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Heard the Gingerbread Man song this morning - didn't know the words but still sang along anway - how about replacing the Candy Man song with the Gingerbread Man song....very apt don't you think??

Morning Chris

I missed Ewan and THe Main Man Packham .... drats to having to go to work.

I'm having a dreadful day and knda wishing I had one of Obe's light sabre thingmyjigs to joooooooooozch people who are adding to my misery!

Tally ho.

Deevs
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Hi CLP,

I missed Ewan this morning, we watched him recently in a film called Young Adam, my goodness that's a weird and rather risquey (sp) film, full frontal nudity I'll have you know! Ooh Er Missus.

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Tip-toes in...

Hi everyone, just to say that Deevs definitely needs to wear a bikini in September!
The Fourth is not with me either...manic today at work and far too much to do...

Tip-toes out...

Nic

happy 4th

missed the show this morning as still do not ave a working radio in my car - I will def listen again though, it sounds great.

Dat 2 in new job, have limited access to web and not much more but people are friendly which is a great start.

I've met Ewan and I think he is great, although he did ignore mr bp, not sure why

Baggy

PS - welcome back Maddy -glad you are feeling better.

Gale Force windsey Wednesday Fans, no word of a lie, i am trying out a pair of Magic knickers and I can't wait to get em off, they are so0000000 uncomfortable. imagine if they were really magic, I'd only av to think it and they'd be off! and me a nicker-less. xx

Thanks for that positive affirmation No. 4 !!

Glad to hear the new job's going ok Baggles - maybe Ewan neglected to acknowledge the fair Mr BP in the hope of getting a huggle from a saggy auld cloth cat!?!?

Rebecca - I can't imagine me ever being Nic-erless now!

Deevs
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Afternoon,

Great show again this morning, although I am convinced that after Lynn's 7:20ish travel news you said thank you Moira. I am going to listen again just to make sure!

Is it OK to confess that I have never watched a Star Wars movie in my life, and never plan too?!?!

Maddy, Lovely to see you are back at home and on the blog. I hope you continue to recover to the full xx

Baggy, Glad the new job is going well xx

Deevs, Defo, if you've got it flaunt it :) and as my Auntie Audrey once said "If you can't hide it decorate it" ;)

AliB
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Chris,

You did say Lynn, I've just listened back! Sorry I must have dozed off again, because I woke up in a slight panic thinking that it was after 7:30! Doh!

AliB
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Hi Chris: yes, great to hear Ewan this morning, but I had to leave the car, and its radio, and get into the office, just in time! I do rather like Mr McGregor.

Gail: I have never seen Young Adam, but I have read about it - I think it's fair to say that Ewan is not too shy about showing off his "bits"!!

AliB: totally understand about Star Wars - but, you know, you might just like the movies. Especially when Liam Neeson played Qui-Gon Jinn ... Chrissie, concentrate on work, concentrate on work!

C xx

As if my day wasn't stressful enough .... then I had a bright idea to look for a hotel in London for a wee trip me and Himself are taking next month .....

Just had a bit of a ta-dooooo (read that as barney!) with a certain purple branded hotel chain (no stranger to Lenny Henry!). We stayed in one of their excellent hotels on Good Friday near my mums for £48 and now they want £330 for 2 nights in London. Scandalous!!!

It's Ranty Pants Wednesday!

Deevs
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Hello.

I'm sitting here resting and have been catching up with some of the blog.

Thanks so very much to lovely blog friends for best wishes and prayers. Basically I became very ill in the early hours of Friday morning, couldn't breathe at all and close to collapse, luckily Bingo was staying here that night and I asked him to phone 999. I then started to feel a bit better but deteriorated suddenly in the early hours of Sunday. I was put on the Venturi oxygen mask (feel trapped behind it but it does the breathing and is the cure), given regular blood gases and put on different levels of oxygen. The doctors and nurses are wonderful, special people, what would we do without them? My brother and Bingo were sent for, it was touch and go and thankfully I'm on the mend. I won't pretend that I was brave, I was very frightened!

Something very interesting happened during my stay. Because of my total confusion caused by the levels of oxygen, I couldn't concentrate on anything on the TV. Then I watched The One Show with Chris and Russell Brand and I understood very clearly every word that Russell said and he held my full concentration for a whole hour. I've no idea what this means but there it is.

Had lovely view across the park in the next ward and enjoyed the Royal wedding. I like Wills and Kate, they are very genuine people and if the paparazi give them some space they will be strong.

Which reminds me it's time I watched the you tube wedding video again.

Again thanks for lovely messages.

MM xxx

Afternoon peeps - not really here!
Deevs take a tent and pretend you got the date of the Royal Wedding wrong!

Maddy - welcome back glad you are on the mend.

Off now as I should be working

ttfn, Crumpy x

Deeves, have a look at the Phoenix Hotel in South Wimbledon £65 a night for a double room with breakfast! Only 30 mins on a tube (South Wimbldon) to the West End. Even free parking if you take a car, I am staying there this weekend. One single, one double for two nights £240! :-)

Keith
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Cheryl: once again, and I hate to say it, here we have rip-off Britain! It makes me seethe!

Maddy: glad to hear you are taking things easy. I did think that it would all have been very frightening for you. xx I don't watch The One Show, but, hey, it worked for you, so that's great. I agree that William and Kate seem very genuine - I hope they will be very happy together.

Hiya Crumpy!

C xx

Thanks Keith, but that's just a wee bit too far off the beaten track - we're going to The Globe which is on the South Bank.

Crumpy - I agree 110%. If hotels/restaurants etc weren't so blimmin' expensive in this country, then we may have a brighter income from tourism.

Grrrrrrrr!!!

Anyhooo, fingers crossed I've cracked it and all for under £300 - a 4* inc taxes and breakfast.

What could possibly go wrong ......

;-)

Deevs
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ps: Maddy - Russell Brand has always made perfick sense to me, although I appreciate he's not everyone's cup of green tea! x x x

Arfer-noon!

Maddy that sounds like a nightmare! So pleased that you're starting to feel better... any chance they can tell you what caused it and how you can make it "not happen" again? Please accept a virtual mwhaa! from baby-man (who now blows kisses).
I've just entered him in a baby-face comp so send us luck -x-x-x-

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Lyndyloo.

It was caused by a bad chest infection that's going round at the moment, normally healthy people are coming down with it but for people with COPD it's dangerous, it helped to be with others going through the same thin g and we all pull together and help each other just by talking, there's no way to avoid it other than to go around with a facemask on. On top of that the ward was closed to visitors and all staff were wearing scrubs from Saturday onwards because of bug. Hence my late arrival home. The discharge lounge were not allowing patients from my closed ward and because I was not in the discharge lounge all the ambulances went without me. Together with a pharmacy problem, medication comes from Birmingham, probably stuck in traffic.

So I texted Bingo and arranged with the nurses who are doing all that they can (I would give up and walk out) and he came to collect me after he finished work.

I;m thankful not to have caught bug and that it happened when I was strong enough to be careful. I feel so sorry for all those going through it all.

And here I am!

MM xxx

Evening each

Maddy!!!!!!! So glad to see you back, we've missed you.

xxxxxx

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Hello all! Hope you're all OK - lovely to see Maddy's name popping up again; long may it continue!!

Nice to hear Chris Packham on with 'our' Chris this morning. He's fairly local to me down here and is a completely wonderful advocate for nature-loving - especially among youngsters. A 100% top bloke. Believe it or not, Jasper-dog himself has made the boat trip to Skomer in Wales that they were talking about! I thought Jasper would be a right old landlubber, but he ADORED the boat ride and had a mini-tantrum when it was over and time to get out! The sea-water around there is so clear and clean too. Just beautiful.

Barking of Jasper - he had an emergency rush-trip to the vets last night. Unfortunately, his painful and rather - um - "obvious" problem is unsuitable for discussion on here! Poor Jazz - once again fate lobs its sticky custard-pie at him...! He's OK now though.

Sorry I missed hearing Ewan McGregor - he's fab. I think my nephew Ewan might actually be named after him...! What a star! Johnny-baiting was fun this morning too - playing the 'Vader' theme over his sports bulletin and the conversation that kept me laughing all the way through my wait at the traffic lights (and made me stall the car when the lights turned green):

Johnny: Do they [Canada Geese] originally come from Canada, then?
Mr. Evans: (dryly) No, Johnny... They come from Hartlepool...

He-heeee!

Much love to all,

Roo and Jasper xxx

P.S. Today's Jasper-joke: Who would win a fight between a Rat and a Hedgehog? The hedgehog would win... but only on points.

Hiya

So what happened to today then? Last time i looked it was this morning and now it's nearly bed-time

Maddy, very good to see you back with us.

Have just collected boy from karate and have been having a lesson in which pressure points to disable an attacker!

They really never told us this at ante-natal classes!

Sezza xxx

Oh, I forgot to mention re. Ewan McGregor. Jasper-dog's girlfriend (one of them, anyway), Onion (an English Bull-Terrier), plays a leading role in a relatively little-known Ewan McGregor film called "Scenes of a S*xual Nature". Despite what the title may suggest, it's an excellent and very interesting film, set entirely on Hampstead Heath on one afternoon, with a good ensemble cast (Catherine Tate, Adrian Lester, Benjamin Whitrow, Gina McKee, plus others along with Ewan and Onion!). It's been on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ a few times and is worth having a look at if it ever pops up in the schedules again! Roo xx

Hi Sezza,

Yeah, I know what you mean about the day - seems like 5 minutes since I got up, hehehe... Ah well, just one step closer to Friday, eh?

Is it still too early to start submitting ideas for the first window in Deevs's Advent Calendar Challenge...? ;-)

LOL Roo, Beez would've hauled you up for that mention!

I couldn't believe how light it is tonight. Really noticed it after the Easter break

Must be almost summer

Sezza xxx

Oh and thought of you when I drove past Jasper's sign up the road

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Hola! Catedràtica de ciruela

Sezza - you were there - yayyyy!!!! Is it STILL green?!

And I have no idea WHAT you mean about my reference - surely Deevs isn't tangling with the idea of a risqué Advent Calender this year, is she...? ;-) xx

Hi all

I get the Beez and advent calendar connection and it is definitely too late to put the sprouts on (hark back to el Tel times then and she who cannot be mentioned...)

Good to see you back Maddy, I'm glad that Bingo is with you for a few days so that you can get back into a routine more easily. Take care of yourself.

I'm looking forward to seeing some midnight sun in a few weeks time - mind you knowing our luck it will be raining when we are in Iceland..... Beware the toedippers are travelling soon so there may be adverse weather or something similar around Britain then. Crumbs, I've just realised that Iceland is the cause of our troubles last year...... Looks like it could be another volcano then......

On that note, I bid you goodnight.

mtd ffb xxx

MTD, after this weekend I don't mind if we do have a little rain!

Roo, very green at the moment! Beautiful with all the blossom coming out

Sezza xxx

Oooh - you's a lucky lady Sezza.

And MTD - it is NEVER too late to get them sprouts on!!! VERY much envying the Iceland trip. Think the volcano is quiet at the moment - not sure about the banks though... Just be sure to stay in the oven-chips aisle, then you can use them to climb to safety, hehehe... ;-)

Evening all,

Well I'm sure glad i'ts hump day today ,I can't seem to get going after this time off that weve been so kindly given ,doesnt do me any good at all just makes me lazy.

I didnt get much of the show today ,had to be out early took Mr B to an appointment he had then I had to get off to work ,did manage pause for thought though ,one of my fave spots especially when the lovely Archbishop of York is on.

Maddy ,so lovely to see you back where you belong ,at home and back here with all your lovely blog friends .And give that lovely boy of yours a big {{hug }}from me.

Deev, (YES).Sun sea and bikini. ;)).

Sezza ,soon be Friday ,know how you feel.

Baggy ,glad the jobs going well for you ,nice to have friendly folk around isn't it.

Anyone seen the fairy around lately or has she taken flight.??? I was hoping to see a couple of nature watch posts .

MTD ,nice to see you ,was thinking of you today ,hoping that your well.

JG ,not seen you around either ,must be close for you now finishing one part of your life and moveing on to new eh!!!.good luck .

Also noticed Lyndyloo ans Keith popping in ,and Crumps ,nce to see you all.

Ali ,not forgotton ,I will be in touch at some point.

I hope that all you girlies oop north and the lasses north of the border are in fine feckleand enjoying some better weather ,but I do see on the news today that you have some bad fires going around.

Crissie ,last but not least ,I hope that your lovely brave sister is doing OK and still fighting on in the way that she has been and that her days are filled with all those nice things that are forming all those happy memories .

Take Bids.xxx.

Hi Bids - hope all's well at your end of the wire! xxx

Hi roo ,sorry was looikg at some trees just now .Yes i'm fine thank you ,and you ,?? I see that you and Jasper are in fine form .Are you all straight at home and all jobs finished .??

Bids.xxx.

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rightio ,
just popping back ,I'm around rather late for me tonight ,yawning like a good en so hopefully i'll sleep tonight ,not been doing that the last few nights ,so here goes .

night nght you all

Take care ....Bids.xxx.

Morning all,

I am listening to the last hour of the show, not able to hear it on my way to work, the sun is out so I am on my motorcycle! Whoop!

I will be home in time to vote tonight, I see it as my duty to do so. No point complaining about those elected into power if you do not have your say. ;-)

Quiet on here still, maybe it will pick up again soon? I would be around more if little things like work and putting on a play did not get in the way. I am spending every night rehearsing (no rest for the wicked!) as the 1st night is next Wednesday! Yikes!

Keep smiling

Keith
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Just checking in......pleased I beat the rush to post! LOL xx

I'm here!

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Morning Keith, Deevs and everyone.

csn. xx

Morning everyone,

I'm here too and the rain has arrived, pouring down this morning.

Have a good day all.

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Gail.

Morning,

I'm here too!

Bit overcast this morning, but not as cold as it looked, so perhaps my three layers weren't necessary after all!

I've been and voted, I've put my crosses in the various boxes and I quite agree with Keith; you can't moan if you don't vote!

Just waiting for the old dears to arrive for their tea and chat, always an entertainment as I listen to their conversation from my office :)

AliB
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