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Big bus blog - Blackburn

The BBC Bus is parked up in lovely Blackburn this week and doing a tour of community centres...

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FRIDAY 16 FEBRUARY

(l-r) Chris and Phil and Small Amp.

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Not only was it the last day of our week's tour of Blackburn Community Centres, but it was also time to say farewell to Phil Trow after his brief fling with the BBC Bus.

Top marks go to the lad for his efforts filling Sally’s shoes - we definitely think he should have stuck to flats though instead of stepping out in her stilettos and the lipstick most certainly wasn’t his colour.

But what impressed the team most was his attention to detail – by that we mean the fact that he brought in cakes to share on his final day aboard. Well you can’t be creative on an empty stomach, can you?! Let’s just hope someone tells Sally she’ll have to perfect her baking skills if she wants to get on!

Anyway, Bangor Street Youth and Community Centre proved to be second time lucky for us after spending Monday this week with the crew there. However, we think it probably only spelled ‘Double Trouble’ for them.

Nevertheless, they put on a brave face and even introduced us to our 3rd MBE of the week, Faz Patel, who incidentally you can see on this website talking about Islam and the importance of the Mosque in the Bastwell area of Blackburn, in a short film by Sue.

Local band ‘Small Amp’ provided some weekend spirit with one of their acoustic tunes, which turned out to be a pleasant surprise considering we thought it was just going to be a load of young noise.

And to top the day off we all got another good work out with the Bus being parked on a 30 degree angle at the top of that hill. Not that good though after it starts to make you feel dizzy and that woozy sensation is combined with the smell of the tuna fish sandwiches Chris insists on chomping every day.

Let’s just hope it’s flat in Heysham.

The BBC Bus Team.

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THURSDAY 15 FEBRUARY

(l-r) Chris at deaths door, Phil gets all arty and Sue working on a video

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Cough splutter sneeze. That’s all we have heard on the bus today as Chris had another one of his man colds today. Darwen is the venue for the bus today and as I type I am eating Manchester tart – the best pudding ever invented – fact!

The people of Darwen seem to very arty, we opened the program with Darwen Art Society and then moved on to the Camera Club.

The funniest part of the prog has to be Phil calling bingo to the locals here at Suddleside Community Centre. They demand and expect quality callers – they got Phil!

If you missed the broadcast you missed some class radio.

Thanks to the team here for feeding and watering us all day.

The BBC Bus team

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WEDNESDAY 14 FEBRUARY

(l-r) Hillary discusses house issues in Blackburn, Shagufta told us all about domestic violence within Asian families and Mahmood talks about Corporation Park.

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We can go for weeks at a time without having a problem, then all of a sudden everything goes wrong all at once. We reckon its Phil the Johah Trow’s fault. Ever time he makes an appearance at the bus, things start to break!

Yes oh reader of ours Phil is back and this time he means business! Well sort of, he’s a nice boy really. Can we ignore the technicals for a bit and concentrate on the stories we uncovered today?

Shagufta discussed the problems with Asian domestic violence, some proper informative stuff that makes your blood go cold – do you know about Honour Killings? We had an idea but Shagufta drove it home.

If you live in Blackburn you more than likely have either been to or visited Corporation Park. Well if you had made a recent visit you would see its magnificence, nearly £4m later and the trees have been cleared, the fountains fixed and the drives re-laid. It looks very very good.

Thing is the conservatory is only open midweek, not at the weekend or bank holidays, why, when people work during the week can they not visit the flowers and plant house at the weekend? Another thing, why does the park not have a toilet? These questions were put to

Councillor Mahmood , vandals are preventing the final push forward for this great park – Hey Vandal..STOP IT!!!! Thank you.

House prices in Blackburn – WOW, at the moment they are unreal, the average price of a house now in Blackburn is £150k – that is a lot of lolly. Hillary from Hillary’s estate agents pointed out a few things and left us with knowledge and an understanding of the way the market is moving in Blackburn.

Mid way through the week another good one, Thanks to the team here at Bank top com centre for all the brews and the seriously good chip butty.

The BBC Bus team

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TUESDAY 13 FEBRUARY

(l-r) A pole dancing Garry, Sue (not our Sue) shows off her noddy car (Chris ducks again!) and Tanya talks the centre up. Tanya has an MBE you know!

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The bus operates between the hours of 10am and 3 pm – well it does under normal circumstances, today our beloved bus had a leak, there was a little pool underneath her this morning. We appreciate that she’s getting on a bit but she hasn’t yet reached that stage.

What happened was, her fuel tank seeped (isn’t seep a good word, its not used enough).

This meant the bus was 90 minutes late onsite, Sue and Garry where already there – makes a change!

Great day on the bus, speaking of transport check out the picture above of Sue’s car – its locally known as Easy Jet, hehe.

You go all year and never meet an MBE to turn up at Mill Hill and meet two of them! We reckon there’re just plain greedy!

Sadly this is Sue’s last day at presenting on the bus for a while – tomorrow it will be Phil Trow (it’s about time we had a proper presenter!!, Chris ducks.

Tom came to see us, Chris and Garry had a right old prattle, we won’t tell you what we discussed but it was funny!

Mill Hill you’ve been brill – thanks for all the brews news and use of the loos.

The BBC Bus team

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MONDAY 12 FEBRUARY

(l-r) After finishing the program Sue and Chris need a sit down, Michelle and Olwen have been banging the drum all day…well done! Firasat told us about parenting in Blackburn with Darwen.

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Bangor Street Community Centre

Sometimes we do a program and it’s all live – Sally being the queen of live likes it that way. Other times we shove in the odd pre record, today the only live bit was the introduction at 1405 until 1415, so Sue got to put her feet up for the last 45 minutes while Chris and Al did all the hard work.

The people we chatted to had to be elsewhere between 2 and 3 so we got then in the can and played them into the program. Today has been one of the days on the BBC bus for quite a while, this prominently Asian area have responded to our rally cry with gusto, the bus has been full all day.

Have you heard of Thalassaemia, nope? Neither had we, Thalassaemia is a disease of the blood that is specific to Asia, if two people have it and have a child that child will have to spend a massive amount of time in hospital having blood transfusions and other terrible things. Strange thing is it only affects the child of two people who have it!

We spoke to a rep from Lancashire Council of Mosques about parenting, he was very good and served his cause well, Thing is, just before we recorded him we had a natter about the ins and outs of Asian life. We were interested in who appoints Imans, is there any local rivalry between mosques, hoe are they funded? He’s coming back on Friday to let us know.

Chris and Sue have decided to wear high heel shoes on Friday when they come back. Why you might ask, well the idea is to cut one of the heels off – this will aid in movement, the bus is on one heck of an angle, its like walking down the street one foot on the pavement and one foot in the road.

The BBC bus team

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last updated: 10/10/07

Have Your Say

maggie C
From canada my best friend lives on Top Row in Sabden beautiful.M

Emma
I live near barden nd i need to know as much about the area in the past 2 centuries as possible. Could anybody tell me that much? xx

brian peel
Hi chris and sallyI will miss the bbc busI hope the bus will be back

Wilky
We used to have a saying in my former job (can't say what I did!), but the saying goes (Knock twice on something wooden first) 'Lancaster, this is Lancaster!' Your blog sums it up. Brilliant!!

Aleksiu
Interesting... %

carol
wow Nigel is fab...could he become a regular on BBC Radio Lancs it certainly brightened up the show for me!!! Great show and love the breakfast team also...keep up the good work!!!!

Jonny, Satisfied of Farington
I had Nigels Purkey Turkey yesterday it kept me going all day and I got some shopping done as well....... Great Stuff Nigel, I'll keep an ear out for your specials

mrs marie walker
i hope nigel from jtf is on again today he is brill and made a bad day yesterday for me so much better he is naturally so funny

regular listener
i recognise Nigel---did he used to manage a cafe in C & A in Blackpool????

CAROL MASSEY
NIGEL' CHEEKY CHEESEY CHICKEN SOUNDED WONDERFULL! AND HE'S SO FUNNY WITH SALLY .......CAN HE SEND ME THE RECIPE, OR PUT IT ON YOUR BLOG PAGE?

Julie McClenahan
Nigel should be on the radio full time!!Must pop over and try his sausage!!!

rachel keilloh
Hi just a quick line, I heard Nigel on the radio this afternoon he sounds really funny. I would love to hear more of him. I'm definitely going down for a bite to eat and meet Nigel. Does he do Meat and two Veg

david rostron
i missed the programme where the bus turned up at the Rostron arms. Is there any way i can listen to the show again. I believe radio lancs where trying to find out where the name Rostron derives from. As i am a rostron living in preston it would be interesting to listen to what radio lancs has to say. My dad was brought up in the harris orphanage on garstang rd in preston along with his 2 brothers and i believe he was born near to edenfield

fran the man
hi sally and chris, its fran the bacon butty burning man lol.ment to drop you both a line yesterday ( being thursday 13th sept) after looking at your review on the little market town of ormy, but thanks to the powers of Mr Bill Gates, i couldn't ( you can always rely on him for making a computer crash).Once again thank you very much for coming to see us at the market, and i hope you return again very soon. but this time i will make sure the bra detective, aka talk so fast you cannot get a word in, aka joyce, will give me a little bit more warning so we can advertise your arrival.hopefully when you next come i should have the "Jangles Cafe Monster Truck!" ready and waiting, its on order, but sadly its not like the limmo truck ( i wish!) its just a kitted up Quad Bike.any way took some picks of the bus and im adding them to my web site if you get a free minute sometime check it out....www.janglescafe.co.ukonce agian thanks for your hard work, fran (jangles cafe)

Danny Duxbury
After reading your page, i have to congratulate you for the work that you and your team have done. Infact you should pat each other on the back so all stand in line, turn to the right(all,)raise your right hand and pat repeatedly for approx 30 seconds. Thankyou BBC Radio Lancashire for putting a smile on this office worker. JigsawDan

Eda gain
Please can you stop programming bus venues when I'm on holiday - I'll never be able to stalk the bus crew at this rate! Missing you looking forward to 10th ...

John Hoyles
Just a quick thanks for allowing me to talk about my new business on your show(Elite Fireplace Designs)keep up the good work great show.Best wishes john.

alison gleaves
what happened to pete today?

Marjorie Nye
Well what can I say! Sally and the blue bus crew came to see us at Marsh Mill to help promote our Arts Festival for the August Bank Holiday Weekend.They did all that and more! Sorry if we got in the way but we did our best to help. I have always been a fan of the B B C but the outside broadcasting unit is a superb way to get local news across and we love them all! Thanks again team.

Wendy - one of the crazy arts women
The bus has been just fantastic so far this week. They have helped to promote an important Community Arts Festival taking place over the bank holiday, talked to the Mayor, read poetry, viewed an art exhibition, interviewed writers, photographers, poets and spoken to those two crazy old women - Marjorie and Wendy and much more and it's only Wednesday. I don't know how they do it but I'm glad they do.Wendy Wood

Mary Marsland
Really pleased that you liked the painting of the lost ball at Thompson's Park.It actually did happen.The sequel was that the girl took off her shoes and socks and retrieved it. Thanks again MM

Watch: (this space)
Enjoyed the video 'Arts and Crafts' excellently done - hit the right tone. Not a church goer or believer (once was a 'bit of a goer' ...) but the peace of the video transcended the 'elling' of the craft fair. Excellent, just excellent.

laura cas
I was on waddow sub camp and it was great!

BBC Fairy 'Listener'
Hello! Enjoyed the show today I am a little bit converted!Looking forward to the BLOG!

ANGHARAD from wales
i was on the guide camp and had a lot of fun but i also was interviwed live on the bus

jean and Sylv
We have met Chris and think he's rather Dishy - if the BBC bus is in your area then you should go and see them - just for a look at Chris (and his bottom)!Enjoyed our visit! jean and Sylv.

'Ed'
I have only recently found the BBC Bus site, but am really glad to have! This latest adventure looks like so much fun - you have reminded me of how much fun I had as a Brownie and it made me want to get involved again! So much so I logged on the the Girlguiding website and gave them my details! I will be a Brownie again soon! Thanks BBC - I will keep listening

Danielle
It was great fun having you at the 4 Nations Camp.Watching back at the videos it seems you had fun too!Thanks a lot!!Danielle - service crew.

claire minikin
hiya my sister and i were at the 4 nations camp. it was so cool and if you see a girlguide think twice about saying 'hi' were scary people!lol. the camp was so fun and i would like to say a great big thank you to everyone who put loads of hard work into making it happen . THANK YOU ALL. Love claire and debbie from near newcastle in the north east xXxXxXx

Katie
Hi i was one of the guides that went to that camp it was amazing, i was a welsh guide and we had to sing the welsh national anthem on the radio it was so cool

Lou and jess
We have just been on the bus and met Sally and Chris. We love the bbc bus

Eddie Rampling (Author)
Hello Chris and Sally,Thank you for interviewing me on BBC bus at Leyland Thurs: 31st, about my thriller Last Out At Roaring Water Bay. I'm not the best for talking in public but you both made it all so easy for me. Two fine people who I would enjoy meeting again, and don't forget to read my book. If anyone would like to talk about my experience on the BBC Bus, or discuss my self-published book they can contact me by E-mail eddierampling@hotmail.co.uk or vist www.myspace.com/eddieramplingauthor

Belinda
Hi All. Thanks for including 1st fwd on your radio.Just an update on our Scout Hut on St. Johns Ave Fwd. It has now been all redecorated inside and new carpets and cupboards installed. You are welcome to come along next time you are in Fleetwood, hopefully by then we might haved finnished get some of the outside finnished.In 2009 the group will be 100 years old and we are hoping to get in touch with as many past scouters as possible. They can contact me on Tel. 01253 776988 or by email annarmstrong06@tiscali.co.ukAs part of the gifts for Lancashire, and Breathing spaces the cubs have donated some Pots they have planted up to the Chatsworth Library and have just completed planting flowers at the Fwd main Library. They will be going back later in the year to plant some bulbs for Chatsworth. Keep up the good work and see you soon. Belinda

cllr Frank Duxbury
nice to meet you both thurs 31 may, you do good service for the every day person, letting people hop on and off, leaving with a smile and a story to tell, it was nice to be interviewed and get my story across. If any body needs my help my no is 07703 349 364. many thanks and good luck with the show thanks frank

Jenny
Hello Chris and Sally. You don't know me, I was one person who got on the bus outside Botany Bay. I really needed a friend,someone to talk to, because I had just got the worst news I have ever had in my life. I thought no one cared about anyone or anything, and you made me welcome - and you have no idea how much that meant to me. One day I will pluck up the courage to come back to the bus and introduce myself - but for now, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Penny Black
Hope the bus is feeling better - a couple of aspirins should do it Chris!Great fun in the Oxfam shop - see you soon..Pete & Johnwww.PennyBlackFolk.co.uk

Simone From Yorkshire
My Mum Muriel Wearne told me that the bus is coming to Clitheroe near to where she lives but could not go along due to having got gastroenteritis tummy bug. Clitheroe is a lovely place but property prices and rents are ridiculously high priced by greedy landlords and estate agents and want to personally move relocate back to this area from Skipton but cant afford to find anything affordable and good quality decent. I love listening to Radio Lancashire but like my Mother sometimes think that the presenters act to daft some of the time but listen to the great show anyway and where has dennis chemist programme gone he is not on that much these days

daisy hargreaves
that lady lisa is my mums sister from oxfam can you give her abig hello on the radio from daisy and george

Val from Longridge
Thanks Chris for sorting my computor problem, and Sally for being her usual friendly self and putting me at ease. When are you coming to Longridge.

chris
check out all the scarecrow photos on the village website, www.wrayvillage.co.uk - all this year's models inc one of gilly...

Zoe
Shove your nose through the door one day. You won’t be disappointed – unless you want a pound of best mince, in which case we recommend a butchers.These are great lines from a great blog.

Penny Black
Hi AllGreat seeing you again, in Sunny Fleetwood. I wonder if that postage stamp that the ship was spinning a thousand tonnes on, was a Penny Black :0)Take care and "see you Soon" - and hear you sooner!Pete & John(Penny Black)

Paul Clegg
Thx for coming to Fleetwood Museum you will have made many people more aware of what goes on down here. Don't forget the website fleetwoodmuseum.co.uk. Cheers

Jason & Barrie
We were very impressed with Sally and Chris they made the week at our Antique Centre lot of fun, not only did they turn up once the buss had been taken away. They even went out and found people in the village to interview on the radio, including kids at the schools and also had singers and artists etc this made for a very enjoyable week to be had by all. We hope they we come back in summer Sally Chris Thank You.

expat
Sabden sounds like a lovely place. Thank you for the beautiful insight.

Kathleen & Mary
We agree with henry about the young lady singing in sabden , please can we hear more of her on you radio show.

henry
The young lady who sang on the bus(monday 26th ) in Sabden has a fabulous voice can we hear her again.

Katie
I'm 1 of the people in Sabden primary school who was in the band aswell as the choir i hope people like this radio because it's the best (only because i was on it)

jake newsham
tihs jake speaking from the bbc school report day at townley clc. unfortunately, i didn't get to say thankyou and goodbye to sally naden and the rest of the group on the bbc bus. all i would like to say is thankyou so much for that wonerful day sally, chris and the rest of you!! i do hope i can see you again one day, you were an absolutely amazing bunch, they helped me through my day, sally got me to ring the doctors surgery. thankyou so much, you really were fantastic and i really do hope i see you again one day! whoever receives this message, PLEASE send it on to sally naden.

Editor
Hiya I was in the school report cohort and I just want to say I am so proud of my friends for completing the project!!!! Yeah us!!!!!!

david skelton
Hi to all we moved to billington 6 mths ago wow what a place to live ! I discovered bbc lancashire im hooked ,tv in the day dosnt get a look in anymore ,thanks to all sally and the team im looking falward to meeting you when you next come to whalley see you soon i hope .

Joe Davies
Just a update to say that 49 eggs were donated by the Burscough and surrounding areas, i would like to say thank you to all them people - the parade of bikes will be going passed the burscough hotel roughly about 2:15pm on the 7th April if anyone wishes to come down and wave us on... Thanks again Joe Davies www.britishbikersclub.co.uk

mandy
i am joshs mum he is so brave he has had 43 2 hour op's and never cries or moans putting a lot of grown ups to shame!! id like to say thanks to the girls on L2 josh loves his visits because of them and thanks to mr clark joshs specialist who is a lovely caring man and a credit to the hospital... the easter egg appeal is great the kids love it something to look forward to a great idea !! please put this on web page as the staff will be so embaressed!!! thankyou mandy lucas p.s joshs condition is rrp it means he gets growths in his airway which affect his breathing and is a dreadful disease..

mary cliffe
just want to say thanks to sally andn the team for making people aware of kids who are ill also to the wonderfull staff of L2 ALDER HEY. nana mary x

julie
i am little josh's nurse he has had his 43rd op today. he is here now. he is 3 not 5 and he is certainly not an angel, ha ha lots of love all the nurses on ward L2 at alderhey

Fiona
I heard Sally speaking to the lady in question and I thought it brilliant. I have just read the blog and although it normally makes me smile this time I am not ashamed to say I cried when I read it. If you are lucky indeed. Keep up the good work BBC bus team.

Joe Davies
Special thank you to Sally & the team for giving us the opportunity to come on the show and put the word out about the Easter Egg Motorbike Run & Easter Rally with all proceeds going to Alder Hey's, Imagine Appeal. The Rally runs over the Easter weekend with the Ride being at 2pm from Scarisbrick Village Hall, Scarisbrick. All information can be seen on www.britishbikersclub.co.uk Thanks Joe

alan
cheers to the bikers

denise procter
blackpool is a nice place to live and work

Tony Le Creuset
Ladies and Gents, they’ve travelled all the way from Blackburn to be with us this week, so please give a big Chorley ‘Thank You’ to those diamonds of broadcasting, the Del-Boy and Raquel of the radio…….. Please put your hands together and make some noise for Sally and Chris….Ladies and Gentlemen, Sally and Chris….. Great couple, weren’t they fantastic? Anyway, moving on folks, it’s time for the meat raffle, so tickets on the table, and here we go…………………..

pmoses
you all do great work and job for all ages keep it up and good luck and health sal you all deserve it thank you all at bbc lancs

Dr. Dirk Tankardcoaster.
Chris, the results were as we feared, you're medically tone deaf. More Barry White please.

Les&joy
to Chris and Sal.Nice to put a face to a voice.Met you this morning, the two old walkers from Earby.

Faz Patel
Keep up the good work!!!!!

Riyadh
Am I the only one that thinks this is the best bit of this website?

Carol Port
Chris and Sue, it was great having you around at the Centre last week - lovely to meet you both! Hope you felt looked after! Thanks for giving so many people/groups the opportunity to talk about their work to help others. Missing you already and looking forward to the next visit (hopefully in June)!

Sally Naden
thanks for all your good wishes ,feeling much better now and looking forward to getting back on the bus soon,off on leave next week so keep an eye on Sue and Chris for me ,back the week after ,love and kisses Sal xxx

Sarah
I have missed listening to Sally with Chris. I listen on line from Saudi - when are you coming back???

Paul Arkwright
Well done Sue, you were always good at spinning a yarn or two! Looks like gaffer Alan could tell a few stories too...

Sue's Mum
Sooo proud of you Sue! You're doing a great job,keep up the good work and keep telling the stories!

Grumpy
A Raw Poem from the “GRUMPY” few Allan, Ruth, Fern, Joyce (the one who didn’t have a jab and is now suffering with a bout of flu), and last but least our very own super storyteller Sue It’s sadly goodbye to our friends - the BBC Crew Smiling Sally, Creative Chris and Serene Sue You’ve had us rushed off our feet And we’re feeling quite beat But it’s been great fun and such a playful week We bet you’re now driving off to the Casino, sorry the Tower With what’s left of our power

bashful frank
I think Grumpy is great

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