SO SHE SAID TO HIM, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE ?" AND HE SAID, "I'M LOOKING FOR A WIFE," AND SHE SAID, "WILL I DO ?".... SOMETIMES IT'S A S SIMPLE AS THAT.
Well good mighty me, how are you all today ?
Last night I went out for dinner with the fox and her hubby, a fine man by the name of Frederico. We had a wonderful time.
We went to my favorite restau' (as the French say), the faire is of a good standard but the most important thing is, that they look after you, really really well.
Nigel, our food and drinks man from the show, joined us, along with two other friends of mine.
It was one of those nights where the company was of such quality and so easy that you didn't have to worry about anyone having a good time. We were all foodies and we all knew how to hold up our own end of a decent conversation. Four of the six of us had never even met before but it was always going to be swell.
It turned out to be so swell that after the meal was over, desserts grappa and all, we went to a pub for a "last orders" pint of guiness. Bliss.
One more pint on and approaching midnight and everyone seemed to agree that it might be a good idea to go home.
It was at this point that Rebecca remarked upon the fact that I hadn't stopped smiling all night. She was right, I could feel it in my cheeks, she said I was "de-mob happy" because I was coming into two weeks off. Actually she was wrong, I was just happy anyway but her comment struck a dormant chord.
The rest of the gang took to organising their carriages home but with the "de-mob" thought fresh in my mind, I decided to go onwards not homewards !
Having secured the company of a wing man, I headed off deep into the night, toward the heart of my beloved Soho.
I used to tear it up all the time in Soho but nowadays I hardly ever go out which makes it all the more enjoyable and naughty.
From jumping in the cab to getting home, I think I had no more than three drinks but my goodness me I just can't do it anymore. I no longer get hangovers, it's more likel I've been poisoned. I feel wretched and ill.
I'm sat here now, late for my blog, having missed golf, with a head like a ton weight but am I happy ? Well yes I am.
I did nothing wrong, at least not to my knowledge. I woke up alone, always a result, and it appears, I undressed myself and even brushed my teeth !
My pal is asleep on the sofa with a smile on his face. I shall awake him and then...
Our mission ? To go for a massive walk over Hampstead Heath, it's the best view of the city one could ever wish for, we'll go to the cafe, have the £4.95 spag bol., back home around lunch time, a quick look at the Telegraph crossie, check out the cricket and then off to work to hear what you're all up to at the weekend.
Maybe I am de-mob happy after all.
What a life, what a laugh.
Lots of love and loads of potatoes, x.
Comments
Great food, great company, what a great life!
But Grappa? No wonder you need 2 weeks off.
Have a great time. Look forward to seeing you down the Roman Road.
JP
What can i say,
Just started to listen to your show Chris and it's fantastic. The gang you have working for you are great too. Happy days are here again.
Hope you all have a fab weekend.
Morning all
Last day of my training course in the smoke. Home to the loved ones in the countryside this evening & am I ever looking forward to it! Last night I was kept awake by the woman in the next room who's partner was apparently making her very happy, but I'm not going to complain about someone being happy! Everyone should be happy! AS Chris said "What a life, what a laugh"
As was said the other day, being happy is a mind set. It's good being happy, and once you're in that mind set then you look at the positives all around and it's hard to remember why you were ever sad. I'm even looking forward to the long drive home because I know Chris and the gang will be there to keep me company.
Thanks again.
TTFN
Chris
It sounds like a fab night out and I'm so jealous. there is nothing better than a good meal, in good company and then moving on to a favoured, trusted place for the rest of night. I spent the evening in the company of a mortgage advisor and worrying about buying a new house.
Looking forward to your show tonight - summery tunes please so that the weather might get the hint.
Love Alison xxx
mmmmmm Guiness.....
I noticed that no-one had posted a comment on your blog probably because you wrote it late this morning, therfore I thought I'd write alittle something...
As I write this my furture brother-in-law Simon is telling about his ordeal last night at work witnessing a guy who only wears a loin cloth and boots!!! He's 65...it reminded me of my time in hospital, being around an elderley guy who only wore a trenchcoat and nothing else...maybe it's an elderly thing to wear very little?
I woke up at 6am this morning and thought of an idea for a future t.v programme if you ever wanted to use it...What part is the body is the smellest? You could parade 5 bodyparts in-front of 5 blind-folded people and get them to detect which is which only by smell? It came to me after needing a pee this morning and a nosebleed - not a nice thought but it happened therefore it goes on in life.
So your drinks night out was last night, mine is tonight? Thursday night used to be the Friday 10 years ago but now it's probably Thursday, Friday and Saturday as people try and de-stress!
I think you should ask punters to come up with a title for your blog e.g. "Top of the Blogs" or "On the Blog" or "Blog & Roll"?
Have a great one!
JC
Chris & fellow bloggers
You tale was fun to read. All going well until you mentioned grappa. Not good that stuff! And then Soho well that picked it all up didn't it!
Looking forward to the show I'll be listening over the net today!
Cheers (but not with grappa!)
what a great feeling being de-mob happy!!!
I'm off for a week after today, trying to clear the desk and clear the mind.
Great to have a week off with nothing much planned, probably go up to the lakes and climb a few hills.
Told the girlfriend that we're also going to plant potatoes for Xmas!!!!
First time I've posted, but read the blogs every day... soon as I get into the office, turn on the PC and read the blog... reading these really makes you think about what is important in life.
Cheers Chris, great show, great blog!!!
Paul
Well good for you Mr Christophe - 2 weeks jollies
You have cheered every one up every evening after stressful days so off you go and have a well wicked time
I have had a bottle of grappa on my sideboard for a couple of years - does anyone know a suitable cocktail to put it in as I can't stand the thought of it neat!
Sal
Hi Christophe,
Firstly I just want to send a virtual cool flannel to your hungover head. It sounded a really lovely evening - Nigel is fascinating.
As virgin blog contributor I wanted to add my congrats for the show. It's got better and better (I do still smile at your first day in JW's seat - it didn't go terribly well did it?!!) I listen most days as my 4 and nearly 2 yr old son and daughter make our noisy way through teatime, bath and bed. So naturally I don't get to hear all of it! However, it has become a little 'hill' for me - I am now 8m pregnant with number 3 and when the 5-7pm shift with Charlie and Imogen has gotten too much, I lie on the bed as they bounce, collide and mess about. It's still noisy, but we're all having fun and I'm comfy and I just about still manage to get to listen to the show! So there you are...
I also wanted to add how amazing yesterdays blog is. With the imminent arrival of offspring no. 3 I often wonder how I'll cope. The children themselves can occasionally be one of my hills, but quite often not! So will endeavour to keep it all in perspective as and when it's needed - because our life is amazing and we are so blessed. Thanks for the inspiration!
Have a great day and a super couple of weeks off. You'll be much missed!
xSuzy
Wow - first to comment today. What do I say? The only thought that occured to me reading this post was how right you are when you describe what a hangover feels like when you get out of the way of enjoying a good drink on a regular basis, and of course, as we get older! In fact, it's probably the latter that's the issue rather than the lack of practice.
On a wider note, I'd just like to say how much I'm enjoying both show and blog.
Have great holiday.
Hi Chris.
I'm the Editor of a couple of magzines up here in Yorkshire. They're modest publications but I love them. The Barnsley Eye and The Huddersfield Eye.
I'm a very big fan of the show and each night on my drive home I feel the urge to get in touch so I can do a feature on you and your broadcasting renaissance. I haev to confess to not liking your previous work but you now seem to be genuinely enjoying life and braodcasting and I actually look forward to the drive home nowadays. THe stuff on mental anf physical well being is really good and the interaction with the other contributors comes across as genuinely warm and unaffected. I loved Johnnie Walker but you've taken the show on a step further.
Please drop us a line if you can answer a couple of questions for me, I do understand it needs to happen today.
glad to hear of your very sociable evening with suitably sociable friends. Hate to say it Christophe, but 40 is a funny age with alcohol. I remember my husband - a regular drinker since his teens - reaching his forties and convinced his vodka had been poisoned, until he suffered the same effect the next time and then the next. He soon learned what was to blame; he is now pushing 70 and has never got back to his pre-40 drinking days.
Enjoy the demob.
by the way - does the potato bin have to have holes in the bottom?
Teresa
Hi everyone!
My last entry said that you inspire me but I have to say that I am not inspired to drink until I feel poisoned. I have been on a slippery slope to sobriety since I entered my thirties. I just can't drink like I used to. I have begun to realise that it is the quality that is important not the quantity.
The meal and company that you had last night sound amazing and I am dreadfully jealous as I sat in last night while hubbie was at work and ate baked beans on toast. Don't sit too close to me today!
I liked the show yesterday and I thought that I would tell you how my mum and dad met (sorry but I can't text in as I am always driving when your show is on!). My dad was working as a hospital porter with a mate during the summer holidays from university and my mum was a nurse at said hospital. My mum had a red headed friend and it looked like a double-date was on the cards. The only problem being who would go out with whom? My dad fancied the redhead but picked my mum's name from the hat. Hey presto! 16 years of marriage and 2 daughters followed before the divorce. Who knows if my dad had picked the redhead's name I could have been a redhead rather than a brunette!
Having a BBQ tomorrow with some friends and their children. Never mind the weather it is the company that counts!
Love 'n' stuff
Ali
Chris
Ive got 2327 songs on my ipod. When i turn it on i never know what to listen to because i want to listen to all of them. So i am going to listen to all of them from start to finish. This is really exciting because i was browsing and there is loads of stuff on there i never even new i had. How did it get there? i wonder how long it will take me?
Hi All
What a joy it is to first read your words Chris, then the ensuing postings, what a jolly bad we are and doesn't it give you a great insight into the fact the world just might not be that bad a place after all. The pleasures in life can be oh so simple, but oh so fine. It isn't the bigger picture, that the trendies are always harping on about but the details, the individual brush strokes of life; a good meal with friends, a walk, planting potatoes......that is living. its not getting to the destination but the joy of the journey every step along the way.
Off to plan where I am going to put my potatoes.
Happy journeys all
Demelza D x
Have a fab jolly holiday Christophe, you deserve it. Will miss you though!
Take care everyone - have a fab weekend,
xxx
Sounds like a good evening, you need to blow the smoke out of your ears every know and then!
The best laid plans are not planned... Evenings out in the pub when you know you should be at home... Superb times, hassle free, laughing like your 6 again!
Well just a short post today!
Have a good holiday (hope you've broken in the new boots you bought!... OUCH!)
see you on the flip side!
Hi Chris
You've managed to get me back to radio 2 again. I really enjoy the show/blog and was disappointed to see it was late this morning. Not to worry, you had a good excuse. Can you really grow potatoes in a bin bag? Enjoy your holiday.
I turned 40 last year and it's amazing how the body suddenly turns on you. like your night last night, I have done the one too many and had the most wonderful time of it but the head next day tries very hard to convince me otherwise!!
I have a chilli dip recipe, by the way, that seriously cures hangovers,I don't know if it's the soy or the fact that your mouth is burning so much your brain completely forgets about the head that makes it work, but boy it works.
Happy Hols Christophe
Enjoy
a good MORNING chris what a goodnight you had then out with the fox and friends sounds great.
so two weeks off soon well enjoy the time off.
right i'm off to listen to some Tunes and see what i can scavenge for lunch a bit later in a foxy way!
catch u later
have a Fabtstastic weekend from me too
fellow Bloggers on the Shlog.
and i'll be tuning in @ 5:05pm for the show.
the fox johnnie and the queen of Traffic Sally
Grappa???? My god! I wonder why is starts with a "g" and not a "c"! That's what it does to you!! We went to Rome a couple of years ago and thebhotel where we stayed had a selection of about 90 differenet grappas. My partner wanted to try them all - but, oh no, not I!!! He had to cope with the rotten hangover on his own! But that's what a good night out is all about - good food, good company - perfect. Looking forward to the show tonight. Happy potato growing! LJ xx :-)
Grappa???? My god! I wonder why is starts with a "g" and not a "c"! That's what it does to you!! We went to Rome a couple of years ago and the hotel where we stayed had a selection of about 90 differenet grappas. My partner wanted to try them all - but, oh no, not I!!! He had to cope with the rotten hangover on his own! But that's what a good night out is all about - good food, good company - perfect. Looking forward to the show tonight. Happy potato growing! LJ xx :-)
PS You need the homeopathic remedy Nux Vomica 30c for your hangover, you can get it from health food type shops and chemists. Its a total wonder cure, can be taken the morning after but best if taken before you go out on the binge, then, if you can rember, when you get home before you collapse in bed.
As a 40 year old, student homeopath, I wouldn't drink without it, my alcohol tolerent days are long gone!!!!!
Hiya Chris
What a fab way to spend an evening!
Good food, good company, good vibes!
Have a fantastic holiday, there is nothing quite like that de-mob feeling, is there?
love n licks
orrie and the dogs
Hi Chris
What a positive, inspiring blog - have just started reading it today.
The grappa - are you mad - i was laughed out of a beautiful bistro under a bridge in Venice for nearly choking on grappa - not good for my irish reputation!!
Enjoy your walking holiday.
AM
Hello Chris, et al.
Have just read yesterday's and today's blogs - fab as usual.
You're so right, it's so important to make time for life and yourself.
I think the late, great, Warren Zevon, of 'Werewolves of London' fame, put it best. When he knew he was dying of cancer, he was asked in an interview for his philosophy of life. His amazing answer was "enjoy every sandwich" and the more I think about that, the deeper it gets. A credo to live by.
Looking forward to All Request Friday. You should call it ARF and then all the other days could be Not ARF.
All the best, mate, enjoy your holiday.
Malcolm
Hey Chris!
My hangovers have been getting worse as I get older, so I've been making enquiries about organic wine. I've been led to believe that the headache the day after isn't so bad as there are fewer chemicals involved. Does anyone know if this is true? Haven't actually tested the theory yet, but would be grateful for any helpful advice!
Have a wonderful holiday, Chris - enjoy your walking - I'm very envious as this is the first year (in about ten) that I haven't had a walking holiday. Must get around to organising one for next year.
Take care everyone, have a fab weekend!
xxx
Hello!
Chris, I have one thing to say to you on your self-poisoning/hangover – French Onion Soup!!
Apart from that, have a great two weeks off and look forward to reading your blog and hearing you on the drive home in September.
Have a good one, everyone
PS – I fear that there will be a lot of people suffering withdrawal symptoms from not being able to read your blog first thing in the morning…….
Christoff Lammy pie.
love the show the blog and the Shlog
as well as growing potatoes in dustbins why dont you grow some leeks in a drain pipe ???
KEEP IT UP
Drew
"think I had no more than three drinks but my goodness me I just can't do it anymore. I no longer get hangovers, it's more likel I've been poisoned. I feel wretched and ill."
I know what you mean :-)
A couple of days ago a colleague re-introduced me to grappa. Having only had a brief exposure some years ago in Venice, I'd decided it was gruesome stuff and I'd never touch it again.
What a difference a good Grappa can make! It was fab.
Hungover today. Only had 4 or 5 bottles [beer!] too. Must be getting old :-)
Just discovered I can listen to the show on the tinternet at work, having been listening to the podcasts for the last few weeks. Great show, great blog. Carry on :)
Hello Chris,
I get such a warm glow reading your blog and comments. It's nice to know that we are all singing from the same hymn book.
I had a good old imprmptu social last night as four friends descended upon me. Luckily I always keep a well stocked wine rack. I forced myself :) to drink a whole bottle of red. I'm favouring a Beaujolais at the mo. I always prefer the French stuff in the summer and it's one of a few red wines that can be drunk chilled. I managed to escape the dreaded hangover as I always drink a pint of water with a Berocca (vit C) tablet in it before bedtime. Not sure it would win the battle against Grappa though!
I cobbled meal together from the very limited foodstuffs available in my kitchen including the remains of last weeks organic veg box. I love to feed people and am surprisingly creative when I have to pull something out of the bag. With the support of friends Joe and Joe (who played some quality music on acoustic guitars and kept my glass topped up) I battled in the kitchen and really did myself proud. I dished up vanilla ice cream with figs, banana and honey for dessert but it went down a treat!
We went on into the small hours.......we ladies requesting songs from the very talented guitar playing men which we shamelessly murdered with our drunken wailing and messy dancing. It was a fantastic night. I love that impromptu stuff....
I too am in 'de-mob' mode as I have the next two weeks off of work. What a feeling! I'll spend the next week camping in Dorset with 6 mates and 8 children. The following week a friend and I will be walking an ickle bit of the the South-West Path (a 630 mile coastal walk from Poole to Minehead). We shall start at Poole and see how far we get and camp or B&B each night. 50 miles will be our max. It's just for pleasure. We may go back next year for the next leg. I just can't wait to take in that amazing rugged coastal scenery and then get some of that west country cider down my neck. I'd walk all day just for that.
I wish you and your pals lots of happy holiday fun and and look forward to hearing your report and musings upon my return.
Keep up the smiling.
Debs xxx
Well it is becoming part of my daily routine to readthe blog post a comment, like so many others! I wonder if they ever get read? If you ever readthem? What it must feel like to inspire so many, and so many to actually be interested in your daily thoughts andthen feeling the need to add to them, to be heard!!!
You seemed to have one of my favourite evenings. Dinner with friends! I am doing exactly that this evening and cant wait!
It takes a big man to be happy through a hangover, you should be proud!!
I am visiting London for the weekend in november. I am picking my friend up from the airport aftershe has been discoveringthe world for a year. I am not picking her up untill sunday butdecided to take the opportunity to loose mysewlf for a couple of days, its so rare i find myself able, being a singled mother with a 2 year old and full time job! I would love any suggestions from anyone on how to entertain myself for two days in the big smoke??
em25xx
Hey Chris,
Great blog - interesting and inspiring post! I am hankering after my hill in Cornwall - who knows!
As for the hangover/poisoning - I completely sympathise. Short of a blood transfusion, the best option i have found is milkthistle - take before the festivities and after with water - helps to ease the strain on your liver!
Have a great holiday!
Morning Chris,
Mmmmmmmwah! ( a little nibble....and a teasing lip-tug on your left earlobe ) .....
There's very little can beat a good night out in London with friends, I can remember my last night out there, with such clarity ... we had a fab time..... September last year ( gosh is it really that long ago) , a gig at the Old Drill Hall, followed by diner with friends- somewhere nearby. London is such a warm friendly place at night - the pubs seem to spill out, making lounge bars of the streets. Unlike yourself Chris , I have, no clue, where I am when I'm out and about in London ( except when I'm stood in-front of the places you see in postcards of course) - I rely totally, on my friends to put me on the right tube/train or what ever it is I need, to get to the where I need to be ( I do know of a fantastic Italian restaurant though near St Paul's .. it's really tiny and underground. What's it called? No idea.. but I'll know it when I see it..If I don't exit from the right tube station stairwell though, it takes me ages to find it. ..... I have lunch there when-ever I visit London............. They remember me by my first name too, even though it's very often months between visits......How cool is that! I always ask for a side order of chips... they don't do chips! ........ I always get a side order of chips.......;)
A night out in London, is a three-day-event for me... Day one: travel to Chorleywood by car- to stay with Jenny (a really good friend), the rest of that day, just chill ( Cinema at Hemel: takeaway and girl-talk in the evening). Day two .. up early ... get ready, get the first "cheap" (one day travel card) tube into town about 9:30 ... shop, for things I don't need and will never wear ...... Camden is a good place and of course Oxford Street...... then lunch ..restaurant near St Paul's.... then more shopping .. then back to Chorleywood .. bath .. glad rags on...... back into town .. by car .. park somewhere-free......walk......... talk...... restaurant ....... pub-always.... club-sometimes ........ walk ... talk... get lost.... worry about not being able to find Jenny's car...... ... oh look there it is, right where we left it.........back to Chorleywood.... collapse into bed........ Day three (PM) .... Did I really dance with the waiter.....(.blush)... and you can delete those pictures right now Jenny! ..... Back into my car for the journey around the M25 and down the M3/M27/A31........... true what they say ... it's never far to a friends house......... no matter how far it is................
Shoes.....wasn't she fab lat night, the show physiologist I mean ......... hmmmmmmm: well; shall I go there? ....... Ok then.......... about 50 pairs of various shoes in my shoe cupboard, mainly strappy heels, no flats at all, other than trainers/plimsolls and 28 pairs of Boots , mainly Knee High ... ( I see em-I buy em) ..... some I've never worn in anger .......but I still love em...........
Have great holiday................ one more to help keep you warm while you're away...... hold onto something sturdy and brace yourself........
Mmmmmmmmmmmwah!
Keep smiling.
Rachel
x
Hi Chris,
I had a great evening, too. Firstly, a bit of a result when I popped into Asda and found 2 CD's for a tenner, so I bought a couple of old Queen albums (Jazz & A Night at the Opera) that I have on vinyl somewhere in the loft, but haven't listened to for years. Can't wait to rip them onto my iPod. In the meantime they're in the car for my mobile enjoyment.
Then we took our 8 year old daughter to have her first ever Indian meal at a cracking restaurant in Foulridge, Lancashire, called "The Massala Rooms" - very genuine Indian food cooked to perfection in very smart contemporary surroundings (no flock wallpaper here!). A couple of beers, a lovely Shiraz to accompany the meal, then home for a very peaceful sleep.
Hi Chris...
Hope hangover clearing.
Just want to say love the show, loved Prof Veg and I am also going to join everyone in growing my own potoatoes for Christmas Lunch..
Really pleased your back missed you when you were away..keep happy Christophe.
Happy Hols...I'm off now to find my hill I know it's there just sometimes hiden under a lot of clutter !!
Morning Fellow Christof Bloggers,
Looking forward to the show tonight.. I love All Request Friday, I'm going to try and call before I leave the office (on time).
Last night "how did your mum meet your dad". I loved that, espcially since its coming up on 20 years on 23rd August, since i met and fell in love with my other half. We celebrate that anniversary because it was so momentous. He met me on the Saturday night, and left his wife on the Monday morning, moved in with me, and we've been together ever since.
You've been around for a fair bit of it Chris - I remember hearing you on the radio when we moved into our flat in Glasgow 1988, and we both used to love listening to you in the morning. Now we tune in, from different cars, and compare smiles when we get home.
Thanks Chris.
Dogwithnobrain, but a big smile.
Chris,
Have you ever tried life without alcohol?
An interesting concept?!
Zena x
Hello everyone! Chris, glad today's blog finally made it - I checked earlier and was distraught to see it wasn't there!!
De-mob happy - oh yes. In holiday mode.
But I'm going to miss you and your lovely laughter and chat. I love that you buy the team a lottery ticket, and that you bring them ice lollies - just tiny gestures, but that's what makes people happy at work!!
I hope you have an absolutely fandabidoze holiday, hope you manage to keep up the blog while you're away (you said you'd try so I'll keep checking!) - and keep smiling - it makes everyone else smile too :-).
I am going to join Rachel (#35) in sending you a great big MWWWWWWWWWAHHHHHHHHH to send you on your way up hill and down dale (with a few refreshment breaks along the way no doubt).
Lots of love
Cath
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De-mob happy... there must be something wrong with me. Before holidays I panic and do all the ironing I haven't done in months and clean the whole house until it shines so I won't be embarassed if someone brakes in when I'm away. Then when we get to the destination, all I can think about is my business and how I can make it grow. It's a strange thing as I am a really laid back person for the rest of the time.
Zena, life without alcohol may be an interesting concept, but have you ever tried it? What's it like?
Happy hols all who are off this week, and don't get too hung up with the washing, I am learning life is too short for it!
Jenny xx
hi chris
glad you had a good night and will miss the blog and your happy banter each night u are away. I will be spending the night with a large group of our friends in clumber park at a 80's night. we will have to take brollies and chairs and dress in wet weather gear as it is throwing it down outside, but you know it's exactly what you said it's the company your in and we will have a great time. bye for now
p.s the blog has now become a religion a must read every morning the problem being I will lose my net in 2 weeks time when i move back to my normal job
On holiday already who do you think you are Terry Wogan !! He has more time off than a dead man ! You're not dead are you Chris - or are you Terry Wogan - taking the schlog theme your name could becombining the two names Teris Wogvans ....ah well back to the fickle mistress that is payroll !!!
Friday AT LAST!
Spent a lot of this week on the motorway and have particularly enjoyed singing along to Scritti Politti and Soft Cell (and getting strange looks from other drivers) - looking forward to today's delights.
Friday's show is my favourite - I will listen to it in the kitchen, singing along, doing some cooking (large glass in hand as it's been a dry week) with my dog close by hoping for mishaps.
Looking forward to a week's hol coming up and to thinking about eating more superfoods, what my shoes say about me and my hill!!
Happy golfing..
good afternoon mr evans.
hope the head has cleared up now.been to soho once or twice myself.GREAT place.just wanted to say enjoy your hols.
life is one big laugh!!!!
jimmy boy.
Hello Bloggers
I'd like to know if any of you live in the Bolton area. I have a fascination with Fred Dibnah and his ways and intend to visit some areas he worked in. Before I plan my trip I'd like to know if it's an area worth spending a few days and get some walking in or should I just do a day trip or an overnight stay?
Dx
Afternoon Chris.
What's this bankers hours now!? You're right about the drinking though and poisoning is just about the right term for it. Can't seem to be able to mix the beer and spirits anymore or the wine. Still it keeps me out of trouble now and I don't get quite so stupid - although my two daughters wouldn't agree.
Have a great holiday
Del
in response to yesterdays #126, debbie u got to buy the book i talked about yesterday. Its called Its called a Break Up because its Broken ad speaking from my own experience, it got me over a bad break up.
hang in there, it will get better
xx
Hi Chris and all Bloggers
Is it only me that loves going out for meals like the one Chris describes but feels if it wasn't for me organising it, it would never happen.
I'm then left wondering if the people I invite really want to be there. Do they not organise it because they would rather do other things? Do they think I do such a good job (how big is my head) that its best left to me? Are they too shy to ring round and ask everyone to go? Is their life so busy that unless someone asks there is no time in it for a meal?
Perhaps to overcome this tendency we should try to get one organised this weekend. Mine is tonight we are going to the only (I think) Turkish restaurant in the midlands. I'll let you know how it goes.
Have a great holiday Chris and let us know of your adventures if you can.
Kind regards
Nick
ref post 46
Debs try white coppice and belmont area, I did my geography field study there at high school fantastic places! and lots of inter locking spurs I might add.... (see Mr Worden I was listening to you through that glazed expression!)
Hi Chris
what a joy - its now lunchtime and I have a chance to read today's blog
totally agree the hangover thing ..... not so long ago I could manage a few drinks on a school night and be up like a lark and off to work with a jaunty spring in my step but now.....even if its only been a couple of sharpeners i awake the following day & am reminiscent of a bedraggled ill tempered crone
i fear that age has something to do with this lack of recovery ( or maybe I really am a bedraggled crone & my partner and friends just don't have the heart to tell me!)
anyway hope the golf next week goes well - i will miss your cheery chat on drivetime while you're off
rosemary potatoes for me tonight - YUM
xx
Sad to see you go, but have a fab holiday Chris. Looking forward to your return!
Cheers
x
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning that's as good as they're going to feel all day". Frank Sinatra & Debs x
Totally in agreement with #48 . 'Its Called a Break Up Because Its Broken' is brilliant help after a break up.
You won't believe anyone who tells you this (I didn't) but it does get better and you do mend. The mantra 'This Too Shall Pass' and U2's 'Stuck in a Moment' helped me. Its not a good place to be but unfortunately its a place many of us end up visiting for time to time.
Big Hugs to anyone going through a rotten time relationship wise at the moment.
Up at 6.30, packed the other half off to work, rushed through my exercises (new regime which probably won't last past next week), quick shower, switched on the computer, clicked the link to the blog . . . isn't it amazing how quickly something becomes part of your routine & how surprised you become when it isn't there?
How will we manage while you are away?
Have a great holiday. My evenings won't be the same without your cheery chat.
Keep Smilin'!
Chris, as you are off for a couple of weeks, thought I'd drop you a line to wish you all the very best against the americans at Celtic Manor..!
Give em a show of how to play golf properly..! And if you need a caddy, then give me a shout, I've played to a high standard, and know the Celtic Manor pretty well, eh..?? Eh..?? Come on..!
Once you've beaten the americans, Woosie can sign you up as vice-captain for the Ryder Cup..!
dear Chris
i think your show is fab - i listen to it all the time and shall miss you not being on the show for 2 weeks!
i think you are funny, intelligent and georgeous and i would love to go out to dinner with you as you sound like the best company ever
have a good holiday! love juliex
Hello Christophe...
Just finished todays blog and just had to read yesterdays again, taking some time out and getting to your hill is so important.
Glad you had a good night out Chris and I think that will radiate in tonite's show - as well as being de-mob happy......BUT have to say will miss you lots while you are away, I hope you have a great time and remember to take some plasters just in case the walking boots bite back!!!!
Have a wonderful weekend Chris and all you lovely bloggers - I wish weekends were longer.........
TTFN and big hugs
Mayhem
xx
talking of foxes Chris. try this one out on old fox-the-fox tonight.
everyone is either a fox or a pig.
basically you play the game like this, a fox is someone with a more pointed face, a pig a more rounded face, simple as that.
you're either one or t'other, there is no inbetween, although i have seen many arguments in a pub where one person is convinced they are one and everyone around them is convinced they are the other
there is of course no shame in being a pig, its all about facial features not whether you are indeed being described by the derogitary term " a pig" (although they get a raw deal, in my opinion, lovely creatures)
please please please let rebecca fox be a FOX. it ties in with the mental image.
famous pigs
clancy wiggum of course
famous Foxes
Steve Wright
my very 1st blog, couldnt help it the way chris has been going on , i thought i was missing out on something , and yes i am a whole new world fantastic.
its my birthday today, so happy birthday me . spending the day with the kids "making things" with all the old toilet rolls and egg boxes i keep for rainy days.
as for potatoes, if you are going to have them for christmas dinner, have them as roast pots and cook then in goose fat, yes goose fat and i swear you will never cook them in anything else again. they are fantastic, very crunchy and they dont go soggy like some roaties do. sod it dont wait till christmas get some for the weekend., oh you can get the goose fat in sainsburys.
door bell just went and i got a lovely bouqet of flowers from my best friend toni, who is sailing round the isl of white, and getting wet.
so who is in for chris for the next 2 weeks?
i like matthew wright, hes funny
bye bye
talk soon
barb
Chris and the team,
Great show, and glad to get the best DJ back on the air. Found the whole team great to listen to!.
Am I missing a part of the show that features gardens/gardening? regards pond care!! coz i know of a product to keep ponds looking great! kills the Algae, keeping decrative ponds and lakes looking exactly that! Its called Dyofix!
Have any of your team ponds? have you done any features??
Let me know!!!
Phew Thought I'd been busted by the I.T. police at work this morning but obviously not because my previous post to Debs has now shown up!
So Chris is of on his jolly hollibobs is he, how am I going to manage without daily Bolg fix. I only started reading this on Weds but have already found that I was nearly in a cold sweat when I couldn't find todays at 8.45am!
I hope all of you who are away over the next couple of weeks have a fantastic time and find lots of those metaphoric hills to climb. Personally I'll be packing boxes only to unpack them the following day in my shiny new house!
I look forward to catching up on what you've all been up to while you're away.
Take care and have a fantastic time
B x
Just a quickie for The Debster...
The coastal path is a fab walk between Poole and Weymouth,,, there's a great pub called the Spy Glass, right on the path as you come into Weymouth... you can't miss it... Good food and beer , ......in every flavour .... :)....
Keep smiling
Rachel
Happy Fridays, blogger friends!
I too have cut back on my heavy drinking...partly for vanity (calories!) and partly for the oh-so-many fuzzy mornings that followed. Now am happy to stick with wine when I do imbibe. Fortunately, there is such a breadth of wine varieties that it keeps me sated.
My two best friends are down with some flu-like illness. Am wondering how they came down with it and I didn't...in a weird way am feeling a little left out! So anyway, I am spending a quiet contemplative weekend reading and puttering around my garden. I will miss you, Chris in the afternoons, but wish you a wonderful holiday and will look forward to you coming back to us fresh, rested, and and full of wonderful stories.
Have a fantastic weekend Bloggers! Until next time...
A hangover cure - Chris’s Centurion Walk.
A 2 week holiday, so what’s in it for me?
A Roman road I see, so walkies it shall be.
Marching into battle, oh please oh please be kind to me.
A drive, then a walk down this long sage road I see.
A fair-way to go, but hey, surely not far for me?
A stop for a sandwedge, what, how hungry oh how hungry must I be?
At the edge of the nest, is that a birdie lying there for me?
Gently Put(t) it in, that’s three in there for me.
Oh how sweet I feel, how that yankie army are fearing oh fearing me.
Re #60
Barb - "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" :)
Come in #35
I knew that I had forgotten something earlier. I too really enjoyed the Shoe Psychologist. Did you fancy her a little bit Chrissie? She had a really playful tone.
Anyway, I have just returned to the world of work having been made redundant from my last place (a great relief as I was wearing trainers and flip flops there!) and am now sporting my inner stiletto on the outside! In the past few weeks I have bought at least 10 pairs of shoes which probably doubles my collection. All the new ones are feminine and as expected kill my plates of meat! It does do wonders for the self confidence though and I feel like a new woman.
Disaster - I have broken the heel off a particularly nice pair of preppy black 3inch heels and am now back in trainers. The shoe retailer in question will be feeling my wrath on Monday when I take them back.
To the man who wants to buy a woman a pair of Jimmy Choos - I have always wanted a pair of Jimmy Choos. I am a size 7/8 and if the shoe fits, I'll wear it.
I am dead jealous of anyone going on holiday but I do hope that you all have a really good time. Bring us back some gems of holiday wisdom!
Love
Ali
xx
Happy Fridays, blogger friends!
I too have cut back on my heavy drinking...partly for vanity (calories!) and partly for the oh-so-many fuzzy mornings that followed. Now am happy to stick with wine when I do imbibe. Fortunately, there is such a breadth of wine varieties that it keeps me sated.
My two best friends are down with some flu-like illness. Am wondering how they came down with it and I didn't...in a weird way am feeling a little left out! So anyway, I am spending a quiet contemplative weekend reading and puttering around my garden. I will miss you, Chris in the afternoons, but wish you a wonderful holiday and will look forward to you coming back to us fresh, rested, and and full of wonderful stories.
Have a fantastic weekend Bloggers! Until next time...
G'day Christoph and the Shloggers!
Hippy pappy bthdth to Barb at #60.
Jon at #36, but what did you drink? No wonder your daughter slept well, lol.
Like you, Chris, I love spending time out and about with friends. Even when I have nothing much to say myself just listening and sharing their experiences makes a good evening a great evening.
Oh dear, all this talk about drink and I've had to crack open my first beer of the day. Weeell, it is Freaky Friday after all. And I promise not not mix my drinks, not too much anyway.
Have a bostin' holiday, a cracking game of golf and a stunning walk. Some piccies might be nice.
Toodles
Ian
Hey Chris......
What a great show. Keep hearing snipets of it as im in & out of the car from time to time but today a first - I listened to yesterdays show in full from the website - hoorah!
Great show, great guests & always guaranteed to cheer up your afternoon so thanks & keep up the good work.
Richard
Leicester
Hello
A bright sparkly day to all you fellow bloggers and schloggers!
Chris listening to your show yesterday I heard you mention a friend of mine who had texted in to your show - who I havent seen for about 15 years! It prompted me to contact him and his wife and will hopefully see them when I am next down in Devon! - so great for a little networking on the Radio airwaves! Also another suggestion which I was thinking about this morning was HOW ABOUT A BLOG OR SCHLOG DATING section! I am newly single! (yes have read that Break up book!) I am perfectly normal but maybe there are a lot of similar people out there listening or blogging and who knows where it would lead! So interested in comments!
Have a relaxing 'on top of the hill' time and look forward to hearing all about it........
Love Amanda x
Hi Chris, I have just read your blog for the first time. I was touched by the honesty and sounds like you really did have a fabulous time. I hope you have great plans for the weekend and your two weeks of.
This weekend I am going to the salon (v girly but great) and probably out for a fab meal at the local in the evening. I am looking forward to getting home tonight, and will be listening to your show on the way home from Warwick to Oxford. I always enjoy the shows but more so on Friday. Not sure why, maybe because its Friday? Apart from that, Sunday I will be listening to my partner practising his rusty guitar with some pals (there is one professional guitarist amongst them thank goodness) practising for a suprise 50th Birthday gig for a very good friend of ours.
Anyway looking forward to the show tonight! Angie
Thanks Rachel #63. I'll be calling into in the Spy Galss for sure. Love the fruity beer. Hope they do cloudy cider too. Can you recommend any campsites or B&Bs please? . x
Just thought of a recipe:
Coq au Cidre (Chicken in Cider)
1 chicken breast per person
3 shallots per person
4 mushrooms per person
A bottle of flavoursome cider
Put all food ingredients in a casserole and cover with cider. Cook in middle of oven at 180 - 190 degrees cent. until no pink in middle of chicken. That should work should't it? x
Debs xx
PS Happy Birthday Barb (#60)!
PPS Good luck moving Becky! New moon in Virgo from Monday......a very good time for organising and cleaning and moving home!
Hi Nick
I read your entry. I love going out for meals too. No you are not the only one. However you are right it does seem to be a suggestion from myself before anyone will go out. To quote the TOG himself 'is it me?' Anyway keep organising as it keeps the spirit up and who can beat a great evening out with friends. At least we agree with Chris.
Hi Chris
Glad to hear you also had a great night last night, good food, booze and good friends - a winning combination. I was also feeling a bit worse for wear this morning because of much of the same - a cocktailing girly night at a friends house which like your own night had people there I hadn't met before and after last night I now feel very friendly with. Got to say that I did feel better this morning when we were all sat around in our jama's with a mug of tea and a bacon butty, that soaked up the last of the alcohol and we all livened up a bit after that. Definitely noticed that the mornings after have got worse the older you get, I'm only 37 now and at this rate by the time I'm 50 it will take me to 7pm to recover!
Hope you have a gorgeous holiday, look forward to hearing the tales from you adventure on your return.
Take care
Katie
x
Just saw a comment from a "newie" listener about how great your show is and all I can say is that it brings back memories of one of the first jobs when you were "on the otherside's" breakfast show. I use to laugh all the way to work - NOW I laugh at Terry on the way to work and laugh at you on the way home - PERFECT!
Dear Chris
this could be quite addictive - i love this blog idea!
i am really excited to have my message on your comments page!!! this has made my day!
so thought i would try and send another one!
also really excited as glyn from big bro is leaving this eve - i live an hour away from him and i am thinking i may go and stand in the rain in Blaenau Ffestiniog and see if he wins along with other Welsh people!
please vote welsh glyn to win!!
love u chris and your lovely red hair and also your specs are nice too!
julie xx
Why are pickled onions addictive, to the point that serious side effects occur, and I still keep eating?
Gasp.... 2 WEEKS - what are we gonna do without your cheerful chatter for that long???
Hope you have a wonderful time and arrive back on our radio's relaxed and refreshed.
You'll be sorely missed.
Lyn
Hi Bloggers
Happiness is a state of mind!
We've spent the last two years building our new home. For the last couple of months it's been a real struggle, no progress, supplies not arriving on time, tradesmen not turning up, exhaustion. Then I looked at some photos taken just a couple of weeks ago and realised that we are getting there - we're chipping away at our masterpiece.
Can't get Orson's 'Happiness' out of my head!
For anyone about to go on holiday, have a great time, we all work to be able to enjoy time off.
We'll miss you Chris
Much love
B
What is with you DJ's you've only just come back from one holiday and you're off on another!
Have a good one anyway
Regards
Paul.
BTW
The best cure for a hangover is a full english with two big mugs of coffee.
Hi Chris,
Another great Blog day even if you are not feeling 100%.
You have served as a very good warning to me as today I had a phone call from an old friend and we are meeting up tonight for a few drinks. I too will suffer if I as expected over indulge in the amber liquid. So I can feel a little better I will stay on cider all night.........no grappa for me thanks!
Have a good time on de-mob and try to do all the things your want to do and come back refreshed and as full of life as ever.
All the best be good and be safe!
Keith
Hi Chris
So you are leaving for 2 weeks and after I have only just found your Blog!! Surely not, that's not fair!
You always manage to sound so upbeat and seem to really enjoy your show which I thoroughly do too.
Have a great holiday - going anywhere nice? Stay safe and keep smiling!
Love Neen
x
Hi Chris
So you are leaving for 2 weeks and after I have only just found your Blog!! Surely not, that's not fair!
You always manage to sound so upbeat and seem to really enjoy your show which I love.
Have a great holiday - going anywhere nice? Stay safe and keep smiling!
Love Neen
x
Dear Chris,
Heard you for the first time for a long time on the radio yesterday. Good to see you on form and relaxed following a sensible night out.
Your voice on the radio yesterday reminded of the past where your detemination to gets things sorted and achieved was quite an inspiration.
Sent you an email today at 3pm ish. Need your help on something important. Please do your best. Cheers Chris
Mark Riley
Chris,
Great Blog, Great Show i've just had a curry and a couple of beers so off to sleep i go!
Have a great time off we all need these to make sure all is heading in the right direction.
Off to the fayre tonight see if i can knock all the cans off the stand with three balls, so far have failed every year, but getting better, any tips!!
Ciao and will be tuning in later,
Denchy
Hi Chris, Nice food,lovely company & some vino sounds like a good night, gone are the days of wild partying hey! Know what you mean mid life and slowing down!! Never mind though golf & guiness holiday for me a week of pure indulgence!! Paul.
Hey Chris
earlier this year i was having a really hard time, more often that not I would cry as i was driving home from work, indulge myself in this cathartic experience before I got to my house and did the usual evening thing.
your show has quite oddly changed my days! of course I look forward to home time, but now almost with excitement; i enjoy the journey home immensely. your seemingly effortless chat and brilliant tunes, the fox and the sports locker are far more enjoyable than salty tears and a snotty nose.
this week has been one of those rubbish ones, many things going wrong, things that no-one can change. but i have chosen to be happy, find my hill and smile.
this weekend, rain or shine i shall be sat on a beach watching the sea, it is always intriguing, ever changing and never bores.
have a good two weeks off, i will miss the show, but then that means it will be appreciated more when you get back
xxx
Hi Chris, Your night sounded great. I got home to dinner almost on the table, I had been a bit of a grouch yesterday (ok, alot of a grouch!!) and low and behold I had on the table Roast rack of Lamb, the finest petit pois and the tastiest Dauphione tatties.....(Mark Twogood you surpass yourself sometimes!!) Heres to more meals like that.
Off camping again this weekend, so more wellington boots and sense of humour required. Look forward to you entertaining me on my hour long car journey.
Lots of Love
Justine XXX
P.S I won on womens minute sometime ago and never thanked your for all my lovely goodies, thanks to you all.
REF 88
Katy
after reading your post it reminded me of something my dad used to tell me and I try to live to it,
"if there's something wrong fix it, if you can't fix it there's no point worrying about it"
It was his way of telling me some things I just can't control and to find my hill and let it wash over me unless I could do something about it.... in which cas the message was to get on with it and sort it, either way lifes to short not to take out time to be happy
Ahoy-hoy Christophe!
What a great Blog; it's the first time I've had a gander and will certainly be doing so again on a regular basis.
It seems that I (along with many of the other 'Shloggers') share your views on life. Friends and good food and drinks are always top o' the list.
S'pose that adds to the enjoyment of listening too. Looking forward to some excellent tunes on All Request Friday while I prepare my school lessons.
*Smugly smiles to self at his advance preaparation [which will not help one jot in avoiding the first-week-back-at-school panic!]*
Keep up the super entertainment
Jim E Fresh
dear chris
how many times are we allowed to put in our messages - is there a limit? cause my boss thinks i am mad doing this!
must try and do it after work hours and not before but i can't help it!!!!
also would you ever go out for a curry with a welsh girl?
juliex
Hi Debs , (#73)
There’s shed loads of camp sites between Poole and Weymouth, with everything from fixed caravan park type places, to tent in a field places… If you have children with you go for one of the Holiday Parks that has a campsite attached … the very best one is called Waterside (I’m not sure if they have a campsite attached though but it is the best Holiday Park...) it’s spitting distance from the coastal path, yet it has everything you might need to keep the children happy if there are any grumpy clouds about. Osmington Mills is another good one and Warmwell is ok but much further in-land so you’d need to drive to the coastal path. The campsite that the Top Gear team tried to burn down recently is at Crossways but again it’s a little way from the coast. Not too sure about B & Bs though .. all pretty much the same around here ( never stayed in one near here myself)
If you’re taking children on the coastal path between Poole and Weymouth, watch out for the nudist beaches around the Studland area(marked with flags- best to walk around that bit and avoid it completely) and if the children are real tiddlers then keep em on a short lead on the high parts cos … you can run out of ground pretty quickly on the cliff tops… very often… long grass overhangs the cliffs and there ain’t anything underneath it….. stay safe …. Have fun and,……..
Keep smiling
Rachel
Chris,
I know that feeling about not been able to drink like I used to! I'm only 26 but it seems like what I used to drink in my late teens/early twenties would be a recipe for me to be ill for at least a couple of days!! Things definitely change when you fall in love.
Gone are the days of nights out round town on a Friday and Saturday which more often than not finished up with a kebab stood in the taxi queue after been in some dingy night club! The mortgage and my forthcoming marriage have assigned those memories to my past.
Nowadays it tends to be a couple of beers at home with a lovely cooked meal prepared by the both of us followed by a DVD on a Saturday night. It certainly feels alot different when you get up at a reasonable hour on a Sunday morning and it becomes a more productive day!
Perhaps I'm getting old before my time?! Does anyone out there think the same way? Or do people think I'm incredibly sad?
Have a good holiday Chris. Look forward to your return.
Lee
Happeeeee Weekend everyone! I love that friday feeling.... mmm chrunchies!!!
Ps I hope I never get hangovers!!!!
(I am 20)
Great blog Chris.
I've just started my hols and I am looking for my own 'hill'.
I am an exiled Londoner and Hampstead Heath was and is still one of my favourite places. I walked or cycled it most days to work, all of the seasons. Played games on it and a variety of other things there.
Keep on blogging and I do enjoy the show.
ps. Do you still pop in the Haverstock Arms?
Yes! Alcohol does that to me the older I get... just feels like a toxin nowadays. When did that start to happen!?
I was out with a friend last night & had a couple or 3 glasses of wine (white natch). Just in case we both had chips to eat but still this morning I felt wretched. No hangover, I never get them (thank goodness) but just felt out of sorts until I got to work; I absolutely love my job & it took my mind off me. Had a whale of a time and now looking forward to more of the same tomorrow morning (only 4 hours though).
Have a good weekend.
ttfn Val B.
Hello dear..... I never had time for you... what is it... 15... 20 years... time flys... I was too busy working... cooking dinner etc.. whilst son watched you.. wow! how times change.... son has flown the nest.. I'm fine... still cooking dinner etc... all grown up & a TOG... but you play good music... & listening to you & reading the blog you're really a nice bloke... couldn't have been easy taking over from Johnny Walker... he played good music as well.... don't you all... anyway have a lovely couple of weeks off... be good & stay cool... I'd like to hear Mr & Mrs Jones by Billy Paul.... ciao ciao bambino....
Hi Chris it's great to have you back on the air waves. Miss having the tones on a Friday night followed by a 'few' pints. Keep up the great work and Enjoy the holiday what ever house you end up in!! ;-)
hi all and ce.
What a great night out. When I worked for Aunty, I used to live in Soho in the 70's. Had sum great times.
have a great holiday will missya!
hugs
jenny
who has rakked twice today!
Oh Hellow Christopher,
I'm speaking in my posheest Most British stiff upperlip ´óÏó´«Ã½ accent, as my post yesterday got deleted.
I've wracked my brains as I never deem myself as 'offensive' but then I did use one very ickle swear word. Or was it because I mentioned my own blog?
Well if I get knocked off again I'll know its because of that, because I promise to never ever swear again.
As for Hampstead - I know it well, its probably one of the best 'hill' places in London - and I know the 4.95 pasta pesto very well..my little bub loves the paddling pool (so do I!).
Sorry for being naughty to the bbc people, have a fabarooni weekend chris, and all ye blogists xx
Hey there Chrissie baby……..
Glad you had a pleasant evening, I too had a great night out last night, but I was in Padstow, we ate but not at Rick’s (was booked out), we had fish though, scallops and sea bream…. Yum yum…. Nice bottle of wine too.
To make it even better the boss was pain cause I was with a client……
Great evening.
Have a great Holiday.
Great blog too.
Leigh :-)
iT HAS JUST DAWNED ON ME ON MY DRIVE HOME CHRIS, YOU ARE OUR GENERATIONS TERRY WOGAN, DOES THAT MAKE ME A CYG AND YOUR OLDER LISTENERS COGs
"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk,
we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all
get
drunk and go to heaven!"
Brian O'Rourke~
Fab show Chris, will miss you hurry back
xxx
oooh I like the idea of being a COG!!
"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk,
we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all
get drunk and go to heaven!"
~ Brian O'Rourke ~
Fab show Chris, have a great break hurry back
Linda
xxx
Long Time Listener, first Time Blogger!
I don't mind being a COG!
Have a great holiday, missing the show already!
Hi Chris
Just a little blog.
Do internet dating sights really work??
you know i can't smile without you
i can't laugh,
i can't sing!
finding hard to do anything!
who is doing your show next week?
have fab hols!!
see you
xxx
p.s have a banana - munch, munch!!
did anyone else have a chatter chimp?
Good evening all fellow bloggers, bloggees, friends or however we want to "group" oursleves.
It's such good fun reading all these messages, it really does put your faith back in human nature! Now if only the rest of the world could live as we do then it would be a nicer place!
Have a superb weekend - and live every moment as though it were your first or last - maximize every single second of it!
Enjoy!
Hi Chris
Just a little blog.
Do internet dating sights really work??
you know i can't smile without you
i can't laugh,
i can't sing!
finding hard to do anything!
who is doing your show next week?
have fab hols!!
see you
xxx
p.s have a banana - munch, munch!!
did anyone else have a chatter chimp?
Glad you had a cool night.....quiet nights with Buds are my speed these days...
We're off to Cornwall on Sunday, camping, so I hope it doesn't rain too much. On a food tip I'm looking forward to going to Rick Stein's place, a little treat as I was left a few bob by an old family friend.
My fave sarni is chicken, salchichon, vine tomato and mayo. Probably be ham and mustard for the car though cos it's a lot less dangerous!
Have a fab holibob.
All the best,
Claud
im very happy to be a cog!
THANK YOU so much for putting on my request " its 5 o"clock somewhere"
though i didnt get to say hello to my twin sister irene sssssoooooo sorry, i got carried away with the moment talking to chris , and who wouldnt!
will miss you over the next 2 weeks
oh johnny walker read out my birthday text last year, so thats 2 in a row!
blogging is addictive, gotta start rationing, quite stunned when there was a big hole and no blog at 9am. Lovely to read other peoples stuff.
According to my book spirits and dark alcoholic drinks contain higher levels of substances called congeners, which can be toxic to the brain and nervous system so to stick to clear drinks for a clear head! (i guess it still dosn't work if you drink 6 bottles of the clear stuff). Congeners mmm similar to Congenial wonder if thats where the word comes from, alcohol wise that is.
for Em25, depends on what you like to do, but in my traveling days whenever i arrived in a new town i'd check out an art gallery and a museum, get the local history and nearly always find ok people to talk to, its fun. (i think so anyway).
Glad its friday, pub and then the chippy.
Don't forget ya bats and the boots Chris, hope ya win and hope ya don't get blisters. (You can always rub the blisters with alcohol...it could be an experiment!)
Tricky to read/write blog and pay attention to the radio...maybe its cos i'm getting old now.
I love your blogs, Makes me laugh and think of life from a different perscpective. But please tell the web designer to sort out this blog site as i can hardly see what i am typing. Have a fab holiday - you llucky boy!
yes internet dating works
and what on earth is grappa?
Hi blogulicious
Have a fabutastic holiday ( neologism's gone mad!! )
Loving reading your witterage!
Chocasaur
Well, the weekend is fast approaching & I am as nervous, anxious and just plain bricking it! I am going on the footy for the first time this season tomorrow. Burnley v Wolves! Obviously I am a Burnley fan & season ticket holder!
Why my first game I hear the footy fraternity out there asking, well, I missed the first game of the season due to a family trip to the Isle of Mull, to visit Balamory with the kids! So, as a result of living it up with PC Plum, Miss Hoolie & the gang, I am going on my first match of the season tomorrow! Hey, it is just like we are in the premiership I suppose!!
Come on!! Sorry if this footy message is boring for some of you bloggers, but hey, I suppose it is interesting to know what goes on in a mans mind!! Ha! Ha!
Take care & good luck to your footy teams for the weekend - unless you are a Wolves fan!!
Over & out for now……..
Hi Chris,
got up early this morning to read the blog and no blog posted yet. I've just caught up after work and now understand why ---- GRAPPA!!
I've had a few lost nights drinking that stuff. brought some back from a ski holiday and drank it months later, least said the better.
Enjoy your hols and try to keep blogging, see you on the driving range.
love lisa xxxx
hi chris just read your blogs for the first time and loooooooooooved them!!! you're my new best friend now . . feels like i've got a pen pal, you remember the ones where you're at school and you get a long list of peoples names from bezier or some other twinned town to yours who wants to write and sure enough i always used to choose some boring stamp collector. i now know in the wisdom of middle age that stamp collectors can be fun people too! well, so i've heard but i haven't met one yet who cracks jokes all day, always gets the first round in and enjoys a good curry at the end of a boozy night but still, i'm not ruling it out!
loved your blog about the top of the hill. . you know what mine is? my boys . . when i'm with them i feel like i'm on the top of mount everest. . soppy i know and generally speaking i'm not really a soppy bird but chris and all you other readers out there (200 penpals at once, what bliss . . i feel like a thirteen yr old school gorl again!)but the truth is ryan brad and harry they"re my everest. . all grown up now, as a single parent it was always hard work bringing them up, finding enough money to feed the electricity meter and put some unpleasant tasting low quality food on the table so enjoying them wasn't always so obvious as the grind of real life got in the way of lifes pleasures. . now though lifes good they're older now and when we're all together i'm sitting on my hill. . i'm the woman reading the book, i'm the happy middle aged man whose just scored a goal in his sunday league team, i'm you sitting in your sauna . . i'm all of you all rolled into one . i'm on my hill and it's the highest mountain man has ever conquered. . i'm an explorerer a braveheart a daring courageous woman and i'm sitting on my hill as happy as anyone could ever be with the warmest sun on my back and a grin so big my face is aching!!!!
have a great holiday. .
xx
Hey Chris Shlogster Meister!
Have a safe holiday… my 180 odd round trip daily drive won’t be the same for a couple of weeks. In the morning… no Shlog to look forward in the evening… and in the evening… no Shlog…. :-(
Once again, have a great and safe hols and thanks for the continuing great shows! :-)
Take care Shlogster Meister!
Have a great holiday try not to take the same time off as terry and steve wright though as last time you were on hols terry was off as well it was terrible I go to work listening to him and drive home listening to steve and you bliss will miss you whilst you are away.
Don't have such a good time that you don't want to come back though!!!!!!!!!!!!!
angie
oh no - who's doin the drive time next week - it's been a long very wet dear here today and I have just logged on - (official last day of Scottish school hols so in between putting father in laws car in for service and discussions with builders took kids last minute school shopping - 12 year old has grown out of the trousers I bought her 3 weeks ago for school and to see 'Cars')
love the blog, needed my daily fix! Have a great weekend everyone and have a fab two weeks off Chris!
love Dot
oh it's ok it's Stuart Maconie he's fine!!! Happy birthday barb at #60 - off to do the ironing with a glass of wine in one hand and the iron in the other ouch!
Cheers
love Dot
Chris, today you told a listener to try the ´óÏó´«Ã½ website weather pages as they're the best. In my experience they're spotty at best e.g. at a specific time on the 24hr page for Southampton, I've seen black cloud with TWO rain drops, indicating heavy rain, when outside is clear blue sky.
I often look at the 24hr forecast now, just for amusement value only, IT'S RUBBISH!!!
Hi Chris
Must apologise changed my ideas about you cos of three things you have done over the last few weeks.
1. Introduced me to a cracking band - Razorlights great when you played the track twice.
2. You said the worlds abetter place for the 90 year old skydiver - old tear to the eye.
3. Piccys of you and Billie in the paper the other day - hey you still care about the girl gald you can be friends.
Listen to the show everynight on way home from work and appreciate you more than I used to
Keep it up
Kev
Hey Chris
Went to give blood last night and one lady walked in in RED stiletto's, WOW what was she trying to say?
Hey love the show and your blog. I know you cannot talk about your pub on the program but i had a fantastic dinner at your pub the other night - the girls serving are brilliant as is the food etc. ........and what a generous Christophe lummy pie......I noted 45% of the profist go to charity. Mark
Really enjoyed reading your blog ,you really are a clever and thoughtful man and will check it out every day ! You are doing a great job in the drive time slot ,it was a hard act to follow and I wish you well .Are you gonna get Elton on soon ???
Hi Chris, Never used to like you that much (sorry media coverage never potrayed you that well) but I must say my opinion of you has changed greatly. I've been listening to your show for a while and now I've started to read your blog on a regular basis. It's great to read your views on stuff and nonsense and to know you're so normal!! Good food, good friends, a walk through the park, take time to stop and smell the flowers... What a wise man you are!
I wish you well and look forward to reading/hearing more from you.
Enjoy your holiday,
All the best,
Diane
We'll miss you Chrissy boy, glad you had a good night and it was a great show today - shame about the bikini ;-)
Oh Chris , wish I'd started shlogging and reading yours at the start so many to read thru'
I have fallen in love with you!!! Never heard you before R2 and tho' I'm far too old for you, I know we'd be sympatico if we ever met .
Your zest for life shines through every sentence you utter.
Not on my best form just now , I've been nursing an abcessed molar all week and I'm high on painkillers and antibiotics .
More again soon .
Ladies & Gents,
Chris may be the instigator of this wonderful place where so many of us love to visit and forget our woes, but I can't believe I'm the only one worried about how things will be whilst the 'Cygmeister (I'm only 31, for goodness' sake!)' is away.
To me, the simple fact is that we all now have a great place to generate smiley times (please forgive the dodgy 80's phrase, but it fits for now) amongst ourselves. Sure, Chris won't be giving us a daily dose of inspiration, but so much incredible stuff has already been generated on this blog that I hope we just keep posting and posting and posting and giving each other that good, happy feeling every day for the next couple of weeks.
My hope is that we hit at least 2,000 postings just on 19th August's blog alone (being that it is the last one until Croque Monsieur Mange Tout returns from his 'olidiz).
To my mind, that would do a couple of things:-
1) Keep us flowing in the manner we've got used to in only 10 blogs (can you believe that's all it's been so far?!)
2) Blow Cogmeister's mind when he returns as to what he's actually started....
So please, guys, if you see this and want to keep it up, give more...tell all.....the floor is ours for two weeks...let's see what happens....
Carpe deum & mange tout to all!
L&H,
Debs '75 (yes, another Debs, we seem to be a common breed, but hey, we're enthusiastic !).
Deb,
Great idea re: keeping the blog going. A habit can be formed or extinguished after only 18 repetative trials. However a habit can be extinguished much faster when not reinforced. Therefore, if we cease blogging for two weeks, it is very likely that when it does start up again it will not be at the same fervor and energy. Many of us would find other preoccupations and things to fill our time. (Sorry, I am a psychologist so I see the world in terms of reinforcing and extinguishing behaviors.)
All that to say: Blog on friends...blog on!
Wow Deb, a pyschologist at 2.55am, can't you sleep either ? I am a 40 something with kids and wife asleep upstairs going through a change in sleeping patterns. I think Chris has some great observations on reaching 40 and looking for your personal hill, life is great when you take stock, and enjoy real food again. speaking of which I must plant my potatoes for Xmas tomorrow. I had heard its 21 times before something becomes a habit, perhaps thats for blokes! Hears to many more blogs
Chris this year we have grown alot of our own veg, the kids love it,fresh air exercise and something to show for all your effort,i recommed that anyone with a garden and kids grow veg,they enjoy eating veg they have grown.next year we may even enter some veg in the local veg show,thanks to wallce and gromit
and the wererabit for getting my kids interested
Saturday mornings, the day for a lie in, but unfortunately not for me, up early to return home from a good night with my sister Sara, brother in law Martin and friend Chris (not that one I'm afraid) now waiting for the 2nd week running for the Gas man!
I will miss Chris's company on the way home from work for the next 2 weeks, he makes the hour - 2 hour journey enjoyable and not a chore even sitting in a terrible traffic jam last night caused by the traffic on the M54 heading for the V festival (and I'm not even getting to go this year :-(
Here's looking forward to Chris's speedie refreshed return from his hols to entertain the nation as we prepare for out evenings.
Here's also to the comunity he's has created here on the Blog.
Morning All!
I'm 26 and I just watched (and thoroughly enjoyed) an hour long documentary about Hayley Mills. Does that make me more of a Togger than a Blogger??!
I hope not!!
;oI
xxxxx
Have A good Holiday Chris!
We miss the top radio 2 peeps when they are away!
Hopefully Johnathan, the Mr Ross will be back next week!
Does anyone find Mark Lamarr entertaining or even remotely humorous?
Is it me....... ?
Thought it was just me that struggled with Mark Lamarr!
Agree with Debs 75 - we need to keep the blog going.
Have a super weekend everyone.
Keep Smilin'!
I'm 28. Who's Hayley Mills?
Sorry, I mean I'm 29, (was my birthday this week) still don't know who Hayley Mills is though......
Hey Chris
i'm sat watching soccer AM the wife's gone to the hairdresser's and wont be back for a couple of hours, just bought some fillet steak for tonights dinner cant wait my mouths watering already - Saturdays are just the best ,
Have a great break
#140
haley mills is the late sir john mills daughter, i think. he was in a lit of the old war films, i think he was in bridge over river kwai. she was also in the original film pollyanna you will cry if you watch this film, also in whistle down the wind where they kids live on a farm an a prison escapee sleeps in there barn and he tells them he jesus. very good film, also she was in the parent trap, which was recently with natasha richardson, didnt see that one though.
hope this helps
barb
oh thanks to everyone that wished me a happy birthday , had a great day and was topped off by getting on the show for my request
barb
Sounds like a fab night Chris. I will be out tonight with my friends, and as usual, the company is definitely going to be better than anything I may eat or drink!
Good friends are important, as your friend with a broken heart is discovering, because when all's said and done, they will always be there for you, in whatever guise you need them to be at any given time. My 'bestie' and I have had a shocking year, but have remained solidly there for each other. At times 'wing man', at others big sister or even Father Confessor, I know I can rely upon her to say it like it is and motivate me. Be proud - your sad friend is leaning upon you - it means you are a good friend.
Enoy more nights out with friends and celebrate the happiness that good friendships bring.
By the way - no Chris for two weeks, what on earth am I going to do?
S xx.
missed reading Christophe's blog today - I keep checking to see whether one appears. Hope everyone's enjoying the cricket - football - gardening - or whatever the weekend brings. Hope Chris is happy and laughing
Happy Day to you all
Teresa
Agree with you #132 , keep on blogging ! (though I'm away same time as Chris.)
Mark Lamarr is legend too ... what a brilliant, sharp and witty mind. How does radio 2 find these great blokes ?
Happy hols Chris and love to all bloggers. Remember the RAKS that we can ALL do everyday and I guess that includes that if we've got nothing nice to say about someone then lets say nothing at all !
After driving home every day and listening to Chris talking about his bloggers I thought I should make the time to log on and see what all the fuss was about and WOW im blown away!! What a great bunch of people all sharing the trials and tribulations of daily life! Like one big happy family, yeah penpals just like Mairead #119 said, I hope she's finding everyone more interesting than the stamp collectors!!
Well, here I am sat on a usual Cumbrian cold and wet Saturday afternoon, Brothers moved in with me following a split from his partner and ive got an invite tonight to an ex's 40th Birthday Party!.... a house full of his family and friends who I was always kept away from during our time together and now im invited to socialise with them!
Do I......
A- not attend and send my apologies
B- get glammed up and make a grand entrance!
OOh the decisions! any ideas?
I will send this now so that next time im back i wont be the virgin blogger!
Happy Saturday to one and all!
Have a great holiday Chris but hurry back to your audience!
x x x
Hi Chris
How lucky are you?.... .2 weeks off,still i shall ponder your return and carry on work sparkying,enjoy your time off.
Cheers
Nick
Hi again Chris...
Rally Really so fed up that I dont get to listen to your show.
Thanks for the blogs... I have observed that you like golf.
Me to I like it so much I created you your own golf finder.
Actually m8 it is not for you I am trying to raise sheds loads for charity..More on this towards this years Children in need appeal.
Any way m8 what about a little help on this.
I need to know all the charity golf events that will take place in 2007. When I ask for that info, (not ready yet), give me a bit of a promo..Pls..
Thanks Chris.... keep hacking...
BramiT
afternoon all fellow bloggers
well christop away and most likely the fox(y) will play.
two weeks away but i'm sure our loyal servant will a keep on a blogging(if he remembers of course)
well hopefully jonathan ross will be back next saturday
for two hrs of true wit and intelligence.
stuarts ok to sit in for chris
catch u later
Wow, that sounds like one heck of a time you had there Chris!! I have been listening to your show ontop on a cliff in Dorset for the last couple of weeks, but now I'm back in a building (aka, home), which feels really weird... (oh yes, I was camping...forgot to mention that! Would've sounded a little odd otherwise...!) Anyway, back to normal(ish) life and getting GCSE results next week...EEEEE!!!
Hope you're having a faberoonie time!
Becca :D
Thanks Barb #143. Always wondered what the film was called that you mentioned! I used to love it as a kid & the explanation he gave when an animal died has stuck with me ever since!
It's amazing what you find out on here!!
Hello Chris,
Having heard you going on about it on the Drivetime show I just had to visit your blog and it's fantabulous....a real insight into your mind and entertaining to boot! For a dullard like me it's comforting to read how exciting someone elses life is....I hope you have a fantasic couple of weeks off - much as I love Stuart Maconie I couldn't eat a whole one and I love your show to bits - it's something a girl can look forward to after a yawnsome day in the office and I just loved that foodie guy you had on last week - I know everybody says this but purleeeaaaaase have him back. I've been insrpired to jump on the blogwagon and have created my own. Yippeeee! Life is sweet. xxx
Hello Chris,
Having heard you going on about it on the Drivetime show I just had to visit your blog and it's fantabulous....a real insight into your mind and entertaining to boot! For a dullard like me it's comforting to read how exciting someone elses life is....I hope you have a fantasic couple of weeks off - much as I love Stuart Maconie I couldn't eat a whole one and I love your show to bits - it's something a girl can look forward to after a yawnsome day in the office and I just loved that foodie guy you had on last week - I know everybody says this but purleeeaaaaase have him back. I've been insrpired to jump on the blogwagon and have created my own. Yippeeee! Life is sweet. xxx
Hi Chris
I too am de-mob happy, 2 weeks free for me.
Potatoes are great!!!! You could grow your own Chillies on the windowsill, they are fantastic.....!!!!!
Blogs are fab, check mine out annahickling@blogspot.com
Enjoy your hols........
Anna
XXXXX
Hi Chris
The blog is fanblogtastic! Hope you have a great holiday, but i'll miss you.
I try to organise necessary journeys (especially long ones!) with the kids in the car in time to catch the show, in order to make travelling as painfree as possible!
Thanks for giving me some of the chill out time i need. Keep up the good work.
Heard that you were up here a while back (Tain), hope you had a good time and maybe see you up here sometime.
Take it easy
Gill
xxx
Hi Chris
Wonderful show, love the potatoes, take it easy with the 2 weeks off.
Can't be bothered typing much more so...
Mushrooms!!!
Dear Chris, love the show and listen whenever I can, have just dipped into your Blog and read about your friend . . . I had my heart broken last year after 20 years with one man and now my mantra is:-
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt but most of all dance like nobody's watching. . . .
It works and I am having fun again!!
Happy hols. . C :-)
My 14 year old daughter and wife think the vegetable man is 'tops'. They are going to try the tyre method for christmas. Great show, keep it up.
Chris, I always thought of you as a right pretentious twerp, but I have been proven wrong.
After listening to your show since you started, being an avid R2 listener and all, I have to say what a pleasure it is to listen to someone who is just genuinely having a bit of fun, you cheer me up always, I hope you last forever.
Cheers, keep it up!
I think I may owe you a Guiness.
Chris,
Did you have to mention potatoes! According to the latest dieting trends - potatoes are the food of the devil. I have been dieting now for one week and now make the same noise when I see tatties and bread that Homer Simpson does when he sees a duff beer! Very embarassing in public...
This feels good, I am no longer a blog virgin!
hey hey i just read a blog dont know what no but someone called you normal .friends how can this be chris you not normal your great ,hope you not downhearted to be called normal ?any way what is normal does anybody know??doesn't everyone want to be diferent,so does that make it normal?too many questions for a sunday.have good hols chris and know youll be missed,but friends will keep blogging,its great to have such good company mx
a happy sunday one and all!
i love the Simpsons if every i need a Blimin good laugh i tune in to the Simpsons.
Homer Simpson magic with his catch phrase
DOH!
and Mr Burns's Execellent!
i'll be having a BEERmmm Doh! in a Homer esque Styley!
catchs U later monday
fellow Bloggers
Hi Chris and all bloggers
Just wanted to say have a great hol - to everyone who has just started one or two weeks off (or even just a day). It's back to work for me tomorrow and it won't be the same driving home without Chris and co to listen to.
Byeee
Oops... just to tag this on to my post at 120... wishing Foxy a fab and safe hols too :-)
Regards to all :-)
Well..... I've never logged onto a Blog before! Been listening all about your "blog" for the last couple of weeks (not really understanding, but thought I should "check it out") I apoligise for my typing but in addition to my lap-top, I have a black Labrador (called Bugsey-Joe) on my lap! Oh and I've consumed a bottle of jolly nice vino blanco! I know it's early, but hey.... it's sunday!!!!
I started the day with all good intentions of a detox. Went for a lovely walk along the Thames path with Bugs and Big Pete (yes there are more than one, and mine is probably bigger than yours), we returned to coffee (threw caution to the wind there) and proceeded with a day of relaxing RE-BUILDING THE HOUSE!!! We know how to live!!! Anyway I've impressed myself that I have logged to the blog and secondly that I can still type and drink wine wile making a beef stew for the big boy and a bean thing for me (I'm s veggie), sroke the black bear (Bugs), top up vino and gawd blimey..... comment on the weather!!! Multi tasking OR WHAT!!! Have a toptastic hiliday (like you're gonna read this). Must dash..... xxxxx
Oh wow, Hi Chris and everyone!...tsk now I have gone blank!! I have been itching to join u 'bloggers' for ages but my pc has been broken (Hard drive kupput) and finally here I am! Hope you have a wonderful holiday Chris. I have just finished mine and start work again tomorrow. Had a lovely time just potterering about with my Mum and sister. Wish I had something more interesting to tell you all but for someone who has gone blank that is enough!
See u soon x
News of your blog page was evident from over here in Portugal. As I also blog (site not given), I couldn't resist peeking at yours. Sound good "life" hints buried amongst your blogs.
/stu
Damn it, I love you Chris..
OK so to honour my dearly missed uncle Brian, I thought it would be fitting to go to mass last night at St. Stephen's cathedral here in Brisbane! All very tongue in cheek in the style which he would have loved of course - I've not turned to the church side since being away! But it was rather odd a droning Queensland voice preaching to the boardshort wearing tanned masses. Even funnier he told of the gift of alcohol, and the sad fact that some abuse this gift. We'd just had four jugs of beer, so I had to laugh and conceal my alcohol based existance. I think even funnier was the fact that I had the German trio with me.. I can hear him laughing now.. A very special experience, one certainly heightened by the beer. Obviously then we had some more and watched Gaelic football. has anyone seen that game? It's a totally odd looking mix of rugby, football and a bit of basketball.. And it has some very fanatical fans. GO COUNTY MAYO!
Good Morning to you all well it's just another Manic monday ohh!
where i am the weathers not brilliant it is only 08.18am
another week another $1 well all right a £1!
thats me for now the mines gone blank
cheers
fellow Bloggers on the Showblog(shlog)
Monday morning and no blog from Chris (well he is on holiday after all) just read throught weekend blogs - wow there are a lot of insomniacs out there!
Our kids went back to school today - i need to try and cathc up with loads of work and 'dog with sore paw' is to go back to have dresing #4!
Have a happy Monday everyone!! Give me the strength to phone the client I have to phone to tell him I don't want the job...................
love Dot
Morning to everyone. Hope Chris is having a great time & better weather - its very wet & miserable here in MK. Woke up feeling rough, took a look out the window & went back to bed to listen to Terry - then he disappeared!! Still guess the week can only get better.
Keep Smilin'!
Good morning!
Hope everybody had a nice weekend, mine was very wet one in north wales!!! Sun is out this morning so fingers crossed. Have to go now and get "the darlings" breakfasts ready. This is the only time i get on the pc as "the darlings" will be getting up soon and taking over with msm and runescape. But i enjoy this time with a nice hot coffee mmm might have another one ....
Goodbye bloggers x
Morning All
Great idea to keep the blog going whilst our hallowed leader is off on his adventures, count me in. In full agreement with Debs '75 (131).
We seem to be kicking off with a weather report this morning, here in Cambridgeshire the clouds are varying shades of grey and I think we are in for a douwnpour shortly.
(Dot 171) what ever the job is, who ever the client is and what ever your reasons for not wanting to do it - I'm with you all the way, this life is too short to have to do things we don't want to do.
Glad you had a great birthday Barb. Anyone out there got a birthday today?
Demelza D.
Morning all,
Despite the fact I loathe my boss and only have four days left working for him, I was glad to get into work today (and yes, I obviously am mad!).
Y'see I've had a very long two days packing up the house before it all goes into storage this Friday. Am moving from East Yorkshire to Suffolk for a new job starting in 4 weeks's time.
But the new house won't be ready until the end of October (hence the storage) and I go on a lovely 3 week holiday next week, so have had to do three-way packing this weekend:
Stuff for storage that I can cope without until November...
Suits & stuff for when I'm lodging and start new job in September/October...
And holiday stuff.
Thankfully Mum's come up to help me and she's been brilliant, but there's still all the stress of solicitors/mortgage lenders/change of address/planning/planning/planning to keep me plenty occupied.
I remember when I accepted the job offer back in July, thinking "I wish it was all over now and I could wake up in the new house and get up and go to work in the new job." But sadly Life ain't ever that simple!
This'll be my 4th house in 8 years, so this new job had better be the 'one.' I'd be happy not to move again, ever!!
Hope the potatoes work well for everyone - sadly I can't join in this year for obvious reasons, but good luck. Heard a good tip on Gardeners' Question Time yesterday (2pm R4, every Sunday - sure beats Elaine Page and that awful laugh):
Now's the best time to cut any fresh herbs you've got in the garden and freeze them, 'cos they've got their fullest flavour at this time of year. I know Basil won't work as it can't tolerate cold temperatures, but if you've got any Rosemary, Parsley, Mint, Chives, Thyme or suchlike, then cut off the best bits, pop them in a sealed plastic bag and into the freezer ready for winter use. Might be handy to write what it is on the bag 'cos they can sometimes be hard to identify once frozen.
Right, s'pose I ought to knuckle down a bit, but Happy Monday to all!
:-)
10 am, and no post yet!! your getting later by the day young man!
Morning All
Everyone seems to have had a wonderful weekend despite some rather mediocre weather...
I guess the fact that Christoph has not blogged yet is a good indication that he is enjoying his holiday!
Have a great day everyone... remember to stay happy!!!!
LL2TF xx
Thanks Chris, your an insparation to all of us trying to make it through life !!
Can anyone help?
Having heard about growing your own potatoes for Christmas I went out over the weekend to buy some seed / potatoes to plant. However, at one garden centre I was told only in Spring and the other said to wait until Autumn.
Now I'm confused and I don't know where I can get potatoes to plant and if it's the right time?!!?!??!?!
HELP......
Good morning,
Back to reality, have been away with the family in sunny cornwall for a week. Husbands back at work and the kids are killing each other in the playroom so i'm hiding away on the pc, not that i'm a bad mother of course! just in need of own space (anyone with children will understand).
Guess what i've just been to my downstairs toilet and have just found a dead bat in the pan, how the hell did it get there!!
Anyway must get on,
Have a Great day!!
Hi Chris, Missing you already, no early morning mumblings and now I have to face drive time without my mate to cheer the evening along. Hope you have a fab hols and achieve all you wish.
Hello Chris and all,
My first Blog. HELLO!
Having emigrated last year to the most isolated city in the world, Perth, Australia i listen to your show and it brings a smile to my face each and every time i log on. Youve blossomed in everyway , MR.Cool with a capital C., big hugs to you my friend...........
Im off to the east coast next week in a campervan for 2 weeks back on the road travelling, searching , exploring and learning.The last 3 days will be checking into a 5* hotel to relax the soul even more, didnt want to splash out but thought, "what the hell ,im worth it".
A happy life is a simple life.
thanks demelza!!!
love Dot
Chris
Really going to miss the show for the next two weeks and your blog is such an inspiration to me and, clearly, to so many others...well done and thank you.
Gaby xxx
ps - going to try to sort out the potatoes today.....soon be Christmas!!!!
This is for suz #131, if you love spuds and want to diet, try the Slimming World diet, unlimited spuds if you want to. You have to then ease up on the meat though. Working for me lost just over 2 stone up till now. I'm feeling fab and can eat egg beans and chips! feeling a bit peckish now talking of food think i'll go and see whats in the fridge! Keep blogging and hope the next 2 weeks fly by.
Love lisajo.xxxxxx
#179
as far as i know you can plant pot just now, but you have to get the right seed.
ill ask my hubby and get back to you
barb
Its me again 'Audes down under' only blogged about 1 hour ago#182, feel addicted already. My 2nd blog.
Had my tea and was thinking of the next blog and thought i need to tell you all what happened last week.
Ben Elton was doing his last 2 shows of the tour in Perth(he lives here too). So i bought 2 tickets for me and hubby to go. Not checking the ticket i assumed we were going to the show before his last one.
So all excited (nothing too exciting happens in Perth)we headed off to see the show. I assumed the assistants checked our tickets as they showed us to our seats, it wasnt a full house. The announcer said 'Please welcome to Perth Australia.......LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO'.Everyone cheered and i said to my hubs, 'wow! their a good support band'?. They played for 1 hr and my husband was really bored of the music as they sang with no instruments, 1 song went on for 10 mins and we didnt know any of the tunes apart from one.
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We went for the interval . Thinking Mr Ben was on next ,we sat down, the curtains went up, there they were again.....'oh no' my husband cried 'whens ee coming on?'By this time i thought it might have been an australian thing where the main act would come on alittle later. So we sat there checking our watches every 5 mins waiting for Mr Elton.
At last they said their goodbyes and all the lights went on???!!!!!Not another interval? As we sat there everyone started to leave the hall. Oh my god, i quickly checked my ticket and realised we'd only gone on the wrong day ,he was playing the following week.Oh how we laughed.
Moto of the story.....Always check.......see the funny side of life......and be grateful to have seen a band i would never ever have paid to see.
Until the next time Audes out.xxx
ps we still had our other torn ticket to see Ben the following week and he was fab on the real date.
Hi Bloggers,
I was talking to the present Mr Ali at the weekend about our big plans to plant pots for Christmas and he (as usual) has come up with what could be a fatal flaw. How are we supposed to protect the tops of the plants from frost? Do we plant in bin bags and rear our crop in the sunniest spot indoors?
Any practical solutions would be gratefully received.
Yours
Ali
Single white female? an imposter? There has never been more than 1 Ali to my knowledge but now there seems to be 2. Hey you at #44, now we have 2 Ali's and more Debs' than you can shake a stick at (does anyoen know what that phrase actually means?) You sound nice anyway, I am always singing along when I am driving and often wonder if I am getting funny looks.
Well, we had our BBQ and it was a wash out but it was great catching up with everyone and the kids (3 x 20 month olds and 1 x 11 month old) had a great time. It was chaos.
On sunday I took my lil'un to watch a friend compete in a horse show. She is now "clip clop" mad. Cheers and Hurrah's for Toni who came second in both her classes.
Agreed, we have to keep the blog going. I am addicted to it.
Weather here in Basingstoke (I work here not live here - no offence!) is cloudy with sunny breaks but expect rain later.
Yummy cottage pie for tea and with all that talk of doing the chores with a glass of wine in hand is tempting me towards the bottle of Oyster Bay in the fridge.
Buenos dias mi amigos!
Ali (Kay Otic)
Just started listening to the show when I can because of shifts, and it brings back good memories back in the day of you & Gabby followed by the breakfast show on R1.
Don't blame you for being demob happy as I am, or should I say was in the same position before breaking a rib at work last week.
Keep up the good work lemony-pie and have a drink for me while your away.
PS if you're ever up this way and fancy a round, I will shout you one @ Scraptoft (It is a real place!!!).
Quick one on your show u do the "first time" a
Friends son came into the house and told us that he had made love to a girl friend, we were astonished as he is only 10.
I asked him what was her name and he repied.
'Dunno I was pissed'
Alan Belfast
Quick one on your show u do the "first time" a
Friends son came into the house and told us that he had made love to a girl friend, we were astonished as he is only 10.
I asked him what was her name and he repied.
'Dunno I was pissed'
Alan Belfast
I would wish you a happy holiday but why oh why is Stuart on in your stead!!!! Hurry up and return please.
Dear Chris
got over excited on friday when my message was displayed (must lead an exciting life not!) and then thought it would be a good idea to send a cheeky e mail which sort of looked like i was trying to chat you up/compliment you which it was but not in a weird like way!
so i promise not to do that again and maybe from now on will just read the messages and not put my silly ones on!
sorry - bye
juliex
Chris
Have a fabby dozy holiday!!...mine is a permanant one at the moment, having been made redundant but enjoying the summer with my daughter!!! (note to self...start looking for work soon!)
Take care Chris, we miss you!!
Cathy P xxx
Hello all...
If you could tell me what you would do....where you would go..where to eat ...and where to stay in London for an all day saturday & saturday nite..in London......if it was your last weekend on this mortal coil.....tell me..
It was my 22nd aniversary this weekend & I screwed it up.....so Im duty bound to do a weekend in town next weekend..
Best suggestion gets you a free beer with me and the big boss next weekend.......
Cheers
Ian
PS..As per above..in Paris..I gotta plan ahead for next year..
Paris in 2 days.
Got off Plane, bus to Paris. Off Bus, into the James Joyce, Walked down Les Champez to l'arc D'triomphe. At Place De La Concorde, Dived onto the metro. Got off near Hotel. Booked in, dropped bags, Went back out. Walked La Rue Rivioli, Picked up tickets for evening. Walked thru Park next to Louvre, wander round Louvre. Went back to hotel, change, Metro back to Rue Rivioli. Got transport to A La Carte Floating Restaurant. Sailed up La Sienne eating glorious French Cuisine and Drinking Fantastic French Champagne and Wine, Cried when I saw the Eiffle Tower all lit up and felt perfect. Went home, slept. Got up, Metro to Eiffel. Went up Eiffel Oohed and Ahhed at View, Came down, Got on Red Bus, Stopped at Notre Damme, Went to look, Walked to Rive Gauche. Went to French QUarter and had glorius lunch, wandered round market places and side streets. Back to Hotel, Change. Make way to Moulin Rouge. Sit squished in Moulin Rouge and Eat Exquisite but expensive meal, watch fantastic show three feet from Stage. Get splattered by Sweat from dancers. Leave, have big glass of cheap wine across road. Wander in and out all Sex Shops. Go home. Drink a toast on Roof of hotel overlooking all of Paris in bare feet. Get up next morning, go to Sacre Cour. Visit Museum. Get bus back to Airport. Fly home. Fan flipping tastic.
I'd do it all again tomorrow.
DOGWITHNOBRAIN
Am a recent R2 convert and have only just stumbled across this blog. All respect due to the man who makes a lot of sense.
Off to find my hill......
I so understand the hangover/poisoning comment. There was a time when my liver was my friend and would safely see me through several pints and a suspect take away and still allow me to play squash the next morning.
This Saturday, after three pints, death would have been an improvement. It's so unfair. Now I'm old enough and experienced enough to start enjoying life, my body has decided it doesn't want to play any more
Alan
Age 44 1/2
In answer to the concern of #188 about tatties in dustbins during cold days leading up to Christmas mentioned in #188, I remember a blog from a few days ago saying that we could seal new potatoes in a tin and bury them in the ground - marking the spot - then dig up the tin for Christmas Day food. Of course that means the potatoes would have to be produced before the frost came, so hurry along now and fill up that dustbin!
Now I come to think of it, I THINK the baby potatoes themselves would be safe and sound in the dustbin during frost. Only the leaves would be frosted.
Good to read everyone's news - Jill
Well Done dogwithnobrain #197. That is making the most of every moment which is what we should all be doing - not necessarily in Paris - but wherever we are.
All these blogs make good reading - especially up there somewhere...
"..but most of all dance like nobody's watching"
what really sound advice!
Hey everyone
Perhaps we should have a subject each day whilst the tall man is away? What do you think?
Mine today would be what is the best concert you have ever been to?
I've been to so many over the years, too numerous to mention but The Who at the Oval, Ziggy at the Rainbow, Pink Floyd at Earls Court and the Stones here there and everywhere.
Saw them on Sunday and still on a high. Couldn't speak when it was over, almost couldn't breathe! Just brilliant. From the first chord just have to get up and dance and sing.
Bitter sweet as well this time as my sister used to go and see them on tour in the 60s at groovy places like Wallington Public Hall and go backstage, and she got their autographs for me and photos and told her little sister lots of stories. I was entranced. But she died tragically last year from DVT after a long haul flight (Don't sit still for too long, it really happens) and I miss her desperately and wish she had been there on Sunday. Like to think she was sitting on her cloud watching.
Til the next time....
x
Hi everyone. I miss Chris :-(
But great to see that people are still sneaking on and blogging without him!!
(((Rosalinda))) - so sorry to hear about your sister, I'm sure she was dancing on her cloud, never mind just sitting there!!
Best gig I ever went to? Reggae Sunsplash at Crystal Palace football ground, many moons ago. The sun shone, the music was fab, the atmosphere was just so chilled and happy. Lovely day out.
xxxxx
Hi fellow bloggers!
I'm really sorry to say the next thing but I too was really concerned when R2 announced that Christophe was replacing the awesome Johnnie Walker (see post 160) but I can now say with total conviction that I was very, very wrong. The show is fab, Chris treats everyone with the same respect, guests, co-presenters, the listeners, all of us and the music he plays is fab. This blog is incredibly inspiring and we definitely need to keep it going while he's on holiers.
Following on the concerts topic from #102, I've not been to many but my favourite has to be Elton John at the County Ground in Swindon last summer, he truky is a superstar
keep up the conversations Bloggers
Gill (tiggy)
sadness for your sister Rosalinda at #202 but dancin on a cloud - she sounds like the kinda lady who'd do it.......
the builders have returned - today the slappings are being done (big holes in the wall for new openings) - we call them slappings in Scotland - what do you call them elsewhere?
V dusty - dog with sore paw is stressed think his new bandage is too tight so back to vets at 3.10pm.....thank you Buckfast monks and neds who drink it for the discomfort you have given my poor mutt over the last 10 days.....rant rant....
best concert - James at glasgow SECC in 1998 I think? it was fantastic not a good thing to jump up and down for 2 hours after having had 2 children tho!! (other mothers will sypathise or shake their head with despair if they are a gyno-physio like my neighbour!)
Best concert - Steve Earle - Town and Country club late 1980's ish - but then I don't get out much.
Whats the subject for tomorrow Blogsters ?
The meaning of life ?, Bestest holiday destinations ?, Worstest Jobs ?, etc
hey everyone!
Thanks #113 I will definately hit the gallerys etc!! I too travelled alotand liked to take my time working the rhythm of a place out, however my visit to london will be breif, only a couple of days, and i really want to make the most of it!!
So anyone else that has any ideas of how to spend a few days in london when you are alone i would love to hear them!!
#119 i loved your comments! as a recently made single parent you are inspirational!!!
em25xx
I love jazz, and red wine if this is any help!!!!
Hey all! Hope we're all well, despite missing Mr Evans!
Rosalinda, I grew up in Wallington but never did get to see anyone at Wallington Public Hall! What a shame!
So sorry to hear about your sister - but you obviously have very joyful memories of her, she'll be dancing somewhere overhead. Did you hear on the radio this morning that even a car journey could cause DVT if we travel for more than four hours - or even a train or a coach? More cause for not sitting still, but getting up and dancing, methinks.
Take care all.
xxx
Hi All
(Rosalinda) Excellent idea of a subject a day, and your story about your sister tragic but beautifully put, I am sorry for your loss.
My best gig - has to be Paul Weller last year at the Cambridge Corn Exchange - we were right down the front and having been a loyal fan for over 20 years it was superb. Only topped on my 40th back in March when my mum's partner presented me with Weller's autograph, he'd bumped into him outside his office in the west end and had the presence of mind to ask for his autograph - he said the Mod Father was a bit taken a back when he said that I had been a fan of his since I was 12 and now I was turning 40, bit of reality check for the man I guess. Anyway, well cool having a 40th birthday wish from my hero!
PS
Can the first person to log on it in the morning give us a subject for the day please.
Hi #210 et al
A subject could be, why are we all checking the blog when Chris is away?
ttfn Val B.
I'm sorry for your loss Rosalinda and i am sure your sister wouldn't have been anywhere else on Sunday - it was out of this world.
Hubby surprised me for my 30th and took me 250 miles to Twickenham, best pressie ever, and thanks Mum for the hotel!!
It was the 1st time i'd seen the Stones live and even waiting an hour for a taxi which proceeded to completley stiff us didn't put a dampner on it.
The big tongue was a bit disguisting though, made me blush!!
Hope you're enjoying your jollies Chris - don't forget about us!!
Angie.
hi rosalinda, sorry to hear about your sister. my sister was very ill after having her 3rd child , due to a dvt... i am very aware of it now. we are off to scotland tomorrow and are breaking up the journey to overnight in lancaster, just to be safe.
fav concert ? either cher for her costume changes, eurasure fro the bingo at half time, or billy joel just for being there! when he played piano man i actually cried!
worst westlife!!! i took my best friend for her birthday honest not my type of music at all!!!
and they killed uptown girl!!!!!
hope as eveyone does to hear from chris soon , and good idea 1st on for the day gives us our topic.....
hopefully catch up soon, i have to say i love this i feel like ive got a million more friends.
thank you guys for just being there
barb
hi guys, i bet we'll make 1000 blogs before Chris gets back.
subject of the day great idea
just come back from our hols -two weeks in Wales ,surprisingly fantastic weather and beautiful beach- would go again
keep in touch
libby
The best show on radio, Chris! Was chuffed to bits when you filled in on the bank holidays and now you're "full time"! Brilliant! Loved Radio 2 for about 6 years now and it's just got even better! Have a nice time off, can't wait for U all to get back. J. (25) Hartlepool!
Never really fussed on Chris in the past.....disappointed when I heard he was taking over from Johnny Walker whom I listened to driving home.
Now he's on hols, guess what - I miss him!
How weird is that ?
Hi Chris if you get time to read this hope u r enjoying your break - so glad ur back to the fore!
Have had a great evening with my gorgeous boyfriend "A" spag bog & a bottle of Chianti unfortunately we (he said it was me!!) spilt a glass of wine on the carpet (oh dear!) but this wonderful guy told me (as he left!!!!) how to fix it - pour plenty of salt on the stain & brush it up - sorted!!!! & he's right!
Thought you'd like to hear this silly piece of nonsense I'm buying him a pair of Hugo Boss sox because he really is the boss & I love him. JP
Not sure about growing pot's for crimbo..mine have been on the boil since july.
Ok old joke but somebody had to make it!
Hi all
Great idea about the subject for the day. Does this mean I have to come up with something today? (re: Demelza #210). Ok, I'll give it a shot...
If you could do absolutely anything, money and time no object - job, holiday, activity etc - what would it be and why?
For me, I'd love to travel the world - see new places, meet new people, try new experiences. Ok, I know it's not exactly original, but it's something I've always wanted to do (as long as I could still listen to R2 while doing it, of course, so as not to lose touch with old Blighty completely!). I would also love to discover my purpose, the one talent/skill/gift that makes me stand out from everyone else and my hill. That's quite a journey in itself!!
Re: yesterday's subject - the best concert I've ever been to was the Red Hot Chili Peppers (supported by James Brown, can you believe it?!) in Hyde Park last summer...or was it the year before? I tell you, these senior moments (or CRAFT moments as a work colleague calls them - hee hee!) are getting a bit too frequent now that I've hit my thirties!
Don't let the weather get you down, today, friends. Act like it's always sunny and be a ray of sunshine for those around you.
Toodles.
c'mon blogsters its 9.07 and no ones leapt in since 1.38 this morning. Don't know about subject for the day but....last night i went to the races. The 7.30 at worcester had a horse entered called Christophe, truly truly, in the normal course of events, with blogging in mind, i would've regarded this as a sign from god and backed it. However, Christophe was a non-runner so i backed something else. Yep that did'nt win either, so much for serendipity......
Its a wet but muggy day up here have a good one bloggers.
What a great question....
I'd buy a time machine and go backwards about two and a half years and re-live ten-minutes of my life. The only thing I'd change is to say, Hello.
Keep smiling
Rachel
Hi Rachel
A time machine - what a fab idea!
Guess I've been rather limited and earth-bound in my initial thoughts, so I'd like to expand them to include travelling throughout time and space.
I'd love to go back into history and see what things were really like and how accurate the currently accepted version of events is. I'd love to explore star constellations and new planets too. All a bit Bill & ted and Star Trek, but it sounds amazing and has really gotten my mind racing with all sorts of exciting ideas and what ifs!
Failing that, a 2-3 hour trip into space for a mere $200,000 or even getting a star named for me as a gift would be tops! (makes a great birthday or wedding present if you're stuck for ideas -
Blog on...
oh Rachel you need to tell more you can't just say that then not fill us in.............
I'd go back to when I was 18 and not withdraw my folio for art school - I ended up doing architecture and hate it - as I am now an overworked self employed worker! Some day I will have time to get the paints out and paint all day (the husband and kids could emply a cook/butler/housekeeper to do all the chores)
took dog with sore paw back to vet today as he pulled off his bandage - paw better but my wallet is now £241.76 less.......eek
smirry day here - but kinda warm, must get back to work - take care bloggers and have a fab day.
love Dot
re - thought for the day
i think id become a pilot , then id buy a big house with a garden big enough for my plane to take off and land in. then i would be able to go away to where ever i want for the weekned.
go see my family in scotland pop over to france for a chirpy cheeky wee red via euro disney with the kids....what a life!!! that would be a great , save the long drive up to scotland today!
take care guys
CHRIS WHERE ARE YOU!!!!!
barb
Hi Dot.
Ok .....
Here goes... a while back ....I .was in correspondence ( e-mails etc) with a chap .. a really nice guy .. nothing heavy , just chit chat ( he's quite famous) and we talked about all sorts of things in a way that I'd never experienced previously with a man. We exchanged photos ( lots of them) and I sent him gifts for his birthday and Christmas etc. We followed the usual route of getting closer and closer as time went by, it was like having the most fantastic friend and lover but I'd never met him: so I asked him, if we could meet. He said, it would be nice but we couldn't. So I thought well, that's ok, we can carry on with the "on-line" thing. It came to pass that I needed to be in his home town for a work meeting and it being so far away from where I work, I had to stay over in a hotel. I asked my on-line friend, where the best place to stay would be and he told me. I said to him, it would be great if he could pop in and say hi, in the evening. He said that he couldn't cos he'd be on holiday in another country at the time. I was quite disappointed cos I'd actually engineered the situation where I'd need to be there for the meeting , we could have had it much closer to my place of work. I arrived at the hotel and checked in, went to my room, unpacked , showered , got dressed .. then went down to the hotel bar .. a fabulous room with a fantastic view. There was only one other person in the bar ....... it was my on-line friend. I my heart stopped, I didn't know what to do, I couldn't make my mouth work, I'm really shy you see, so I just sat there looking out of the window like an idiot for a few minutes then I spotted a piano, so I thought: do something!!!! What I should have done was said, hello: what I did, was play the piano ( rather badly) Elton John's Your Song. When I'd stopped playing .. he was gone..... I later found out that he'd flown half way around the world to be there....... I just want to go back, smile and say hello.....
Keep smiling
Rachel
oh no now i'm gonna go cry...... did you ever hear from him again?
love Dot.
Idea for a subject of the day: Moving On....
One of us lovely bloggers quoted a passage from Paulo Coelho's The Zahir about the importance of moving on - from people, houses, jobs, situations I suppose - when the time is right. Move on if necessary. Don't cling on to who you were but dust things out, make a fresh start, concentrate on becoming who you are rather than thinking about who you were. Coelho of course expresses it better than that but I can't find the bit just now!
One of my daughters (24 years old now) has had two important relationships with men and found in both cases that they are not the ones to be with for life. They don't help her to be the person whe wants to be, or to expand her life if you know what I mean. However she goes to the ends of the earth to remain friendly with them both and this causes great complications, inhibiting the development of new romantic ties! Any advice for her and those in her situation?
Similarly moving house, job and so on. We're thinking now of moving house as we need the money currently tied up in this perfect one. So-o-o- hard to find anything cheaper that could possibly replace it, but I recall some good advice when we came here with our 4 children 24 years ago (and one more born here) - "Love this home, but always be ready to let it go"
Happy Wednesday to you all xxx :)
Hi again Dot,
yeah we still chat now and again but not like back then, I'm married now and he has a G/F so we can never get back to, perhaps where we should have been....
Just one hello from me or him, would have made all the difference ...... it wasn't to be.
Keep smiling
Rachel
Rachel
It is never good to have regrets. Always look forward and never back. What is done, is done and cannot ever change.
There are always better things ahead.
hi rachel.
I thought that things like that only happened in films. how did you get over the shock? I hope you get your time machine and go back, perhaps then you should tell him what he has missed. Did you ever tell him you were there? Is he still quite famous [hope he's not]. Hope you found somebody special later.
Hi all
we're doing very well getting the comment count up today are we?!
Re: subject of the day- if money and time were no constraint, I'd get my leg ulcers mended, lose this horrible skin disease that has blighted my life for 30 years and basically buy myself a new body! But hey, I'm a working girl, with a wonderful hubby who loves me wholeheartedly despite my many faults and flaws so I'm blessed and I know there are people out there with bigger problems than I will ever experience.
Was thinking last night on the way home about old kiddies progs we used to enjoy. My favourite was Chorlton and The Wheelies, was the witch called Fenella?
And talking of Fenella's, did the news queen marry a Mr Fudge or divorce a Mr Haddingham?
Enjoy the lovely wet day, what happened to August being hotter than July?
ttfn
Gill
OK, OK - I've thought of a subject for tomorrow - (Thirsty Thursday) - how about 'If you could be someone else who would it be and why' - maybe you could change the world and make it a better place.
ok Rachel AH at 229 said about never having regrets - myabe it's not a regret but a 'wondering what would have happened...' I have truckoads of them and a lot to do with an Italian guy I met 20 years ago...! Now I'm married to lovely husband , got two kids, building site of a house........ I wonder what if.....................................................................................................................................
subject for tomorrow sounds interesting - must think that one through!...... Though I think it would have to be Mrs Bush senior and on that fateful night, when George senior approaches with a glint in his eye I'd have said 'not tonight dear I have a headache!' Wouldn't the world be a better place for it?
love Dot
Hi all.
My gran always said to me that you could never make a wrong choice in your life as you never know what would have happened if you'd chosen the alternative - things could have been much worse! I always try to remember that when I start down the 'what if' road.
I'd like to have enough money to make sure my family were comfortable enough to be able to do whatever they wanted with their lives without being bogged down with the day to day bill paying stuff & then to be able to travel with my partner and see as much as the world as possible.
Happy Wednesday everyone.
Keep Smilin'!
Mandy #234
In full agreement with your last posting. You only live once and life is way too short for 'what if's' and regrets.
For today's question - I would wish to eradicate bullying in all it's forms. Also to teach every living soul to treat others as you would like to be treated, in the hope it would make the world a happier and more peaceful place to live in.
Hey! I once heard something which I've tried to live by. Our biggest regrets are the things we DIDN'T do, and not the things we DID do. Perhaps we should all try and take a few chances now and then?
x
Mandy, your gran spoke the truth! a wise woman.
Jill, your daughter sounds lovley, she'll find whats good for her when shes ready. When her own needs demand more than 2 good male friends and/or when she meets someone else. I'm a big believer in keeping friendships if its possible. Not all of a relationship would have been bad so why not hang onto the good bits if you can. Also good for the self esteem.. gotta grow y'know. Thats what I think anyway.
I would have liked to be Elizabeth I, an exciting age, but maybe not, too much chopping off of heads.
hi fellow foody! the meal sounded delish. and good luck with the golf (o and give dec a big hug, he's so sweet!)
have a great couple of weeks of, shame about the weather.
from missy
mandy#234
i agree also the "what if road" well for me with a choice which way to go or turn in life.
i applied for a job once and had i got it my life would different to what it is now.
also i'd always wanted a career in music despite asking for help i think i'm too old now and from it being the "dream" bit maybe a reality i may never know.
i'm 34 now so who knows maybe it's not too late.
anyway happy Lotto wednesday
and we should get to another thousand before chris gets back.
keep a blogging!
Hi All
Sorry I haven't been joining in with the chat today, just got out of bed, though unfortunately not due to some wonderful over indulgent evening last night, but because I have some sort of flu type bug! Though luckily the wonders of homeopathy are easing the symptoms.
Re the subject of the day - for a second it crossed my mind that a time machine to whisk me back 4 years would be good, 'tis a woeful tale of a gorgous bloke, an 18 year old having to choose between two men, choosing one in the hope the other would step in and prove he loved her more (I was always the romantic fool), this not happening and said girl marrying the other guy - 18 years, two children, a dog and a reasonably happy marriage later the gorgeous one steps back in to her life, twirls it upside down, inside out and begs her to go off with him. Despite knowing she has never stopped loving him and his presence back in her life for three wonderful, passionate, all she'd ever wished for months she says 'no', mostly for sake of the two early teens aged children and innocent husband who really doesn't derserve such abandonment, even though it totally breaks her heart and off the gorgeous one rides never to be seen or heard from again. Just for a second, my mind flickered to the wanting of a time machine and the chance to have the choice again, either 4 years ago or even way back to when I was 18.....but no, here I am now having stuck with a marriage that wasn't the best in the world but has won through against every odd, and was taken to the very brink of divorce - happier than I could have ever imagined and totally in love and committed to my husband. I learnt some very important lessons from that period in my life -
Be careful what you wish for, as you just might get it (And sometimes the reality of that is harsher than you could ever imagine)
You never know what the next second of your life will bring or where that will take you.
And, the grass can be so much greener your side of the fence if you pay it a bit more attention.
So instead I would wish to make it as a writer, which I have tried to on and off without any real serious conviction for 20 odd years, perhaps one day
On a lighter note - favourite TV shows when I ws a kid (though some of you young'ns probably won't know them - Trumpton, undoubtedly no. 1, Bagpuss, oh, and Hectors House (he definitely had a thing going with that frog next door!!!)
love to you all
Demelza D.
.......Oh and Dot, love the Mrs Bush thing :), With you all the way on that!!!
i know wishing for something and you may get and it maybe harsher than i think.
thanks for the kind advice and words from my post but know lifes tough i had the "dream" and had the rose tinted glasses view but as life it's not all rosey but i've watched the careers of the "famous" and like us all seen some come and stay others go and never recover.
i'm fairly grounded and have a resonable iq of 113 so i know the "fantasy" from the "reality" of things so i can given the help say well if it works all well and good if not at least i had a go at it.
and from being bullied at school i've learned to being more tolerant of lifes up's and downs
cheers all
I'm sorry, but quite frankly Rachel, you're a muppet!! Fancy going to all that trouble just to tinkle the ivories - doh!
One day I'm going to ride the Rockies, starting at the southern in early Spring, and reaching the top in full summer.
Obviously with a fiery steed between my legs and hunky guide to lead me (did I get that the right way round?!).
Will think about tomorrow's over G&T tonight (midst shoulder-height packing boxes...2 days to go!).
Thanks Debs #243
As it happens, things have turned out very nicely. I have a fab husband and my own piano now....... I just wonder, now and again, as you do, what we might have talked about, is all. I'm not trapped in a never ending nightmare of what if.....
Tomorrow looks good .....
Keep smiling
Rachel
Just visited the Bolg for the first time in a couple of days & found myself addicted to the soap opera that was Rachel's what if scenario!!
The world has gone mad! Pretty gripping reading though!
My view, everything happens for a reason. Just ride the wave of life & see what happens.
oppps... David (242) wasn't actually commenting on your post, just generalising (this darn flu thingy leading me to rattle on) - sorry for the misunderstanding there, no offence meant. No rose tinted glasses this end, just harsh reality that one gets the best one can from :)
Hi everyone,
Started to send in a shlog this morning, but one press of the wrong key- and it was all gone!
I have enjoyed reading through all the comments. It makes interesting reading and the sense of togetherness is good too. I think Chris will be well impressed!
I too don't believe in wanting to go back to earlier times and wonder what if? Having read Abi's #219 this morning I wondered what I would do if I could. Then I realised I'm doing it. We moved abroad and live in the countryside, we enjoy forest walks, fresh healthy air. I can indulge in baking cakes and bread, and spend time finally completing all those projects I started in a busier lifetime, patchwork quilts for a start. I might even get to achieve in part learning a foreign language. I've never been any good at that. But when living in... as they say.
The downside is of course not being close to family and friends so Barb's earlier comment #224 to become a pilot and fly my own plane from the garden would be just the thing.
However, a trip back to the UK is planned for next week, only thing is I might have trouble in keeping up with the shlog!
Are we ever truly happy and content?
I must admit I didn't much like you before (not that I knew you but from the papers and your strange behavour from time to time ,well publised of course)How wrong people can be
I started to listen to you on Radio 2 whilst on holiday in Somerset my hubby Andy ,forgot the tele and the radio was all the kids and I had to listen to and I'm not one for change but as Peak 107 was not around Somerset, Radio 2 was all we listened too and I must admit you have me hooked ,It's a shame your on holiday I really miss you
So I'm afraid Peak 107 at least at your time has taken a back seat
So I apologise for judging with out truely knowing
I ask for forgiveness and I thank you ,for really making my holiday in a cold and at times wet Somerset
You have a great holiday and hurry back you truely are missed
It goes to show you shouldn't believe what they write in papers
Well done Chris
Love the show and your jibes with Foxy hurry back
from Janie in Chesterfield Derbyshire
Demelza#246
sorry i was mistaken also so i then rambled on
oh well never mined
happy bloggin
what ifs are ok i spose if we can keep them in perspective,not pay them to much attention.live for the moment,now,and we are all a little happier,and from small acorns oak trees grow.and talking of seeds and things growing hows the hunt for the right spud to grow for christmas??thanks for book details about how to be happy,its just arrived and am about to get stuck into it.right now i'm in a very strange time of my life,getting through things that i thort happened to someone else,only this time it was me.still not sure where its all going to end up but spose the trick is not to ask?i feel i no longer have any answers.but reading all your blogs is great makes me feel there realy are some good people out there!!!stuart doing grand job for chris you got me hooked on beeb 2 a few years ago .think you should add your words of wisdom to the blog...take care all & sleep well all those waiting on the gcse results!!! mx
Hi all,
There seems to be a big gap in the posts this evening so thought i'd add my own. wondering what ifs are healthy keeps you in sight of what you have and not what you havn't. I suppose we all have regrets and what ifs but we cannot be sure that the grass would have been greener. This train of blogs has got me thinking though. It's late now and I need my beauty sleep after i've finished my wine. The topic that was put up for tommorrow is a good one. I'll think about it over night.
Sweet dreams
love Lisa xxx
OH, it's late and I really should be sleeping but hey what the... life is too short sometimes.
I guess everyone has highs and lows, good times and bad; but all in all we lead very blessed lives really - all you need do is look at a newspaper, watch the news or look online to see that there is alot that is really not right with the world.
It's ok to have the bad times, it's ok to have the sad times, it's ok to have the what if times... if we didn't experience the lows then we would never know how sweet the highs can be!
I guess I'm an average person, had my heart broken more than once - but only ever once felt like there was no more hope; but I have fantastically full and happy life.
I have my job, I have my son, I have great friends, no-one 'special' but that will happen in its own good time and then there is the great dose of reality - the mortgage, the bills etc etc.
I truly believe that we only have one shot at this life and we have to do the best we can. We might not get it right everytime but you show someone who has!!!
There are so many posts that I would like to reply to but I really do need some sleep - have to be up in four and a half hours!
Keep a happy thought everyone and hope your Thursday is great as it can be!
LL2TFxx
Morning All on this wet and wooly day
Hopefully we can blog cheerfully all day and lift the gloomy - don't you just love this country's diverse climate!!! For a moment I thought I had over slept and it was February!
Subject of the day was, I do believe, if you could be someone else - who would you be and why? Mine would be God, if there is such a thing - I wouldn't be elusive I would be a very present, evident god. I would come down here in the thick of it, roll my sleeves up and sort out this mess us humans of made of it down here.
Hope everyone is well today and life is good. just love this little community we have going, there's a lot of really nice people out there.
Demelza D. x
Morning!
Well it's a fantastic day here in Dorset. Bright sunshine at the moment..... I'm just gazing across the fields from my third floor, office window. I can see trees ,cows, sheep and lots of grass- all joined together in that familiar way, typical, of a countryside view.
Who would I be for a day? I think: one of the astronauts who went to the moon, and what I do differently is to bring back some pictures of the Earth (taken from the moon) . I can't understand why they didn't do that. It must have been the most spectacular view , the biggest thing in the sky: their own home planet, yet, they took no pictures.................. Just one picture of the folk on the moon with the Earth in the background and bingo...... .. no conspiracy theories.......
Keep smiling
Rachel
morning folks - dog with sore paw all better and bandage off now - though 16 year old cat had to get a dental yesterday =- total vets fees between dog and cat this month £423!!! major ouch still what do you do?
yesterdays blogs were great lots of chat going on - I think I am like most people happy with my lot in life but I do like to daydream a little of a house in Italy and being an Italian Mama (being Scottish, short and with red hair I don't know how that would look)! I think it is nice to daydream - just don't take it too seriously!
Re todays thought for the day - well I jumped the gun yesterday and wanted to be Mrs Bush Senior - heck I'd have yelled 'shop's closed' very forcefully!
Builders are knocking through (it's a thick wall it's taken 2 days)! and the roofers are here (at last) so all going today and very noisy still it means I can't call anyone to do with work as I can't hear them!
Fantastic weather here today - started off misty but is now a gloriously sunny morning - a day for gardening - if I did not have to work!
Thanks to everyone who keeps blogging it's so interesting to hear from other people. I work from home and don't see anyone form one day to the next (except for family and builders) and it's nice to just drop in and read the comments!
Thanks to my lovely neighbours B and E last night for coming down to see the work to date and brought a bottle of wine to an empty house! It was lovely to just sit and chat and catch up - where would i be without them! (scuba diving 69 year old)!
Cheers for now
Love Dot
Demelza D
The weather here in the NW is fab today, bright, sunny but really autumnal and chilly!
It is ok to want to be God and put things right - but there is always the devil to contend with.....I'm with you though it has to be worth a try!
Hope your 'flu thing' is better today.
Wishing all bloggers, cog's & cyg's a happy Thursday....
AH - lots better today thanks - think I would have been very ill with it though if it hadn't been for my homeopathic remedy, I just ended up with a mild version of flu symptoms in very quick succesion over 24hrs, today I feel wonderful, thank you for asking. I was so sceptical of Homeopathy when I first started studying it, but now I am a total convert.
Hadn't considered the devil in all this, don't they say he is always in the details - hell of a challenge that would be (pardon the pun), but as this is all fantasy I would be such a powerful god that the devil wouldn't stand a chance, as a trained counsellor I would sit and have a chat with him, sort out all his problems and convince him to chip in and help make the world the great place to live in it should be and keep it that way!!!!
Demelza D. x
PS
Glad everyone else seems to have much better weather than here in the East, I'm just about to order the timber for the Ark!
x
do you need timber - our builder seems to have ordered a helluva lot.. wondering if we are paying for another job.......
love Dot!
If it keeps raining like this it just might come in very handy!!!
Demelza D.
HOW GOOD ARE YOU. THE CHEATS VERSION OF TRUFFLE EGGS REALLY DOES WORK . ALLTHOUGH MY 12 YR OLD SON JACK THOUGHT THAT THE EGGS WERE BAD AND THREW ALL MY NEW FREE RANGERS AWAY. GOOD TO HEAR YOU ARE LOVING IT LOVING IT ,LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AND YOUR MATES ON TV SAT ......CHEERS KEN IN WESTHOUGHTON.
Isn't Ronnie Corbett unbeatable.
Firstly I love the blog, but could you do it in larger print for those of us of that age where everything is too small!
Anyway, there I was having a 'moment' eating a choc sponge pud ( curtosy of Ginsters factory shop just down the road), covered not only in its own choc sauce, but also in channel island extra thick double cream (well sometimes you just have to), drinking a glass of Croner and listening to John Lennon. Bliss. When my stupid husband thinks he should interupt my 'moment' and asks the question, "well do you love me". Honestly, did he really expect and answer!
Just to say Thanx for adding to my 'moment'. I am loving being able to enjoy cooking a meal after a long day listening to your show.
Jan
Dear Chris
I think that you should have let the man win on the name 10 70's bands, Queen had one of the biggest hits of all time with Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975, you can't get much more of a famous 70's band than Queen.
sorry I'll get off the soap box now!!
Great show listen every day, keep up the good work.
Alison