in some parts - not in others. It's a lovely day in some parts - but the monsoon has started here.
Undeterred, we will bring you a full hour of PM tonight whether you like it or not. If all the talking gets too much, hum some light classical music to yourself. Under no circumstances should you change channels.
I see Kylie is 39 today. How old does that make the rest of us if Kylie is 39?
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No worries, Eddie. Here in Sussex we're
"I'm singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again
I'm laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love ...."
So, behind every cloud there's a silver lining.
Just like to report that the sun is shining very brightly in Northern Ireland - as it did yesterday! Oh dear it's a Bank Holiday, is it? Does that mean I can't go to work? Shame.
Morning, Espresso/cappucino machine up to temperature. Croissants in oven. We are probably retailing today. I know its unfair on those that have to work bank holidays but SO needs new clothes for hols and this is our last chance. Two kids to placate makes shopping hard work. This gets me thinking. Talk last week about an extra bank holiday. How about a split holiday, two days and half of us work one. That way we all get a holiday and as only half of us are off shops are al open! Lets call it a Chritsmas Shopping day and have them, in Oct/Nov.
Corny Jokes, Sorry.
Where do cattle go on a saturday night?
The Moovies.
How old does that make the rest of us if Kylie is 39?
That makes me older than Kylie. No change there, then.
H.
Re; Big sister's comment:-
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love ...
Well all I can say is watch out Eddie!
Warn security!
Lock down TV Centre.
..... ... .. . she may stop at nothing ;-0
How old does that make the rest of us if Kylie is 39?
She can't be
she used to be only 24!
hi i'm feeling mid to late 50's to day......so that makes Tate & Lyley about 86?
jonnie..you're not a day over 21..and Humph, when you get to 30....we'll all have a party...as for Gillian...I know you are younger me dearheart...
Big Sis......please sing in tune, there's a love..
did anyone catch Lion'l Blair about dancing this morning?
now..there is a mans man if there ever wos one..init?.....oh & Vot?
Punchlines...does it involve Snow White? If so, I'm shocked and stunned. If not, I am applying for the post of joke writer.
Hey! I used to be 24, too.
Sometimes I still am. Mentally.
I've got 'Dancing Cheek to Cheek' on my mind today. Don't know why.
Big Sis, want to join in?
'Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek.'
Fifi -- FIFI !
We need your help for a punchline. You will know the answer I'm sure. Can't think of anyone else who has a mind like a sewer ;-0
What's perfectly lovely, and brand new, apart from seven tiny dents?
"Dance with me!
I want my arm about you
The charm about you
Will carry me through to
Heaven, I'm in heaven...
(tum tee tum tum)
cos I'm laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love"
Sorry, Frances O, Fred will have to fall into line with Gene today.
DIY: How do you know? I used to sing professionally you know ... ;o)
Sorry - will probably miss the programme tonight. Doing a bit of broadcasting of my own acting as support to a webcast (click on my name for details). Will try to Listen Again later if not deafened by the cheers/weeping and wailing emanating from Wembley and every pub in Derby.
Think I've always been older than Kylie (so no change there).
It's true DIY.
Big Sister used to sing solo
Luckily so low no one could hear her ;-)
Well bless my soul if I'm not older than Kylie too - how on earth did that happen?
Jonnie - now to be fair, Fifi only passes them on, she doesn't make them up. What? oh she does, does she? Well that's another eye opener.
Dry and bright in southeast Scotland, if any of you peeps who are being rained on fancy an afternoon run out? Darn cold wind though, so bring your winter woolies. I'm so glad I haven't cast my cloots yet, I was taking photos of our May blossom to send in to the occasional photo feature series up the top of the page here but I'm having the usual problem unleashing the photos from my phone. Maybe I could email them?
Oooohhhh....Big Sis....the missing Spice Girl?
....and jonnie...was that wailing in the backgound on Saturday evening?
All together now..from the top:-
three german officers crossed the line parlez vous?
three german officers crossed the line parlez vous?
three german officers crossed the line......
...init..
Big Sis (12), I'll have to WHAT?!?!?
Since Kylie is a little over two months older than me, that makes me...
...um...
...nope, can't think, it's a bank holiday after all.
As for exotic holiday locations, I'm currently having a cuppa in the middle of re-papering the kitchen.
..just to keep u all up to speed and following on from last weeks little mathematical teaser...'eres anuvver.
yewl need paper 'n quil for this..
take Tate & Lyles age... (52)
+ 44
/2
*56
add your birth year (no Gillian, NOT 1962!)
- 21
then * by the abv number of the glass of wine u are sipping and hey presto....
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..no nothing, just hey presto!
Now wasn't that fun boys and girls.....
.....well it is a V V wet Bank Holiday Monday.....wot u expect culture...?
It's a jolly holiday with Eddie,
Eddie makes your heart so light!
The clouds are grey, the rain is really heavy,
But Eddie makes the day seem bright!
His questions to the people round about him,
Are velvet roses in an iron glove -
It's Eddie on PM - let's put the pot on then -
We'll listen with our tea 'til we hear Big Ben!
Oh it's a jolly holiday with Eddie -
No wonder that it's PM that we love!
Apologies to Mary Poppins!
FF, maybe she meant Fred as in Fred and Ginger.
(sings, quietly)
Oh! I love to climb a mountain
And to reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh! I love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Hmmm, Big Spice, eh?
Aw, Fred, c'mon - I can just hear you now ...
"I'm puttin' on my top hat,
Tieing up my white tie,
Brushin' off my tails.
I'm dudin' up my shirt front,
Puttin' in the shirt studs,
Polishin' my nails ....
[flourishing his stick, Fred twirls elegantly around the floor]
"I'm steppin' out, my dear,
To breathe an atmosphere
That simply reeks with class;
And I trust that you'll excuse my dust
When I step on the gas,
For I'll be there,
Puttin' down my top hat,
Mussin' up my white tie,
Dancin' in my tails."
[Gene, in the background, twirls his umbrella elegantly as he skips down the street.]
I've got my long sparkly dress and my dancing shoes on ready to join in ....
Big Sis x [So spicy you'll never need a curry again]
Gillian: Lol!
Eddie
Poor you having to work on a Bank Holiday Monday but it's grotty weather anyway. Forgive my ignorance maybe you work every Bank Hol Monday!
I listen to PM every evening on my drive home from work and love it for the way you mix serious news, incisive questioning with a dash of humour and self-deprecation. I'm getting to the point now where I just have to listen to it - worrying! Enjoyed the Mitchell & Webb reference.Perhaps you could adopt their "and if you haven't been affected by these issues perhaps you can imagine what it would be like if you have" line! Lovely!
Although you mention it all the time can you believe I kept forgetting to check your blog out for ages until finally the curiosity got the better of me and I can see it can be addictive! Amazed you read it all - do you? Must take ages but you clearly have a cult following. It's more much personable than the Radio 4 version. Did Today beat you in the blogging race stakes initially I wonder? I notice your blog dates back to 17 .8.06. I ask because being very untechnical this new world of blogs and podcasts is new to me but imagine my surprise to find that working with teenagers( who are so adept with new forms of communication it's scary) as part of a project for the local museum (usually all about the past not cutting new futuristic ground)we created blogs and podcasts for a website "Moving Minds" for their peers before Radio 4 Today's programme started their blogs! I know this because we launched the website before I heard Today announce their blog on the radio, much to my utter amazement. I notice that in the Manchester Festival there is a debate on the future of communciations scheduled which may include a question about blogs I think. Will you be taking notes, Eddie?
Once I checked out your blog I learned a few other things namely: what you looked like which was different from the image I'd conjured up for you; could place your accent which had intrigued me for ages, but unlike one of your early bloggers who was not so pleasant about Scottish broadcasters, as a fellow celt I love it. The other thing I learned was that you were not Meyer but Mair. Did you know Mair is also a Welsh form of Mary? One of my best friends from primary school is called Mair but it's pronounced differently from yours you'll be pleased to know! Don't know if you really wanted to all all that - probably not and I've probably got the wrong end of the stick over the use of blogs but hey, it's feedback I suppose.
Re: DI Wyman
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
for that post AND
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
for the (no Gillian, NOT 1962!)
comment.
Re; Sue - Gosh - so much knowledge on Eddie Ma - ie /er / yor
When mastermind returns you must choose him as your special subject ;-)
Fred: I invited you to dance with me in your top hat and tails, with Gene backing us with his brolly, but such are the glories of the Blog that it disappeared down the sewer that is life.
Big Sis x ( Hotter than a Jalapeno Pepper)
Big Sis, I would be honoured!
You could string together a bunch of dance-related songs to form a story...
Guy meets girl at a disco - she's a good dancer:
"You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only 17" (Dancing Queen)
Unfortunately, he can't...
"I'm never gonna dance again, the way I danced with you last night" (Careless whisper)
She issues an ultimatum:
"If you can't dance, you can't do nothing for me baby" (by the Spice Girls)
So, he starts practising:
(Insert any novelty "learn this dance" song here - let's opt for Chubby Checker's Twist for the hell of it)
And, proud of his skills:
"Now I can dance, All alone the other night, I came to realise we'd be friends for life, It was always meant to be" (by Tina Arena)
And asks her if she's still interested:
"Well do you love me (I can really move), Well do you love me (I'm in the groove), Ah do you love me (do you love me), Now that I can dance" (by Dave Clarke Five)
Then, since the songs are already so disjointed, and talking of different styles of songs, how about finishing off by getting them to do Riverdance together?
Okay, Fred, let's take the floor ......!
("I'm putting on my top hat
Tieing up my white tie,
Brushing off my tails.
I'm duding up my shirt front,
Putting in the shirt studs,
Polishing my nails.
"I'm steppin' out, my dear,
To breathe an atmosphere
That simply reeks with class .....")
Oooh, Fred, you're such a classy dancer!
When I turned 30 and people teased me about it I began to reply with a simple "Still younger than Kylie though". It used to shut them up; perhaps it won't work any more :-/
Dear Sue (22)
...welcome to frogging on the blog....we are quite a mixed bunch (of lunatics) of reasonably sane people..that enjoy ALL that life can offer..so dive in..if you need a lifebelt Gillian and BigSis will chuck you one....
..oh and by the way:-
re Eddie..yes he is a big Welsh Mary....
.....init & vot?
Argh, disadvantages of FireFox automatically filling in the fields... despite the fact I only used that name for one post in one thread, FF decided to use it as default...
NM, anyone hear that documentary earlier today hosted by Lilia Kopylova (of Strictly... fame) on the increased interest of blokes in ballroom / latin dancing, especially the "Darren Gough" effect?
-oOo-
Then back to cheesy tracks...
PMP
MPMPM
PMP
MPMPM
PMP
MPMPM
PMP
MPM I just
Can't get Ed out of my head
Why his programme is all I think about
I just can't get Ed out of my head
Why it's more than I dare to think about
Every night
Every day
Just to comment on his frog
Won't you stay
Won't you play
Frog forever and ever and ever and ever
-oOo-
I'll get my coat...
I woke up on a normal working day after a weekend of perfect blue skies and little cotton wool clouds and am going to bed on a holiday day which finished with thunder and torrential rain, and I didn't even leave the UK!
I feel a bit cheated - can I have my bank holiday tomorrow please?
mittfh - lol!
Ap (28) - Are you REALLY over 30?
mittfh, I take it the FF was for firefox, not for me! :-p
As for Kylie being 39, I'd say that's a wonderful age :-) (yep, I'm 39 as well, as is Julia Roberts (1 day older than me))
Body of a 43-year-old.
Mental age of a 13-year-old. (I'm a bloke, what did you expect!).
Energy of a 93-year-old.
Si.
Mittfh (32) Wonderful!
RJD (35) My public age is 28, actually.
Si (37), hope that means you are actually 43, otherwise GIVE IT BACK! ;-)
Ap - And as you know I am too much of a gentleman to enquire as to your private age.
btw - Were you allowed to stay up to watch the first moon landing?
RJD (39) When, and for that matter where, did the first moon land? Have any other moons landed over recent years? Are we expecting the present moon to land some time? I think that we should be told.
H.
RJD (39) You are kidding me? Moon landing? How very dare you! My mother can just about remember it, I believe... ;-)
Humph (40) Ha ha ha!
Humph (40) Haha. OK, I'm caught. What about "first moon-landing" - is that better"
Ap (41) - Unfortunately I can remember Telstar! (Don't you dare say "What's that?")
I remember Telstar - now was it the Shadows or the Tornadoes?
Joe Meek- recorded in his bath tub. I only know cos it's on a blue plaque in our nearest town. erhem
I remember Telstar -- again, no doubt from some Golden Oldies show thing. It was horrible. What has this to do with landing moons?
Ap - I'll take this slowly.
Moon-landing - spacecraft - rocket - orbit
Telstar - communication satellite - rocket - orbit
You are very young, aren't you? :o)
Nope RJD, you've lost me. Orbit? -- Sugar-free gum, surely?
POOSH!
Ap - Is that "Nope - I'm not very young" or "Nope - I've never heard of the Telstar satellite"?
It's "Nope -- I have no idea why I got into this".
What does it taste like?
Oh, I suppose it's a bit like butternut squash.