LISTEN TO THIS FOR A PIECE OF BREAKING NEWS.
From midnight tonight...
... WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO woman's minute !
iT'S COME ALL THE WAY FROM THE TOP. No competitions at all on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ until further notice, you'll read all about it in the papers tomorrow. You may have heard about it already.
Our D.G. is making a speech on our internal tv channel right now. It's breathtaking, I really don't know how to encapsulate it on this blog or whether or not i really should at all.
The "Queen incident" is now being discussed after admissions of programme competition fixing following an internal investigation. There's more than just the Blue Peter "fix" it has come to pass.
I have never witnessed anything like it. He means business that's for sure. Good luck to him and us and all who continue to sail in this ocean liner we call the B.B.C.
We're all in it together even knights of the realm and other commissioned members of the empire.
So for the final time.. (maybe for ever)... if you'd like to play WOMAN'S MINUTE call 0500 288 291
WHAT A TO DO TO DO TO DO.
CLP 2007.
X.
Comments
Cripes - is this the end of the world as we know it? If the Beeb can't be trusted, who can?!!
jx
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
hasn't this blown out of all preportion?????
At the very worst, no one has been fatally ingured as a result of a competition. At the very best, a contestant wins and it uplifts their day!
Lets get things into perspective!
Oh dear one and all
Sounds a bit over the top to me!
Interaction media is so popular.
What will poor old Ken Bruce do now, he might as well pack up his bagpipes and leave right now.
Maybe HRH should be the last lady on womans minute. But then she might just go off in a huff if she loses.
You just can't win!
Oh no! The world most contraversial and gripping competition axed? This is a tragedy and a travesty. My thoughts are with you all.
Heard this on the radio news earlier, and blimey, even Woman's Minute gets the chop.
I dunno. Wossit all comin' to eh?
I'm going to miss listening to it, as I did when I got the chance! I have no idea whether I'd have won or lost, and the prizes were always worth playing for - and when the two contestants split the winnings last night (or Monday?) I thought that was a lovely gesture.
I seem to be saying 'lovely' a lot lately. I seem to be sounding more like my mother every day. Who coinklydinkly sounds quite a lot like the Queen.
Nicely circuitous.
Wot indeed.
love
hazel
x
RIP Woman's Minute
FREE THE WM ONE!
Perhaps tomorrow you could have a Woman's Minute Silence...
Hi Chris,
Thanks for sharing this with us!
Not for a moment would I suggest that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ would even dream of leading people up the garden path with regard to competitions, especially Women's Minute! What's to lose? You call in, if you are chosen, you get called back and hey presto, you're on the air!
PAYING for competitions is quite another matter of course and I have done it rarely. Once or twice on breakfast t.v. when there's been a fantastic holiday I'd love to go on and once - and only once - on an afternoon programme concerning red boxes. NEVER again !!
I instinctively stopped voting for talent shows a long time ago - I just thought I was being ripped off.
This whole situation is very delicate. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ must be seen to be taking charge and rectifying matters. There goes my chance of getting on to Women's Minute and/or "Enter Your Tardis" competition with Jonathan Ross!
It's a changing world we live in!
C xx
CLP just when you are getting the show into shape and we are all enjoying Womans minute the big boss comes along and puts a stop to it .What are you going to put in its place????
How can anyone complain about Women's minute ... it's a free competition ... therefore no-one is getting ripped off ...
I'm going to stop before I sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells ...
NO ´óÏó´«Ã½ NO !!
Thats just awful I mean its womans minute a national institution! And I love that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ has an internal channel, would love to watch a bit of that!
So the photo has been changed, its now the same as my blog photo which is also new. Is thw D.G Dolce and Gabbanna, I know its not but I did laugh to myself then!
Right now I'm gonna admit something now. Yesterday I was in Chapelfield norwich and went in the Monsoon sale and they had reduced wedding dresses, half price and I thought wow they are yummy I really want one. I didn't buy one but I did think about it! shocking huh! Chris they also had some great bridesmaids dresses if you are interested! very classy, us girls would look amazing!!
Hope you are all fantastic and will listen to the final womans minute! It should be name 10 bbc quizzes which we won't be able to play any more!
missy xx
hope the 'other side' have to do the same
A
Strike A Llight! What will I do without PopMaster, Woman's Minute et al??
Been a bit quiet of late - I was mid blog yesterday lunchtime and BOOM went the power, plunging us (and about 2000 others) into an afternoon of no electricity. It's amazing how everything ground to a halt due to lack of leccy! We were allowed to go home at 4 tho which was nice as it meant I wasn't clearing up at 9 o' clock at night - yipppeeeee!
So, this morning was really busy playing catch up. Now caught up so hopefully back to normal.
Myself and Mr Diva are going to make gooseberry chutney tonight. This is a first - I'll keep you informed as to how it goes (and tastes!) Last year I did a beetrott and ginger chutney which was AWESOME!
CLP due on air any mo - I wonder what today's (final?) woman's minute topic will be?
Name 10 things that ended abruptly?
Name 10 songs with the word 'End' in them?
Name 10 words with the word 'end' within them (eg sEND)?
Shucks! Endless possibilities!
Still thinking of some golfy songs for Friday's ARF, thus far:
Golf Club Tropicana - Wham!
Golf - Spandau Ballet
More to be added before Friday, I fear ....
Anyhoooooo, better post this before the electric goes off again!!!!
Take care out there - it's a jungle ...
CtD x x x
PS: can my bridesmaids dress be purple and black - like a bar of chocolate??
WHAT.....no more womans minite...
Hmmm. Read the ´óÏó´«Ã½ press release and I think people will understand why. Especially the bits about Sports Aid & the Liz Kershaw show.
I'm too sad to speak - although I tend to miss it on most nights.
Don't be too upset Lamby Pie Tart
XX
Kirstie
I'm going to start a campaign to...
....BRING BACK MISSY'S PHOTO
KWx
Wow number 2, impressive
The ´óÏó´«Ã½, less than 100% fair and impartial?
Who would have thought it?
haha.. 0500 is a free number! Sounds like a ridiculous thing to have said, to me. How much is this idiot paid?
Today's competition :
Guess the beginning of the most unlikely
Thursday headline in certain right-wing
´óÏó´«Ã½-hating snooze-paper :
1. "Scandal of ´óÏó´«Ã½ ..........."
2. "Fury at ´óÏó´«Ã½ .........."
3. "Honest ´óÏó´«Ã½ DG comes clean ......."
Text 1,2 or 3 to........ Texts will cost
£1.50 + your providor's normal text rates.
Winners will be chosen after lines close at midnight Wednesday (unless I want an early
night in which case maybe after the lottery
draw) At least £1.49 per text will go towards
Steevie's Christmas Present fund.
Please text generously.
All texts stand an equal chance of being ignored.
Greed wins yet again, the actions of a few spoils it for the rest. Shame.
m
Keep up the madness
Regular listener don't ring that bloody bell
See you at that Roman golf course offer of two caddies that know the lie of the course Jack 10 and Harri the hunter of lost balls makes a fourtune reseelling them to frustrated golfers
Sell us your Moggie been looking for aproject to fix with the boys
Big Al
4ft 6 and one 1/2
How dare they!! The show in itself is great but I particularly like Womans Minute. What's going to replace it? er what about "Heard it through the grapevine"? I'm sure most of your listeners know/know of the "next big thing to hit the music scene" (!) so why not ask them, me included, to nominate their chosen artist/group explain as to why they think they're so good, whoever comes up with the most innovative description of said group/artist wins!! The prize? A liittle airplay of their music. May not be as much fun as WM but at least it'll give us the chance to hear some new sounds (no more MICA please Chris!).
For starters have a listen to My Passion at www.mypassion.co.uk or myspace.com/mypassionmusic. They really are so good -just read the reviews.
cheers, enjoy the rest of this wonderful night -the sun is really shining!
Anna x
Well Chris - is this one of those crazy over-reactions we hear sooooo much about on the news? lol
After all, phone in competition lines where people vote is ONE thing, but Popmaster, Woman's Minute and The Big Show Quiz..... what have they got to do with the phoney phone-ins?
Mr T is acting like B A Baracus from the A Team and flexing his muscles to save his onw skin and I for one think he has got this VERY wrong!
My guess is - a rewording will be issued within a few days and normal service will then be resumed! Watch this space!
Ross Hemsworth
(The bloke whose texts you never read out lol!)
Gingembre- the photo is not coming back!
Gingembre- the photo is not coming back! and we know what CLP now stands for so what does KW stand for? Copper KW!
Well by the crin.
Listen up. My trip to Royal Ascot on Ladies' Day last year, courtesy of Womans' Minute after winning by a short head and a Stewards' Inquiry and making a first class twit of meself was no figment of my imagination.
I was there alright, wavin' to Her Majesty in me best Carmen Miranda hat that came in handy when the sandwiches ran out and we needed summat to garnish the Pimm's, and we raised our glasses in a toast to CLP with a rousing chorus of Up Yours several times throughout the afternoon, finishing up returning to our hotel on the back of a milk float with faces like Alice Cooper and wearing our earrings as nipple tassels. Hurrah!
So there. One happy customer at least.
Mind you while I'm on about it, I'm offerin' a reward of a crisp fiver for any information as to the whereabouts of my stuffed parrot that was cruelly abducted from atop the said hat with a ransom note left in its place. Personally I reckon there's a whiff of the cousin Barry to it but next door's cocktail bar is the poorer for its absence so come on. Fess up.
Clodagh.xx
Oh well Ya'll
Tried to get on Womans minute ... Doing my sort of Janet Street Porter accent.... So wanted that caravan to donate to Charity... Stand up for Gypsies.
Missy take care what you post on the internet.
Just a note of caution
It's not just the Beeb. All this phone-in nonsense.
If anyone out there does the old texting-in thing to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, be aware that your text will, indeed, cost 50p., or whatever it is. However, the following two texts that you will receive acknowledging your entry and saying you've answered correctly, 'But You're Not Our Winner This Time' will cost you £1 each to receive.
I only know this because my 80 year-old aunty who owns a pay-as-you-go phone and has-bless her, top bird- learned to text, has done this regularly down the months, delighted with herself and saying she'll split her thousand pounds with us all if she wins.
One evening she asked me what it meant when her phone said she couldn't receive a text because she hadn't enough credit, and she was confused. I have to say I was bloody raging when I realised what had happened. I mean, it's only a couple of quid but to my lovely little aunty trying to win her thousand pounds and being ripped off like that, well, I wanted to eat me own head.
Cynical or what.
Clodagh.xx
Hmmmm the Beeb is kind of losing its way a bit. Poor Chris has done a brilliant job in putting together his show and in truth the whole of radio is suffering now because a small faction is tasked with keeping pace with other channels. Reality tv and silly quiz programmes are the domain of chav tv CO Rupert et al. The Beeb is there to attract the best tallent like CLP and others and produce a constant stream of good stuff. Thats how it will continue to maintain its world beating reputation. Not by getting embroiled in daft nonsense like Ofcom.
JK Nonegreen
Morning folks
Hmmm, can't say I'm surprised re: the fake winners. I think it's one of those things in life you always suspect goes on, but when the truth actually comes out it still knocks you for six. I think comps all over are 'rigged' - not just on the beeb, I mean how many times have you opened a paper to see some pensioner has 'won' their bingo prize? How come they're always seem to have just retired? - I bet even the occasional village tombola goes to one of the select few?
Bingo - cheers for the comment on Luther, have to say he's one of my favourite singers ever. I have an image now tho' of you turning it into a rock ballad - cool stuff too.
Tinsel - heard CLP mention your HP plot, he reckons you should take up writing?
missy - boohiss. Thought the pic was ace, but I appreciate why others didn't. Good on you for asking tho' - as for KW, well I can't reveal too much on here can I?
Still no news on my knee, the pain just won't go away? I have made enquiries with an ex-premiership physio for a 2nd opinion in the hope to find out sooner rather than later what the problem actually is. Until then work continues to be as varied as ever.
Car has MOT today so fingers crossed.
Bonnet de douche
KWx
Oh that's just poop isn't it???!!! It's just not on!
Samm
x
OOOoooo, a photo? what photo is this? I wanna photo!!!!! (.....mini strop....)
Samm
x
Woman's minute is dead!
Long Live Woman's Minute!!
And so say all of us... (well me at any rate)
Now CLP I was standing in the shower this morning thinking about you (Stop that or you'll be off to the naughty corner) and the fact that you've found another love and are getting married again. I realised that I'm seriously happy for you! I don't even know you (well not like a friend anyway) but I'm over the moon happy for you. So is it the fact that you're a top bloke/a personality on a stick/a happy chappy/a gorgeous man? Or is it just that you finding happiness gives hope to little me? After all, there has to be at least one, if not two or three people during the course of a lifetime that fit the bill as "the one!". My Mum & Dad celebrate their golden wedding anniversary tomorrow! 50 years of life together! That's one hell of an acheivement for any couple don't you think? I don't think I'll be able to say the same thing when I'm 90 but as long as I've got the hope that I'll manage the first day of the journey it makes me smile!
Bon Chance
Luv
Lyndyloo
-x-x-x-
I've been doing the competitions in Take A Break magazine (other women's weekly publications are available!) every week since it was first published and have never ever won so much as a bean.
Zilch.
Nada.
Zero.
Nowt.
Will magazine cometitions be next?????
Yikes!!!!!
CtD x x
PS: Thank Crunchy its Thirstly Thursday!!
Well, the old competition scene is a real mess, isn't it! So many of us have been taken for complete mugs and I have to be honest, it really does make me seethe! That's me completely finished with all competitions - and I'm not a happy bunny!
Missy - #10: I really had to laugh at you wanting to buy a wedding dress! You and I must be related somehow! AFTER I got married, my friend and I used to go into wedding dress shops and try on dresses, pretending we were due to get married. There must have been about 10 of these shops in Glasgow then, so we really did have a great time! My only defence is, I was only 19 and it really was just for a laugh! (I took care to make sure I had taken off my wedding ring before embarking on these larks!). So, my advice is - get along to that shop and try on a dress, it's never to early to find out what suits you best!
C xx
P.S. My actual wedding dress was made by my auntie, and it was gorgeous!
Chrissie S- I'm glad you see my point of view re wedding dresses. Oh it was lovely, it didn't look like a big wedding dress but a full length bodist dress, not whooshing out or with a big train but oh it was lovely!
Prof Plum- I am very careful what i put online so don't you worry but thanks for the concern
Gingembre- does KW stand for Kevin Wicks? or is it something silly like..... um....... I cant actually think of anything at the mo! Come on bloggers and bloggettes lets think what the KW stands for!
Well the sun is shining here in Norwich (yoorah!) and I'm now going for a morning Latte at Waitrose! Or should that be mourning latte as theres no more womans minute?
Och Lyndyloo! What a fabulous message to Chris!
There can be no doubt that someone as lovely as you deserves to meet a terrific guy - he is out there and I am sure you will find him! It's just a game of chance, isn't it? I met my husband in a pub where my mum was the manageress. The pub was on the other side of the city, no way would I have ever been there, but for the fact I was helping out in the pub. Your guy is just waiting for you to find him, and when the time comes, you can rely on Missy and I to help out when it comes to choosing the wedding dress!
C xx
Oooops, thought the photo was of our little Chrissywissy :)
Samm
x
Chris
I don't know why Woman's Minute has been stopped. Surely we dial a freephone number to play?
Or is it being suggested that the folks taking part are faked? What would be the point of that?
Maybe you have a 'virtual office' full of fake prizes? Or is it likely that you just fake the comp then take all the goodies home yourselves?
It doesn't make much sense that's for sure.
Jan x
Thirsty Thursty it may be but I'm still on antibiotics and can't partake - aaaaggggghhhhh. Still, last day today and I am going to end the week with a lovely, chilled glass of white wine.....
Day 7 of no smoking too though! Very pleased with myself, and my hypnotherapist, bless him!
jx
ps Never mind competitions, the cricket and golf start today - hurray
ChrissieS.
Bless you but just a thought re the trying on of wedding dresses.
I used to design and make wedding dresses, amongst other things, and for a time I had a lovely little shop, where people would come and try on and discuss styles, fabrics, and so on. This was great fun but bloody hard work, and I've always said that to deal with brides, their mothers and the inevitable prima donna bridesmaid and the goblins that are paige-boys and 'flower girls' you had to have the patience of a saint and a fully-functioning sense of humour and diplomacy.
You come to accept that for every commission you get, there will be 3 others will quite deliberately come in simply to pick your brains and then happily go away and get Aunty Doreen to make the dresses, that's the nature of the work and that's OK. But what was astonishing was the number of them prepared to take up so much of your time in so doing, keeping you until some godforsaken hour, etc. It was those people who used to wear me out; the genuine ones were a piece of cake, and both I and they have many happy recollections of lovely wedding days.
The time-wasters would ask me to draw up designs, give them fabric swatches, indulge them in every which way, with no intention whatsoever of following up and no qualms about it. Amazing. Years later, and having happily hung up my needle and thread, much to the dismay of friends, family and not least the daughter, I can see what a soft touch I was and why the business drove me to the point of exhaustion.
So by all means, go play dressy-uppy in the wedding shops. Particularly if the assistants are snotty and have the look and demeanour of Danny La Rue. But spare a thought.
And talk about karma. I ran into one of the WAG-lookalike aforementioned time-wasters some months ago, who almost rugby-tackled me in the street and shrieked at me that she actually WAS getting married and where on EARTH have I been, she is now desperate as she can't find what she wants. (At the right price, I'm guessing.) I had flash-backs to the numerous times I'd opened the shop for her and her retinue at 9pm, and rarely have I felt so delighted to be able to say, "Sorry, sweetheart. You couldn't pay me enough."
Clodagh.xx
Christophe
It’s all about cheating at the moment, isn’t it? West Ham and ‘the Tevez affair’, police raiding football clubs, rigged phone competitions, Tour de France, calls for dope testing in golf, wealthy newspaper proprieters embezzeling and laundering; a bit depressing really.
What ever happened to good old, honest hard work? Unfortunately, there is too much money at stake, everyone wants everything now and it is too damn easy to get away with it.
So you get a cheat. Then, others cheat in order to keep up with the cheat. Then the first cheat finds an ingeneous new way to cheat. And so on. And, for fear of ‘tarnishing the sport/business/competition (delete as applicable)’ the ‘authorities turn a blind eye/change the rules/impose pathetic ‘slap-on-the-wrist’ type fines (delete as applicable).
It has been argued that, in case of the Tour de France, drugs should be legalised as it is so rife, so at least everyone can compete on a level playing field.
Excellent idea. But why stop there? Let’s allow football clubs to field inelegible players whenever they like, broadcasters to hand out prizes to their staff and friends and Russian oligarchs to siphon off billions of pounds of state money so that they can buy yachts and football clubs.
What would the world be like if any of that was going on?
Set off on my routine 5k run last night and over the horizon appeared Mrs MfR. ‘’Been up the road for a little run?’’, I asked, as she has not long taken running up, ‘’Nope’’, she puffed, ‘’just done 10k’’.
Put me in my place. Good for her.
We’re off for something to eat at The M tonight. Any specials on the menu today Chris?
Peace & love
MfR
PS Ever feel like you’ve been cheated?
PPS Angels with dirty faces
PPPS Kill ‘em all
Samm- No you need to read yewsterdays post to catch up i think!
Clodagh!!!!! Oh, good grief I honestly did not think of the other side of my game! You are so right and the absolute magic of this blog is that when we get to discussing something, or even just throwing in our opinion without a care, someone will come along and tell you what an absolute plonker you are! I feel really humbled and must now say to Missy and all others - DON'T play silly b*ggers!
Honestly, though, I swear I did not at any time ask for special treatment or get anyone to draw up designs etc, but I have to hold my hand up and say that I did waste people's time and I see now that's the pits.
As for Karma - you are so spot on. Obviously, all the cr*p that's been thrown at me since 1976 is all my own fault! Thank you for telling me your side - I'm really going to have a long think about this.
C xx
Thanks Missy!!!! I'm all up to speed now (well probably not LOL)!!!
I haven't quite got onto the myspace thing yet though! Maybe I'll have a peek tonight when I get home. I've managed Facebook in the last month and my lil bloggeroonie! (thanks for popping by! come and sign my guestbook!) Did you get a bunch of wierdos trying to be your friend then? tut!!!
Samm
x
Hi Chris.
Womans minute ... no! its's not fair.
I like the quizzes, Popmaster, Big quiz etc...
I do have an idea.
There must be enough people passing on their way home to come into the studio and do it live.... just til the dust settles.
I guess someone else has already suggested this but you never know
Tim
HI
i ahve never tried on a wedding dress - somewhere at the back of my head i ahd that it was bad luck to do so until the actual question had been popped - but then again 'im indoors has not asked me yet so maybe i could try them on for a laugh!
I have looked though a couple of catelogues and been to a wedding fair before - is this normal?
Re: womans minute - what will ahppen to the great presents that you get given each day? I suggest save them up and then see raffle tickets for chairty from your pub (and somewhere I can get one - unless you want to tell me where the pub is and I will visit) and then give the money to the hospice - everyone is a winner.
I ran a raffle recently and loads of prizes went to people involved with the night, including me winning a meal for 2 on Bray (woohoo) - however as we had a representative from the chairty pulling the tickets and we did it in front of everyone it was all above board!
I feel let down by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ - what are their reasons for faking it - I cannot find the press release as detailed above.
nearly Friday everyone - chin up
Elm x
Clodagh- I would never got that far!! I just liked the half price monsoon dress. I would never want all that 'I'm a bride gave me respect rubbish!' I worked in a department store in fashions and oh my goodness we were treated like rubbish by some diva's! And Bridezillas are the worst!! oh and did the WAG look alike give you the awful double kiss?! and act like you are their best friend?!
Anyway what are we gonna do instead of womans minute? Maybe you could read out all these hilarous posts we put on here!
Cheryl the Dive- 10 words that have end in them! Mend, Bend, Send, Lend, Ended, Brendon, Attended, Fendi, um....Sending and Pending!!!!!!!!!!!! That took me about 5 minutes!
Right I must go! missy xx
Ref #20
Silly me. I forgot about "... in tatters"
I thought It was because of all the controversy over woman's minute that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ have taken this action across the rest of their programmes.
We might hear the saying that disapeared years ago "Answers on a post card please"
Might as well have me 10pence worth,
Missy, I am sure you are very wise but the internet is genarally a place for anonymitty. People can post photo's and details hiding their true indentity.
Are wedding dresses and dressing up more important than the marriage itself?
Surely thats the cart coming before the horse.
Any dress will do.
missy - i know i look a bit rough today (fursday fatigue) but i really, really hope that "cheryl the dive" was a typo and not a new monica for yours truly!
We divas don't very much like hot muggy weather - it plays havoc with ones tresses and eyeliner, y'know!
Oh - and - i bid and won some divine pink boots on an online auction site (you know the one!) and i'm having real probs paying for them. i only want my pink boots!!! Divas need pink boots (divers need flippers!!)
Think a cheeky merlot may be on the cards tonight - together with double Scrubs and My Name Is Earl - should we rename "Firsty Fursday" to "Funny Fursday"??
In honour of the passing of woman's minute, i've taken a black market to my celtic armband tattoo and coloured it in black for mourning!
Ciao bella
CtD x x x
ooooops - i meant 'black marker' - not 'black market': that'd be toooooooooooooooo weird, even by my standards!
x x x x
PS: missy (again) - sorry you were mis-treated by some divas. i can assure you that having worked in local government i'm never rood to people, i'm the utmost politest diva in diva-world!
Viva La Diva
CtD x x x x
C-t-D
Did your armband beat a tattoo when it went to market?
jx
j - no. i just didn't read my post before pressing the Post button!
And me, a PA .... typos like that could get me fired!
CtD x x
Chrissie. Of COURSE you're not a plonker, sweetheart; I apologise if my small missive made you feel so.
I'm sure you're not in the league of the Violet Elizabeths I'm talking about; and hey, listen, there's nobody worse than my good self when it comes to playing dressy-uppy and doing a spot of window-shopping. Only last weekend I was in Dublin's Brown Thomas trying on a pair of 6" heeled Christian Louboutins, but the day I shell out 950 euros for summat to aerate the turf at Galway Races I'll think I've lost me mind.
Anyway, the assistant looked exceedingly bored and in need of a titter, which she duly got as I staggered round the floor on the said bejewelled stilts like a new-born giraffe in a parka.
It also has to be said, jewelled 6" platforms look a bit daft on the end of my comedy legs that could win prizes at Cruft's, and that thongy thing between me toes would've felt like thumbscrews without me flowery socks on so it's good to try them out.
And I'm mindful of what my granny always said.
"Tight shoes show on yer face."
Clodagh.xx