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HI ALL and CLP

Enjoy your holiday, hear you when you get back

Errol xxx

we're always listening CLP, always listening!

have a happy hols.

Cheryl The Diva xxxx

PS: any chance of interative ian putting the newest page of blog postings first when we get onto 2 / 3 / 4 screens of waffle and fun in your absence?

PPS: hurry back!!! xxxx

Afternoon all!

Luuuurve Take That! You really are so lucky Chris, I know you appreciate it all and that's why things just keep getting better and better!

Went to a funeral this morning. Quite odd driving there with Ken Bruce discussing funeral music! Excellent choice of music at the end - Ride of the Valkyries! The service was possible one of the best I ever heard.

So, here at I am at work, working late and feeling grateful for life (as I always do after a funeral), but cross because someone's not been playing the game and has very naughtily circumvented my project and gone to someone 3 times over my head to get what they want!!! Grrrrrr - very naughty. No favours from me in future - that's for sure!!!

Looking forward to ARF for tonight - well done Pandagirl - you're on!

S xx.

Have a fab holiday! The next two weeks just wont be the same so hurry back!

Is anyone else having trouble listening to the iPlayer? I heard the start of the show then on came a recording (I thought it was a joke!)...due to rights restrictions we are currently unable to bring you this program - HELP!! :)

Chris,

It's wonderful to hear you sounding so happy. Natasha sounds like a dream come true!

Have a fantastic holiday and we'll be here when you get back!

C xx

Me too bumble whats going on - who was it? can't hear it!!!! just some stupid recorded message aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh!!

Beesmum xxx

Well done pandy!!! not heard that one for ages and forgot how good it was!

CLP sounds like he may well burst soon!

My My My Delilah!

CtD xxxx

Chris,

Sorry, how rude, forgot to say - have a lovely holiday!!

S xx.

Have a good holiday Chris even though I can't hear you boo hoo!!

Beesmum xxx

Off home now gang - via "ebery little helps" - grrrrr!

May pop in later for a sheeky shiraz, otherwise catch up with you all over the weekend.

Love, as always

Cheryl the Diva xxxxx

PS: I guess at 2879 posts by Tues 26th Aug whe CLP next blogs xx

ebery?? really? every!!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! Hopefully someone on the show is reading this and they can send in a little man or woman to fix it :)

Right folks, I'm gonna make like CtD and leave...

Back Monday (hopefully!).

Have a great one all!

S xx.

P.S. Will miss you and your shenanigans Chris!

Hi
Can anyone give me some advice? I listen from Colorado via the internet everyday to Chris's show. It just got interupted this morning with a voice saying 'due to licensing restrictions we cannot currently bring you this show' Anyone else had issues? I can get all other Â鶹Éç shows.

Catey10...I too listen from the US, I'm in Orlando FL and am having the same problem. Never had a problem before. I too can listen to other shows.

Hopefully this is just a bug they will fix...first they take away EastEnders on Â鶹ÉçA now Chris' show.

Greetings and Salutations from Vancouver, Canada,

As ever, reading the contributions to this forum over the last couple of weeks has been thoroughly entertaining and utterly absorbing.

Now that I have a brief moment to write, I just wanted to wish you all the finest of fine weekends, whatever you decide to indulge in. To Mr. and Mrs. Evans, have a simply stunning holiday and enjoy your salubrious and palatial sounding new homestead. If you get a touch fed up with L.A., feel free to hop on a quick flight to Vancouver and I will be happy to entertain...

For me, the weekend is all about a post-work and pre-prandial tipple, a quiet evening thereafter with my delightul lady, a fry up on the morrow before a friends' wedding and a golfing Sunday.

Have fun one and all and cherish those you love.

Dr.T.

CLP have a great holiday, you will be so missed!

Today's excursions included a trip to Ware for breakfast, Hatfield House and a Maize Maze. Lots of fun had by all.

At Hatfield House little man was asking one of the guides so many questions, she asked me how old he was in the end. When I told her nearly 5 she was so impressed and told me he could end up at university lol!

Whether he does or not, I was so proud of him. He is history mad!

Hope that everyone has a good weekend. I'll pop back later if I haven't fallen asleep on the sofa.

Debbie x x

I don't believe it. Listen Now, My WiFii radio AND iPlayer are all broadcasting some message about rights management.

and any minute now it will be the D Spot.

Every week I begin the weekend with the D Spot

If I can't tune in to it then perhaps there will be no weekend.

Perhaps we are all doomed.

Surely not all the Â鶹Éç technical staff have been sent to the Olympics.

Don't you understand? The D Spot has become part of my life and that of soooo many others.

It can rain, flood or snow all week but as long as there is a D spot everything will be OK.

Is anyone from the Â鶹Éç reading this? Can they tell us? Will it be available to listen to later in my recovery.

I fear the men in white coats will have me before the evening is out

Help me please.

Should add, I have been on holiday for two weeks.

Please reasure me theyt have not dropped the D Spot ???

THE D SPOT LIVVESS ON!!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Chris!!

PP

Come, come, come and make eyes at me
Down at the Old Bull and Bush

Dah, dah, dah ,dah, dah

Evening each

Vacuum cleaner just blown up on me - big bang then smoke from the wheels - thats not good is it?! Oh well, the carpets will have to stay as they are til tomorrow..the world will not end!

Awaiting my bestest friend to arrive with takeaway and wine... so i may or may not be back later dependent on how much she brings and how far through it we get and how much gossip we have to catch up on!...i shall be with Friday wine club in spirit even if im in no fit state to type!

Have a great evening all - and if i dont get back then `Cheers!`

mSc x

PS - Long live Delilah - yay!

mSc x

Long live the song glorifying domestic violence and knife crime - yay

Hey Hobo. Always nice to hear from you, and from my favourite city on Planet Earth.

Can I just do say two quick things before I dive into the main programme?

Sorry. Don't do Delilah. Please. Tom, for all his latter day 'coolness' was surely always a joke? Maybe its just me.

Next. ARF. Again, I'm probably going to endure the wrath of the blog, but the first hour tonight was awful. Who phones up and asks for Mika, or Odyssey? Sorry chaps, each to their own and all that, but c'mon.

Meanwhile, back on the aforementioned Planet Earth, the Olympics opened with a stunning ceremony. Very impressive, but we're not losing sight of Tibet just yet.

So. To the point.

I'll apologize in advance to anyone who finds what I put on here boring/pointless/tedious etc etc.

If you don't want to read this, please scroll on and don't have a go at me later.

I have been asked to retell the story of my US heritage, so I have literally copied and pasted the original posting I made here a year or two ago. Here goes;

It is ten years since the proudest moment of my life. I experienced something that not many people will ever have done.

I introduced my father to his father.

In 1995 I spent some time abroad and wound up in NZ at the home of a childhood friend of my grandmother’s. One night as we passed the wine box around the table, Jean asked me if I had ever been told about my grandfather. I could recollect a vague story, but no detail, so Jean promptly picked up phone, dialled my grandmother’s number and said, ‘’I’ve got your grandson here and he wants to know about John’’. Now I had a lovely childhood, but one thing my family weren’t very good at was talking. We lived in ignorant bliss about who we were and where we came from, so I was knocked for six as the tale unfolded. The upshot was that my grandmother had a whirlwind romance with an American soldier who was eventually posted to, and killed in, Austria during the second world war. The result of the relationship was my father.

A few days later, I received a package in the post from England containing various letters and photographs including one of my grandfather in his uniform. It was like looking into a mirror.

Several months later, I was in the US and decided to borrow a car and drive from Houston to Atlanta, and try and find a bit more about my grandfather. Not really sure where to start, I picked up the phone book and call people with the same surname. As futile as this was, I struck gold and found a man whose hobby was genealogy.

And he had written books about the family.

He was intrigued by my story and insisted we met the next day. When I arrived he had already done some homework and located a possible relative. We jumped straight into the car and head north towards the Tennessee border. We were greeted by a lovely old couple and were treated to some real southern hospitality. I showed them the photograph and they both went white.

‘’That can’t be’’, he said. ‘’That’s John. He lives in the next house up the road’’.

Many excited phone calls later, John’s eldest daughter arrived. I showed her the photograph and she promptly produced the same one. We both shed a tear.

Next came the fears of what this may do to the family. John was old, had been married for fifty years and had four children. Did they need this revelation at their time of life?

Marcia agreed to speak to the family and let me know the next move. Early the next morning she called and told me to come over right away. They all wanted to meet me.
John had come home from the war – he engineered the story of his death, knowing my grandmother was pregnant – and married his childhood sweetheart. He had told her about his child, but they had never told their children.

I stayed at the house for a few days. When I left, I promised to come back. With my father.

Back in England, I had no idea what my father or grandmother knew about any of this. Once again, the fears of what this news may do to our relationships surfaced. I plucked up the courage and told my father the story.He was clearly shocked. A few days later he called and we agreed to go. I booked the tickets straight away and the following March we left for Georgia.

We rolled up the long drive leading up to the house. As we parked we both took a moment to take stock of where we were and what we were about to do. I knocked on the door and John’s wife, Anne, answered. As she led us into the house John stood up and I mumbled the only words that I could think of,

‘’Dad, this is, John. Your Dad’’.

There are a thousand and one amazing details to this story. My father’s name is John. I tried on the US Army jacket from the photograph. One of the four children has refused to meet us to this day. Marcia came to our wedding a few years later. Perhaps I should try and write a book about it all.

Sorry about the long blog. Have a wonderful weekend.

Peace all.

And so it was to be.

Once again, peace chaps.

MfR

Sorry about the punctuation. Copying over loses all the commas etc and leaves only question marks.

Anyway.

We have two birthday parties to attend tomorrow. One for a dear friend and one for a dearly departed relative.

It'll be a good day, I know it.

Whatever you're doing, enjoy it and stay away from nasty people.

Your friend

MfR

I am in North Carolina, USA and I am not able to hear Friday's show either. Does anyone know what the problem is? I will be very upset if they stop broadcasting over here as I love listening to Chris in the afternoon (he comes on at noon here).

Have fun on your vacation Chris.

Matt that is such an amazing story. I honestly, no kidding, welled up when you said how your grandad made up the story of his death and your dad meeting him, well what can I say.

I never tire of hearing stories about my grandparents, it's like going back in time to old movies and history books but so special.

My granddad fought in the second world war but was so affected by what he saw, he would hardly talk about it.

Thank you for sharing that story with us.

Debbie x

You guys across the pond, sorry I personally have no idea what the problem could be. All I can suggest is that maybe you email the show and see if they can help you.

Debbie x

Matt - lovely story. Can't add anything to what Debbie said really, except to say I've only got 1 grandparent left now (nan) and dearly regret not taking more of an interest in grandads war stories when he was still alive.

Deb - survived the maize maze eh?

I have one nan left too. Every now and then she comes out with stories that just leave me speechless.

She tells me things that I have read about, seen on films etc. and to realise that you have a living relative that actually experienced those things is quite humbling.

Yep, we survived the maize maze, got soaked and muddy but loved it. The good old british summer, can't let it get you down.

x x x

GrumpyMulti tonight was the last D spot!

Peeps having trouble with the iplayer try the help blogs, general or technical as they have other users and beeb techies answer on there.

We have a maize maze on a farm near here every tear and it has always appealed. Will have to borrow a small child to take around one of these days. Glad you had a fun day Debs you deserve it.

Matt I wouldn't call dear Tom a joke, not with a voice like that but you are entitled to not like him of course!!

All grandparents long gone and only one parent left between us. C'est la vie

Matt, your stories always grip me, I'm now off to have a bath with tears in my eyes.....beautiful tale

KWx

every tear? year maybe d'oh

Aw my nan comes out with some great war stories too .... not a land girl, oh no. My nan was guarding the south coast with an ack-ack (?) gun, keeping Adolf and his army at bay.

She's 86 now - the very thought of my nan wielding a gun always makes me smile!

When she moved last November she gave me her service medals from WW2. Something I will cherish forever and feel very honoured to own.

xxx

wow. nan power!!

Jules, go for it seriously. We kept on meeting up with other families and passing on clues etc, it was such a giggle. And we only cheated a few times, well it was raining!

x x x

Funnily enough hubby said the other day (he speaks on occasion) that in a maze you keep turning right. I'm not sure as with some of them the point is to get to the centre and then out. presumably turning just left would work as well. Hope it's not true would spoil the fun. (If I go it won't be with him, lol)

early night I think. sweet dreams all

Nite Jules, sweet dreams.

Cheryl do you have a glass of shiraz? If so should I join you with a sauvignon cabernet? Decisions, decisions.

x x x

Many thanks Matt I know I have been banging on about wanting your story and it was worth waiting for - brilliant! I think the book would be a great idea!

Beesmum xxx

MfR

Didn't actually read your post, but I assume it was absolutely riveting, as per.

PS please pass on my best regards to CLP next time uou see him.

Evening Dr T nice to see you happy as per norm.

Overseas guys - it happened to me too bbc iplayer with that stupid recorded message - no idea why but at least I was able to sprint in to the house to listen on the old radio. I was seething cos still working so missed first three quarters of show - was it that bad Matt?

One saving grace - always delay post to the D spot so am in car - tonight to celebrate took doggy with me yay hay we both had a good old sing in the town square! As you do. and the D spot is here to stay! YES!!! ha ha ha ha ha

Beesmum xxx

SO Mr Â鶹Éç could we please have an apology to all our overseas persons who listen to CLP and were certainly tuned in for the last show in 2 weeks - - and an explanation???

Thank you

Beesmum xx

Hi - anyone still here. Got distracted by Mr Diva and the PLaySTation ....

Er Yes!

BM

Yipeeee!!!! Hows you B-sMum? Glad it's the weekend?

I'll say !!!!but missed the first bit of prog tonight poo message on iplayer - hoping to try listen again tomorrow!

B

I'm just waiting for BB then I'm off again.

To be honest, I agree with Mfr above - the first hour was a tad lame tonight, methinks.

Glad the D-Spot is staying, but disappointed we're not getting a Q (DSMN) spot. And where was the O Spot at 5.20?

Deb - is that still on? I have to admit, I've not missed not watching it this year. THat's 2 years running now. Am I cured, do you think?

Oooh tell a lie - I saw the crisp task at the very beginning of this year's stint. But that's all.

Hi deb - give up bb its rubbish!

I think we ought to bully for a Q spot somewhere else in the week? it worked with dsmnow?

Not necessarily Cheryl. This is the first one that I have watched for 4 years!

Good thinking BM. Perfect song for a Monday ..... what a way to start the show at the start of the week ..... opinions?

Wow I was thinking of a Monday - kick up the backside sort of thing!?

Exactly BM, exactly!!!!

So, DSMN Campaign for a Monday eh???

Talking of DSMN, d'ya reckong easyjob's gone over to Beijing to take part in the opening ceremony of the Limpix?

BM, Debbie - stop giggling!

Certainly not around here - think he's fallen out with us boo hoo
or perhaps no staying power? tut these youngsters!

I'd like to think it's his landlady's broadband playing up again and having a week off work.

Hope he's not gawn forever more. He was a grin! And still should be ....

No I can't, giggling is good!

Debbie - are you thinking about flagpoles again hun??? Are you ??? bad debbie!!!

if he's lurking ? do do do do do? probably got someone peeling grapes for him in his shed or dd with him for a final booze up before his travels imagine the pair of them in the shed tinny in hand counting spiders!

Bx

Full mast Cheryl. Bad Debbie indeed.

can i do the imagining but without the spiders please BM?

Are they wearing loincloths? (not the spiders!!)

Debbie :-0

I'm shocked. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God, Thursday's gonna be fun!

sorry diva forgot you dont like spiders!

Eight legged freaks, BM. **shudders**

thursday - whats that about?

Meeting Debbie at the zoo with little man. hope I reconize her ... after all, middle of school hols there won't be many mums about with 4 year olds, will there?? :-)

wow zoo brilliant! where? Deb is pretty and blonde and little one asks loads of questions!

Lol! Thanks Bsmum bless you. I will be blonde after going to the hairdressers next week. Pretty? I'll work on that, I'll get up early Thursday morning.

x x x

LOL!!! I gathered that about Little Man - can't wait to meet him. An honory auntie for the day!!

Cooooolchester Zoo, BM. It's kinda local for both of us so I've taken the day off and we're gonna pack our picnics and hit the zoo. Think Little Man wants to feed the heffalumps.

Debbie - you think you need prep time? In the run up to next weekend I've got hairdressers, nail bar, beauty shop for a plucking ... then there's the stuff I'll have to do at home.

Nobody warned me 40 was this exhausting! But then Errol said 34 !!!!

No need to find debs cheryl just don a famous hat tell little man who to look for and he will find you!

LOL!!! I could dress up at Bodacea - she's gotta be COlchester's most famous daughter! Mind you, I'm not as nimble on horseback as she was! LOL!!

imagination on overtime as usual!

Queen ELizabeth I ?

Siouxsie Sioux ?

What were you imagining BM?

bit of coventry on horseback flashed through my mind - goodness knows why! plus the sword brandishing!

Little man said today, 'can you tell your friend in facebook that I like castles too?'

I hope that he behaves himself on Thursday, he is very excited.

Bsmum, so what were you imagining?

hi guys, had a good day?

we've got a maize maze near us at exbury gardens, may give it a go. do you need a child to get in?

LOL BM - not likely. Too much opportunity for chafing there methinks! And as for sword brandishing ..... I'd be too busy clinging on to the reins to brnadish anything, I'm afriad! Sword or otherwise!

Deb - he sounds sooooooo cute! Can't wait to meet him - a fab excuse for going in the pet zoo with the sheeps and goats and bunnies, playing with the soft toys in the gift shop and purchasing monkey nuts!

One thing I will not do at zoo tho is falconry displays. Hate them with a passion. Bird-phobic!

Evening girlracer! glad it's the weekend.

I wanna go to a maize maze. We have sweetcorn on the allotment, but not quite the same thing!

Lo girl racer!

OK girlies how many ? don't start till later on or legless by 9 - 2 large so far!

1 pint bottle of Theakstons Old Peculiar. Fish and chips for dinner and wine just didn't seem right, so ale won the day.

Right, as much as I don't want to, Mr Diva is ready for bed so I guess it's goodnight from me, and up the wooden hills to do a bit more of Ben Elton (MW,a! was right - it has got better - only about 80 pages left now).

Have the rest of a lovely evening ladies.

Will catch up tomorrow in between the hoovering. Dusting. Poishing. Ironing. Cooking.

Blimey - knackered just thinking about all that!

Oooh - I wonder if AnnieG's got them dancing on the tables yet in Ireland???

So mon amies, until tomorrow

Sweet dreams, nitey nite

Cheryl xxxxx

dry tonight but wait till tomorrow, wedding anniversary. going to our fave chinese restaurant for dinner a deux. prob run out of things to say!

Oh it's ok, you can get special creams now for chaffing. Or just ride side-saddle maybe? And I'd be too busy hiding my boobs to hold on to anything!

I don't get falconry displays either, they fly, they come back......

The maize maze was wicked, going back again this summer. Even though it costs £5 per adult to get lost in it.

x x x

Aw diva was terrified of flapping birds until had cockatiel - crazy bird - used to sit on my boobs trying to have a slurp from my glass! now no problem - massive falcon put on my hand at display - looked at me - oooer old fear coming back -- came a bit close then snuggled under my hair!! Magic!

going over to check out scrabs on fb, anyone care to join me?

held a barn owl at a falconry display once, absolutely beautiful creature.

Girlracer be there in a tick or ten - doggy crossing legs - not garden type but looking at lead type! oh well exercise will do me good

Nite all if gone when I get back!

BM xx

did that too gr big white snowy owl - brilliant! the way they turn their heads!

My dad has a tame, barn owl called Chloe at the animal centre. You know they are really ugly as chicks but end up so beautiful.

got me started now - the owls eyes just seemed to look straight through me!!
must go being attacked by stroppy cocker spaniel!

I want an animal rescue centre!! - or the like!

back in a bit

love to work in one, but not sure about the feeding of day old chicks. yuk. we have a lovely otter and owl sanctuary nearby which i visit regularly. could stand for hours watching the otters, so i usually go on my own!

Girlracer, they normally have to take the very young animals home and often feed them through the night.

Mum has two baby munjack deer at home at the moment that she has to bottle feed.

Must go to bed soon, although I suspect Mr Debbie may let me have a nice lie-in tomorrow...bliss!

doggy in garden with lead ! must go in a mo but must tell you

gr real sucker for animals me - any sort - would be useless if they didn't make it - hand fed lamb once in bolt hole with the old baby bottles - smallholding next door - he used to come to fence as soon as we arrived for our visits - went to auction - boy lambs killed!! boo hoo - sobbed my heart out then discovered purchased by farmer in next county as their new ram! Way to go boyo!
Well worth the night feeds and I bet he sure enjoyed his stay of execution!

B xx