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ARF

Iris - the Goo Goo Dolls

or

INXS - Need You Tonight

Thank you CLP!!!

Hi Enzo

ctD xxxx

Hi Chris

Cheers for the update - enjoy the do tonight - the pictures from last year on their website looked amazing!

All quiet here in NornIrn - sunny and showers . . .

ARF Rod Stewart - Young Turks (young hearts be free . . )

DtM x

PS Any tickets going for loyal bloggers to the Drivetime disco??? (No harm in asking!!)

Hi ya

Really willing Enzo on and good for you in taking Noel out to eat.

Can I suggest Prince, Let's Go Crazy. Been meaning to do this for weeks but never got around to re-setting up my login details.

Love you and the show chuck.

Jonahwood
xxx

hiya

off to the mighty boosh festival this weekend so can I please have:

girls and boys blur - why? well I'm going with my best mate (its a birthday surprise) and we love blur (have done since we were 14 and thats a while ago now)

super bpx

Hooray and hoorah and zipadedoodah.

Thanks for the top tip CtD. I am now the proud owner of 2 tickets for the 2nd August. If you are gonna go for it phone the number, don't do it online. The nice chap told me exactly where he had 2 seats together and sourced the best ones for me.

An absolute bargain too. Only ?30 each.

See you there???

MW, a!

Yeah I know I put this on the other blog, but as always CLP put his newbie up 3 minutes after I've finished saying what I wanted to say. Oh, and it was more expensive on t'other page but just got me bill and this is correct.

And please, as I have had 2 (count 'em, 1,2) ARF's played recently do not play Devil's Haircut by Beck, cuz I'm not requesting it.

ta,

MW, a!

MW,a! will test the water with Mr Diva tonight. I'm green with envy!!! Where abouts are you sitting - just in case?

CtD xxxx

CtD,

Block 13, row 26 - which I think is somewhere near Birmingham?!?!?

CLP

ARF take 2:-

Just In Lust - The Wildhearts

or

Young Lust - Aerosmith

Love from lusty ole Diva xxxxxx

Mw,a! - LOL!! At least you'll be there hun!!

xxx

68 Guns - The Alarm

Let's just go way back when - 'cos I'm feeling old

ARF

Hot Stuff the Donna Summer version
Or
She works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer
OR
I could stick to my usual Sylvia - Focus



Love to Enzo - when can he come home? Been there ages!!

Beesmum xx xxx

Feeling lusty again Diva?

Beesmum xx

Very, BM, very.

Hello All,

New blog.


Right ARF.....hmmmmmm....lets see..something funky I think...got it...


"Superstitious" Stevie Wonder

ARF -

Please consider ABC - The Look of Love!

Thanks Chris and good luck to Mrs. E on her puppy class, hope the 'big huge ex-Policeman' goes easy on her!

PV's to Enzo too!

A x

lusty eh....?

I'm your huckleberry there! ;)

Oh if only, Rob ... if only ......

lol...it would be a huge disappointment

but I'd forgive you

'cause I'm good like that

cheeky or what?

mmmm i like eating cake.

Just wanted to say CTD I have tried those nail extentions and find that I can't fasten buttons and yesterday trapped and snapped one off in the letterbox... so they are all coming off tomorrow.

My choice for ARF would be Jakkata-American Dream.


Have a good evening all and keep smiling Enzo.

PS Wonder how Alfie the nail swallowing pooch is?



Coco

coco - i wear mine fairly short as i type for a living (alegedly!!). only thing i really struggle with is ring-pulls on cans, so i stick to drinking wine and bottled beer instead of tinnies!!!

EJR - you smooth talker, you! can't wait babes!

Divalicous xxxx

Coco - can't do up buttons - or undo them as the case may be - without my talons (not false) - had long nails for ever so type partly with them!! Scratch Scratch.

Diva - ring pulls - no problem but thumb nails only.

Beesmum xx

Bad news!!! - DC is going to retire from F1 boo hoo!!

Should be a good one this week-end though rain rain rain and wind!!!

BM x

I can open a corked bottle of wine with a boot lace - the things we learn when we are in the forces eh?

yay thirsty thursday - time for some wine

OOer - CLP and Jony just said about DC and he's on the prog - yummy!!!

Beesmum xx

Oooo - I like EasyJB's suggestion. Very superstitious, dumm tee dumm dummm...

Didn't Mr CLP say something last year about putting people into a draw for them's what couldn't afford to put a bid in for going to the Drivetime Dine and Disco Do?

Can my name go in please if so... Maybe we could buy tickets at a £1 a go or something and only one ticket per person and then draw out a winner. All proceeds to the bear with the eyepatch....

jx

Now just why would you want to do that Rob???

Beesmum xx

BM - mefinx he may be showing off, in a rugged macho posturing kinda way.

Oooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! If only we had Webcams!!!

Diva xxxxx

Yay JenEwan agrees with me...thanks hun..it is a top tune..very good to dance to in the car.

Bs-mum - if you are ever out hiking and numb gnuts (that's me btw) fogot the corkscrew then no problemo...I always carry a spare set of laces :)

ragged macho posturing more like

Well when I had my glam job I had my own nails but now with all this manual work it plays havoc with them.

But how you open a bottle with a shoe lace has me wondering.


coco

Has this ever been on HOW.

hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!moi HIKING!!! Very funny Rob !!! Sorry - can't stop laughing now!!!

Beesmum xxx

and you dance in your car!!! me tooo!!!
atchully got everything Mr Wonder ever did on plastic discs cd's - you name it!!

Beesmum xx

i dance and sing in my car all the time. the locals are quite used to me!! steering wheel drumming's good too!

Diva xxxxx

but did you mean superstition?

Diva - my party piece is the D spot - wherever!! usually in town taking the post but always in my car getting weird looks!!!

Beesmum xx

'Good Vibrations' - the Beach Boys, to go out to Enzo - get well boy

Liz xxx

Not the G Spot, BM???

bet that gets BP'd by the time I get home!!!

xxxxxx

Hi Chris
For this weeks ARF how about Wild Thing by the Troggs. It is my B-Day tomorrow, and that would take me right back to youth. That shows how old I am.
I live near Goodwood, and you always know when there is anything going on, you cannot move in our town, for traffic.
Mel xx

Chris,

Always a great show. I always make a point of tuning in from here in the US like many other expats, I'm sure. I only listen to radio 2. None of the US stations come close.

I suggest the Huey Lewis song A Couple Days Off. It should get us all going for the weekend.....

James

Chris

Could I please request Wham and Wake Me Up Before You GoGo?

I would like to hear it with my little man to cheer him up a little. We thought he was going to be on tv tomorrow but we were sent the wrong dates (good job I thought to email and check!).

Instead of sitting by the tv at 5pm, we will be by the radio in the kitchen hoping that you will please play it for him.

And I haven't brainwashed him with George Michael honest....it was his choice I asked him to pick a song!

Back to catch up posts later, been out all afternoon.

Love
Debbie x

PS. Aw I guess Enzo wants to go home with his Daddy x

superstition


that's what I meant :)

Easyjobrob wrote:

I can open a corked bottle of wine with a boot lace -HOW???

CLP Can we start a puppydog group for all of us loyal bloggers and yourself...and by can we I mean can you :P

Give big hugs to Enzo for me and my faithful hound Molly.

ARF has to be The Commitments ~ Try a little tenderness....one of my alltime fav songs.

Love Sara xx

Hi Chris,

Please please please have Go West by the Pet Shop Boys? I got as far as talking to Naughty Nick about it the other week, but I obviously didn't impress because something LedZepplinny/black Sabbathy got played instead! Gutted! It's such an over-the-top, sing you-head-off in a daft way song. Please.

Love the show, the people and the blog, even though I don't often write.

Love

Anne X

Its true Anne this blog has the nicest people in the UK and no doubt the world on it :)

*group hug*

Indeed, everyone is polite and kind and gets cross about the same things I do, and likes nature and cooking and flowers etc! Can I admit to being a member of the National Trust, or is that a bridge too far?

Anne XX

Hello CLP,

First time I've joined you on here, and what a thrill it is. The real reason is that I would love to nominate a record for the DT Juke Box. It's going to be Friday just after five, work's finished for the weekend to begin and what more can you ask for than.......Zoom by Fat Larry Band. Can't wait to hear it Chris!

Never...we all love that sort of stuff...just look at the facebook page and all the flowers we send each other...tho the men dont seem to want to send them....or play knighthood either tho I send requests to them :P

Welcome buggsy :)

Thank you Hopeseternal. As I said new to this but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it.

What a lovely show, it's put me in a really good mood. Younger daughter and me all alone tonight so I'm going to sneak to the chippy - not a green leaf in sight. Bye for now,

Anne X

Evening each

Welcome Anne and Buggsy.

For ARF I would request, yet again, Hallo, I'm Johnny Cash by the Alabama 3 but I'm boring myself now, so I just can't do it to you all.

Anne xx

Welcome new bloggers whoever you are.

I've been poked twice today once by B's Mum and once by the Diva. Cheers ladies.

I know a song that'll get on your nerves! Get on your nerves! Get on your nerves! But it'll still put a smile on your face for the start of the ARF.

How about "The JCB Song" (other makes of construction vehicles are available) - by Niz-blah blah blah-i.

or as I'm hopefully (weather permitting) going to watch a Motown/Blue Brothers tribute night in the open air near Aylesbury. Have a little "Respect" - Aretha!

bonne nuit mon petit fromage

DD out

ARF: Hi Chris, can we have the original, proper, 'werewolves of London' not that outrageous copy!! WhoHoo,WhoHoo
Christine

A big welcome to all new bloggers - enjoy the blog.

For ARF please could I have Blaze of Glory by Jon Bon Jovi.

The opening guitar bit has the air guitar out and fun.

If it was a fun night I'd have the ma na na ma song muppets rule.

MW,a!

We're going to The Emirates too!!!!!

Just got the tix: block 91 just to the ight of the halfway line in the upper tier - £40 each plus booking fee.

I am sooooooooooooooo happy I could cry. And Mr Diva probbly will cry .... when he sees his credit card bill and my deep, deep joy at seeing my Heroes.

In the flesh.

Back o'the net.

Happy Diva xxxxxxxx

Now how dim am I? Or maybe I just need to slow down when reading and catching up on here.

I read CLP's post and 'vets' then 'poor boy needs reminding there really is another world out there' and thought he meant Enzo!

And now I read that Noel the vet needs reminding etc.......

How lovely, taking the vet out that is looking after Enzo.

Can't really keep up with post at the moment, so much going on here. Hope everyone is ok.

Love
Debbie xx

I mean so much going on here, as in here at where I am!

Anyway, catch up with you all soon xx

Bingo time!

So, a short one.

Meeting at The M a total success. This could be the turning point.

ARF? I'm with Phoenix. Blaze of Glory. The highlight of the set from Twickers.

If you please, Christophe.

Peace etc

MfR

ARF: Chris, please play Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall - it's one of my 'sing along LOUDLY and OFF KEY in the car' songs, perfect for a Friday and as a warm-up for the D Spot!

Evening bloggers new and not so new - excuses for not being here for a while? I can only come up with work, other stuff, work again, the usual, plus by the time I've caught up with the blog I need to catch up on my sleep! So forgive me for sticking with the recentish past:

MfR - good luck at the M

Debbie - what a pain about the ceeeeebeeeebeeeeeies and their scheduling, hope little man isn't too disappointed

B-s Mum - how do you ever get anything done with the phone going off all the time?!

MWa, third time lucky ARF maybe??

Glad to see Bingo's still around and that Coco's back from hols, as for CtD and EJR, what a laff! Love the general flirting/not flirting stuff too! Gingembre, we'll need you to keep order soon, as well as the blog p'lice!

Tinsel - have you found the kettle yet or are you still unpacking??

Can't get to Reading next weekend (have fun!) but London in October sounds possible. Have been busy booking places to stay on way to and from the auntie's place in v v v NW Scotland at the end of the month. Only away for a week so am making the best of it and found some good-looking places, well they look alright online but will they disappoint in real life?!?

Am looking forward to Hampton Court Flower Show next Friday, going for the 4th year in a row, and with 2 of my best friends: laughs galore and food, drink and gardens, bliss! Oh, no, but we'll miss ARF 'cos we'll be tiptoe-ing through the tulips/in the Country Living tent thingey, helping ourselves liberally to free food and drink samples like last time, haha!

Well, it's only just 9pm but I've have had enough for today. Thank goodness I can work from home tomorrow, chance to get some extra kip and get some housework done before logging on at 9am.

Night-night everyone, night-night. This is AnnieOakley signing off and handing you over early to the insomniacs and nightowls, to the tune of 'Sailing By', a la R4...

AM zzzzzz :-)

PS Love to Enzo

Oooh, Matt, exciting stuff! I took so long on my first post, you've been and gone and had your meeting, haha!

Night-night again

A x

Thanks for welcome, though have been before, briefly. Just popped in for a minute, I have a "new girl"s question:

What does it mean to "be bingoed?" is this just something that happens to seasoned bloggers or could I expect it any time?

In trepidation,

Anne X

Evening all.
Only just managed to squeeze a bit of computer time in.

ARF - what about Summer of 69 - a good singalong song or Boys of Summer or anything with summer in the title (not Summer Holiday by Cliff unless we want to be cheesy)

Catch you all tomorrow ... Carol xx

Yay annie mac lovely to hear fro you again!! Sailing zzzzzzzzzzzznight!!
Beesmum x

ps learning to type with one hand - nearly got cauliflower ear from phone last couple of days!! all sent to try me!!

Anyway.

Before being Bingoed, I had so much to say.

Dependent upon a text message tomorrow, I could be about to make the biggest career decision of my life.

I need to do this. It may not be goat-herding in Finland or tequila-producing in Baja California, but it offers me something that I haven't had for far too long.

A real reason to get up in the morning. A sense of purpose. A hunger.

I need to wake up knowing that what I am good at can be put to good use, that I can make a real difference to the business that pays my wages. Meanwhile, Mrs MfR drives our own business forward, so hand-in-hand, we walk forward together.

Literally. Because that is what we do.

We're a bit like that, you see.

For an paranoid, depressive insomniac, I sound pretty damn positive!

I've just started reading a rather good biography of Howard Hughes. Normally, with biogs, I skip past the 'so and so was born in....and went to school in....' bits and dive straight into the juicy stuff, but this is gripping from the outset.

By the way. While I am thinking about it, make sure you put this place on your travel list, if you haven't been already;

Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California.

Stunning, stunning, stunning.

Fly to San Fran, grab a car and head south on the Pacific Highway. Stop at a place called Ragged Point.

You won't regret it.

Apologies for my ramblings. I am a bizarre combination of excited and nervous.

Oh. And I've had a glass of wine.

Your friend

MfR

One last thing.

I got the brand new Fulham home shirt in the post today.

See. I told you life was good.

All my love

MfR - a happy bunny.

As its my birthday day, I would love it to be Altered Images 'Happy Birthday'.....if not 'Dancing Queen' by Abba.....cos thats how I feel.....even reaching my 36th Birthday! oh and Happy Wedding Anniversary to my lovely mum and dad who I share my birthday with....38 years wed bless 'em! xx

oy dissing D - I don't poke - I politely ask you to be a friend!!!
ARF

Agree with your choice - brilliant!!! not heard that for ages Aretha!!! Respect

Beesmum xx

Anne/boley the blog sometimes oes haywire and post goes missing so copy paste the way to go and put one line at a time -
Bingo Starr is the only one who can only ever get through one line at a time so it takes ages to get his blogs through! hence bingoing

Beesmum xx

goes haywire even?

now back to read matt
BM

Well thanks for that Beesmum, but being a bit technologically challenged I don't think I will truly understand it until it happens - I'm only a music teacher!

XX

Anne.

Being Bingoed.

OK. The blog was changed a couple of months ago and you had to sign in to post.

One of the upsides (or downsides, dependent on which side of the fence you sit) was that your post would appear instantly.

But. A problem occurred whereabouts posters scribbled their words and the posts disappeared. I was one of the first to experience this. I then discovered that if you posted one line at a time, the posts went through.

Our friend Bingo was also an earlier sufferer and, alas, is still afflicted.

Hence, he posts one line at a time.

'Bingoing'.

I seem to have been cured, but sometimes, 'bingoitis' strikes. B's Mum, MwK and others, I'm sure, will all tell of their experiences.

And so, the term, 'Bingoed' enters the English language.

And on that note, I must go to bed.

Although, I don't expect to sleep much.

So nothing changes there, then.

Love

MfR

Hello Christophe,

Just watching Criminal Justice with a glass of rose and a bagel - yummy!

ARF - PLEASE Chris darling play Crazy by Gnarls Barkley for my wonderful son Freddie who will turn 12 next week and who is having a brace fitted tomorrow, he is just a lovely lovely boy and his dad and I are so proud of him in everything he achieves - thanks xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Em xx

alright Chris Darren here

glad to here good things about

Enzo,can you do me a favour when

you take out Noel on friday can you

get him a drink from me,and i will buy you

one or two back one day.

Noel done a hip replacment on my dog

DIESEL my rotty about six weeks ago

and Noel gave him the all clear on tuesday

this week.this operation was only

possible because he reduced the cost

of the operation due to lack of funds

you can imagine how upsetting it

would have been if i was`nt able to

do the best for him resulting in him being

put to sleep at a much younger age.

so many thanks noel

anyway love your work, song choice how

about just cant get enough by DEPECH MODE

DARREN FROM FARNBOROUGH

Well, Matt from Rudgewick (sorry? Where?) or, MfR, thank you for that wonderfully comprehensive and patient answer, have you ever considered a career in teaching? Sorry about the sleeping, I am going through a bout of insommnia meself.

Off to try though,

Night everybody,


Anne X

CtD,

I am really very pleased and happy and excited for you. I phoned Errol after booking and he said he had never heard me so excited or giggly before. Said it sounded like I was jumping up and down and dancing in circles whilst speaking to him.

Truth is, I was!

Then I went and slipped into something a little more comfortable and a little more red, which was inside out at the time, only to reveal 'Carlsberg' and a little cockerel emblazoned across my bosom.

Oh the shame!!! But it pleased Errol very much.

fancy a pre-match beer? I'll have a J2O.

Oh, have you got the new strip yet? Still waiting for mine to be delivered. I know they were only released today, but not much patience y'see.

MW, a!

Boleyanne no-one says "I am only" on here!!

Music wonderful --from someone who has forgotten how to read it yet was in school orchestra?!! Brilliant talent be proud!!

MFR fingers and all other bits crossed for you --and your explanation was first class compared to mine!! re bingoing - part time teacher as well - A Anne?

Beesmum xx

Night to all who need zzz's going to have a shout at question time now!

ARf: 500 miles by the proclaimers please - no particular reason I have just had a rubbish week and it would really cheer me up!

Thanks CLP x x x x

Love cathmel

Ayup Chris

How about "I'm so excited" by the pointer sisters for All Request Friday?

Cheers

Ian from Chesterfield

Hi Dee Hi Campers, soz I havent been on in an age (again) due to working stupid o clock hours! Tough times in the catering trade at the mo, so really havin to make a HUGE effort at work to keep people extra happy, and that aint easy,
Christy, glad to hear Enzo is still smiling.
Could we have Meatloaf and Paradise by the Dashboard light for ARF, XXXXXX

Hey for ARF whats about

Teenage Rampage
the Sweet or BallroomBlitz,

Sorry - Just wanna feel like Im 11 down the sweaty school disco this
4th July (Expat dude)

Tim

morning all

my ARF - STEP ON - Happy MOndays, pleeeeeeease

Busy weekend ahead, my crew-partners leaving doo tonight, starting at 530 with some food then who knows? Bit sad really as we've worked together for over 4 years on our 'beat' and I'm gonna miss him. Nights will never be the same!!!
Tomorrow, MrsW and me are off to a wedding reception and then Sunday I will be packing my kit up for my 2 week trip to the rehab centre ay morning. Really nervous/excited about it but keep reminding myself that it may not be the golden ticket to full fitness.
As I've said, I don't think I'll have internet access down there so will be in Reading on the 12th. Gaby has my mobile no. so can always text me the venue, if not fb me and I'll send it to you too!

Bonnet de douche

KWx

MfR - always love reading your posts, might get myself a white footie shirt today but with a cockeral rather than FFC on it! Good luck with whatever you decide mate

Hi Chris
Please please play the title track from that fabulous 1970's musical Ipi N' Tombia - just the thing to get the weekend mood going. Margaret Singana was a musical genius and I wish the musical powers that be would revive this show.
Thanks very much from the sunny Scottish Highlands.
Jane

Morning, morning, morning :)

Now I know we should not laugh at other fears but I am sorry, I just can't help it. Apologies for any one suffering from koumpounophobia but this is the oddest phobia I have yet to find (the search (or should that be shirt) continues). So to all those suffering, I am not laughing AT oyu..I am laughing ....well frankly...at you. Sorry. x



hehehe

I have changed my mind for ARF - and will no doubt do so again. This morning I am mostly feeling like



ARF-

Ace of Spades by Motorhead


yes, I know no sane ´óÏó´«Ã½ show would play it to start a show but just imagine everyone in the country subconsiously banging their noggins, thrashing their air guitars and singing along!!!! Awesome. And one of the world's finest driving songs.

EJR!

good morniong everone - and the sun is out here in Berks which has to be a good sign for the weekend (Slighlty worried face as I am sat in hop field all day tomorrow t see the mightly boosh)

welcome all newbies - great to see new faces on here.

Reading on the 12th - how about meeting at 12:30 on the oracle bridge (between the carpark and the row of restaurants) then we can decide where best to go and that is an easy place to find.

KW - please could you send me your mob number through fb - just in case!

heavy day at work today and then come five thirty ish I'm free (until Sunday opm when i will probably log on again to see what i need to do for Monday!)

Super bp x

Love Inc - You're a Superstar :)

Mark.

i got bingo-bongoed!!

Morning morning morning!!

I too, en route to work this fine morn, changed my ARF mind. I would very much like to hear ....

Paradise City by Guns and Roses

I got here with the help of the Appetite album and the blokes beside me in the white van at the roundabout were rather amused at my stadium-esque driver-dancing efforts. Therefore, I feel the whole of the UK should indulge in some GnR diver-dancing at 5 o'clock this arvo.

But Motorhead's good too - almost wore my MH t-shirt today but decided a little white number was more fitting of the sunshine!

Glad to be keeping you all amused!

CtD xxxxx

MfR - has your dream job got anything to do with Mr Coulthard's announcement yesterday??

PS: The Diva will not be outdone by bingo-bongo!!