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Go get the jotter again Gaie!

I hate drivers who get all het up over every little misdemeanor of other drivers. Being a perfectly placid driver myself, today as I drove on the outside lane of a dual carriageway I became aware of some loud horn blaring on my inside. I glanced across to find a young driver gesticulating at me with his right hand. Judging by his hands motion, I thought he was asking me to put my seat belt on but it was already on fast and secure. I honestly have no idea why he was gesticulating unless I had inadvertently veered two inches towards his lane.

Anyway, one second he was shouting over to me and calling me what I don't know as my window was not open. Suddenly he wasn't there. He'd ran into the car in front of him at a roundabout. As i looked in my rear view mirror he was still blasting his horn and flashing his lights. Goodness knows what his poor victim must have thought.

Although i feel sorry for his victim i did feel a warm satisfied glow for the eejit.

so for my satisfied moment of the week
The Bump / Kenny.

#2

Paolo,

The poor chap was obviously asking you to request a song on his behalf!

#3

Hmmm, that Vapours song by the sound of it.

FRIDAY


I must have had worse weeks, but I can't remember when! The highlight of this one was a funeral. Well, at least I got to see my baby sister and my cousins in Fife.

Only one song will cut it...

- George Jones


Keep it Country!

paolo, not sure I can be bothered. Did you notice how they've devised a cunning ploy to sideline 'The bloggers' by playing one song and saying it's for us all.

Mind you, if we're having a night of 'not the usual hits' next week that's at least something often suggested and up till now ignored.

It's been a busy, busy, busy week. All being well the best bit should be tomorrow 3.00pm when I stop for a week and start thinking about heading to the Isle of Rum for a couple of days. A place that feels to me like

Going Home - Bert Jansch

not too late, GIO, to pay tribute to a great musician.

#4

Not Chris de Burgh?

Henri,

Ricky Ross is covering for Bob Harris.

If only 'twere the ither way aboot...


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I have had a superb week. Have enjoyed all the music this week on the show as well. I will think of a suitable tune and post it right

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Absolute Beginners by David Bowie
Lessons In Love by Level 42
Addicated To Love by Robert Palmer
When The Going Gets Tough, by Billy Ocean
Stuck With You by Huey Lewis & The News
Higher Love by Steve Winwood

by the time you lot have worked it out we'll have arrived 'Living In America by James Brown' and will have started celebrating ;-) please get one of them on!

#3 and #4
Yep that's the ones.

Heard madmac get another menshie tonight but he's still missing from these pages. And wheres DC and Mr Handley or have they changed their names to Bry Nylon and Laura from the borders?

#10

25th anniversary?

Tough theme.

Couldn't think of anything this week. Just like last week and most probably next week.

If I Can Dream - Elvis Presley

Pretty unremarkable week for me, boringly normal I guess, think I like it that way though.

Oldest offspring returns home from Uni for a week which will be nice, family all together again, yeah that's my highlight.

Daughters / John Mayer

Cherrelle & Alexander O'Neal / Saturday Love

And a wee tip of my baseball cap to my fellow bloggers.

Keep on Truckin / Eddie Kendricks

or perhaps more appropriately

One Nation Under a Groove - Funkadelic

Have a good weekend folks,
Al.

I'm well-into what is traditionally my busiest period of the year at work, and I'm getting too old for this working overtime business...and, what with the MOD being broke an' all, I'm expected to do it for time-off instead of dosh!!! Hmmm! Not a great week really...except...this lot came to town and cheered-up my dull little life immeasurably even if only for one luscious-string and latin-rythm filled evening...

Thank God for Pink Martini!...and thank God too for The Scottish Chamber Orchestra who joined in the fun and looked as if they were having an even better time than the 'little orchestra' (as the band describe themselves).

Any of these would add to my joy at this working week being over...

'Sympathique' (instantly recognisable from an advert...one of the band's own compositions but sounds like Charles Trenet could've sung it)

'Lily'

'Let's Never Stop Falling In Love'

#8

Well, I haven't listened to 'Whispering Bob' for decades but I am a fan of Rikki as a presenter and more particularly as an interviewer. Ironically, his non- music shows are his best.The singing voice and the song lyrics I struggle with, just a tad.

I'm sure he'll do a great job on the Bob Harris strand.

regardez youse

henri

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I find him irritating. I guess the people who decide such things must agree with you, otherwise he wouldn't have been offered the gig.

#10

Rocky Balboa convention?


#12
DC will be tucking into a "delight"ful kebab even as we speak.

Have had a great week, been "training" with the SPL Club that I support for 6 weeks now out of a 12 week programme. Hit the weight loss target for the half way point so I'm pleased, feeling good, enjoying the exercise and all the rest of it.

The Kinks - Better Days

Maria McKee - Opelousas (Sweet Relief)

#16

huge 2nd for anything by Pink Martini - on the foreign language stuff 'Autrefois' is fabby.

#20

Much more of this, and they'll be offering you a game! Well done!

regardez youse

henri

#21.

Autrefois is indeed fabby.

'Sympathique' is pretty apt though..."Je ne veux pas travailler"...exactly how I feel today.

'And Then You're Gone' was also a highlight on Tuesday!

had chips for the first time in ages this week ...

'Chip' ~~ The Real McKenzies

Reasons to be cheerful these days are few and far between but I was pleasantly surprised by a witty and charming Woody Allen film.Yes you read right.After a decade of dross Woody Allen has got his mojo back with the delightful "Midnight in Paris"Mind you,I had been to see Lars vonTrier's much vaunted gloomfest"Melancholia" previously and found it brainfreezingly tedious."Melancholia "makes Tarkovsky's similarly themed "The Sacrifice"(a masterpiece but sloooow)look like Tarantino.I'm dragging someone to see to see "Midnight in Paris "again today !Would be cool to go native (musically speaking)and hear Juliette Greco's "La Javanaise"if not the either Madeline Peyroux 's lovely cover or Joni Mitchell's 2

Or Joni Mitchell's "Free Man in Paris"! Sorry hurrying to the GFT!Cheers,Willie Bartke

OK, 3.00pm's past and I'm now on holiday. Yipee. Sort of. It's not been the best of weeks - various pieces of news concerning folks near to me - but I guess I'm fit and well and very grateful for that so

How Happy I am - The Incredible String Band

and thanks, Kene for sorting out tea - Chip would be good!

It's been more of the same this week - but there was some light relief this morning when I realised that the morons were on holiday, which, chaotic as that makes the house with them loafing about causing a mess and staying up half the night -does have one big bonus.

In the morning, You get in the car. You drive from Milngavie to our offices in St George's Cross. Straight. Next to no traffic.The lights go for you.Brilliant. Stereo up, whizzing along.Just great.A joy to go to work when that happens. A joy to be driving a car.

fianlly...

Cars - the Leisure Society

regardez youse

henri

i just cannae wait for this week's highlight.
it'll be the same as last week's and the week before that and before that.
let me explain.
i am 'dale-cinema-taxis'. (no irony)
so the passenger likes to go to the cinema when its quiet and i get to do the taxi run at about 2.00am each saturday/sunday morning.
and there is nothing more surreal than seeing they girls at that time in the morning wi' their bare legs.
but that's not what i find disturbing.
it's more the fact that they're in their bare feet. (all weathers)
total cripples wi' they big heels they thought was a good idea at 6.00pm the previous evening.
i can just hear the conversation at the royal A&E.....'don't tell me, ye fell aff yer shoes, right?'

so there's this absolutely brilliant song about it.
why isn't this on radio more often (although there is a station in glasgow that plays it)

'bare legged girls of glasgow'..............the icing

cheers frae the dale

I had a couple of extremely busy days at work then succumbed to man flu. The highlight of the week for me is that I can now almost breath normally now. Anything by Menthol as Anyrhing would be good ☺

I've been trying to keep warm so The Cardigans would be appropriate ☺

Either 'My Favourite Game' or 'Erase/Rewind' would aid my recovery...

The statue of Christ on the Corcovado celebrated its 80th birthday this week. The Beeb did a photo special on it:

/news/world-latin-america-15273226

(I bide on the jutty oot bit, on the left, on picture 8)

One of Bryan's faves will do the trick:

"I Go To Rio" - Peter Allen

I see ericinelgin has sneaked into photo 5

#29

'A's ma joke.

#31-2

When you're weary o' Rio your weary o' life.

#21 Henri ~ whilst I doubt it watch this space! :oD

If I told someone I'd met Jim Bradfield from the Manics and they sounded as unimpressed as Bryan just did I'd have smacked him

All We Make is Entertainment - Manic Street Preachers

for Mandy who did at least have a real highlight this week

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tha mi duilich

Mandi

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That's easy for you to say...