Fume son pipe, mais ou'est ?
Yesterday, during the show, we touched upon the subject of...
...pipe smoking.
Now, yes, I know pipe smoking is still smoking and smoking is bad for you and can and does kill people but pipe smoking just seems a bit more cuddly. Have you ever met a pipe smoker you don't like ?
And then this got me on to thinking, it's so hard for smokers to get their thrills anymore it must be nigh impossible for the smoker of a pipe.
Where do they do it ? What do they do with their smoke ?
I used to work in a tobacconist and the smell of pipe tobacco in the tin was one of "the" memorable smells of my childhood. It smelt like sweet candy doused with a hint of some dark mysterious spirit. It was, in short, gorgeous. Then if a customer should fire up one of their fabulous burns, wow, magnificent. How come cigarettes smell so bad when pipes and cigars smell so good ?
Though having said that I have tasted both a cigar and a pipe and they both come up pretty rank in the mouth, something else I don't understand.
So tonight we may well talk to a pipe smoker. Do they have conventions ? Are there still shops dedicated wholly to pipe smoking ? Are they a dying breed ? Is this down to the fact they've all smoked their pipes too much ?
If it didn't taste so bad on the tongue I may well have taken up pipe smoking for 2009, as it is I'm just gonna be continuing my new comforting habit of talking to myself.
Now where was I ?
CLP.
2009.
X.
P.S. All Request Friday tomorrow, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR first record of the show ? The chosen request will get a namecheck on International Radio 2 ! How's that for sherbert lemons ?
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Hi
My Grandad was a pipe smoker - only outside though - the smell of it reminds me of him!
ARF - I don't feel like dancing - sissicr sisters - just because!
super bp x
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G'day Christophe
I too am gawjus, altho 5'7" so not exactly short!
My grandad used to smoke a pipe too, and yes, very fragrant, altho not so sure it did my developing lungs any good when I was left with them for the weekend as a child!
I may get modified for this, but I actually like the smell of "hemp" cigarettes (!!). Tried it once. Violently ill. Never again. At least I know what I'm missing!
Smoking shops are a dying breed tho, which is sad as there are still baccy conoisseurs out there. Each to their own. Just as long as they don't do it in a restaurant while I'm eating!
Smoke free pubs are good now too, but I think it daft when rock stars are fined by the local council for smoking on stage - what's a 250 squid fine to the likes of Slash, Keef Richards and Paul Weller?
Back later with an ARF suggestion ... thinking cap on!
Cheryl the Diva xxxx
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Wasnt Steven Fry voted as Celebrity Pipe smoker of the year? What a top accolade!
K x
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NOTE TO BLOGGERS NOT ON FB
(& LURKERS TOO!)
We're having another Bloggers meet in London, early April.
Be brave! Be great to meet some newbies!
Cheryl xx
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Hi all - especially you, CLP.
Busy v.v. busy since yesterday am - tried to catch up on all blogs since then but way too much - gave up. So to the above..............
My Dad and Granddad both smoked pipes but one gave up decades ago and the other is no longer with us, so now although I don't much like the smell, on the odd times I do get a whiff of a pipe it does stir up lots of memories for me too.
I don't like ciggy smoke at all though! Sorry to those on here who like a puff - but being on the blog means you can do it and I don't have to share it!
For ARF: James - Sit Down - pleeez.
Tried before and didn't get it, so if at first you don't succeed...............
df
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Hi Chris,
When I was very young, my dad smoked a pipe - I loved the smell of it. But he gave it up because he could really feel it affecting his lungs ..... and went on to cigarettes instead - clever or what?!
When I was in my 20's I went through a stage where I was a "social smoker" but MrS absolutely hated it and I reluctantly stopped. I was livid with him at the time, but I now know he did me a big favour - no doubt I would have spent the last 25 years trying to give up!
C xx
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Hello all.
Hope you all had a good Christmas/New Year. Bit late I know, but there you are. I have been lurking.
Cheryl, as soon as a date is organised, please post it up here and I certainly will try and make it. Only one hour journey on the train to London. I am very much a "lurker" because I don't usually get to read the blog until in the morning, and by then it's usually yesterday's blog/news.
And you know what? Chris played my ARF on Friday 15th December, "Rockin' All Over the World" and never mentioned me! Typical!
Am trying to think of what I would like to hear tomorrow!
Bye.....
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In answer to your question Christoph - Mr Beesmum smokes a pipe!
He fills the house with smoke and turns everything yellow but it does smell nicer than ciggy smoke.
and you wouldn't want to talk to him cos he's a grumpy git at the moment!!!
and yes v difficult to get his baccy - we're in Midlands and he gets via courier from Leeds!!! old fashioned tobacco shops are as rare as hens teeth!
Beesmum xxxx
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Morning all - well afternoon now! Grandad Egg apparently used to smoke cigarettes (before my time!) and then moved onto cigars, then about 10 years ago stated one Christmas "after i have finished the Cigars I got for Christmas I'm stopping!" and duly on the 1st of January he did and hasn't had another since. I still adore the smell of King Edwards and Hamlets. The best bit is that King Edwards used to come in large hinged boxes, and when dad finished a box I got it to keep my bits 'n' pieces in, so some where in the loft I know there is a box with some crap in it that still smells wonderful.
ARF - Alaska by Tiny Spark
Ahhh come on Christophe - its better than some of the shuck you play on Drive Time Jukebox Jury!!!!!
Quack
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Sent so many emails this morning my system has just crashed - sigh!!!
Bees xxx
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Morning all,
Did anyone have a Grandad who didn't smoke.
Mine had four pipes and used them all.
He had different pipes for different destinations, I can still hear the popping sound it used to make when he baged it on on the palm of his hand to clear it out before resting it on the the magnificent four pipe balsa wood stand that I made for him in the shed!
Pipe smoking Grandads also made Christmas and Birthdays easy..pack of filters, new pen knife for scraping it out or every one club together to buy a new Ash tray, so big it needed a table of its own...Blimey, I'm all misty eyed...mind you I was then aswell, all that smoke!
I'l have another go with this for an ARF request....
Timbuk3 - The Future's So Bright.
Right, where's that Grindstone?
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fabdb123
Sat 4th April
London Bridge area - market research into pubs in the area will be conducted over Valentines weekend!
be great to see you!
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dead subject just have to look at amy whinehouse an pete dockaty
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hello mrripley!
don't go wearing yourself out on the grindstone hun!
;-)
xxx
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LOL! Missed all of the show last night so am taking CLP's sage advice and 'listening again' on the BBC iPlayer while having my lunchtime soup.
Loved the ManU supporting kid who phoned in - nearly choked and spilled hot soup on my lap. Ouch!!
df
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Crumbs, sympathy (albeit sarcastic) from the fairer sex.
I shall print this and show the Current Mrs M!
Four more sleeps, I don't suppose any of your mates attending RB with you are looking a bit peaky are they?
Just a thought...
x
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Wish i'd seen yesterdays blog, I think i'm the only airline employee here at good old Heathrow that doesn't actually agree with the 3rd Runway. Mind you my main issue is what will happen when that fills up, do we demolish another part of West London to fit another one in?
Anyway, pipe smoke, had a bloke at school who smoked a pipe and I always thought it was a bit weird for a 17yr old to be doing that. Great smell though!....the pipe smoke, not my spotty 17yr old mate in the '80s.
ARF - The Beatles....Back in the USSR (just cos it starts with the noise of a plane ;-) )
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LOL ripples
It could be arranged .......
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CTD
Lshinbcoomn- as I believe the Kids are saying nowadays.
Took me until 12:44 to work out who Ripples was!
Hahahaha!
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...well I smoke cigs, and my Great Uncle Len used to smoke a pipe...as far as I remember was relatively cuddly...although surrounded by a blue haze at all times was a bit hit and miss in the arm chair, my Gran'ma let me smoke a seegar when I was five, and I like the odd puff of a fat Havana these days...although my group of friends tend to buy one expensive cigar to share between us...and my Stepfather used to say that once you'd smoked a pipe, your eyebrows would never come back down to their original position...
Haven't seen anyone smoke a pipe for years. Not with just baccy in it anyway, but that's not for here, and I CANNOT ABIDE that malarkey so there.
ARF - Move it on over by George Thorogood and the Destroyers...some REAL R 'n B!
bo le peep
love
hazel
x
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ps wasn't mais ou'est a famous film star?
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ARF
Ever Fallen In Love With Someone - The Buzzcocks
Many thanks.
Cheryl The Diva
x x x
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hello
ARF song
Springsteen, Born To Run
Richard (Mr caroch) and I get home from work at around 5 on a Friday and hate/love getting the cleaning over with to free up the weekend, the opening notes fire me up to scrub the loo with vigour!
thank you
x
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PS...I am a very very occasional blog contributer but read it daily, I see mention of FB which I do do regularly...is there a group or am I being dense/asking things I shouldn't?
If so...sorry
x
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Don't remember either of my Grandads smoking a pipe. My Dad did though, probably still does. Don't think I'd like the smell in the house, no thank you!
ARF - You Were Always on my Mind by Elvis please.
MV x
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hi caroch
re: FB - look for the group
CLP bloggers
approx 85 members and we're all on there!
xxxxx
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bit of a late arrival today - house of sick - small boy up most of night being sick - now flaked out on sofa - how much shaun the sheep can one person watch in a day?!!
my dad used to smoke a pipe for years - but often used to just sit there chewing it rather than lighting it! i think it was a bit of a comfort blanket thing!! i did like the smell though - and years later i worked for someone who smoked a pipe in the office and it always made me feel at home!!
thanks guys by the way for the warm welcome to the blog and to fb!
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Caroch, prefer Cillit Bang myself!
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oh - and forgot
ARF - oh what a night - can't remember who by sorry!
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or is it called December 1963? you know the one i mean!
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CtD
Got your email about the 4 April meet.
Although North Wales is a fair old step from the Big Smoke, I really hope to get down to put real - not FB - faces to names/nicknames.
Really need to get my act together and blog (and FB) more regularly.
Difficult in work (where I am now) and virtually impossible at home as the son and heir monopolises the pc!
ARF - what about a bit of Stevie Wonder " don't worry 'bout a thing"
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cornishgirlie - it was The Four Seasons.
hiya Crumpy! That's great - be fab to see you.
this is coming along nicely now peeps!
xxx
oh - and i think i may have just found me n im a holibob! pass the Factor 4 if you will ....
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ARF Tobacco Road, The Nashville Teens, what else?
Thank You.
Ta ta Lin x
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ARF: Stacey's Mom by the Fountains of Wayne please.
I have rotten flu all week and it would really cheer me up to hear it (yes I am going for the sympathy vote!!!!!!)
Thanks for all the bloggers who have left me get well messages on my facebook.
I am def going to the Bloggers meet - how about you Chris?
Cathmel x x x x
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Hello
My grandad used to smoke roll ups and he used to give me his empty tins to put my dinner money in.
There is something nice about the smell of an empty tobacco tin. Strange.
What am I like? Just driving around the M25 and between Junction 25 and 25 the traffic suddenly slowed right down. Could see that a lorry had stopped with hazards on in the slow lane.
As drove past realised that in front of the lorry was a swan. Just wandering along in front of it, unaware of the danger it was in. So next, me in tears. What's all that about? Hope that someone gets to the swan in time. And how totally brilliant of that lorry driver to sit in front of it.
Debbie x
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ARF - Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag - by (you've guessed it) Pigbag
haven't heard it in years and it was THE song of my Poly years. Hi to all who studied Perfrming Arts at Leicester Poly in the mid 80s
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ARF: Shine, Take That please CLP.
Debbie x
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Good Afternoon,
Hope everyone is fine and dandy.
I don't think either of my Grandfathers smoked a pipe, but I do like the smell. Much prefer the smell of cigars and pipes to ciggies. I love it when you go out to a pub now that you don't come home stinking of fags!! Not that I have anything against people smoking each to their own vice.
ARF - Andy Williams - More Today than Yesterday - because it's a happy feel good song.
Cheers CLP
AliB
xx
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As tomorrow is my 40th birthday, I reckon I should be allowed to jump the ARF queue :-) Modern Love by David Bowie would be good - haven't heard that in years (probably since the last time I heard Pigbag too, actually...)
Please play this and help me celebrate reaching pipe-smoking age :-)
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Good shout Cathmel,
Could always treat Young CLP to a belated birthday beer or two.
Ripples!!
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show starts at 5 all sorted for later havent set off yet finding some really lively stuff to
play on the way in the car and my have a hair cut
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hehehehehehe
Ripples! Love it!!!!
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oh and THERE IS A GOD!
Lady Boss gone for the day. iPlayer on.
Diva happy!
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Ohhhhh! JV!!!!! As someone who is supposed to enable debate, he surely struggles to be impartial, just sensationalises topics and rankles.
I LOVE MY RAYBURN (wee aga) and fingers up to that "greenie" - just crawl back under that slimy (cold & dark coz you won't use energy) rock you came out of!
Oh I'm peed off now! time for a cup of tea i think (yes i'm actually going to use ELECTRICITY to boil WATER, to infuse my TEA that's been IMPORTED half way around the world, then add MILK (from dairy cows that will fart us to oblivion!)
Quack
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Cornishgirlie: now I feel terrible because I didn't say hello to you when you "joined"!! You have chosen a terrific ARF - I did ask Chris to play this before (for Mary's birthday - she was Chris's first ever comment on his blog). Hopefully you will swing it this time!
Though uncle-carl - you have a good chance too! 40? You are still a baby!
Debbie: I hope the swan makes it. How lovely of that driver to be so caring. A few years ago, we had a family of a mum duck and her seven ducklings in the wee estate we lived in. She paraded them through the streets and then headed off to try to get them to water. I phoned the RSPB to see if we could do anything, but they said, no. And then proceeded to say the magpies would probably get the ducklings! I do think about them often - did they make it??!!!
Cxx
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Hi Chrissie. With my Mum and Dad being in the animal welfare line of things, I hear some sad stories regarding certain organisations that don't always respond to calls.
My Dad has rescued mum ducks and ducklings doing exactly what you described.
Thought of Bingo when I saw that lorry parked on the motorway.
Hope that the swan is ok. They can't take off from dry land you see, so someone would have to go pick it up.
Debbie x
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Ah, dook, I cannot be doing with the man...I think I previously mentioned that he was getting more Jeremy Kyle by the minute or similar...
...and Oh, Uncle Carl, if we all got ARFs played on our birthdays, we'd be very happy bods indeed...so good luck with that...and an excellent choice too if I may say so...
Anyhoo, CHRISTOPHE PLEASE NOTE, I have just been to lunch and chanced upon the local (and verra verra olde fashyoned) TOBACCONIST. So I popped in and had a sniff...lovely!
just for you
love
hazel
x
the bloke managed 'Can I he...' before I spun around and shot back out of the door...he'll never know!
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Deb, it probably was Bingo, and he'll do a whole swan song about it when he gets on here later...
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LOL Hazel,
I actually don't mind JV. I don't like it when he's off and they stick someone else on, it's not the same.
Didn't think much of KB's replacement earlier either.
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Steve just played my theme toon ....
More Than A Woman ....
hehehehehe!
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Debbie - I still can't believe that you've met one of the MR. W's
My non-environmental mug of tea - tasted great! and my feathers are beginning to settle down again - although I fear I'm off the lay for a few days!!!
Did anyone catch Wrossie's comeback prog? It wasn't hype advertised was it? and didn't his suspension go really quickly!
quack
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Hi Chris and team,
I'm a new blogger :) Love the show, on the way home every day! I always remember having a toy pipe in red and yellow and had it clamped between my teeth walking around on the farm 'puffing away'!! Remember many members of teh farming community could be located below major clouds of smoke. The smell always takes me back.
Music for All request Friday - there are so many classics I could think of.... but can't remember now. But how about 'Music' by John Miles
Cheers and keep up the GREAT work
Gareth P
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Hi Dook. There are three brothers and from what I gather he is the one now most actively involved in the business.
Very strange meeting the man who's name is on the bread in Tesco's.
Off to get LM now.
Back soon.
x x x
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Afternoon each!
Pipes..loved the smell..my old Grandpa (who died when i was only 3) had one..and it still takes me back to collecting eggs from the bottom of his garden whenever i smell one... Bees, can i borrow Mr Bees for the weekend please ..for nostalgia purposes only of course!
And up here in the wilderness of my town (that is currently the hot topic in the news it seems..and not in a good way unfortunately..)..we have a traditional old tobacconists that just keeps going and going..anyone want a lighter shaped like an elephant or about 50 different shaped pipes..not to mention walking sticks (random but hey!) then i know just the place. And long shall it stay i hope.
Day off yesterday and had every intention of catching up..but car for service (boo), mums for lunch (yay) and then shopping (more yay!) took over.. i WILL try harder i promise..cos i miss yas!
Anyhoo...welcome to al the newbies.. belated happy birthday to Mr B Starr and hugs to anyone else feeling under the weather/down and just generally needing one...
Laters...as my 3yr old nephew has taken to saying..i tell you..its amazing what they learn at nursery nowadays!
mSc x
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Dook: What comeback show for JR?! I have been waiting on the edge of my seat - I thought his first show was next Friday night - 23rd?!
I have to say, I don't think it's going to work for him - the Press absolutely hate him and they are gunning for him big time. I will make the most of his return while I can!
C xx
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Morning/Afternoon everyone, to say it's cold here is an understatement. zero (yes zero) degrees fahrenheit this morning with wind child taking into negative numbers...... Even colder tomorrow wind chills expected to be around minus 25 degrees.....yikes!!!!!
I think like most I had a grandfather that smoked a pipe. He lived until the ripe old age of 96......
ARF: Air on a g string - the Barron Knights version.... (Found under benches and hedges...LOL)
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Dook, how's the tinnitus today?
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hiya everyone....
I've been a lurker quite some time, but one of the items on JV today had me thinking...... I caught the tail-end of the story about women dying in childbirth and Childbed Fever.... So I went to the Jessica's Trust Website and found out the whole story:
http://www.jessicastrust.org.uk/
Since many of us know someone who is pregnant PLEASE go and read this, and then pass it on to anyone you think needs to see it.
I warn you, you'll need some hankies..... but, given that TWO women died of the same illness that killed Jessica Palmer around Christmas, this is too important to ignore. If by passing the word around we can prevent another Mummy dying, and leaving other children and their daddies bereft, then it'll be worth it.
Ok... I'll get down off my soap-box now and go and lurk in the corner over there.... (but I'm sure I'll be back!)
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welcome all newbies - glad to see you aboard the goos ship CLP blog!
super bp x
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...have just had another thought re the ARF...with all the talk about pipe-smoking aged grand ps...
I'm my own Grampa by Homer and Jethro
sometimes you just gotta
love
hazel
x
howdy purplegirl...look out for purpledragon!
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Hiya Gareth P - hope you enjoy being on the blog - it is a terrific place. Most of the time!
And purplegirl: welcome! I will read that link when I get home tonight.
C xx
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Oh James! Air on a G string aka hamlet ad!!! Yeh! Although for topicalness (real word?) I think it may work better for today's show!!!!!!
Tinitus still EEEEEEEEing away! Doctors tomorrow - I suspect that the ole blue injection will be making an appearance (unfortunately it's illeagal for humans! so maybe not!)
Minus 25 F is what in "REAL" temperature? not to be confused with the "REAL" economy (you know the other one coz all these years we've been using the "Pretend" one!!!!!)
Quack
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Ooooo! DIVA you're on!!!
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hiya.... (not gone to my corner yet!)
I would have been a "purpledragon" if PurpleDragon wasn't already here (I'd seen the name pop up occasionally - told you I'd been lurking!) so I knew I couldn't have that name...
(there's another Purplegirl on the BBC somewhere - but not a PURRplegirl!!)
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LOLA!!!!!!!
now sitting here grinning like a right berk!!
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Diva - on iplayer the damon show last night has been edited - how pants is that?
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Scoobs - you can have Mr B with pleasure - right now!!!!!
Beesmum xxx
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aw ne'eer mind! at least you got some of him!
d'ya know, there's yellow feathers everywhere in this office now!
;-)
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Hi Chris,
Did we ever see pipe smokers getting their 'thrills' in the public domain pre the smoking ban? Well of course we all did but it was a rare occasion, one which I agree would usually result in someone commenting on how much they like the smell and that it reminded them of years past.....usually a Granddad sat in his rocking chair whilst betting on the horses.
Even when smoking was considered 'fair game' in public places pipe smoker seemed a breed all to themselves keeping themselves to themselves, perhaps the saying Pipe and Slippers really is just how it is? A comfy cosy relaxed sporting pleasure rather than a quick fix between appointments. It lives on me thinks, however behind closed doors where it is given the time and dedication and appreciation it requires.
Nick
ps - I'm not a pipe smoker, cant stand the stuff...nice smell though!
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Hi Sproudog
I can imagine the pipe smoking fraternity taking up all the cosy chairs in coffee shops, chugging away on their pipes whilst sipping a capuccino ....
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J Ross - I thought I'd missed it as a caught a thing on TV saying that he'd had Tom Cruise on and that he was back from suspension (wossie not Cruise!)
Well I've only got 3 things left to do on todays "To Do List" at work! One has to wait until next week, one has to wait until someone is back from leave (councils!!), and the other needs a director and they are away for the rest of the afternoon! so YEH!
Another unenvironmental mug of tea me thinks! No biscuits left though ;-{
Quack
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tom cruise could do with suspending, but in the words of La Love, that's not for here!
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Diva - 71 - yup that's what he's doing - lolling back in chair annoying me whilst I try to work!!!
Bees xx
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Bees...still grumpy then eh? oh bless him! hee hee..
And Rossy back this Fri...yay! and with a great guest list too..should be good.
mSc x
PS - sorry its about a TV prog but does anyone `do` CSI? any of them? Ive become addicted..help!
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Bees...give him a pile of said work..that`ll do the trick of sending him scurrying off!
mSc x
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scoobs -we used to "do" CSI but gave up as there were so many different seasons spread across different networks it got confusing.
i love the way they resolve the most grissly of murders in 47 minutes tho! puts our plod to shame (sorry ginge!)
x x x
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PS: are you watching Dexter - it's FAB!! and v.v.grizzly!
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Scoobs - just given him all his phone messages - he he he he he he he! wouldn't mind a jumper the colour of his face!!!
ggggggggggg
Bees xxx
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Red is SO in this season Bees!
and as for CSI - i just watch them as they are on..gave up trying to figure out which season etc etc! Cant be watching Miami as cant be doing with Horatio`s sunglasses acting but NY and Vegas are brill! and new season just started for both... sad, moi?! Not got into Dexter so far but shall try on recommendation..
sorry folks... l need to get a life!
mSc x
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My Grandads a pipe smoker... never seen him use a pipe cleaner in my life...
ARF - Beautiful South - Rotterdam
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If you need to get a life Scoobs then so do I.
I love US dramas, in fact I'm excited about going home so I can watch ER and Brothers and Sisters tonight, and next week I shall be beside myself as Series 5 of Grey's Anatomy starts.
Long live V+ I say (other brands are available).
AliB
xx
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scoobs - is vegas the one with the tall black guy with the afro? that was my fave one.
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Where have Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives gone????
Eh?? Ch4 we want answers please!!!!
I used to love Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope (remember Dr Billy Kronk - a young Eric Mabius (Daniel) from Ugly Betty) and grew up on my weekly fix of Dynasty and Dallas.
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I'm going to watch this series of Dexter the first one was brilliant. Very dark and very clever.
Otherwise I'm not a big fan of US shows.
Btw: I know that the 'hug' bit gets on somes nerves. But could I just have a couple. Just to keep me going :-(
Debbie x
PS: Just a bad day that's all.
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Hi CLP & bloggers!
I went to school with a guy that started to smoke a pipe when he was about 18, he was known as Noj as his name was Jon and he was dyslexic. He used to smoke cherry tobbacco which smelt divine!!!! He also had chocolate tobbacco and all sorts of other smells all wonderful though.
ARF- Teardrop Explodes - Reward pleeeease!!!
Luv
Lyndyloo
-x-x-
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Like CSI - agree about all the different seasons, reapeats at different times on all digi channels etc.
LOVE NCIS - but again get's a tad confusing with channel 5, channel 5 US, Channel 4 etc etc. Gibbs (hero), Abby (quirky), Ziva (cruel yet cool), Tony (cocky), Ducky (well its Illya Kuriakin innit)
Quack
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CtD - I used to love Ally McBeal as well, keep waiting for the price to drop on the DVD's so I can buy the whole lot.
Debbie - {{{{{}}}}}} for you, and it's a big one. Just so you know I got a Christmas card that said to the best hugger in the land!!
AliB
xx
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Ello Ter CLP And Each Ere,
Bingo Star ere....
Am so busy terdee.... ave goot so much ter say but can't.... a wanter thank all individually for yesterdee by name.... a will later or termoz!!!!!
Also a noticed a new blogger by the name of '737Driver'!!!!!!!!!
737 Driver...... Are you a qualified pilot, captain, 1st officer?????
If so any chance of telling us all about 'ow yer get ter your position, what exams yer need? 'ow did you do it?
Do you enjoy your job? Come on tell us all...... it's a career that's always goot me intrigued... 'ow do yer get into it????My goodness did a spell 'intigued' correctly.. am gettin' good!!!!!
A know some come via being ex RAF, but ave also 'eard yer can get inter flying by doing yer light aircraft first licence like CLP recently did???@?!!
Then going for yer big baby licence.
And do yer need individual licences for each plane make/ model aka yersen being a 737 licence 'older????
Seriously 737Driver.... please tell all ter the blog!!!!
Me blog, it's geeting long again, can't 'elp meself.... come on type faster.... FASTER..... ok a am.....
CLP - The smoking of pipes. In Ukraine they ave in most restaurants the smoking of 'uge pipes bit like yer might see in Morocco, it's called 'Coupa' or something like that maybe 'Cooupka' forgotten what exactly me translater said it's called but something like that.
But it's noot tabacco. NYET!!!!! (NO)
Yer can get fruit flavours, almost like 'erbal tea type of thing. And when yer sitting nearby it fills the air with smoke.
Yer 'ave a date with a beautiful ukrainian babe and come out smelling of strawberry or maple flower???? 100% true all!!!!!
Ave been told it's good for you too, unlike tobbacco!!!!
Tobbacco one b and c or two or one b, two c's or two b's one c.... I don't know..... I jusy simpkly do not know the answer..... maybe that's why am noot an airline pilot!!!!!!!!!
'ope this 'elps!!!!!
GOURANGA!!!!!!!@!
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dook are you on FB?
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LostAliBaba- Brothers & Sisters when where what time?/??
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Dook
Ziva - cruel but cool
Familarly spooky rhyming of names and traits there .....
;-)
Diva x x x x
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Dexter...FABULOUS...as he was in Six Feet Under...which is only about as high as you'd need to suspend Tom Cruise lets face it...
Desperate Housewives...all got a bit mad for me...but I do like a slightly chubby Eva thingamajig...talking of whom, has anyone seen the air-brushing of Lady Beckham in today's Snu? Gawd 'elp us.
...and only watch CSI:Miami for the sunglasses acting...is akshully quite a funny comedy...well I think so, the Badger would disagree, and I'm s'posed to keep quiet while it's on but hey ho...and it's just CSI is the one with the black guy who got shot...but that is in Vegas...I find NY a bit too gruesome...even from a used to be a funeral director's pov!
Ugly Betty...I need my Eric!
til then mobius take me
love
hazel
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(Deb, shh, ())
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Bond- that's enough to freeze your wotsits off!!!
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OMG, Ilia Kuriakin. Napoleon Solo.
How coinkydinky...the first 'Man From Uncle' I ever saw was at my afore-mentioned, pipe-smoking, Great Uncle Len's house.
Coo. Talk about a blast from the past!
Thanks dook
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Lyndyloo
B&S - More4 Tonight at 10:00pm, after ER. It's the third series and it started last week. I am sure you can catch up somewhere, if not let me know and I'll FB you what happened.
AliB
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Hello to all newbies, oldies and sporadics like myself. Echo akacrumpy about finding time and free computer to keep up with the blog a ce moment.
My Dad smoked a pipe occasionally for years, but he gave all tobacco up eventually. I loved the smell too. In fact, for a time, pipe/tobacco-related gifts for Christmas/birthdays/Fathers' Day were my Dad's socks or soap-on-a-rope equivalent. Pipe rack, tins of tobacco, five Hamlets, pipe-cleaning kits. Pipes, obviously.
After he gave up he had to make do with chocolate brazils and the latest book about cricket. Neither of which smell as good.
For Christmas I got the "Jackie Magazine" CD - it's all 70s pop music. The thing is, even though technically I can appreciate how awful much of it sounds today, lots of it was the soundtrack to my life aged 6 - 14, and as I was mad about music from a very youg age I can remember it all like yesterday. I love warbling along in the car. Anyway, because I'd forgotten this song ever existed and am currently belting it out daily, I would
like the following:
ARF - Forever and Ever by Slik.
Yes really.
Love to all, and remember,
"Maybe I didn't blo-og,
Quite as often as I should have;
Maybe I didn't FB,
Quite as often as I could have,
Little thiiiiiings I should have said or done,
But I never had the time;
But you were always on my miiiiiiiiiiind,
You were always on my mind."
A x
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There were 37 posts while I wrote that! This is why I can't keep up!
A x
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Lovely Hazel
I have to stay quiet when The Hair is watching such tellybox gems as Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Gallactica etc etc etc blur blur blur.
When I get the lappylaptop out and start chatting to yous lot on here, or over on FaceCloth, I get The Evils as I tippytap away on the keyboard!! Now tho, thanks to the miracle of wireless broadband I can chat to yous lot from the comfort of my duvet!
Men eh?!?!
Chezza xxx
PS: Did The Badger survive his Hazling last night?
Deb {{{HUGS HUGS HUGS }}}
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boleyngirl
ref Slik - wasn't that Midge Ure's first forray into pop music pre Ultravox? I rmember that song so well - always on the jukebox in mum and dads pub!
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James - FB - yes and no! I am and i have joined the clp bloggers group - but haven't been on since I joined when I thought we'd broken the radio player! Couldn't get into it - not very user friendly unlike beeb o which had to join to find out what stepson was upto when he was visiting cousins daahn Safff!
You still haven't mentioned what -25 F is in proper money!
Quack
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When my back is turned here, The tv is turned over to The Simpsons at every opportunity. I hate that show! Drives me mental......ah so that's what's done it.
Debbie x
PS: Thanks
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Dook: thank you, I can now breath again! If I thought I had missed JR's return, I would need oxygen!
And purrplegirl: clever! I didn't really notice the spelling of your name!
Debbie: I'm a terrific hugger in real life, but I've never tried to type one. Here goes {{{{{Debbie}}}}. How did things go today for LM?
C xx
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Dyou know Chezza I think it was. I remember I thought he was dead cool, all dressed in black.
Oh yes, the CD also contained a poster with Donny Osmond on one side (the one with the hat/cap thing) and David Cassidy on t'other! What a boon!
AND it has some excerpts from the Cathy and Claire problem page (apologies to the youngster bloggers out there)and they are HILARIOUS. I's copy a couple out now for y'all but it's in the car.
A x
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The simpsons - regularly described as a dysfunctional family! Mum, Dad, 2.4 children, Dad works, Mum stays at home with baby, Kids at school, and go to church every sunday - so that's dysfunctional is it?
Really like Family Guy though - more adult than simpsons and they actually look like people.
Quack
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i got the Jackie annual the christmas before last - fantastic! loads of pics of David Essex, David Cassidy, Bob Geldof (my first!), fashion advice, how to french kiss your wrist, cathy and claire ..... ahhhhh bliss!!!
then there were the photo-story mags of the 1980s. Blue Jeans, Patches etc. Anyone remember George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in one of those? Hilarious!!
Teen mags today are obscene by comparision. IF i had teenage daughter I wouldn't let them read the likes of More or Just 17. Waaaaay toooooo roooood!!
Bring back Jackie!
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Well Chez, being 2/3 years older than you, by then I was smuggling Cosmopolitan into my room (Mam HATED me reading that). And Company.
Totally agree re. teen mags - thank god neither of mine showed any interest.
I used to live for Jackie delivery day, when it would be waiting for me at home after a hard day's daydreaming.
A x
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Cheryl: you are so right about the teen mags. MrS, in an idle moment, picked up one of MsS' magazines - it had more information in it than he has managed to glean in a hundred years of marriage! He was so horrified, he told our beloved daughter that she was reading porn and all these mags are now banned from ChezS!
I loved Jackie!
C xx
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PS Bob Geldof - you never did!
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PPS Happy belated birthday to Bingo, sorry I missed it mate.
A x
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AliB - wasnt last weeks ER just so sad..but brilliant! have watched from day one..and will miss it when its gone..
and..confessions time..we`ve just ordered the s*y thing that will be set up next week..so i can record Grays and watch when i want...v `cited Scoobs again!
anyhoo..sorry to have taken this off track but im a new CSI fan and want everyone to know about it!
As for mags...used to get v excited when Bunty arrived, then progressed to Jackie and Just 17... and remember being shocked by my fisrt (illicit!) Just 17...but maybe i was naive?! Howver, wouldnt like the thought of my teenage daughter(if i had one!) reading similar at 13 or 14.. but there you go.
And photostory mags...remember the coloured/picture records you used to get with Smash Hits etc.. prob still got a few tucked away somewhere..wonder if they`re worth anything...?! hee hee
mSc x
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My favourite mag was Smash Hits, for the posters and getting the song lyrics!
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OMG Debs..the song lyrics..id forgotten about those! My bestest mate and i used to have a competition to see who could learn them first...being rubbish it usually wasnt me!
Hope LM had a better day... xx
mSc x
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Scoobs, I was a blubbering wreck after watching ER and Grey's last week. Good job nobody could see me!
I too have watched ER from day 1, can't believe it's been almost 15 years. Love it and will really miss it when it finally ends.
AliB
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Helloooooooo!!!
Just a quicky. Scooby, you and I are so similar - used to LOVE Bunty, and Jackie!!!
My uncle George smoked a pipe. He used to have a lovely round wooden box as a tobacco holder, made of walnut, with swirls carved into the top. He died when I was 18 but I can still see the box, and smell the pipe, when I think of him!
ARF -
Big Spender by Shirley Bassey please
I don't know why or how but I know all the words! I heard it on the radio the other day and I thought - from now on, THIS is my karaoke song!!
Ah well, home beckons ...
Love to all
T xxxxxxxxxxx
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Sccob, I watch all the CSIs, Law and Order and the like.
Lyndy, as Eric Morecambe used to say, "It's cold enough to freeze the knickers of the vicars wife....." LOL
Dook, -25F is wait for it.....-31.5C....... I don't see you on my FB friends list?
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Yes sorry, forgot to mention. Apart from having a little accident and having to get changed, his day was fine.
Teacher told me that the boys were friends today. So that, hopefully, is that.
If it was to happen again, I'll be at the school demanding action taken. But it will probably all be forgotton about now.
Shame about Smash Hits going isn't it, but I suppose the whole concept is quite old fashioned now.
Debbie x
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Comics, would have to be Roy of the Rovers, Tiger, Beano and The Dandy...... later it would have been Shoot, and 4-4-2 (big surprise eh?)
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Debbie-C.....Kids!!!!
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I have every Beano from 1979 until the first one in 2000. One day I am going to be a very rich girl!
AliB
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007, kids! husbands! who'd have 'em eh?
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Tins.. poor u feeling a kinship to me..itll pass dont worry! But i`m getting worried that AliB and i are one and the same...poor girl!
Hi Bondy!
And glad LM had good day Debs.. onwards and upwards! x
mSc x
PS - Dook and any other FB newbies please find me cos i useless at finding newbies! CtD or Bees or someone will shove u in the right direction..please and thank you! x
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HaHa Scoobs - it does sound like we are one and the same! It might be poor you rather than poor me!
AliB
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ChrissieSagain - thanks for the kind words! Until now I though that mid-life crises were figments of the imagination, however as I now seem to be reverting back to childhood (got the Scalextric out of the loft over Christmas), I'm not so sure now....
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Hmmm FB. I think I'm down as my "REAL" name then got scared when trying to change it coz it said something like it would check - I'm too honest for my own good!!!! As I don't go on FB (no internet at home :-}, and enough to do here!) don't be offended by me not adding people as friends.
Yes that is a smile after no internet at home - it is bad enough trying to get me to do housework with 2 dogs, 1 kitten/almost cat, horses, polytunnel etc. etc. without adding internet into the mix!!!!!!
Quack
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Just remembered my first comic - it was called Twinkle! Nurse Nancy was in it. I got the cheapest most tacky "ruby" ring as a "free gift" once - I absolutely adored it.
Alibaba, wow, I think you will be indeed. Strangely I ended up on the Beano after i stopped Jackie - some sort of regression which hasn't stopped since.
Now, can anyone remember a comic/mag called Popswap - a kind of early Smash Hits? I have googled it and all sorts but can find nowt, and am beginning to think I may have dreamt it.
A x
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Pipe Smoke - my dad also used to smoke a pipe and the odd cigar at christmas. He used to get some really nice smelling tobacco and had some lovely old pipes - all gone now - he gave up loads of years ago and died a couple of years ago from heart attack he'd had a stroke the year before so it wasn't that much of a shock.
King Edwards and Havana cigars always bring back good memories as a child at christmas.
ARF
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel (it's the bottle of red or bottle of white song!)
many thanks
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STOP! Messages flying in from all sides - I can't cope!
I too was a Jackie girl and think the teenage mags these days are too explicit and just sex-mad. Luckily my daughter doesn't often buy one. But so are many of the more general women's mags - when I bought Cosmo as a student in the 80's we thought it was very racy (and all the boyfriends read it too when they came round!) but I bet it would now seem pretty tame.
I am also an ER fan but am a bit cross with C4. They seem to have given up on it and keep changing the days when it's on, series by series. I saw almost all of them in 2007 before the big writers' strike but I think when they brought it back after that they moved it - or maybe I was just busy - and I missed quite a few. Last week I saw it was on C4 in the mornings so I taped some to try to catch up before the new series started but they've only gone up to the break!!
No sign of it this week on C4 at all. So I've seen the end of the ambulance explosion story but not the bit leading up to it. Grrrr...........................
df
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So my regression was an early mid-life crisis! Thanks for clearing that up Uncle Carl.
A x
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Smash Hits
The magazine that made me want to be a music journalist. I used to idolise David Hepworth and his pen, and then Mark Ellen - what an Editor! Heat's ex-editor Mark Frith used to work on Smash Hits too.
And Julie Birchill.
Drat and darn. Why did I get myself a boyfiend at 18 and give up my dreams?
I could've been a 3 am Girl !!!!! LOL!!
Chezza xxxx
PS: Bob Geldof - I was only young, but had I known what "it" was and how to do "it" then most deffo!! I've said on here before - he still makes me swoon! That Irish accent, the disshevelled look ... phwoar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Smash Hits was the coolest mag I ever got and we all had to learn all the words to all our favourite songs... in fact if you didn't know all the words then you were just a laughing stock! Stragely enough I still remember lyrics to so many of those songs to this day!
Luv
Lyndyloo
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Is HLS OK? Haven't seen any posts from her and she last visited the Pub on 5th. Have we heard anything from annie as well?
Quack
ps Never really "got" girly magazines but loved Beano and Dandy (I think I got some wrong chromozones along the line!!!)
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Oh and Mrs Jonathan Ross - Jane Goldman - another hero of mine from the journo / writing world. And she puts up with Rossy! What a woman!
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Chez, I can defo empathise re. Bob in those days, not so much now though.
Don't want to be contraversial but I absolutely 100 per cent can not STAND Julie Birchill.
Or Paul Morley.
A x
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Evening all,
Used to love Smash Hits and all the song words, used to rip them out, learn my faves, then practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush microphone for when I'd be on tour with Take That etc...
Pipe smoke: the smell is far nicer than the smell of regular fags, bleurgh!
ARF: Ruby by Kaiser Chiefs please!
Looking forward to a day off tomorrow, probably more than usual after sitting through 2 days of Health & Safety training, PLUS the knowledge that while I'm still warm in my bed my colleagues will be going through a fire drill, hee hee...
Rx
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As you brought Rossy up again CTD.....is he back on the radio soon?
Quack
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ARF-
landed by bens fold
afternoon clp and all bloggers, please can my song be picked as the local scum have relieved me last night of my car stereo and back window, mucho gracias. xx lnk
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Dook, do you have email?
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Wrighty's playing one of my favourite songs right now... I love Stevie Wonder.... Mistra know it all ahhhhhhhhhhhh xxx
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rosieposie - you've made me feel really old now! in my day it was Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet lyrics!
Anyone remember the Smash Hits letters page, when readers used to write in with something like "I have 27,000 posters of Boy George. Is this a record" and the editorial team would put "no, a record is a black flat thing with a hole in the middle"
I guess that joke is well and truly lost in the day of the MP3 download!
:-(
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dook
Sat 24th Jan I believe.
CtD xx
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right..offski..well shutting computer down anyway...
hope to be along for FNWC tomorrow night unless GM decides he wants a `snuggle on the sofa with a dvd` night... really is lovely but a girl has priorities...!
Happy thirsty thursday all..
mSc x
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Sorry Cheryl! But I have to say that Duran Duran are one of my fave bands, thanks to my best pal and her older sister!
Rx
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or the battle of who could care less
pls pls pls
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Yes I have email Bond! I may live in the back of beyond and live in a slightly "good life" way, but there was a time before when i was an ambitious wee thing at University - also have one for work but that's grown up and essential :-(
Quack
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on face ache - I'm the anti social one who spells their name slightly differently than you may expect!
nod nod wink wink and all that!
Quack
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Pipes - hmmm I personally have always hated the smell of pipe smoke, but then most smoke has that effect on me as I suffer from sinus problems lol!
Ross Hemsworth
Glastonbury Radio
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rosieposie
i was THE biggest Durannie going! every inch of my bedroom was covered in posters of my idols, even the ceiling. first saw them in 1983 on the Ragged TIger tour, and innocently took a red rose with me to throw at John Taylor. sadly, we were about 2 rows from the ceiling at the very back of Wembley Arena!
i think there may be a pic of my on FB in my durannie days - i'll have a look, and if its not, i'll add it later. you will HOWL!!
CtD xxx
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Cheyl I just saw your pic... it's awesome!!!
Have never seen them live but would love to! Whenever I see my best pal we have to play the Greatest hits album very loudly and sing along, much to best pal's hubby's distress. She has a baby daughter and as godmother I feel it is my duty to convert her into a mini Durannie too...
Rx
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lol rosie! glad to have made your day with my embarrassment!
we were fortunate enough to see them in 2003 at The Forum in London when they played together for the first time in the original line-up since Andy Taylor left them in the 1980s. it was very special - only about 1500 in the venue and we were right down the front, by the stage! Mr Diva wasn't overly impressed with my regression back to a screamy teen!
Off home now - catch y'all laters dudes!
Cheryl x x x x
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Evening/Afternoon all!
I can't keep up with you lot today! I think about posting but then 15 more appear as if by magic. eek. So, here goes, and apologies if everything's moved on again by the time it gets there!
Deep breath.... Welcome all Newbies, fab to see so many of you! Hurrah for newbies!
Pipes? ick. Neither of my grandfathers had pipes, or smoked at all. Is it compulsory to have a big moostash to smoke a pipe?? Don't like the smell. Ceeegars though.... never smoked them but quite like the smell.
CSI, NCIS, Fab. Also like Burn Notice, Wire, Leverage and In Plain Sight - have they reached the UK yet??
Purrplegirl, I also wanted purpledragon but had to add the 22 as on it's own wasn't allowed for some reason!
ARF - Summer of 69, Bryan Adams.....
Dragonxx
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My Grandad smoked a pipe and cigars and lived to be ninety. My dad smoked a pipe and cigars, ended up having a triple by-pass and chucked it aged sixty-five. He's now nearly eighty. Loved the smell though.
ARF
Somewhere in My Heart by Aztec Camera
Best lyric ever written:
"From Westwood to Hollywood,
The one thing that's understood.
Is you can't buy love,
But you can sell your soul,
And the closest thing to heaven,
Is to ROCK & ROLL!!!"
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Dook I've just had a look and I'm still none the wiser. Having a real 'blonde' day today.
Debbie x
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Dook - I'm mystified.... I can't find you on faceache!
Dragonxx
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Evening all
I was a Smash Hits gal, had entire wall devoted to posters of the latest pin ups, Duran Duran amongst them. Reminds me I recently watched Barbarella, was were they got their name.
American Tv yumsters, am hooked on NCIS, Family Guy, Law and Order, Monk, House, Psych, and Boston Legal.
Don't watch CSI as much as I used to as I turn on and its usually a repeat, do adore Horatio Caine, which leads me to my all request Friday choice "Won't get Fooled again" by The Who
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Family Guy - genius! Helps not to think too much about it when watching though - which is more unlikely, a taking baby or a talking dog.... :-)
I once had to use a pipe in a school play (suppose it's difficult to get across you're playing the part of an old man without one when you're seven). I can still taste it - like throwing your old slippers on a bonfire and inhaling the smoke.....
Wouldn't necessarily recommend it myself, CLP
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family guy is the best....... "why the deuce..." lol
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Afternoon Bond! How's your weather? we finally had a little sprinkling of snow last night, and we're down to 25 degrees "feels like 12 degrees" according to a popular weather forecasting website. The wind has a lovely bite to it today!
Dragonxx
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ARF ARF ARF ARF
Johnny Cash, A Boy Named Sue
Pleeeeeeeeeese Chris! For all the imminent parents including yourself -
"And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him
Bill or George! Anything but Sue! I still hate that name!"
xx
me
and the jumpybean
Now'll go back and catch up with everyone :)
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My grandad's best mate was a pipe smoker, and grandad would go with him to the baccy shop and always came back smelling gorgeous. Me and mr jumpy enjoy the occasional celebratory cigar as well - some are much nicer than others! And a few years back I worked opposite a baccy shop and loved going in there, just for the smell.
I'm going to buy my dad a pipe and slippers for his birthday next year - it's a biggie, the big six-oh :)
xx
me
and the jumpybean
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Hi Dragon22, forecast for tonight and tomorrow morning is -25 degrees F..... (with the wind child). We have an extreme cold warning in effect......brrrrrrrrrr
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Hi Bondy (and Jumpy) - just popping back again while dinner's cooking.
How can it be so cold there?!! I'd just want to get under the biggest, warmest duvet I could find and stay there for weeks on end! I'd have a big pile of books, and my radio of course, and some goodies to eat - actually it sounds quite nice! But going out in it - noooooo!
Hope you're wearing the arctic thermals!
df
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Bondy, no offense, but I won't be visiting anytime soon!! it's too cold here for me, so there's no way I'm venturing north! Extreme cold? I should think so! keep warm!
Dragonxx
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Oooh there's a thought.... hibernation. Tempting... very temping....
Dragonxx
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Hi Dragon too - I didn't think dragons liked the cold - frozen breath might be nasty!
df
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H Derbyfi, I hate the cold. Ice under the scales is just nasty! I am really thinking hibernation is the way to go!
Dragonxx
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Cheryl - (#64 and #66) Thought of you instantly when Lola was played!!
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btw HLS is well as far as I know, just running around after a toddler and sorting out the wee bairn!
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Thanks derbyfi and dragon22, will use bond gadget to keep warm......
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ARF?
Fight For Your Right - The Beastie Boys.
FNOJC? I'll be there.
Peace etc
MfR.
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hehehehe ...
it seems Lola's reputation precedes me!
have been talking sun, beaches and flights since i got in .... gonna book it tomorrow from work!
hurrah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
evening all!
some fab ARF choices coming thru this week!
diva x x
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evening all, hope you're well?
sorry for delay today but laptop went all silly and had to get it sorted.
Youngest had lovely birthday, went swimming this morning, loads of cake this afternoon...brilliant.
Pipe smoke....love the smell. I remember when I worked in an old country pub once and the landlord got me on the snuff for the evening too!!!!
Shame The Shrimpers couldn't hang on last night, how funny would that have been?
Should be ok for 4/4.
bonnet de douche
KWx
ARF - 'Out on the floor' Dobie Gray
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Forgot to say Happy Birthday to your little'un Gingembre sorry. Glad that a good day was had by all.
Debbie x
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dook, you need to give us another FB clue.....
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she's very cryptic, isn't she..... have to wait til tomorrow now tho i reckon
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LOL because of the pipe and only cos of it...
ARF Grandad by Clive Dunn :P
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Helloo?? anyone still about?
Got comfy on the sofa in the room with a TV and just didn't move for a while - watched ER amongst other things. Not as good as last week IMO.
Gingembre #172 - you've picked one of Mr df's faves which takes him right back to that mis-spent youth again!
But you're from Norfolk aren't you, not another 70's northern Soul boy? Or have I got that all wrong? [Wouldn't be for the first time!]
df
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Hello
Dad not long gone, been here with me talking about charity stuff. Just had chance for a quick shower and sardines on toast. Really enjoyed the time actually, just the two of us.
Mr Debbie out until god knows when so have peace now.
If anyone's interested, Lyndsey De Paul is on Cash in the Attic on March 4th raising money for Mum and Dad's charity. Dad got a call from the Beeb today. Dad not sure if he will be on, he hopes not.
Watching tv for a bit to chill then must go to bed.
Debbie x
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Hi Debbie
Just the two us then! Looks like it's an early night for most tonight - and I really should follow their lead as I've got a 6.30 start tomorrow.
Just seen the news about that plane in NYC - a very lucky escape and perhaps good piloting too! But not an experience I'd wish to have had.
Night all.............
df
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Hi derbyfi, not seen any news intrigued now.
Nite nite x x
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Hi chaps - debs ldp will look out for - good one for folks charity - but going back -
gngembre so sorry - forgot to say happy burpday for little one - from your pics - she is such a cutie!
Must admit derbyfi - news - looking at that plane - dumping in river - I have never had good trips on planes but well done pilot!!!
I feel a Sus coming on here... not as good as I didn't read comics when younger so can't follow all comments ...
Dragon/Mr Bond - we thought we were cold? Bondy - keep warm matey - that is an out of my imagination temp. cuddle up to nearest and dearest is all I can say!!! and stoke the old fires - or you could come back to blighty? (wouldn't recommend at mo though). Hibernation however - good idea!
Dook - looked for you all over on fb - not very good at it so gave up!!!
Cornishgirl however - First! found you!!!
I am so rubbish at fb finding folks! One niece still missing!! little so and so wont tell me!
Am being bleeped from other side of world for chat so must off - afore I go - this is what I have to put up with ...
The pipe smoking theme tonight? ...
Mr B as I said - pipe smoker (and - why don't they make cigs smell that nice) -
Honest - he says - yes he is - agree with that
Clever - yes he is (comment from female listener) (these are his words) - will leave my comment blank here -
Modest - well at least we both agree to differ!!!
Thanks Christoph - ego bubble too big for me to cope with!!! Men - Humph!!!
Just play me my ARF
Sylvia - Focus xxxxxx
And yes - don't ever - ever any of you call me that - you wil be decked !! tis what the S stands for on my emails.
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And the first shall be last and the last shall be - erm - last? You all go to bed early don't you.
Some of us are not allowed near the pc until the mistress has gone to her bed and we can dream up some sparklin' wit for the Togmeister and Brucie shows.
Re the latter, have to say Zoe Ball is doing a fine job standing in for Ken and surely it's time for more wimmin on daytime 2? How about dumping the god-awful Jeremy Vine Show in favour of Zoe or Liza Tarbuck?? It would keep millions tuned to 2 for the afternoon then we'd be ready for CLP's spot.
Which reminds me - Whole Lotta Shakin' by Jerry Lee Lewis, original 1957 recording please. Please?
Cheery! Rob frae Skye (windy)
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See Rob - you are not alone!
Beesxx
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Must admit agree - turn J Vine off these days - bring me Liza any day - she's brilliant - not sure about Zoe though - prefer KB !!
Bees xx
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I'm still up :( anybody still out there? No?
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I like Liza as well, especially when she's with Mark Radcliffe!
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Ouch - really SylviaB88 !!! I hope not offended but always been called by my middle name! Very confusing all my life - as I warned Christoph!
Jumpin - wee one awake I presume?
Bees xxx
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Nite folks - NZ calls!! and my zzzzzzzz's at some time soon - hopefully!
Bees xxxx
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~ LEGEND OF XANADU ~ by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
... for your first Friday song please Chris - in memory of the talented Dave Dee who sadly passed away last Friday!
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Just got back from footie. Late game. God times. Temps currently at zero fahrenheit, will be interesting to see how cold it really gets once the wind picks up in a few hours.
Thanks BeesMum, will stay as warm as possible...
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of course that should have said good times...LOL
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Ooh - looks like I'm first one in this morning.
Awful outside - still pitch dark, cold and wet. Yuk - did I mention that I hate January?!
Off to work shortly but will look in again at lunchtime. Probably will have to miss FNWC this week but will pop in if I can. Have a good one folks!
And Chris - in case the little'un arrives over the weekend - the very best of luck to you all!
df
p.s. I just saw that Gary 'n Dawn Barlow have another daughter this week. Bless!
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evans will be having is own cbbc show house
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morning fi and jaguarjames
yes, very dark here too - boo! just building up to go do the shower / hair / make up thing ...... sometimes being a man must be wonderful: if i didn't have to do the "full slap" thing every morning I'd save hours of my life!
vanity eh?!?
mr diva's gonna colour my hair for me when i get home tonight - i went to put it up the ther morning and the roots were so grey i immediately took it all down and wore it long .... hehehhe!
thank evans it's friday!
catch y'all when i get to the Factory Of Fun.
Chezza
x x x
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PS: Celeb BB highlight : Verne jumping off the building block dressed a teddy bear being caught by Michelle and spun round.
Priceless!
Tina Out!!!
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First song on the show today.........
Anthea and Donna...........
Uptown Top Ranking
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Monring all
Bit full of cold today but pleanty to do in the office.
Hope you are all well - and have a great weekend,
Ginge - your misses is the best - I can almost feel my dress already.
Super bp x
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Morning all,
Another soggy dull day here in Norfolk but nothing can dampen my spirits! Am so excited, guess where I'm going tomorrow? Here's a clue, how about a bit of Oom Pah Pah (God knows how you spell that!) for ARF!
Have a great one guys,
Em xx
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Further to yesterdays comments about Damon on the Zane Lowe show - if you get a chance to listern again on iplayer - the music is different and at times challenging but the humour is amazing and the sound effects to America/ Razorlight has me in stichtes!
Just a little recommendation from me - well done BBC!
I'm a poet and I think i know it!
Super bp x
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Hiya:
TGIF - what a week I have had! So busy .... but still a wee bit of time to attend to the Blog!
Emma-m: I am so envious! The show got a fantastic review from Quentin Letts in the Mail (I hate that paper!) - and he is very hard to please! Have a fantastic time!
Tomorrow is MrS and I's 33rd wedding anniversary. How on earth 33 years can go so fast, I have no idea! And to think that three weeks into the marriage, I wanted to go back to my mum! We will be staying home, but having a nice meal, music, fairy lights and wearing our Sunday best!
Have a good day everyone.
C xx
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morning - sniff - all!
sniffing cos just chopped a load of onions to get a head start on the meal for tonight - fish stew and tiramisu! (not in the same bowl obviously!).
can't believe it's Friday again! woo hoo! and good and sunny down here!
back later!
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Stop that camel!
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Morning each
A quick dip in and out!!
Piddling rain, dark and dreary up here. Am off to a meeting but will pop in later.
Hope everyone's ok.
Chezza: Think I've booked my flight for 4/4 but have only had confirmation of the insurance. Bums. E'jet website went all funny.
xxxx
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derbyfi, I think you'll find it's on (exclusively apparently) More4. ER that is.
We have a power cut here today.
Going to be hours of fun, and people shouty writing their complaints via email.
O joy
love
hazel
x
...another bid for ARF...
Move it on over by George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Many ts
x
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...but before I go...
Christophe, your pipe man was lovely last eve! Made me think of the 'Best Beard' competitions that they have every year...
ChrissieS, 33 years, good grayshus and very well done! Many congratulations to you both x
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holiday booked.
diet starts Monday!
x x x x
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Morning all - nice and sunny for once.
Loads to do again - new stuff so don't mind - keep me in shoes for a while.
Back later
Beesmum xxx
Congrats Chrissie - blimey 33 yrs - medals all round.
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I was a pipe smoker - I thought it made me look more grown up. I know better now! I still like the smell of pipe smoke though and wish all purveyors and users of pipeweed all the best.
All request Friday - Chris, PLEASE play a different D spot. Please play the Sensational Alex Harvey Band going totally over the top with their version of Delilah. I saw them live, more years ago than I normally acknowledge. The band is still going, but lost some of their gear in a fire a couple of days ago. To the SAHB boys - keep on making music, Vambo Marble Eye expects nothing less!
Cheers.
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Morning all xx
Sorry I'm not around much these days. Hope you are all well.
Happy Anniversay Chrissie xx Have a lovely day/evening with MrS xx
Mary xx
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ChrissieS
33 Years! You don't get that long for manslaughter!
Love the notion of stay at home, fairy lights and sudnay best.
Many Grats to you both!
Cheryl x x x
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Awww, Hazel, B-smum, Mary and Cheryl: thank you all!
Yes, Cheryl, I agree - even the worst criminal ever would get a 30 year sentence, maximum!
Mary: it's always lovely to see you on the blog! Hope you are feeling a bit better today - you have had an awful week, I know.
C xx
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SAHB also lost AH a few years back as well so should be just SB nowadays I guess.
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Morning girls and boys!
First off - congrats for tomorrow Chrissie, I love hearing how long people have stayed together and beaten the odds :) well done to both of you! I'm looking forward to being in that category one day.
Mary, miss seeing you on here! Sending much love to you xx
Was going to go out this morning to catch up with friends over a coffee but as I could barely wake up to feed the little one this morning and have only just made it downstairs maybe I'll listen to my body and take it easy this morning. Got to sort out the sister-in-law's birthday present today (a postal box full of little things, all wrapped individually - she's 26!), then after coffee with another friend it's off to work - hurrah I'm finally back at work!!
xx
me
and the jumpybean
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ARF request
Led Zeppelin - Rock and roll.
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Chris,
Please play Family Affair by Sly and the family Stone as the first song today.
Thanks
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Jumpy: thank you! But I must be honest, staying together for this long has been a challenge at times, that's for sure!
Great that you are back at work - who looks after your wee jumping bean?
C xx
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ARF Request:
Atomic, by Blondie (the 1980 version).
Just 'cos it's the most orgasmic song ever.
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I hope everyone is well this Friday morning and thank my giddy aunt that it is Friday! I really struggled to get out of bed this morning, in fact it's the first time in months that I actually woke up when the alarm went off and not before.
Congrats to you Chrissie, in this day and age 33 years is a great achievement. As you said it's been challenging but getting through those challenges is half the battle. So many marriages these days seem to fall at the first hurdle because people aren't willing to compromise and work at it - so well done to you.
This year my parents are celebrating their 50th.
AliB
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AliB - my parents are also having a 50Th this year - but thats there ages - I guess that doesn't count :-)
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mercades slr stirling moss 672,000 hasnt a roof so if when on the topger track can you get a quicker time if you open the windows to give more downforce in cornering
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Chris,
ARF can you please play "who loves you pretty baby" by the four seasons for Chrissie and Mr S's 33rd Wedding Anniversary xx
Thanks
Mary xx
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ps. Chris if you can get hold of the version from the London cast of Jersey boys that would be fantastic!
Mary xx
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I smoked a pipe for a few years - cherry flavour pipe week; smelt nice. managed to get rid of all my smoking habits now.
How about some Jethro Tull for a change? Aqualung by preferance or maybe Too old to Rock 'n' Roll?
Hope everyone has a good weekend.
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~ LEGEND OF XANADU ~ by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
... for ARF please Chris, in memory of the talented Dave Dee who sadly passed away last Friday!
SylviaJB
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blimey!
Lady Boss went home yesterday pm with a migraine. She's come in this morning, still with migraine but is not at all well. Said she's come in to do the essentials, then disappear.
Honestly, there's nothing that she couldn't have instructed us over the phone to do for her - I feel for her - she looks awful, but it's just dragging everyone down as she tiptoes round the office in dark glasses, whispering and snapping at everyone in turn.
Why come in when you're that under parr?
CtD x x x
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talkin to myself helps me think things through, i drive 8 hours a night and this give me plenty of time for reflextion on the day that's been.
does this make me a better man, no but it just makes me deal maybe a little differantly next time,hurra for the mind employed!
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Well hello again! Doctor's opinion - 3rd week of Antibiotics and an ENT referal!!!! Oh and other eardrum has slight pressure build up that wasn't there last week!!!!!
My first as in alley, my second as in scouse dyslexic Lord!
Quack
That should keep you busy!!!
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Back again.........
Congrats from me too to Chrissie and Mr S - and I hope you'll have many more years together.
We're approaching our 3rd and might not live long enough to reach 33 - but I hope we will! If so, we'll probably have matching mobility scooters by then - not sports cars!
Cheryl - is LB suffering from martyr syndrome do you think? Can't believe that the world can possibly cope without her and wants everyone to know how 'brave' she is - whilst driving them all mad!
We have a relative like that and I try to ignore her as much as possible when she starts, and not to get angry - but it isn't easy! It's sad really and they deserve sympathy - I suppose.
df
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Yay!! It's Friday!! My colleague's off for the next 2 weeks, which means I'll actually have work to do - novelty!
I loved Just Seventeen back when I was too young for it. I used to smuggle it home and read it secretly in my bedroom. I think teen magazines are great; very informative and educational without being preachy or dull. I'd definitely let my kids read them; they taught me a lot.
CtD - c'mon, spill - where you going on your jollies?
Chrissie - congrats! What a lovely weekend you'll have and may I ask, what's your secret?
Still deliberating over Mr P's birthday city break choice: am now thinking Budapest.
Any plans for t'weekend? We're watching LCFC on TV tomorrow (SUCH a novelty) and then Spurs on TV on Sunday - all in the pub, natch x
Rosie x
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AliB: thank you! And you are so right - it is compromise after compromise! It can get a little wearing, and of course we have had our periods of being selfish, but you just have to get back on track again!
And can I just say, I feel your pain re: getting up in the morning! I am struggling beyond belief!
Mary: Oooooooh, I hope Chris plays it!
Cheryl: I can't stand it when people come in to work and they are ill. They think they are being a martyr and really all they do is drag everyone else down!
C xx
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Hi to dook - hope the antib's do the trick this time! I had 4 lots last year for various things and have never had that many in my life - so my wish for 2009 is not to need any!
df
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Hi derbyfi: It's only due to fact that we married so young (19 and 21) that we have lived long enough to reach 33 years!
english_rose: I wish there was a secret! Perseverance, I suppose ...... and this is really yucky ....... we love each other!
Can I just say, how lovely everyone is - I really didn't expect all these good wishes - I feel really cheery!
C xx
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Hey all, missed me?
Doubtful but I can dream.......
talking Smash Hits, bought it myself when Neil Tennant was involved, kept all the TFF, Haircut 100 and OMD lyrics back then, how old am I?
We used to go up to the newsagents on a Saturday to pick ours up, mine was Just 17 (when it was new and innocent) middle sis was Jackie and tiddler's was Bunty!
Laters
Tiggs xx
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Hey ChrissieS - I'm hoping that the 1st year is the hardest!!!!! despite living together for apprx 6 years before wedding this last one has definately been the hardest - Weird isn't it?
Quack (or should that be purrr!)
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Tifflette
Love Monk - Tony Shaloub is fab!
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Well that means Chrissy that you're only 50-odd now so you might even manage another 33! Not sure if that is good news or not! LOL
I heard recently of an old couple of 90-odd who had been married for 75 years - his father hadn't been happy about it, thinking they were too young and had said that wouldn't last! Proved him wrong eh?
df
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She's Gone!! iPlayer being fired up as we speak ....
Holibobs Rosie - a Greek island called Thassos. Never heard of it til recently but it looks luverley and i can't wait!
Tiggs- of course we missed ya. And I spoke to a young Neil Tennant when I wanted to be a music journalist: I rang SH office in Carnaby Street and they put me thru to a young staff writer with a softly-spoken Geordie accent called Neil. Next thing ya know .... it's all West End Girls!
Weekend plans chez Diva: off out on the lash tomorrow to celebrate yet another friend joining the Big 4-0 Club! Her hubby's planned it and I believe its a few real ale pubs in town at lunchtime followed by a chinese early eve, then even more bars if there's any ale room left in the belly!
Sunday: more than likely recovering from Saturday with lots of carbs, football on the tellybox and an early night!
back in a bit ... lovin' your work
x x x
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Congrats ChrissieS on 33 years!
Tiggs xx
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DebsC
Firstly {{{{}}}} if still required, sorry I'm late!
Secondly, bought W crumpets AND pancakes this morning, 2 crumpets this brekkie and they are fab! Lovely and soft and fluffy, won't be buying ELH 12 packs anymore.......about to try pancakes for lunch
Tiggs x
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Hi Tiggs, been lurking today. But just wanted to say never too late for hugs and always needed thanks.
The crumpets are nice aren't they. I reckon I should be on commission here.
Congrats Chrissie by the way.
Debbie x
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Dook: I've heard this before - I wonder why marriage changes things? And yes definitely, the first year is the worst. I truthfully wanted to go home to my mum after three weeks - I thought to myself, this is never going to work, not in a million years!
derbyfi: I will mention to MrS that he may have another 33 years of me to endure! Could happen - he's only 54! Cheryl was right - it's a life sentence!
C xx
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Chrissie
As someone who has lived with their partner for six years and getting married in August you are beginning to worry me.
Thats the thing about marrige - life really does mean life
Super bp x
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NEW BLOG
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Debs
I second the commission comment, shall we e-mail Jonathon Warburton as he says on the advert????
Tiggsxx
Just realised - no ARF request yet
ummmmmmmm - Souvenir by OMD please!
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