lead of a Staffie and I couldn't help myself. I had to exclaim: "Ooh Peter! You're wearing your gold badge! Can I look at it please?" He replied: "They give these to you nowadays just for being alive." I said: "No. I remember all the daring things you did to get it and it's well deserved". Hope he didn't think I was referring to his antics with Val ;-) Nice chap.



Off to pick up Little Girl now then the mad dash to her Jimmy Nastics class then the mad dash to pick Big Girl up then the mad dash to Rainbow Guides where I'm the mummy helper tonight. But first I must go and sky + (other recording devices are available etc..) Loose Women.



Lord Ammo is entering the Lion's Den If he is into punishment surely a couple of rounds with JV's listeners would have been a softer option. Be brave our great leader. Be brave...



Have a good day.x

#59 Katy, I was ever-hopeful that it would look like a warm, cosy fire.

I don't think it worked though! :P



Coffee machine time...



--

cBzz

I've only ever eaten Rum Baba once - I was eight and we were in a very posh hotel in Austria. It was yummy & sticky and really did have real rum in it and I gobbled it down. The I began to feel distinctly odd, and knew I had to leave the table & fast. I managed to make it half-way down the sun terrace before it all came back up again. We left the hotel quickly after that (we were staying elsewhere, thank goodness) and it took me over 20 years to venture back...



So, word to the wise, if you make Nigel's recipe, don't feed it to your kidlets :)



And don't gobble it down in the hot sunshine.



Uggh, not sure if I can even listen...

#8 I saw the 'Boys' first at Cornbury in 2007 - they are usually there annually and most festivals in the UK!

They knock the spots off the 'Johnny come-lately' newbies who just can't whip the crowd into a happy, hopping bunch.

Here they are singing the whole of the moon:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/71673349@N02/



Not sure if this will work - I'm a flickr newbie - but the sun was setting, we were fuelled with pimms and to cap it all a hot air balloon was going up behind the stage into a cloudless sky (remember the days, believe they called it 'summer') special times..

The moving of Blue Peter from BBC 1 does seem like the end of an era for us oldies but I suppose times change



THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING - BOB DYLAN

#8

RE #64 *blushes*

Told you I was a flickr newbie - try this

https://flic.kr/p/bZxgSb



Making this look very hard

Blue Peter Mouldies ..





MAKE PLASTIC TREES - RADIOHEAD

SHEP BACK IN TIME - KYLIE MINOGUE

PETRA BY GOLLY WOW - STYLISTICS

TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLD NOAKES TREE - DAWN

SOME GUYS HAVE ALL THE HUQ - ROBERT PALMER

DO WAH DIDDY BIDDY - MANFRED MANN





;^#

I have never seen Loose Women. From the comments above I am now starting to get rather concerned for our leader...



~X~

#64 Mr Wickham wore that jacket for part of the show last night!

#68 Deebee, if Loose Women have heard of you, Simon will be safe! ;0)

#69 Presumably, it's his 'party piece' jacket - and certainly twinkles in the lights/sunlight (delete as appropriate).

Hope he's got more than one - or it'll stand up on it's own!

#67 LOL!



:o))

#70 Okay, can we stop this now please? It's not funny any more.



Actually it never was.



:o(

Afternoon Poppeteers



Apologies if this has been mentioned but I've not read back yet.



IT'S ALL OVER NOW BABY BLUE - VAN MORRISON

hi all



nelly the elephant-toy dolls



build-housemartins(thay build things of bits and pieces)



bits and pieces-dave clarke five



fab-thunderbirds are go

Disappointed that Nige isn't making doughnuts today considering the theme.



Does anyone else remeber the oops TV moment when Mark(?) BP presenter said to the viewers after Fanny Craddock had been on making doughnuts...........

Hi Simon,



Well apart from the obvious Mike Oldfield track, other oldies could include...



BLUE MONDAY - New Order

BLUE SAVANNAH - Erasure

BLUE - Eiffel 65

NATURAL BLUES - Moby

PETER GUNN - Art of Noise / Duane Eddy

THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD - Crash Test Dummies



Thanks,

#73 OK Deebee, I will no longer attempt to find humour in your mother-hen behaviour towards Simon as it clearly isn't funny.

That's it folks. Back to the field to pick up all my typping and speeling mistakes.



A late finish too:( Boohoo. So will miss the first half of the show.



Catch you later



Shona x

Afternoon! Just a swift visit to send hugs to Lilac Blue - what an inspiration you are with such a positive attitude. This place is a good place to be in times of adversity so don't be a stranger to your blogger pals.



Also, hugs, warm woolly jumpers and much choc wending its way to Shona, wherever you are x



Sorry, real life stuff happening at the mo so rather preoccupied. Have a good day all, enjoy the show and here's to multiple blogger menshes and no indigestion in the Drivetime studio after Nigel has made Rum Baba.



Not long until Simon enters the lions den. Brave man. I can't watch.

#74 "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" is a great song, would love to hear that.



I have e versions I think: Dylan, The Byrds, Steve Howe and Energy Orchard. My favourite is Energy Orchard's version, I think, although when I saw Van Morrison do it live in Brighton it was sublime.

61 - Julia40 - sorry, just read back and saw your comments about Loose Women. Sorry to duplicate. Great minds think alike and all that....



42 - Suzieeee - you have brought a big smile to my face with your Thunderbirds Island description. Makes me feel better that it's not just the Hoffs family who didn't get it right!



Finally, PSL, wherever you are, can I ask you, are you interested in 'Northern Soul'?

Hoffs....does the Pope have a balcony...yes I'm a huge Northern Soul fan



PSL

83 - PSL - LOL! Just checking.



Did you know that Steve Coogan, Lisa Stansfield and Roisin Murphy are due to make a film about the rise of northern soul? Read it this morning and thought of you. I''m probably 20 years behind the times and this news has been common knowledge for a while, but in case not......



My three worder for today?



OVERWHELMED BY FLIES



See you all later x

#84 Ooh well reminded, Hoffs!



3WT: Wedding Invites Posted



Off to the coffee machine to calm my nerves...



--

cBzz

Yes I did know, I've been in touch and supplied photo's of what we wore back in the day (hair and make-up)to the production team coordinator Claire, Elaine the director thought I looked 'fab' hee hee so did I back then!



PSL

BLUE PETER oldies? - well the flag means, literally ALL ABOARD so we could have



ALLISON MOORER'S 'ALL ABOARD'



Laters,

but no live DT show for me - off to riverside pub/eaterie with girlie friend, to put the world to rights....

#85 Wedding date??

Don't want to be here in the office blogging congrats in my hat and best bib n tucker on the wrong day!

If it's a Saturday, then I can do the Hoovering in it!

#88 Suzieeee, we went for 7 July (a Saturday).

*nerves calmed, slightly*

--

cBzz

Poor Simon (wearing his Blockbusters' suit and purple shirt), having to sit between Janet Street-Porter and Lisa from The Bill today on Loose Women.... I suppose it could have been worse for him, had he been on when man-snatcher Denise Welch is on, especially as she likes lifting up her top to show her boobs if there is a nice guy sitting beside her! ;o)

#89 CoffeeBuzz... a good date for a wedding... my birthday and it's always sunny on that day and when I was young, my birthday parties were always outside in the garden and games on the village common at the front of our house!

#73 Apologies for my earlier uncharacteristic grumpiness. I blame Bill Gates...



#87 Loving the sound of your evening, Suzieeeee - just what I could do with right now. In fact you're lucky I don't live nearer or I'd probably be gatecrashing... Instead, Mr B and I will be spending the evening rearranging furniture and moving nicknacks out of harm's way in preparation for the new hall/dining room carpet being fitted tomorrow.



#89 It's in the diary!



*wonders if I can get away with the same outfit I had for Harry's nuptials*



~X~

#89 Cbzz and #91 Florence..........................7 July is also Ladies Final day at Wimbledon...........................so I'll be thinking of you both........................



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

#92 Deebee...................Simon's interview on Sky News is now on their web site front page.........................sorry but I can't do links from here to make it easier for you..............................................................................................



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#60 Harry's Flash Story thingy ..



Here are my Limericks In Praise of Drivetime - I'm not proud. lol.



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I have a Confession to make

An indulgence ... I often partake

Homework Sucks and Showstoppers

The Book Club, ARF boppers

Yes, the Oldies Theme's best - no mistake





The Collective might weed out a sinner

Plus there's Nigel's ideas for dinner

There's Sport, ' Becca's Business

Sal's Traffic, Si's Quizness

But Matt's MiddleWeek Mösh is my winner!



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#89 CBuzz - oh yes. That looks like a fine date for a wedding. We'll do you proud. Never fear.

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#93 Aw that's nothing Deebeedeebs - how can I ever forget posting that excruciating rant against people who were constantly moaning and talking about the rain ... when at the same time, Alex was dealing with a storm damaged greenhouse and garden, Sal was wading thru' flooded Somerset levels and my own front hall was flooding! And then I heard on the news that some poor chap had actually drowned.



*cringes*



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#92 a girlie night out would be rather good shame we all live so far apart....I think Ill give my MOTB another outing as it's a summer wedding :-)



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#96 and #93 Katy, it's a pity we don't have an edit button on here because I'm sure it would come in handy now and again, even if it is only active for a few minutes!

What about



Badge - Eric Clapton

Unusual for the #100 sitting here waiting for 8 minutes!!!