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Afternoon

Quick pop in before I become mother of the bride tomorrow - yikes!!

Gail sorry to hear yours and Davids news {{{{XX}}}}

Right - lunch and then off to the wedding venue. Might catch you later in the week.

Luv Susan xx

Good luck tomorrow Susan, hope it all goes well and the weather is kind to you all, photos on the other side please. XX

Hi Chris,
We Are A Group Of Year 7's And Are Hoping To Enter The Competition.
Is It Alright To Enter As A Group Of 3 Because We Love Reading And Would Like To Win Books For Our School.

The Storywriters

Hello CE & Everyone.

Chris, what are you talking about? SNOW! Children love it, they need to go outdoors and have fun building snowmen, having snowball fights (if the PC brigade would allow such a dangerous sport) and toboggoning. To wrap the little darlings up in cotton wool and sit them in front of the TV all day is just plain wrong.

Bring on the 500 word competition (after the snow has melted)

MM xxx

Good afternoon everyone,
Firstly may I say to Gail how sad your situation is, and I more than sympathise with you, we lost our mum to this cancer 5 years ago :(( I really am thinking of you and hope things go as OK as they can do xxx
Hope the wedding goes well for Susan and that the weather holds out for you all!
Thank you all for your birthday wishes - I had the best birthday, kids surprised me with a birthday cake ! (and I thought they'd forgotten when they were over for dinner Sunday!) and little grand daughter sang to me AND blew out my candles!! Oh well .........
Its blummin cold out there now, just back in the office after being on road all day and gritters are already out!
Yikes - hope that doesn't mean any white stuff is on th way!
Out for meal with best m8 and then quiz tonight - just when I feel like curling up in front of the fire!!
may call in later
Stay warm and snug

Jo xx

Evening all

Gail (((xxx))) to you and your family - am thinking of you

Susan, hope the wedding goes well

MM, I am being an old grump at the moment - I really hope we don't have any snow!

Story-Writers, The 500 words competition sounds exciting doesn't it? If you need a question answered, you would probably be better sending it using the CONTACT button on the blue bar below Chris's picture at the top of this page. Those contacts go through directly to his team but they only pick things up from here if they happen to read this

Sezza xxx

Jo, Birthday sounds lovely

Evening each

No snow here thank goodness but it's mighty cold.

Gail, so sorry to hear about David's Mum.

Susan, have a lovely day tomorrow.

Good Luck story writers - hope you win lots of books.

xxxx

There used to be school programmes, I would still like there to be a childrens radio station, something that uses that disappearing function in children of an imagination! TV and Playstations/XBoxs.Wii and computers, everything is visual and education has been dumbed down. I would like to see David Attenborough shown at 7.30 and other educational programmes and Eastenders and other soaps put on after the watershed. They are not childrens programmes but they are shown when children are up and there is not much choice despite the plethora of channels!

I rarely turn my TV on anymore, can't be doing with anything apart from live sport, I like the drama and emotion of it!

I find that lackng in most films and dramas..

JG x

Morning peeps

Feeling a bit grumpy today. I will try and pull out of it, but at the mo, I just want to howl, growl and bark at people.

On the positive side, I have managed to synch my work emails with my phone. Been trying for weeks so chuffed to have sussed it at long last.

JG - we hardly watch anything as it's broadcast anymore, but tend to record everything and watch it on playback. That way, we can ffwd the copious amounts of adverts that interrupt the viewing pleasure. We're really into the re-runs of The Sopranos (neither of us saw it first time round) and Six Feet Under (Nic saw it, I didn't) - excellent shows. and both American.

We've got Great Expectations to get to, which was recorded over the Christmas holiday, 10 episodes of Merlin, gawd knows how many episodes of Boston Legal (it's fantastic - really!) and the weekly stuff like Corrie omnibus. I've also got my guilty pleasure shows like Desperate Housewives and Come Dine With Me (odd bunch this week!) which I watch during the day when I need a screen creak from this 'ere lappy.



Chris - I hope you get your way with a new puppy to keep Beth company. It'll also be fab for Noah now that he's getting a bit older and will distract away from new baby. We've all heard the song Lonely Boy .... say no more!

This morning I've ordered some puppy stuff from the river people - a nice shiny new crate to help housetrain him, some (machine washable!) bedding/car rugs and a couple of clip-on bowls for his new cage. The breeder lady said not to put his bowls on the floor but to keep them just below head height as this will alleviate any "wind issues" ..... hmmmmmm!

Right, I'll be back later. I'm baking some cookies today for an "outside the box" marketing campaign I'm going to run over the next 3 weeks.

Wish me luck!

The Virtual One
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Good morning all,

Gail ,I'm Sorry to hear of your news ,It's always a very difficult time isn't it ,will be thinking of David and his dear Mum.

Joran belated birthday wishes to you and pleased the cake went down well. And I see I think that I also missed Clodagh's Birthday so belated birthday wishes to you Clodagh and hope that you had a good day.

Well there is no one more surprised than me this morning to see that we have no snow ,I really expected to see the white stuff ,and only a slight frost ,although it's very ,very cold. the sun is up and we have blue skies . Fingers crossed and for all of you that ,that is how it will stay.

Oh!! and Have a lovely day Susan ,will be thinking of you .

Take care all and stay safe out there ..Bids.xxx.

Morning Bids!

Oh yes - Mother Of The Bride - good luck Susan! I hope you have THE most splendiferous hat, and look forward to seeing loads of piccies of your lovely gal on t'other side.

And no, I have no idea what a "screen creak" is either ...... please replace creak with the word "break" as I feel that will make more sense!

;-)

x x x

Hi everyone:

Well, I am certainly not destined to be a weather forecaster - I got it totally wrong yesterday - it did not snow here! And today is clear, but very cold, of course. It's only a matter of time, I do know that, and the white stuff will arrive!

Susan: I will be thinking of you today - I hope the wedding is a triumph and that your daughter has the happiest day of her life! xx

AliB: bless you, and thank you, re: no snow! xx

Cheryl: we are the same - loads of stuff taped, probably won't be able to watch all of it. I would say to you, hang in there, and plough your way through the Sopranos - that will be well worthwhile. For me, it is the best television programme (in its genre) ever!

Nothing much to report from me, so just want to wish everyone a good day.

C xx

Morning All,

Almost clear blue skies here too, no frost but only 1 degree on the car thermometer!

Susan, Thinking of you all today, I hope the sun shines and you have a wonderful day to remember xx

Chrissie, Glad it didn't snow, but as you said it's bound to at some point....eek!

Morning Lovely Bids xxx

Tell you who I haven't seen on here for a while MTD - are you OK chuck?? xx

Deevs, I'm feeling grumpy too and really didn't want to get out of bed this morning.

I don't say this because I need sympathy, what I really need is a slap! But I don't like February as everywhere you look the shops are overflowing with valentines day stuff and it just makes me feel a bit sad.

I've got over 30 hours of stuff recorded to watch at some point, some of it going back almost to this time last year! I love American programmes, in fact some of the more obscure channels show some brilliant stuff - Rizzoli and Isles for example, a modern day Cagney and Lacey.

Right best get on with it, in the office alone today as my Wednesday morning colleague had a minor op on Monday and is not feeling too bright.

Back later and that's a promise not a threat :)

AliB
xx