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I woke up this morning...

Chris Evans | 11:51 UK time, Wednesday, 4 August 2010

...and wandered downstairs to see the wonderful sight of little green light green light on our coffee machine telling me it was ready to rock.

I selected my capsule - strength eight - popped it in. I went next to froth my milk - forgive the expression - and there in front of me, between me and the frothing canister, was "a new accessory" and don't we all love a NEW and UNEXPECTED accessory???

My wife had ordered it and it arrived yesterday - a glass chocolate shaker. It's only a small thing, but it represents so much potential joy.

I love a good bit of accessorising - what say you ?

CLP

2010

X.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    Hi everyone,

    CLP, were there 2 green lights, green lights?

    I love a coffee but I absolutely hate when they put that frothy stuff on the top, I just spoon it right back off again, I know that's what most people love but I can't stand it.

    Have a good day everyone,

    X

    Gail.

  • Comment number 2.

    p.s. Yes I do love accessorising and I love kitchen gadgets, nothing better than sifting through a Lakeland catalogue.

  • Comment number 3.

    Ahh the latest gadgets for the home, you can never get enough of then like the banana guard! they make you smile that there are still inverters out there inventing wonderful objects that make you smile :)

  • Comment number 4.

    Now what you need is a template to shake the chocolate over to leave a pretty pattern on top of the froth. Or is that a step too far??

  • Comment number 5.

    Afternoon friends

    Thanks for the huggles, and "where are yous". Just having a few ickle probs at work at the mo, which lead to a sleepless night (reading Ben Elton at 1.30 am on the sofa is NOT a good thing, trust me!) (although it's a brill book!). Also hard to get on here during the day depending on who's in and who's out of the office, and evenings are just crammed at the mo (hence Nic's absinthe too).

    I'm fine, and will survive. Sometimes I can be my own worst enemy and despite the promise to myself not to get too invlved with work, I do it every time. It's hard to keep focus that I am not an office manaher anymore, that I am earning way below what I am worth and have so much more to give. Luckily, it's just a job and I have a wonderful man who loves me, and my health, and a good collection of Duran Duran 12" vinyl to my name.

    Accessories: love 'em with a passion as my shoe/handbag/junk jewellery collection will testify. Also adore kitchen gadgets and yearn for a coffee machine of my own one day, and yes, I too will strive for a chocolate shaker. I'd like one of those ones that looks like a dog - you know the one I mean. In red or black.

    13 days to my birthday ........ ! ! ! !

    ;-)

    Right, enough of my jibber jabber. For now.

    Deevs
    x

  • Comment number 6.

    CLP - nothing better than the soft green glow of a nespresso machine greeting you in the morning but a chocolate shaker ???? That's way to flash for our simple lives. Can't you just crumble a Flake on top?

    Katy, what is a banana guard? I dont have one but sounds like I should !!

  • Comment number 7.

    Afternoon everyone.
    CLP, you had me laughing this morning when you were talking about tanning bums ! Really cheered me up.

    Blimey what a night, the rain was so heavy it kept me awake for ages.
    Just dont think this sleep defecit will ever be in credit !

    Deevs, sorry you are feeling fromaged off . If its any help, i just think of the day job as a vehicle to support my weekends, and chocolate habit :-)I used to get involved, but I just log off and bog off these days. chin up chuck xx

    MC xxx

  • Comment number 8.

    Afternoon all

    CLP - it is those little finishing touches which make all the difference.

    Deev's - glad you can see some positives today, keep it up!

    MM - I think a banana guard is an item to protect your banana when its in your lunchbox? (Not sure that'll get past the mods?)

    A

  • Comment number 9.

    Thanks Andy and MC, and "log off and bog off" has made me smile, so now colleagues are wondering why I'm sat at my desk with an eejit grin on my face!

    Weren't banana guards booted out of Dragons Den a few series' ago?

    x



  • Comment number 10.

    Andy ,

    That is way too much information ;-) xx LOL

    MC xx

  • Comment number 11.

    Deevs,

    I do what i am paid for and am always willing ( but thats not for here).


    Hey, you know the lady that was on dragons den a couple of weeks ago, with the red hair and the tea shop idea ....... well i was stood next to her in Columbia Road at the flower market on Sunday morning.

    We also thought we saw our very own CLP driving through London @ 5.30pm on Saturday in a red Ferrari - CLP was it you ? we waved anyway !!!

    Right, off to eat my grapes.

    MC xx

  • Comment number 12.

    Talking of Banana Guards, Lynford Christie was on Midlands News last night ....

    ;-)

    x

  • Comment number 13.

    Hi CLP - you have to have chocolate on top of a froffy coffy - then Dozy, stir it all in so the froffy and choccy are mixed in the coffy - simplz!

    Hi MC - my tash buddy, how's the marathon training going - or are you still on the double deckers?

    Deevs - if you are fortywonderful now what will you be in 13 days?

    Katy - echo Mikey's Q - what on earth???

    right off to foraige in my friends fridge to see whats for lunch - and ankle is saying - more pain relief please!

    laters taters
    debs
    x

  • Comment number 14.

    Debs,

    I am suffering from sofa-itis . I am told it's quite common, but am so glad that they havent come up with a cure.
    If i do get a place , then Plan B will be utilised .

    Hope you are keeping your chin up xx

    MC xx

  • Comment number 15.

    Hello CLP & Everyone.

    NO! I have to disagree CLP. I hate accessories and gadgets, it all leads to more cleaning to be done in the kitchen.

    All that's required is one cup, one satchet of instant cappuccino with the chocolate topping thing and a kettle.

    Sit down and enjoy!

    MM x

  • Comment number 16.

    Right ,

    Off to conquer the afternoon shift. Prepay, accrue and depreciate . I can't wait .

    Hugs and love to all, and Scoobs , if you are out there, hope the chips were splendiferous .

    MC xxx

  • Comment number 17.

    Afternoon each

    Nothing better than wandering round the kitchen gadget departments in the big stores. Often google Lakeland and have a nose. Note to self, must get out more! Been banned from buying anything until I use some of the stuff at the back of the cupboard, which has never seen the light of day. It always creates too much cleaning!

    MC, I also chuckled about the bum tanning (maybe I should rephrase that!) this morning. I was laughing at the team laughing, really funny! Somehow doubt it was CLP, as we saw him and his family at VetFest at 3.30pm in Godalming!
    Hope you enjoyed your grapes.

    Had some rain at last, not enough, and sunny now.

    Pen xx





  • Comment number 18.

    Andy, surely if your banana is in a lunch box then it is nice and protected anyway so why would you then put it in its own box ????

    So if I understand this right, it is a banana in its skin in a box in a box? All this precaution over one oddly shaped fruit.

    I remember the cucumber lid..... now that was a funny episode of Dragons Den.

  • Comment number 19.

    Dozymac - my Mum loves the lakeland catalogue.

    I keep trying to save up for a Le Creuset casserole dish thingy but I then have a doubt about whether it would get used and the money goes towards clothes or something.

    (Anyone ever made Beef Bourginon by the Julia Childs recipe?)

  • Comment number 20.

    Debs, as you ask .....

    Forty-two-good-to-be-true of course!!!

    Ola!

    Deevs
    x

  • Comment number 21.

    Deevs

    Doesn't that mean you'll be the answer?

    MM - True, but I believe it's to stop all the other things in your lunch box squashing your banana. (why does this start to sound like a carry on script?)

    MC - Can't agree more about the log off and bog off attitude, far better for the stress levels.

    A

  • Comment number 22.

    Andy

    Surely the sandwich, packet of crisps and jaffa cakes are more 'sqaushable' than a banana in its thick long bendy skin? (ooooooh matron!!!)

  • Comment number 23.

    MM - True, but then you can still eat squashy sarnies and jaffa cakes, whereas a bruised banana is not a good thing!?

    I think its also to stop the chemicals which the skin emits, which send all your other fruit off.

    A

  • Comment number 24.

    Ahhhh, now that makes perfect sense, why didn't you say. Years of innovation, development, financing, advertising and production to keep our trusty banana safe from a little bruise.

    I'm off to lakeland, £5 is a bargain !!!!!

    Oh wait, nope, I forgot I'm off to Somerset. Not sure they have bananas down there, isn't it all apples? Maybe they have an apple protector?

  • Comment number 25.

    Deevs - love it!

    Mikey M - the apple protector in Somerset is called a "tinny" and the apple inside is liquid - ask MTF she is our resident expert!

    debs
    x

  • Comment number 26.

    Not sure about next year Deb .... hopefully not a forty-free-for-all!!!

    x
    x
    x

  • Comment number 27.

    Debs - do you mean a can of scrumpy ????

  • Comment number 28.

    Love the "tinny" Debs, and I'll take the Forty-free-for-all Deevs!

    X

    Gail.

  • Comment number 29.

    Afternoon,

    My friends have one of those very posh coffee machines and it was quite exciting playing with it. I'll just stick to my cafetiere for one! Agree with all those about the Lakeland catalogue, it's a gadget paradise :)

    Deev, Love your forty-two-good-to-be-true, can I steal that like you stole my forty-one-derful last year xx if it's 13 days to yours it means it's 14 days to mine - huzzah!

    All alone in the office this afternoon and it's dragging!

    AliB
    xx

  • Comment number 30.

    we have a posh coffee machine at work

    its the bane of my life as you can only buy the coffee capsules from them and they are not cheap

    And the 'cadbury' purple ones always go really quickly!

  • Comment number 31.

    It's suddenly gone really dark here and there is thunder rumbling! It's OK though I am being a very brave bunny!

    AliB
    xx

  • Comment number 32.

    do you know - I got taken out for lunch today by David grey ......

  • Comment number 33.

    who is a rep for a large telecommunications firm and not a singer.

  • Comment number 34.

    Were you tempted to sail away with him then?

  • Comment number 35.

    Bah - too late for the singer quip!

  • Comment number 36.

    Ali - I'll hold your hand hun!

    Baggy - spill!!!!

    Deevs and Ali - you are more creative than me - what am I at 46???

    Aren't bestest friends the best? My friend has booked me into her hairdressers on saturday for a "wash and blow dry" as she knows its really painfull kneeling and hanging over the bath to wash my hair at the moment!

    Blessed by the friends I have - that is for sure - and you know who on here I count as special friends too :-)

    Thank you CLP for letting me get to know some wonderful peeps on this ere blog

    debs
    x

  • Comment number 37.

    LOL Andy - me to, too late!

    debs
    x

  • Comment number 38.

    uh oh, got me to/toos all in a knot! - its Ali's thunder thats got me a flustered in the grammar dept!

    doh!

  • Comment number 39.

    Debs - Is forty six-of-the-best, a bit too carry on?

  • Comment number 40.

    for my next birthday - I have got it to rhyme with dirty!

  • Comment number 41.

    Thanks Debs for the virtual hand holding xx the thunder has passed and the rain has just down poured in a Noah stylee and it's still coming down; as long as it's stopped by the time I have to walk home I don't mind. However, there is that lovely rain smell though, wafting through the open window and a nice cool breeze which is very welcome.

    Bestest Friends are just the Bestest Debs, and it sounds as if you have a good 'un there.

    I hope I'm being one at the moment, by feeding my BFITWWW's cats for two whole weeks, twice a day!!! It's not as if she lives next door either, no it's 2.5 miles away. I only know that because there are three different routes I can take so I've timed it to see which one is the least distance and the least amount of time! Sad I know. I'm a bit worried about Floss (and yes the other one is called Candy) as she has a poorly eye, looks like it's been scratched. I'll check on it tonight and then I might have to ring my friends sister for a second opinion!

    AliB
    xx

  • Comment number 42.

    Deevs, I was thinking the other day that we really will be able to say that we are 21 again this year!

    A
    x

  • Comment number 43.

    Yay!! Good thinking - with twice the experience!! ;-)

    I'm now thinking of our cricket picnic for Friday as I'm off to ELH at 5 after work. Looking at the forecast for Edgbaston, I'm guessing waterproof sandwiches!

    May treat myself to a small bunch of flowers too, for the coffee table at home (yes, MTF, that coffee table!)

    x

  • Comment number 44.

    Oh owchy Andy - a bit of handy spanky! No need to try harder! (with a phrase not the six of the best!) LOL

    Ali, hope the puddy tats are OK

    Baggy - flirty?

    Deevs - if its rainy, come and see me instead - I'm not far from washed out cricket ground! Cheese sarnies on a rug in the living room! With 4 little woofers to hoover up any crumbs!

    back in a bit
    debs
    x

  • Comment number 45.

    Hi all

    Am thinking of you Seza, we are now up to our eyes in packing crates at work...Oh joy! I'm seriously glad I'm only in for 2 days next week!

    Debs, sounds like a damn fine friend you've got there! I hope the ankle is slowly improving?

    I'll take the forty free-for-all too! Well for a couple more months at least!

    Had a really embarrassing experience at ELH on the way home...innocently got back into my car and starting reversing out of the space, only to run over something...

    That something was a small bottle of cola, which promptly exploded all over about 6 cars and a poor woman who was stacking her shopping in her boot!! Oops!!

    I've never seen so much liquid come out of such a small bottle!

    I felt awful :(

    JG x

  • Comment number 46.

    JG: oh dear, if I'd had a cup of tea or coffee (of a drink of any sort) to hand, reading your squashed coke bottle incident would have meant a tea screen moment. Still sniggering now. I presume it wasn't one of your purchases that you ran over?

    Oz

  • Comment number 47.

    No Oz, it's very windy up here so it must have blown under whilst I was in the shop.

    I still feel bad about it, but can't help giggling about it too!!

    How bad am I? LOL

    JG x

  • Comment number 48.

    Evening each

    I just love kitchen shops and all the little accessories Chris. Haven't got a chocolate shaker though - yet.

    Senior moment alert - have just spent 10 minutes head first in the blue bin looking for the Saturday magazine a friend asked me to keep for him. Eventually found it in the kitchen. Bums.

    xxx

  • Comment number 49.

    Evening all

    Just had a very busy day looking after two of the grandchildren. Lots of fun!

    Now relaxing and enjoying a quiet evening.

    csn. xx

  • Comment number 50.

    Phew!

    Well if it's not packed now, i'll probably have to carry on running round like who know's what tomorrow!!

    I think it's all done. It must be all done. I know I'm all done in that's for sure!

    And I'm not sure if he's feeling left out but Mr Seza has joined the twisty knee brigade. Obviously it's very sore but I am struggling to do sympathy today!

    To make you smile, he did it when he found out the groovy blue Beetle he was given as a courtesy car doesn't have an automatic handbrake and he had to chase it down the road!

    I want to say thank you to all of you for your support over the last few months and all the crossed bits! I have really appreciated it

    After tonight I will probably be MIA for a while until we get the new broadband sorted out.

    seza xx

  • Comment number 51.

    Seza.....

    Good luck.xxxx

    Be back soon, wont you.

    I have had the chase the car down the road situ too.

    Mine ran into one of the dentists cars, yikes!!

    Cant wait to hear all about your new 'home'

    Well done to you all.

    MTF.xx

  • Comment number 52.

    Chris

    That sounds like a lot of faffing about and accessorising just for a cup of coffee.

    More to the point, however, the content of today's blog seems to confirm my view that you are merely going through the motions.

    This was also the case when you were at the same stage with your last book.

    It may be that you have expended all your creative juices on the book and have nothing left for the blog or that you are spreading yourself too thinly on account of all your other commitments.

    Whatever the reason I have found your recent blogging to be lacklustre.

    By all accounts there are currently moves afoot to reduce the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s online content, so as they say "Use it, or lose it".

  • Comment number 53.

    Seza, good luck and I hope it doesn't take too long! My mobile number is on FB if you need it! xxxx

    Am off to bed - why do I have to listen to his woes, and he won't listen to mine...oh, that'll be cos he's not talking to me, except when he wants to whinge....Typical!

    JG x

  • Comment number 54.

    Oh poor Mr Seza - really funny though!

    Moving house is horrible isn't it? But worth it when you get there and have to unpack it all.

    Don't pack the kettle Seza, keep it, 2 mugs, a spoon, the teabags and milk in your bag.

    xxxx

  • Comment number 55.

    Poor Mr Seza!!

    Barney, I quite agree about the faffing around.

    I like to put the kettle on, let the dog out and have a fag, then feed said dog, make a cup of black coffee, and leave it to cool, whilst I have a shower, dry my hair and get dressed! And call the dog in whilst having another fag!

    All done in less than 30 mins!

    I'm quite proud of that!

    And now I'm off to bed so I can do it all again tomorrow!

    Night all!

    JG x

  • Comment number 56.

    Seza, the local sandwich shop was invaluable last time we moved house.

    It was so nice to unwrap and eat, something that involved no effort, apart from paying for it.

    MTF.xx

  • Comment number 57.

    Hiya

    Annie - I've got the kettle in my sight and won't be letting go of it - not that I'm bothered cos I rarely drink hot drinks

    However, i do have Mr seza and a gang of removal men to keep happy!

    Sandwich shop sounds like a good idea MTF. I might just go there!

    JG (((xx)))

  • Comment number 58.

    Now, any one know where I out my hair dryer?

    No?

    Ok I'll have to go to bed damp!

    Sleep well all

    Catch up with you all soon I hope!

    Sweet dreams

    Seza xx

  • Comment number 59.

    Evening Salutations Ter CLP & ALL...

    Bingo Star 'ere...

    CLP - Oh yes the lights... the lights the greens.... AND the reds!!!!!!

    Had a few of those today & a also had a coffee... all while riding on Sir Archibald Sinclair!!!!!!!!!!

    See link for more info:



    Also bumped into a bloke at a railway station... who turned out to be a bouncer!!!!!!!!!!
    And guess what station I was at.... Dormans!!!!!!!

    See link for more info:



    Bye!

    PS Soz if me blog is a bit boring today!!!!!

  • Comment number 60.

    LOL Seza!!!

    Night night, sweet dreams.

    MTF.xx

  • Comment number 61.

    Night everyone

    Sleep well.

    csn. xx

  • Comment number 62.

    To lose one listener, Mr Evans, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose one million looks like carelessness.

  • Comment number 63.

    Lady Brackness

    I have read the article

    Two points

    1) he still has more listerners than Wogan
    2) the two quarters are not like for like, as more people are on holiday during the summer months and therefore you would expect the number of early morning listerners to decrease.

    What we need is a like for like comparison with Wogans programme for the same three months of last year.

    Don't you just love statistics!

  • Comment number 64.

  • Comment number 65.

    Morning All,

    Nice and sunny in Kent, so I walked to work today!

    Did you hear me get a mention this morning, it was me having the fried courgettes on toast; I highly recommend it. Been doing it for years, you fry the sliced courgette in butter, toast two slices of bread, butter them; then put the fried courgettes on one slice, with a squeeze of brown sauce then on the other slice just put brown sauce on it and eat. Yum Yum.

    It right made my day. Oh well best get on the gas man is here checking the church boilers.

    AliB
    xx

  • Comment number 66.

    Morning

    AliB - it truly is a lovely day in Kent. Just got back to Sunny Sandwich and its glorious here.

    LadyB - I found them. They were on the Isle of White hiding round the back listening to Radio 4.

  • Comment number 67.

    Morning all

    Ali - as you know I did indeed hear about your breakie!

    Baggy - good stats chat - luckily MM has found them!

    Right today - day 3 in the BFF house - sat on the sofa.....


    But got a new book that is already griping, so off I go to read that, have a great thursday everyone!

    debs
    x

  • Comment number 68.

    Morning

    Just a quickie, for now.

    When CLP took over the R2 Brekkie Show, I seem to recall he himself predicted a rise in listeners (the curious as to how the new boy will fill STW's mighty shoes), then a drop in listeners, and then for the listening figures to even out by the end of his first year.

    So far, spot on then!

    AliB ..... can I have your autograph?!? ;-)

    TiredDeevs
    x
    x
    x



  • Comment number 69.

    Morning To ALL...

    Bingo Star 'ere...

    Appropriate, what 'appened to me last night, with CLP's blog title above 'I Woke Up This Morning!!!' :

    I very rarely remember me dreams as I sleep in such a blissful state.... A think it might be partly to do with the 3 'ours of meditating, an 'our of eating as much lettuce as a can stand (sleep inducing chemicals in lettuce) & the VERY powerful sleeping tablets ave been given by me doctor ter 'elp take me mind at night of all me failed relationships/ career moves!!!!!!!

    Any way... this morning a woke up & remembered VERY clearly a VERY strange dream I had involving Des O'Connor!!!!!!!!

    I'll tell all later!!!!!!

    Bye!

  • Comment number 70.

    Morning all

    Deev's - I'm sure your recollection is right, but losing 1M listeners makes a good headline for some! Hope you're good at making waterproof sanga's for tomorrow!

    Bingo - Any dream involving Des must be a strange one!

    Cheers

    A

  • Comment number 71.



    Ah Christophe

    Many MANY apologies for my absinthe...but I have bin lissnin on the radio in the morning, so I am not a member of your loss statistics. Which is nice.

    I'm usually seeing green lights AFter a strong coffee. And blue and yellow and red lights.

    Mainly sparkly
    love
    hazel
    x

    pssee Hallo everyone...my apologies for my absinthe to you all too...does not mean that you have not all bin in my thoughts...l h x

  • Comment number 72.

    Yo High Dudesss Hazel! You have been missed, but also in my thoughts constantly.

    Bingo - not sure I can cope with details of dreams about Des OC after another night of not a lot of sleepery.

    Andy - sanger ingredients all sorted. Just got to make them tonight, and hope that my lovely man doesn't mind chewing on cling film .....! Needless to say, everything I bought for the picnic is very unhealthy, but hells bells, if I'm going to be sitting in the rain for gawd knows how long, I want Smarties and Jammy Dodgers!

    I might wear my wellies actually. Christen them before V in a couple of weekends' time.

    Hey, not saying I'm tired or owt, but how often do you spell your own name wrong at the end of an email!?!?

    Deevs
    x


  • Comment number 73.



    ...forgot to mention...Christophe...re your comment about accessories...

    You can never have too many handbags or shoes.

    ...and Deec...sorry DeeV!...its catching mate! I couldn't spell 'state' this morning. Wossit all abart Alfie?

    feeling all warm inside now
    l
    h
    x

    ...that would be the lovely thoughts, as well as my third cup of coffee...pretty lights...

  • Comment number 74.

    Good morning everyone from a rainy Ayrshire (yes again).

    Lovely to have you back on here HL, please stay.

    Hope everyone else has a good day.

    X

    Gail.

  • Comment number 75.

    HL - great to see you

    Deev - you going to the one in Essex? My new receptionist is going, its her first one and shes only a baby - can you keep an eye out for her?

  • Comment number 76.

    Mornin' all ..... if anyone remembers me then hi, if not then I'm pleased to meet you!

    Have been AWOL for some considerable time now due to working in a busy open plan office but have now got meself a new, permanent job and have my own pad - woo hoo! So, work permitting, I can now blog again - hurrah.

    I've been lurking whenever possible and there is always so much going on with t'blog - some good, some bad - but it never fails to either cheer or move me.

    It's the summer hols here on campus so it's student-free and blissful - until September anyway!

    Hope to be able to pop in again soon.

    jillygoat / jollygit xx

  • Comment number 77.

    Jollygit!! Yeeeeeee Haaaaaaw!

    PinkyBaggles - nope, the Staffordshire one as it's not far from where we live.

    Did Chelmsford V in 2007 though and it's a lovely site.

    x
    x
    x


  • Comment number 78.

    Aye oop Deevs - good to hear you sounding so happy with your life x

    And La Love is back too - hello lovey - hope you're getting on as well as possible. You missed a great Royal Marines concert and it just wasn't the same without you - next year though, eh? xx Take it easy with all that coffee or you'll be shaking all over!

    jollygit xx

  • Comment number 79.

    Afternooooon,

    Well, we have had a morning without rain , must be a record.

    AliB, i did hear the story about your brekkie, but didnt hear the name mentioned . Two minutes ago, one of my colleagues appeared and brought in a bag of home grown courgettes, so, i may be tempted to try them.

    Hazel, hello hunny xx

    Jollyg, hello to youuuu .

    Deev, hope you are not worrying still. Let me do that , I am the worlds biggest worrier, i worry that i dont have anything to worry about sometimes .

    Right, off to attack the grapes, just under a kg to go.

    MC xx

  • Comment number 80.

    Note to me ,

    Pay attention when eating yoghurt and reading blog , especially when wearing a white blouse.

    MC xx

  • Comment number 81.

    MC - you're not my other half's mum per chance are you?

    x

  • Comment number 82.

    Deev,

    Can she worry too ?
    MC x

  • Comment number 83.

    She can worry about not having owt to worry about - and I bet she would out-worry you any day! Just ask my better half .....!

    She's lovely with it though.

    x

  • Comment number 84.

    Deev, LOL !

    I think i may have competition then ! Right off to worry about the afternoon .

    Take care. xxxx

  • Comment number 85.

    Don't worry, be happy!

    x

  • Comment number 86.

    Afternoon,

    Deev, #68 I think I've got a long way to go before I get as many mentions as you on Radio 2 xx

    HL, How marvellous to read you, glad the Sett is fab and that life is ticking along xxx

    Jillygoat, Lovely to read you too. If I remember rightly you are a Kentish lass as well xx

    My Mum worries for England in fact she could get a gold medal at the Olympics in it. But I love her dearly xx

    MC, Deevs got a fab courgette cake recipe, which I am sure she will pass on xx

    Slaters
    AliB
    xx

  • Comment number 87.

    Ali

    Does MC "do" baking?!?

    MC - ?

    x

  • Comment number 88.

    LOL Deevs, Good point well made! ;)

    AliB
    xx

  • Comment number 89.

    I'll be doing my birthday cakes next Friday as it's my last day in work until 24th August - not sure whether to risk home baking on Friday 13th tho!

    x

  • Comment number 90.

    Hi Ali - yes, I'm in East Kent, and very luckily we overlook the sea. It's a wonderful view!! Mind you, the funfair has only just left the green opposite us - very noisy with the booming music and kids' screams, but good fun watching the world and its wife every night!!

    TFI Friday tomorrow - it's been a long week after two weeks' holibobs and I'm struggling ...

    jollygit x

  • Comment number 91.



    ah, well, Deev, I had one of the shest days ever yesterday, and I wuz sposed to be getting my hair cut...so I called it orft...it will have to stay long-short for another week or so now...

    But on Friday 13th August I have an appointment with the dentist. O joy!

    So, what I'm getting at is...I reckon you'll be arlreet with the baking! Please remember hundreds and thousands or similar...

    Jilly...we've not spoke for a vlt...so glad you've now got a proper job. Hope they're treating you right now? Paying you what you deserve'd be a start...

    T-I-N-G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    love
    hazel
    x

    pseess Yoga was fab. Then the nurse who is sitting on me, weighed me, and I've not lost nuffink...but then I've not put any on either! HOORAH!!

    Big hazel LURVE to all of you...I spec I won't see you tomorrow, so have lovely weekends all, and see you very very soon...

    l
    h
    x

  • Comment number 92.

    Jilly - Think I went to that fair last week with my little one. Overlooking the pebbles and off to the continent with a great deal of fun to be had?
    If ti was then hope we didnt make too much noise, although I do tend to giggle like a girl on the dodgems !!!!!

    Can't belive the prices of fun fairs these days. They used to be cheap family entertainment, now its more like Disney.... (wihout the mouse)

    Bingo and Des O'Connor ????? the mind boggles

  • Comment number 93.

    I can't be doing with fun fairs or theme parks. The Devil's work!

    x

  • Comment number 94.

    Hazel - it's slightly less money than I was on previously but this is a permanent, full-time post so for peace of mind alone it was worth a relatively small drop in salary.

    They're a lovely bunch of people and they've been very welcoming. So, fingers crawst it all works out OK.

    Have a lovely weekend yourself.

    jilly xx

  • Comment number 95.

    Mikey - oh so it it was yourself screeching like a banshee was it?!!! The dodgems are right opposite our place, so I'll look out for you next year!

    I know what you mean about the cost - it was £2 per ride so with a couple of ankle-biters, that's a lot of money spent even before you start to think about fish 'n chips and candy floss.

    Not sure if you knew but they usually reduce all the rides to £1 on the last Saturday, except for the dodgems which are £1.50 - so that might help next time.

    Now all we can see is the poor grass with yellow squares and circles imprinted on it where the rides were. Mind you, did you see the caravans the funfair workers live in - blimmin' huge and luxurious they are.

    jilly

  • Comment number 96.

    Jilly - now that I didn't know, would have been more of a bargain and so true as funnily enough had fish n chips from the Strand and then sat by the Band Stand overlooking the scenery whilst the ickle one crawled off towards the fascination that is pebbles !!!!!

    P.S. Was almost tempted by a sneaky pint in the Nelson before leaving !!!

  • Comment number 97.

    sorry - just have to share

    nasty email from man in the states - one very bad mood baggy puss

    one short call to my husband, the smile is back on my face - its great to know that someone loves me

    baggy

  • Comment number 98.

    new blog

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