Morning all



I'm actually going to the cinema today. This will be the first time (I think) since the annual family Boxing Day outing to see that year's Peter Jackson movie which we did through the LOTR trilogy and King Kong.



Today - Led Zeppelin's Celebration Day. And then the Bond movie on Friday next week. 5 stars in the Times so I was tempted. And it must be better than Quantum of Solace which was garbage.



Was surprised at how pricey it now is. A whole tenner for Zep if you don't book on-line, and £9.10 I think for standard 2D showings before the discount. I'm sure it was only about £6 last time I went :-)

Morning all



#2 Ken - yes, it does seem pricey these days. In Germany a standard ticket only costs between €6 and €9. And I mean for a current film in a big cinema in Munich or Hamburg. I know if it was cheaper here, I'd go a lot more.



Anyway, better go and put my Miranda thinking cap on.....

Good Morning Simon and Blog Friends



Enjoy the cinema Ken!



STAND AND DELIVER - ADAM ANT



FUNNY GIRL - BARBARA STREISAND



HONKY TONK WOMAN - ROLLING STONES

Goodness, this is a hard theme today!



I I I I I I LIKE YOU VERY MUCH - CARMEN MIRANDA!



PRETTY WOMAN - ROY ORBISON



CAN'T SMILE WITHOUT YOU - BARRY MANILO



NOBODY DOES IT BETTER - CARLY SIMON



and did Miranda not do something on the radio with her mum?



DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW - ABBA

Your Lordship, team, NYM and technicolor bloggers,



Did I ever mention that I went to the recording of the "psychiatrist" episode of Miranda? (Shut up man, you've told us that story before). Yes, it was very funny.



His secret soft rock song paused on the CD player was:



ALONE - Heart



Of course, the obvious one would be:



PROUD - Heather Small



But I'll also go for:



IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT HIM? - Joe Jackson



MISFIT - Curiosity Killed The Cat

#5 *WITH* HIM

I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - Elvis Costello



Willy the Shake

x

Good Morning Each!



Miranda themed folky showstopper, anyone?



'Midwife Song' by Frank Tovey

Tricky them today.



LONG TALL SALLY - Little Richard



And I keep thinking of this one:



DO YOU WANT THE TRUTH OR SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL? - Paloma Faith

*them = theme



Must be the parakeets.



GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME - Gerry Rafferty

'Heart Of Gold' by Neil Young



'She's Funny That Way' by Sam Cooke



'Funny Girl' by Barbara Streisand



'Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey' by Modern Romance (Seemingly cruel, but "Moose" is Miranda's own self deprecating description, not mine)

Its good to have a tricky theme...I'm going to go off for a longer think but leave you with:



EMBARASSMENT - Madness

A couple more :



ISN'T SHE LOVELY - STEVIE WONDER



JUST LIKE A WOMAN - BOB DYLAN

CHAMELEON / COMEDIAN - KATHLEEN EDWARDS



OK, I know it strictly needs to be comedienne :-)

BIGMOUTH STRIKES AGAIN - The Smiths



That's m'lot m'lovelies.





*and gone*

Good morning everyone - the sun is trying to shine and it has been raining overnight.



Miranda oldies - mmmm.



I've never watched her comedy show on TV but did watch Call the midwife. The only choon I can thin of at the moment is



BICYCLE - QUEEN cos she couldn't ride a bike and kept falling off



More thinking required



JW

Morning all!

DT team, bloggers, vet and new and of course the DT Dude, shimmy-ing up to the great and good of the movie critique world...

What on earth was the name of the kid at the school named after a star trek character?? Thinking Spock, but hoping for James Tiberius!!



THANKS Lord Ammo so much for the joint mench yesterday(with Amelia?) for Thomas Dolby -2 in 7 days - maybe as the blog is SOOO much quieter nowadays?



Shame to hear that CLP is leaving his bloggers in the lurch with nary a post for days - just as well he doesn't rely on them as Terry W did for his material for the show, they are understandably jumping over the fence to join our merry (daily) gathering.





RE theme, tweeted these:

Re her always unrequited lurve of gawjus Gary:



'You don't know me' - Ray Charles *swoon*



'I Want You to Want Me' - Cheap Trick;



'I can't make you love me' - Bonnie Rait;



Oh and Elvis 'Can't stand up etc' as she's always falling over!



Back later, post-caffeine and a soupçon of work, perhaps...

Please add a 'k' to 'thin' - twould make more sense then!



LONG COOL WOMAN - THE HOLLIES



JW

'Crazy Miranda' by Jefferson Airplane



'Tom's Diner' by Suzanne Vega (For the chef next door to the joke shop)

Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets



Simon, are you sure you were on the oldest train in England? I bet the one I took from Doncaster to Sheffield was even older - overheated, noisy and struggled to get up to speed between stations... and I'm fairly sure that's where I caught my cold.



Anyway, Miranda oldies - how about:



FUN, FUN, FUN - Beach Boys



PROUD - Heather Small



LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU - Robbie Williams



THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT - The Jam



~X~

I heard this for the first time in ages last week, and it brought back so many memories. Seems to fit today's theme re the Miranda/Gary will-they/won't-they storyline:



WILL YOU? - Hazel O'Connor

Hi Simon and everyone



DOH! I just navigated away from this page without clicking on new tab and lost my posting!!



Well done to all mentions last night and thank you for mine Simon.



Interview yesterday went well and will find out next week of the outcome, although I have secured another contract at a firm of accountants in Wednesfield as I have a meeting next week to discuss requirements and a meeting today at anothe firm for more freelance work, so the wolf has well and truly been shooooed away!



Now choons again:



1. ALL OF MY HEART - ABC

2. Alone - HEART

3. AINT IT FUNNY - Jennifer Lopez

4. STAND AND DELIVER - Adam and the Ants

5. LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN - Neil Sedaka

6. Pop Musik - M

7. Something for the weekend -DIVINE COMEDY

8. COME UP AND SEE ME (MAKE ME SMILE) - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel

9. ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE - Eric Idle

10. THE JOKER - Steve Miller Band



Have a lovely day



Laters



Mandy ;)

Morning all, won't say 'good' cos it aint - really have had enough now.



Total mind block, completely numb in the head department, can't think of a single choon - or who CLP is?



Might go for a lie down and hope all is better when I return..... if only I could.



Laters hopefully.



SE x

Suzieeeee your mention yesterday was joint with me!

Didn't Miranda do something adventurous with Bear Grylls??



TEDDY BEAR - ELVIS



ICE ICE BABY - VANILLA ICE





Coffee required..........

Morning all.



SHE'S A MUST TO AVOID (a complete impossibility!) - Hermans Hermits.



Gotta fly...... :)

A Good Heart - Fergal Sharkey, perhaps?

#23 Ah, sorry CLP is Christoph-Lamby-Pie as he calls himself (aka Chris Evans)

BTW did you hear your mench yesterday on DT??

Hopefully it's only work-related stress today giving you that 'enough already' feeling so early on in the day?

Nothing worse that trouble at home AND work.

Seeing as her book is about a series of disaters, how about



YOU'VE GOT YOUR TROUBLES - THE FORTUNES



By the way, dental work has fallen apart - another appointment tomorrow :(



JW

Morning Simon, Team and fun-filled blogsters,



Just a quick dash by on this lovely morn. Things to do, places to be and the like, so just one suggestion from me for the wonderful Miranda:



BIG FUN - INNER CITY



Have a wonderful Wednesday m'lovelies.



Jx

Coffee is brewing..........................and I'll stick with the bear theme for my last 2 suggestions:



BEAR NECESSITIES - THE JUNGLE BOOK



RUNNING BEAR - JOHNNY PRESTON



*sounds of barrel scraping spread across the country*

#24 ah yes, of course - should've read/listened back!

Joint honours with anyone tho, I'm happy with that!!

#20 I love those old trains that go across country Deebee. Where you can hear the gear change. I always wonder if the driver is sitting there with his foot on a clutch pedal :-)



Did Halifax by train for a football match once and there was one like that that I think on the Doncaster to Halifax leg. It's like being in a bus on rails.

We used to travel on trains like that when I lived in Reading and we went to outlying villages to visit friends and relatives - I love the sound the doors make when they are shut - a definite 'kerchunk'.



JW

Dignity - Deacon Blue

Different for Girls - Joe JAckson

Deeply Dippy - Right Said Fred

Embarrassment - Madness

House of Fun - Madness

Independent Woman - Destinys Child

Misfit - Curiosity Killed The Cat

Tripping - Robbie Williams

Westend Girls- -Pet Shop Boys

Whose that girl - Madonna

Female of the Species - Space

A song highlighting Miranda's skills on a sprung floor. She's a smashin' wee dancer!





Big Boned Gal - kd lang





Keep it Country!

Coffee time. Where IS Mr Buzz?



SOME GIRLS ARE BIGGER THAN OTHERS - The Smiths



THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT - Little Richard



BORN THIS WAY - Lady Gaga



YES SIR, I CAN BOOGIE - Baccara



TO SIR, WITH LOVE - Lulu

Morning all



Dreich here. Another late arrival in the office, roadworks and traffic and rain making me grumpy.



I’ve never really watched Miranda and about the only things I know about her is that she is tall and falls over a lot?





LONG TALL SALLY – LITTLE RICHARD



CAN YOU STAND ON ONE LEG – THE DIVINE COMEDY



I CAN’T STAND UP FOR FALLING DOWN – ELVIS COSTELLO



MIRANDA – FLEETWOOD MAC



MINATURE DISASTERS – KT TUNSTALL

Morning all



Apologies for the absinthe - a weekend away resulted in a miserable cold which left me the mental capacity to do one thing only: on Monday that was work and yestreday it was sleep!



Anyway, back to the fray and I hope all's well in blog-land. I haven't had a chance to catch-up so if there's anything exciting or shocking I should know, please pass it on....



I too can't wait to see Skyfall - although agree about the expense. In my local cinema 'peak time' seems to have been extended for this and so my usual, slightly cheaper preference of early Sunday afternoon is now a full price ticket. Anyway - it would appear it'll be worth it.



Difficult Oldie theme and my mental acuity is still somewhat lacking, so I'll leave it for now....

Sal - from yesterday, the parakeet discussion.



That's a pity, but totally understand. Depending on which direction you're coming from, my recommendations would be to park in a) Pembroke Lodge car park which is free and has a nice cafe and facilities, then walk across the road along a track where there are some lovely wooded areas. Or b) Sheen Gate car park, also free, and nice wooded areas all around, but no cafe. Or c) Roehampton Gate, biggest car park and cafe, but in the busiest part of the park, and with a huge expanse of rugby fields in front so not good territory for parakeets, so you'd have to turn right and go along the brook, or across the field and up to Spankers Hill (this is where the "Fenton - Jesus Christ" video was filmed!). Oh and the only car park in the middle of the park is at Spanker's Hill, also an easy walk down to Pen Ponds where there are always loads of waterbirds. In fact, that may be your best bet, as there are some nice woods all around there too.



Hope this is useful!

Oh, one more thing:



The stags in the park are particularly stunning right now, with huge antlers. But they're also very aggressive, so keep clear! They have attacked dogs and people. If you're lucky you'll hear them bellowing at each other. The cull is happening in a few weeks - very sad, but otherwise the park would get overcrowded and couldn't support the growing herd.

#40 Spanker's Hill? What goes on there then?? *titters and sniggers like a school girl*

Coincidentally I went to see Liberal Arts in the Showroom in Sheffield last Thursday – lovely place to meet – wish I could be there this weekend. Fantastic film, worth going to see for Allison Janney alone. I am dragging my friend half way across Ireland to see it tomorrow it was so good.



We have a lovely new cinema here – half price tickets on a Tuesday so a bargain I think at £3.50 – comfy seats etc – but they only show mainstream stuff – so I have to travel for a couple of hours to see anything like Liberal Arts. The other problem with the new cinema is that it is part of an “entertainment complex” so you have to walk through all the “amusements” to get to the cinema. Maybe I am easily annoyed but it drives me nuts.



Suzy – yes, I was wondering too the boy’s name. I do have a soft spot for Patrick Stewart. And Mandy not me for the mention last night.



Jenny – what a pain and a nuisance about the dental work – bad enough having to go once!



Autumn_Gale – good to see you back, you popped into my head last night when I was thinking about Wittertainment.

Mr Allinson and I are off to another virtual supermarket today - variety is the spice of life!



We could be some time......



JW

#43 Looks like Scotch Git's speechless!



#45 Enjoy your time with Mr Allinson, Jennie ;0)



Nearly lunch time and a quick skip home.

#35 Deeply Dippy? Superb!

#43 Oh dear - what occured to your post?

#44 or I suppose it could be 'Bones' or 'Scotty'?

Maybe it's a tease to see if we can guess the name....still racking my brain - hope it's not the name of a baddie (the Romulans were normally vowel-free and so obv baddies)

Suzy - my guess is Jean-Luc

I STARTED A JOKE - THE BEE GEES

#42, #43



Shocked and shtunned, Shona. Shocked and shtunned.





Fags, Mags and Bags (BBC Radio4) featured that song!





>8-D

#28 Mensh yesterday? I heard one on Monday but I was too busy to pop in yesterday (it was Tueasday yesterday, wasn't it?) so can't imagine why I would get one yesterday?



#29 Hope you get your dental work sorted soon, I know how painful it can be when things aren't quite right in your mouth, not to mention awkward.



Right I'm off, I've typed this about 4 times in total now because, along with my head, my fingers appear to have given up too and I'm correcting every other word - I've no idea what I've said, wanted to say or am about to say. I'll start afresh tomorrow!

It HAS to be 'Miranda' by Fleetwood Mac

#51 you might be right, might have been Monday! #timeflies

FUNNY FUNNY-THE SWEET

#42 - Spankers Hill sounds like a meeting place for MPs and their friends.



#43 - difficult to argue with that !



Welcome to smoked_kipper. Another quality name.

Afternoon all



Extremely late to the party today - already loads of splendid suggestions!



I'll chuck in:



'Don't Worry Be Happy' - Bobby McFerrin



Like the man says :-)



N xx

Morning all ! or is it afternoon ? I have no idea having just woke from a cheaky nap to catch up on lost sleep.



Prom previous blog, many thanks to Hoffs and Deebee for their kind words over my little pickel with cherub. I totally need to toughen up but its gonna take a lot of vinegar to do it :-)



There was a chance Miranda would come to Hubbs bookshop to do a sigining (such fun), but she ended up going to a larger branch (bum), so we sadly missed out meeting her. But never mind that, how about a bit of...

FUN FUN FUN - BEACH BOYS

Anyone know what time it it?

~gill~

Cripes, ive just realised that last paragraph rhymes ! (im a poet and i dont know-it)

Also, how on earth did that P get at the start of From ???

A warrent for the detention of the rouge P has been issued!

~gill~

#50 Shorry to have schtunned you Schotch Git ;0)



#55 That's funny Parsley_cat.



There's nothing like a good drenching at lunchtime! Skipped home for the dogs who shook their heads and refused to go out in the rain.



3 word Wednesday? UNCOMFORTABLE SOGGY TIGHTS

#42 and #50 and #55 Parsley-cat and Shona and Scotch-git. Let's just say it's maybe not a good place to visit after dark!



#59 Shona- - my 3WW "BASKING IN SUNSHINE"



I'm guessing the Star Trek boy was called Kirk. Let's hope it wasn't Klingon.



All this talk of the park, I might go for a wander up there later and see if I can spot a mobile tooth fairy chasing parakeets....

#59



Shona,



A quick trawl on the interweb has found waterproof walking tights and waterproof cycling tights, but alas no waterproof skipping tights.





skippety splashity soggity skip





>8-D

#60 #61 Thank goodness I am alone in the office as I just burst out laughing!

Or it could have been Keevan. Or Kargan.





#neverwatchedstartrek



#neverseenstarwarseither

I employ a paperboy with a Star Trek name. Khan. It may be a coincidence, and it may just be that he isn't really a 'morning person', but he can be a bit grumpy now and then.



I also employ a girl that has just had hair extensions fitted. (Is 'fitted' the correct term in this context?) Anyhoo, I asked her how long it took to have it done. Hours apparently. I also asked her if they were real hair. Nope, they aint. Some sort of plasticky stuff. As I pointed out to her, plasticky stuff on your head must save on the trouble of having to carry a brolly about. If looks could kill...

Hello!



A quick poop by - I'm a day behind - have been listening to last night's show and I just wanted to send a message to the Drivetime crew to say that I really really enjoyed it. Loved the cloud chappie and Bellowhead especially.



#57 - Gill Withagee - hope you are feeling better after your sleep. I'm sporting natty little eyelid-matchsticks today!



Hope to hear the show in real time today - the problem with listening a day late in the middle of the day is hearing a time check and panicking that I'll be late for something or taking note of Sally Traffic's reports before I go out. Looking forward to hearing Miranda. She really makes me chuckle - whenever we watch, however, I am always a little uncomfortable about the similarities that Mr H points out between the lovely Miranda and me.

The lightning FLASHED, the thunder ROARED, and all the world was shaken,

A little pig curled up his tail, and ran to save his bacon.



Time to put my waterproofs on I think.

~gill~

#42 - Skippy Shona - sniggering with you!



#64 - PoS - Ha ha ha!



Byee!

#64 Don't those hair extensions potentially cause some falling out/thinning of hair a few years down the line? I've never understood the reason why girls/women with a perfectly nice head of hair want to weave somebody else's hair, or some plastic, into their own.

#64 Hee hee Paul!

When Barbie reads #68 Ken will be in so much trouble...

#68 #70 I'm not getting much work done this afternoon! I hope no one comes into the office to witness me doubled up laughing ;0)

Just heard Sally's traffic report. Oh, crumbs!

#72 Bet people sitting in that queue are going crackers

#60 After all my talk of the mobile tooth fairy chasing parakeets in the park, there is now a beautiful rainbow outside, with one end in the vicinity of the park.



*Wonders if that really was sugar he put in his coffee this morning*

#64 fnah fnah!!



#70 ah but then Ken has the same hair so really shouldn't throw stones in Barbie's direction.



#72 #73 Qué?? Not got the radio on, has a Jacobs lorry 'shed it's load'?

Speaking of which, Julian Clarey had me giggling on Monday's BIG show - making a washing machine 'coloured load' sound SO rude!!

#72

Man sitting in traffic queue sees Highways Officer walking past on hard shoulder.



Winds down window.



"Jaffa'n idea how long this'll take?"

#74 By now I'd be out there with a small shovel and digging for the 'crock o' gold' at the end (ah but which end, therein lies the rub)

My but you're all on good form this afternoon. Now bow here - just rain;(

#78 Now bow? No bow as in rainbow



Is it hometime yet?

Afternoon all!



Didn't I tell you all yesterday that The Great British Bake Off was where it was at?



Anyway a quick U2 tune "With or Without You" OR "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of". Watchers of Miranda will appreciate that!



GB

Hi Everyone,

Could it be Spock?!?

Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cindy Lauper

LB, x

I've just G**gled characters from Star Trek and there was a character called Lieutenant Number One. Now that's just silly...

#80



Simonward1964,



Nigel Barden, the pumpkin pie-man is in tomorrow.

I'm wondering if it could be Bok or Ee'char or Vixis?





Star Trek pop trivia question:

Which 80s band is named after a Vulcan priestess?

#84 I tried to cheat to find the answer but the IT Mafia said no!

#85 "That'll learn ya" as they used to say when I was a lad.

#86 I hope I haven't set off an alarm in the control room here or it will be 50 lashes for me!

Well, that's me about to shut the shutters and skip up the road. Enjoy the show everyone and good luck with the song choices.



*squelchity, skippity, skip, squelchity.......rip*



Just laddered me tights!

Wow, that was a marathon shop - with a few interruptions, admittedly - hope it was worth it!



Mr Allinson has been great company as always - he has just played Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra singing "Fly me to the moon" and then Richard Burton's intro to ??



Wonderful.



JW

Now playing:



Gudrun run run run, gudrun run run



#recyclingvikingoldies

#84 - that would be T'Pau (I have the Bridge of Spies album).

#82 - better than being called 'number two'. That would just be unpleasant.

Well done Amelia for your tune choice played earlier.



Love hearing the Hollies' song, 'Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress' at the moment!



No more Mike Harding on a Wednesday? I like Mark Radcliffe so I don't mind too much!



https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/mike-harding-axed-by-radio-2.1350481631

Good song choice Jennie Wren... my much-loved Hollies! :o))

Well done Jennie and Mandy! Missed the first oldie - what was it?



#91 LOL ;0)



Mike Harding is axed? Goodness. But I like Mark Radcliff too.

Well done John for Proud!

Hello hello



Just heard the Miranda interview in the car, which was most amusing.



Well done Jennie Wren (full name!) for The Hollies and Mandy for Elvis Costello. And ponyclubmum for Misfit. Was it an OSM for Heart-Alone?



And thank you your Lordship for the mensh for Proud - had me giggling as I imagine Stevie holding up her mask.



*feeling greatly aligned*

Oh, Amelia, I forgot Amelia.



#91 Parsley-Cat gets the prize.

Thank you Simon for playing The Hollies - great song which I've always liked. Glad you like it too, Florence.



Congratulations to everyone else with a mensh - I heard Mandy, John and Amelia mentioned.



JW

Many thanks John for your post about the 'rutting stags' which would have been very useful, had I read it before setting off this morning! Joking apart, having lived on and around Exmoor for the last 30 years, I know how much of a head start I need to be able to leggit!





What can I say about Richmond Park?



WOW, how lucky you are to live close to such a fabulous setting.



We did what we could in the time that we had. I think we must have gone up Spankers Hill, if that is near to the central car park. There were huge herds of deer all over the park, but here was the best opportunity to photograph them. Its the first pics of deer though that I have ever taken with high rise buildings as a back drop.



We also walked around Pembroke Lodge (the poshest loos I have ever come across in any park!) and saw huge flocks of screeching parakeets, with a kestrel hot on their heels, easy pickings I should imagine.



We hope to return again for another visit and maybe next time we could make it a mini meet, maybe Jilly too, as she isn't that far away?



We did manage to dodge the showers, shame we missed the rainbow though.



Thank you once more John for taking the time to post about the Park. I get a feeling that you are quite proud of where you live and quite rightly so.



Happy Days.



Mobile Tooth Fairy, with feet firmly on the ground these days. LOL!

It sounds like you had a great day Sal.



JW