Head first...
Tonight's show will be presented with the curtains shut! And unless we are going to be remaking Phantom of the Opera, there will be no themes video for next week. Following an accident on my bike on Friday I have truly got what is often referred to as 'a face for the radio'.
I may joke about it now, but I got a pretty big shake-up on Friday afternoon. One minute I was cycling merrily along then next my bike went head first into a huge pothole, which was hidden beneath a puddle of water. I can't remember much of what happened but I presume I flew over the handlebars and landed on my head.
Thankfully I was wearing a helmet and was fortunate enough to be looked after by a kind taxi driver and his passenger and a lady in car all of whom were extremely kind and caring. Just the kind of people you'd want around you in a situation like that. They called an ambulance which whisked me off to The Viccie' where the fantastic staff in A&E sorted me out and have promised that I'll look like George Clooney when the bandages come off!
Thanks to 'glittery' who posted on the blog and wondered how my eye was. The answer is that it's put me off getting back on the bike for a few weeks but it's going to take me than a sair face to keep me away from the studios.
© MMIX~RS~q~RS~~RS~z~RS~14~RS~)
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Dear goodness - that is not good. Must be badly shaken right enough.
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Bryan,
Any amnesia? Surely you haven't forgotten our agreement for a theme based on flutes in general and Scottish flautists in particular?
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Bryan,
We are not worthy of a presenter who would go to these extremes just to provide a photie for a caption competition.
I salute your irreproachability!
>8-D
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Bryan,
The state of this country's roads is getting third world - I really hope your okay! I cycle into town from Milgavie - it's horrendous.
Suing the cooncil is always difficult, but you should have go on the basis that your career in television is over!
How about a theme around accidents/ bikes/ hospitals/ hardship to cheer you up - but in the meantime:
Cheer yourself up by playing 'Blackmail' - 10CC - tonight!
Hope your bonce recovers soon
regardez vous
Henri
Accidents
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Is it Pudsey week? He has taken this a bit far no?
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TOO UGLY FOR SHOW BUSINESS from GUITAR by FRANK ZAPPA
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Sounds as if you're on the mend.
Any chance of Rock that Body by Black Eyed Peas?
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#4
Milngavie is not horrendous. I was there only the other day and survived.
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Tuesday 17th November:
Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
Babs said it would be OK! :-)
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Look on the bright side, you could have looked like Rosemary Clooney.
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On a serious note, you are undoubtedly entitled to compensation. A hole of the size you describe does not appear overnight and would have been identified by any halfway competent maintenance regime. Get a lawyer.
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#11
Stick it to the Man.
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#11
Get your claim in before the cutbacks bite.
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#11
Seriously, that is correct. I did the same thing when I hit an uncovered hole in the road and MASHED an alloy wheel and forced the car's engine management system to go into emergency shutdown mode. Photograph the site and the damage to your bike and yourself and you'll have a fairly easy case for comp.
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There's a hole in the Byres Road. Two men are looking into it
:-)
DC
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Oooh looks nasty but glad you're recovering well!
My son was the wee boy in the wheelchair in the back of the taxi that stopped, he was in a bit later from school but was much excited about seeing an ambulance!!
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Sorry to hear about the accident, hope you're 100% soon, Bryan. Gr8 show Monday. Little Miss Can't Be Wrong brought a smile to my face when I was on the M9. I take it it was to honour last night's producer? First lines: superb idea. Here are some easy ones, any of which would be fab to hear- "I saw cotton and I saw black", "It's coming on Christas, they're cutting dow trees", "Close your eyes, Give me your hand, darlin'", "Has anyone here seen my old friend Abraham?", "All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray". ciao, madhufromedinburgh, formerly madhufromdunblane.
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#2 Scotch - you did not strike me as a flute band type of fellow.
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Norrie,
You know my thoughts are pure! I was, of course, referring to flautists such as Boglarka Kiss, Jerry Eubanks, Sir James Galway, Ray Thomas, Jeanne Baxtresser and our very own Ian Anderson.
The Maryhill Flute Band and the Sons of Erin have their place, but this is not it!
>8-D
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#18
Scotch - don't Tull anyone...
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Bryan
Wot a corker!
Here's one to cheer you up ....................FLYING START from FALLING UP by KEVIN AYERS (Written by MIKE OLDFIELD)
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Fairly elaborate lengths to go to to disguise the fact that you were on a drunken night-out, passed-out and some mates shaved off one of your eyebrows!... or was that just me in my rugby days...
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Ouch looks sore. I heard you got a football bet up at the bookies but they wouldn't pay you out cos you'd spoiled your coupon
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#19
Qoute from James Galway
''I am not a flautist. I have never flauted in my life and I certainly don't own a flaut''
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#24
If you came from Belfast you wouldn't own up to being a flautist either.
Especially in July.
>8-D
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P.S.
Yer man had 5 (yes 5. count 'em) golden flutes stolen from a railway station in Lucerne.
Afterwards he felt deflauted.
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Collective noun for flutes? A flautilla. BA-DOOM-TISH! :-)
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