Good Morning Simon and Blog Friends. That really made me laugh this morning Simon!



BRAND NEW KEY - MELANIE



EVERYTHING CHANGES - TAKE THAT

Good Morning!



What a tough theme!



TOO OBVIOUS - ABC - Jacksons



LEADER OF THE PACK - Shangrilas



CHANGES - Bowie



EVERYTHING CHANGES - ╪ (Wah!)



FAITH - George Michael(s)



I BELIEVE - Frankie Laine



I'M GONNA LEAVE OLD DURHAM TOWN - Roger Whittaker

Thanks for the mention yesterday



As the new archbishop is another old Etonion



Eton Rifles - The Jam

The you tube video Eton Style- Eton schools's take on the Psy hit Ganman Style is well worth watching.



Also



Faith - George Michael

King in a catholic style - China Crisis

Oh my God - Kaiser Chiefs (for those surprised by the appointment)

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zepplin

White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes (For the December ordination)

Goodness, this is a hard theme.



TOUCHED BY YOUR PRESENCE DEAR - BLONDIE

Hello again Blog Friends and Simon :o)



DURHAM TOWN ~ Roger Whittaker



NEW KID IN TOWN ~ Eagles



SON OF A PREACHER MAN ~ Dusty Springfield



PAPA DON'T PREACH ~ Madonna



LIVING ON A PRAYER ~ Bon Jovi



CATHEDRAL SONG ~ Tanita Tikaram

Justin Welby ?



JUST IN TIME - Frank Sinatra

Oh well done ladies for the Roger Whittaker song!! I hope it gets played.



Work beckons................................

Morning Simon, team, NYM and jigging and reeling bloggers,



I missed last night's episode, but will try to listen again on the iThingy. Cool for Cats was the 3rd album I bought (Parallel Lines/Blondie and Eagles' Greatest Hits were the others, since you're asking). It had its own slot in the MFI storage unit for my brand new Panasonic stereogram. Those were the days.



#archbishopoldies



I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER – Aretha Franklin



SAVE A PRAYER – Duran Duran



CRYING IN THE CHAPEL - Elvis

Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan



LB, x

My only thought so far is 'At Last' - Etta James since we've been waiting to hear who it will be for ages now. (Or it seems like it.)

TAKE THAT - Pray (Billie, I'm surprised at you missing this one!)



ADAM ANT - Room at the Top



LED ZEPPELIN - Houses of the Holy

Good morning one and all - another good to be alive day today - sunny, bright and cold.



What a difficult theme today - I have enough trouble with mundane themes but AB of C choons .............mmmm.



Tea is needed



JW

PRAY - ╪ (Wah!)



SAY A LITTLE PRAYER - Aretha



ANSWER ME - Frankie Laine



I'LL WALK WITH GOD - Mario Lanza

LOSING MY RELIGION - R.E.M. (but as he's new in the job, hopefully that's not the case!)



WHEREVER I LAY MY HAT, THAT'S MY HOME - Marvin Gaye (but I know Rebecca might prefer the Paul Young version)



LEADER OF THE GANG - Gary Glitter (but I suspect he's on the blacklist)



So many caveats! Must be off. Play nicely.



JBG

#11 SirC - Ha! Good One!







POOR ME - Adam Faith

How about



SOUL MAN - SAM AND DAVE



SWEET SOUL MUSIC - ARTHUR CONLEY



JW

Oh, how about



WE'LL BE TOGETHER - Sting (see what I did there?)





*clearly feeling a bit obtuse today*

THAT'S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT - Billy Preston

GOD ONLY KNOWS - THE BEACH BOYS



HIGHER AND HIGHER - JACKIE WILSON



TURN TURN TURN - THE BYRDS (isn't this from one of the psalms?)



JW

Morning Simon & everyone



Somewhat lacking inspiration this morning.









MISSIONARY MAN - EURYTHMICS



PRAYIN’ FOR A PARTY - SPARKS



CHANGES - DAVID BOWIE



TURN! TURN! TURN! - THE BRYDS



FEELING GOOD - NINA SIMONE

TURN TURN TURN - Byrds



HANDLE WITH CARE - Wilburys



MY SWEET LORD - George

DOING THE LAMBETH WALK - Mrs Mills and assorted Pearly Kings and Queens incl Norman Wisdom





*really need to sort my head out today*

IT'S MY TURN - Diana Ross



STARTING OVER - Mr. Lennon



I'M A BELIEVER - Monkees

#22 JBG - Very Funny! Ha!

LET IT BE - Beatles

Did I break the blog?





Sorry!

Nope Billy - I just can't think of anything. He used to work in the oil industry - that isn't helping me at all!

Morning All,



'Rise To The Occasion' Climie Fisher



Have a good day everybody

Morning,



Halo - Texas

Dignity - Deacon Blue

Fall at your Feet - Crowded House

Ordinary Angel - Hue & Cry

You are the one - Aha

Promised you a miracle - Simple Minds



Fiona H

#27 Who worked in the oil industry, Amelia, the new Archbishop of Canterbury?



I'm pleased Simon enjoyed Bellowhead last night, especially as I've never seen them before but I'm going to see them in two weeks at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, but will be sitting in the balcony, not standing in the mosh pit! They sound like fun!

#30 Florence - yes, the likely new AB of C was formerly an "oil executive"



Bellowhead do sound like enormous fun.

Good Morning Each!



'Archie Wah Wah' by Desmond Dekker



'Dancin' In The Aisles' by Barry Manilow



'The Edge Of Heaven' by Wham



'Sharp Dressed Man' by ZZ Top



'The Keys Of Canterbury' by Show Of Hands

Morning Greetings Ter Mayo Man & ALL...



Bingo Star 'ere...



RE Yesterdee's Blog/ ALL Comments on cycling - A agree there's also a lot of bad cyclists out there who give a bad image for good cyclists.

There's good and bad from all walks of life.

MOST car drivers are considerate and safe it's just the one idiot that stands out like the taxi driver who ran me off the road on purpose!!!!!

Maybe he was on drugs or something - You never know what yer gonna meet out there!!!!!

Unfortunately it only takes that one idiot to cause an accident!!!!!!



I've seen cyclists running lights but i've seen cars AND lorries too!!!!!

In fact I've seen it all as a trucker.... Seen a car fly onto it's roof once... A school child get hit by a car.... A lorry tip over.... A cyclist crash.... Seen enough if i'd had a camera with me to make a couple of tv programmes!!!!!



As for cyclists.... Being a cyclist, a car driver and a trucker I have experience from all angles... I've seen cyclists come up the inside of my 44 tonne lorry... It's lucky I have seen them as in a truck yer have many blind spots.... But you just can't believe the stupidity.... We've all heard of cyclist being crushed under a lorry that's turning left accident and this is exaclty how it happens.

When i'm out cycling apart from wearing hi-viz clothing, having 2 rear lights and a front light I use simple common sense!!!!!! And follow the simple Highway Code!!!!

I try to help cars overtake me, never come up the inside of lorries and wait at red lights!!!!!!

And I give pedestrians respect and slow for them if on a cycle/ pedestrain path!!!!



Mostly that's going to and from work!!!!!!!



But thankfully I do most of my cycling on the wonderful Wirral where I've lived all my life.

The promenade is perfect for cycling.... most of it is a pedestrian/ cycle path away from the road!!!!!!

And the part that is on the road near Meols and Hoylake is a quieter back road that runs along the seafront!!!!!!

The ride I do I finish just before New Brighton - a round trip of nearly 13miles!!!!!

But we also have an extra section that goes round New Brighton then along the Mersey to Seacombe Ferry.... So maybe 18miles of mostly traffic free cycling!!!!!!!

And we have the old disused railway turned into the Wirral Way.

A beautiful foot/ cycle path from West Kirby along the beautiful River Dee with views over to Wales that finishes in Hooton... 11 miles long!!!!!

This is where I really enjoy my cycling and it's alot safer away from bad tempered or stupid motorists!!!!!!!!

I know I need to up my training.... I'm happy to just keep going up and down the same section of promenade - So VERY lucky to live in this area!!!!!



As for Wiggo just glad he is ok and will get better fast!!!!!!!!

An oil executive who put a tiger in your tank?



TIGER FEET - MUD of course.



Right, enough rubbish from me........I'm off out to the field with all my fresh faced newbees.



Catch you later. X

Blimey, this takes me back...



'Main Man' by T.Rex from the album The Slider...



includes in the lyrics, 'are you my main man' and 'are you a god man', so on that basis, it seems apt. You can draw a veil over lines like 'got giraffes in my hair'. Mind you, for all I know...

Morning all. Back at school today after the trials and tribulations of Midland Mainline yesterday!



Archbish oldies:

Keep the Faith - Bon Jovi

Save a Prayer - Duran Duran

Praying for Time - George Michael

PS Si Pal - For my show tune choice can a 'ave:



'ymn number 129... Section 4!!!!!!!



Ye Come O Ye Christ!!!!!!!!



Thank you and amen!

Shona - ha!



Tenuous at best but nevertheless oil related ...





THEME FROM LOCAL HERO - MARK KNOPFLER



THE WAY IT ALWAYS STARTS - MARK KNOPFLER & GERRY RAFFERTY

Hi all,

LIVING ON A PRAYER by Bon Jovi gets my vote too,

No time to hang around, fire drill imminent, Squeeze were mesmerising last night, with Labelled with love I was transported back to 1981 and all the life/world/experiences that lay ahead of me - most of which I'm happy to say I have managed and am still standing.



Not done yet though, bring it on.



Laters peeps,

oh and re the cycling theme, I'm happy to nuke the cyclists who dash across thru Red lights - a common theme here in Oxford - we usually lose about one a year.

My favourite retort as I politely wait at the lights for the GREEN for GO light is 'Red means stop on this planet buddy'!!

I also like to ring my bell loudly at the tourists who think all our city centre roads are pedestrianised... 'Ding a Ling' but that's just me.

For an ex industry man - its got to be "Beds Are Burning" by Midnight Oil !



Keep up the good work - 46 days to Christmas.

Quick bit of cappuccino inspiratino....



JESUS HE KNOWS ME - Genesis



PRAISE YOU - Fatboy Slim



HALLELUJAH - Rufus Wainwright or Jeff Buckley (but not the Leonard Cohen version)



PERSONAL JESUS - Depeche Mode



(LORD LIFT US) UP WHERE WE BELONG - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Somebody

(maybe that's been his special prayer to get promotion!)

Sister Josephine - Jake Thackray







Not enough Jake on't wireless...

JBG... I second your choice of HALLELUJAH by Jeff Buckley!!

Hello all a bit late to the blog today so have not read back, sorry for any repeats



AMAZING GRACE - JUDY COLLINS



GLORIA - THEM



I BELIEVE - FRANKIE LAINE or BACHELORS



MY SWEET LORD -GEORGE HARRISON



HIGHER LOVE - STEVE WINWOOD

Thanks Florence - I've just been listening to it again, such an incredibly powerful song.

hi all



GOD ONLY KNOWS-BEACH BOYS



ROGER WHITTAKER-DURHAM TOWN



LIKE A PRAYER-MADONNA



CHURCH OF A POISON MIND-CULTURE CLUB



MY SWEET LORD-GEORGE HARRISON

#41 John - me 3 on Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah - it is one of my favourite songs but also the one most likely to make me cry.



Also agree about Leonard Cohen.



No prizes for guessing what I'm listening to at the moment! The version on the Live At Sin-é album.

I can only think of



ONE OF US - Joan Osborne (What if God was one of us etc)

and

CHURCH OF YOUR HEART - Roxette



I don't think Church of the Poisoned Mind works that well....

#47 amelia - well, I wasn't going to admit that,but I did have to put the Rufus Wainwright version on pause, as I seemed to get a speck of dust or something in my eye...



#48 Jeffrey - I was going to suggest that Culture Club song too, but also decided it was just too wrong!



TRUE FAITH - New Order, would seem to fit nicely though.

#46 Arthur, it was no comment on your selections BTW! I thought I was being salacious by even mentioning it and then I read back to see you'd actually suggested it!

"So your Holiness, the listeners have chosen 'Church of the Poisoned Mind' as sung by the most extrovertly gay man of our time - I see you are against gay marriage - Enjoy!"



Such fun.

#50 / 49 / 46 Oops, I hadn't seen that too.



*drops spade*

Sorry, probably really bad of me but I have never heard of Bishop Welby, so my only suggestion would be:



WHO ARE YOU? - THE WHO



Listened to the 'Squeeze' section of last night's show again. So good.

#49 John - you have to watch out for these pesky specks of dust



#50 Jeffrey - I like the idea of choosing songs that will never get played! Although most of my choices fall into that basket anyway.



Wonder what the new ABC thought of Obama's speech yesterday.



Off out for lunch.

DEEP PURPLE - NINO TEMPO AND APRIL STEVENS

Harvest for the World (or, indeed anything else) by the Christians

"Sister Josephine" or "Chapel lead is missing" by the Barron Knights



There a classical guitar piece called La Catedral but I cannot immediately think who wrote it.

Eton Rifles, The Jam. Why? The new ABC, The PM and the Chancellor all went to Eton.

#52. Hmm. Not very helpful really. New motto for Hoffs: If I can't blog a sensible suggestion (apart from positive comments about Squeeze) then I shouldn't blog at all.



Have good afternoons all x

.....Apart from I BELIEVE IN JESUS - DONNA SUMMER.

#56. Sorry; it was the Mayor of London, not he Chancellor. Oops!

There seem to be lots of new bloggers today - welcome - the more the merrier!



It has been a busy day so far - nothing very exciting but time-filling. Just sat down for some lunch and to catch up with the blog.



I like 'Hallelujah' by Jeff Buckley but I hope it's not chosen as it was played at the funeral of my stepson (The Mr's son) and it can make him quite morose (understandably) and I don't like seeing him like that when there is nothing I can do to help.



Goodness, getting very deep today....



JW

My slightly off the wall selection:-



HEAVEN MUST HAVE SENT YOU - THE ELGINS

BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW - KYLIE MINOGUE

NATURAL SINNER - FAIRWEATHER

REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE - THE FOUR TOPS

I'M A BELIEVER - THE MONKEES

LET'S ALL CHANT - MICHAEL ZAGER

YOU'RE THE VOICE - JOHN FARNHAM



The Ambulance Chaser

Hi Simon and everyone



Late today as painting our dojo!



Congrats to all memshes last night.





Thanks for mine Simon.



1. King of a catholic style - China Crisis

2. A better man - Brian Kennedy or robbie williams

3. Church of poisoned mind - Culture Club

4. Praise you - Fatboy slim

5. Harvest for the world - The christians

6.Fairh - George Michael

7. True Faith - New Order

8. My sweet lord - George Harrison

9. God only knows - Beach Boys

10. Pray - Take That



Laters



Mandy

#52, I had never heard of him either.



In May, The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr Rowan Williams led the service at our little village (not far from Canterbury) - tiny CofE in that he had a Sunday free and he is friends with the new woman vicar. I thought his service was excellent, I could listen to his BBCish fluid baritone voice all morning and he dressed down, wearing a plain,nondescript miter (if there is such a thing) and robe. I'm sorry to see him leave, for me, the lone voice of common man reason amongst the Royals and Westminster Eton Toffs. Btw, I'm now hopping off my soapbox.

Late lunch for me.....and a late suggestion:





WE MITRES WELL BE STRANGERS - Keane





*hitches up cassock and legs it*

Hello to all new bloggers and those who visit occasionally - lovely to see you - do stay and chat.



Hoffs - what on earth was wrong with your Who suggestion? I thought it was good and sensible - he is the surprise choice (could I think of a song that would fit being a surprise choice - no I couldn't) and relatively unknown.



Gazza - you have gone all capitals for a change - almost didn't recognise you there!

PERSONAL JESUS by Depeche Mode

is a good song but unlikely to get a hearing....bit late to the melee.



Enjoy the show all, off for a pizza and a Big Band gig - well, it is 'Friday night'

(Don't panic Mr Mainwearing, only 'Friday night' to me as I don't work Fridays!!)

#64 'Hitches up cassock and legs it' Ha de hahaha (images of Benny Hill for some reason)

#61 The Monkees! BRILL

ps you should get that ambulance to tail a few cyclists, they are seemingly easy targets at the moment...#2 in the news now...

Can we assume Welby will be anointed with oil?

#68... Haha Scotch Git... what exactly did he do in the oil industry?

3-worders from Suzy and Ken - slightly contrasting days!



Haha Scotch Git!

#67 Suzieeeee... since everything seems to come in threes, who will be the third famous/celeb cyclist to be knocked down?



Today's pics: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7258/8167225673_a5ab78c5ab_c.jpg



https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8208/8167231207_301880fcd9_c.jpg



Three word Thursday.... 'Christy Moore tonight' :o))

#68 - perhaps that's why the first record on the show was 'There's a man works down the chip shop...'



Pleased to see he's now playing a tune by (the other) Mr R Palmer...

ABC tune



Bad Ambassador by the Divine Comedy.



It's a great track and contains the lyric



"archbishop of canterbury"



Cheers



Matt in March

A three-worder? Blimey, my first ever. I got back into my car two minutes too late to hear it!



Now sitting here in the foyer of The Stables, way too early as usual, and shall invest the profits in Matraca Berg's first two albums if they have them on the merchandise table.

Hurrah for who ever chose Roger Whittaker.



Wonderful :)

I think - feel free to correct me - well done all



Billy for ABC

PCM for Eton Rifles

No one for Faith

Zoe for Genesis

Florence for Durham

Billy for ABC

PCM for Eton Rifles

No one for Faith

Zoe for Genesis

Florence for Durham

Scotch Git for Lyle Lovett



>8-D

Ooh well done Scotch Git for the country show stopper! Not one I knew but enjoyed it! Glad Roger was played and well done to Flo for the menshe. Heard a few of the other oldies but missed the menshes but well done all above in #77.

What a fabulous day, albeit I've been indoors decorating the smallest room in the house!



So, to make amends, I've just been on a bike ride (yes in the dark) down to the seafront. It was so peaceful, waves just lapping in, fishing boats bobbing up and down and not a soul in sight!



Bliss :)

That sounds wonderful Sal! I'm jealous..........



Well done to the menshees tonight.



See you tomorrow



JW

It was wonderful Jennie, but also a therapeutic reason behind it.



Things work a lot better, if I keep on moving them.



Time for my gluten free pizza. That wont make anyone envious ;)

11th COMMANDMENT ~ THOU SHALT NOT COVERT THY NEIGHBOURS PIZZA

Do enjoy Sal, the last one I tried to eat was sabotaged by my mogpoppet. (grrrr)



Just home now from my first rehersal for the local 'am dram' panto. For much of the time I felt 'why am I here?, I could be at home snuggled up on the sofa'. I suspect I will enjoy it more when we start with the singing, as this seems to be the thing ive been drafted in for (you have a good voice, our chorus is lacking, please come join us).



Guess I should turn in then.

~gill~

Just back from seeing the wonderful Christy Moore and having a cup of tea and a Tunnocks Tea Cake.



Well done to blopoppets' tunes I heard earlier... Billie, Scotch Git and Zoe, and thanks for my Durham Town. I enjoyed the showstopper but didn't realise until I saw Scotch Git's list that it was Scotch Git's choice!



Sal, your bike ride sounded peaceful... and now and again I walk the dogs along the beach in the dark, mostly when the moon is bright and reflects on the water, but like you, I enjoy the sound of waves lapping at the edge of the beach.



I'm not sure about your pizza but what is the difference in the taste or texture?....

hi all



ive been to durham loads of times been in the cathederal and the castle and been to greggs before thay branched out to the whole of the uk,the cathederal has got 2 door knockers in the shape of lions heads.ive also been to canterbury cathederal i went on a school trip to kent in 1984 i remember that week well because watford were in the fa cup final and we were watching it at the motel we were staying 4 the week,i met the archbiship of canterbury when we were there he came and said hello to us,it was the teacher who said it was the archbishop i didnt know who he was but saw him on tv and reconized him it was robert runcie.

Well done Florence for Roger Whittaker - long time since I've heard that. Only problem (with the song, not the choice of it) is that it goes on about the Tyne which is guaranteed to upset all those from Durham which is on the Wear. i suppose that has to go down as poetic licence !



Congrats to all the others who got a name call last night.



Just realised that no one suggested the Pink Panther theme - because as everyone knows, he comes from....



Durham, durham, durham, durham, durham...



I'll get my coat.

Good morning all - bit grey so far, but the birds are all up and about, squabbling over the feeders.



Can I ask why CE has guests on his show and proceeds to try and get them to give him the answers he has just discovered the previous day by reading his/her book and keeps doing a Jeremy Paxman by saying "Come on!" Not exactly Parkie is he?!



JW

Thanks for the mention again - usually switch to Classic FM on the Friday drive home. Need some purging as am forced to listen to Radio 1 at work. Nick Grimshaw is quite funny, Fern is ok, but by the time Scott Mills comes on, I've usually lost the will to live. Am far too old to get his innuendo bingo. need to ask Ffather Christmas for a new phone with FM Radio. (Cant get DAB at work).



Have a good weekend everyone.

PCM - how dreadful, the inane chat must drive you mad. I suppose the only small saving grace is that it isn't commercial radio with unbearable ads!



Can't you just use a small portable radio with a headphone socket rather than a phone? I never had very good experiences trying to get FM radio on phones in the past but they may have improved.

#87 - I have a N***A phone which has FM radio and very little else - no camera, touchscreens, internet etc and it is really cheap and works very well - does all I want anyway!



JW

Good Morning from a wet & windy Anglesey ............

Good morning Billie - it doesn't look very hopeful here at the moment.........



JW

How sad!



Going to the puter every few minutes to check if the blog has changed ...........

Good morning ladies



Grey and dull here in Surrey but no rain ... yet!



Just to give non-twitterers the heads up, over there Simon has deemed the ARFO should come from 1978.



Thinking caps on and see you over the page x

Thanks Jilly!

Morning all



Busy busy week, so no blogging for me so far!



Apparently a blog has been written but has disappeared in the BBC's chaos per our glorious leader.



Hopefully it will appear soon but as Jilly says it is for an ARFO from 1978.



A



PS This time next week several bloggers incl me, will be on the phones taking calls for the Radio 2 jukebox for Children in Need.