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Hello Chris - what fun you are having - my turn with you on Friday - watch out for a bristol hug!
debs
X

PS - new TV show EXCITED!!!!

debs
x

Debs..i saw tha TV project bit too..yay!

Dont know how you do it CLP..but we are all sure glad you do.. hope you get chance for a bit of a rest this weekend after a manic week!

Oh..and be warned the Brizzle hugs..they are lethal ive been told!

mSc x..who has been messing around on the computer instead of reading..hey ho!

CLP - no actual signing in London? Can we meet for a coffee somewhere and have an accidental signing? I know theres a few of us London based that would like a chance to say hi?

Super bp x

fab pics again guys! hope CLP keeps this up all week! lots of names to faces!!

CG x

And fantastic pics again! Everyone looks SOOOO happy...!

and how chuffed are you with the `mighty` bit Rips..?! brilliant!

mSc x

i liked that he said everyone was so polite!! i hope you all said "thank you for having me"!!!

or maybe he said that?!

CG xx

Morning All.
Aw look at you lovely peeps - happy and smiling.

Hopefully I will make the Brum signing - I would think you will be near enough shattered Christoph by tonight!!!In a movie too???

Right - need to get a wiggle on if I'm to get some work done before I do battle with the traffic round these 'ere parts!

Beezer xx

Hi Chris,

What a fantastic day we had yesterday! Thank you for making it so special - it will go down as one of my most memorable top ten days! ;o) I have started the book won鈥檛 say to much so that I don鈥檛 spoil it for the others. You are absolutely gorgeous Chris 鈥� inside and out! Love you lots xx Hope you enjoyed your goodie bag! Xx

ChrissieS and I had a brilliant day and it got off to a great start when this gorgeous man came up to us in the que and asked if we were 鈥淢ary and ChrissieS.鈥濃�︹�︹� rather nervously said yes and then he introduced himself.....it was the delightful Rips! CLP got it spot on, you are a 鈥渢op man鈥� 鈥� a true gent, thank you for the refreshment, it went down a treat ;o) xx

Dreamurdream 鈥� It was a pleasure to meet you, I hope it鈥檚 not too long before we get to meet again.

Great photo鈥檚 from the signings, thanks for posting them Chris.

Thanks to all for the lovely comments on facebook xx

AnnieG 鈥� Congratulations on the arrival of Hannah (beautiful name) xx

Mary xx

Hi Chris,

Thanks for posting our photograph on the blog! It was so exciting to meet you yesterday, I really felt like a teenager again! You are just so lovely, and you were wonderful with us loyal Bloggers!

Thanks to everyone on the blog who sent the Glasgow Four your good wishes. It was terrific to meet Rips and Dreamer - both of them are just lovely. You can't see from the photograph, but trust me, Rips has gorgeous eyes - he's a bit of a babe actually!

On the subject of Rips: thank you so much for paying for our drinks - you wee Sneaky Pete! Mary and I sipped our wine for ages, and then asked for the bill, only to be told it had already been paid! Thanks for being so thoughtful. x

Dreamer: I hope you make sure you have Copyright on your clever idea!

Well done to Susan getting the courage to meet Chris on her own, and of course well done to the girls in Manchester - isn't Chris just the greatest guy?

For the record, he is very tall, and skinny as a rake! We're talking skinny! And he's gorgeous - ooooh, I've come over all funny!

To everyone else still to meet him, I am so jealous! Enjoy your time with him, you are going to love it!

C xx

Wow, Christoph, I love seeing the photees of the lucky bloggers and of course yourself! Looking forward to the JR show on Friday and don't think you need to worry about any extra pounds, you are what you are and in any case TV apparently adds 10 pounds so you're just fighting a losing battle. lol!

Hello Darce, saw you snuck in briefly yesterday, just to say hope things are on the up and the house is taking shape xx

Morning everyone else, happy blogging!! Let no one bring this blog down!

Pen xx

Morning All,

Thanks again Chris for the lovely photos and for bringing your book signing week and the blog together. Its great putting faces to names and you've made a lot of people so happy, with a day to remember.

Congratulations Annie on Hannah's arrival at last - enjoy the time with her xxxx

Darce xx

Me again.

How could I forget to congratulate Annie?! So happy to hear of the safe arrival of Hannah - a gorgeous wee girl to spoil!

C xx

*Sigh* d'you know, you just can't get the staff... posted this to yesterday's blog...

'Ow do all from a beautifully sunny (albeit cold) Yorkshire. My favourite kind of day :-) And a welcome relief after yesterday's general miserableness and torrential downpouriness!

Annie, woo hoo, congratulations! Are you a gran, a grannie or a nan? Or a nana for that matter hehe.

Deev, lovely to have someone preparing dinner for you, hope hubby did you proud!

Rips, thanks for the swan ownership fact, was really Quite Interesting.

Ah, SusanB, you bought CLP a pencil, that's so sweet!

JG, hang in there girlie, you is by no means stoopid ;-)

Jamie Cullum? What did I miss??? I love him so much, can't wait for the new album (9 Nov, it's a lifetime away *sigh*).

Scoobs, sounds like a perfick day - choccie a must though, off you go!

And from today, wahey, more bloggers! Great pics there, bless you CLP for putting us all up there (Rips, you look like you're fighting back a dirty great big belly-laugh hehe).

Right, off to do some proper work, since I've been on here for the last 40 minutes catching up!

AF *smiling guiltily*

ps bolyngirl from yesterday #146 - very well thought out and put, I agree :-)

pps CLP, have read the first few chapters, loving it so far xx

Morning Chris,

Glad the book signing tour is going well, but you make me feel tired just reading about everything you've done and have still to do...Phew! You've certainly made some bloggers very happy - gone on 'ya.

Do you know what, I think I'd like to find me a "mighty" Rips (don't want to make you blush Rips) but you seem like such a decent fellow and they are very hard to find these days. Do you have a brother (younger or older) that you might like to send my way? xx

Bit grey in Kent and a little nippy. I've had to result to wearing proper shoes, which I haven't done since May, and now I have sore heels that I've had to put plasters on - I hate wearing shoes!! Next comes the tights, but am putting that off for as long as poss!

AliB
xx

P.S. I forgot to congratulate Annie as well - congrats to you and yours xx

Darce, good to see you on here was thinking about you this morning xx

JG - come back wherever you may be, miss you xx

Chris pleeease come down my way...

it could be a flying visit..

i have an airfield practically at the end of my garden..

i'll get you a handfull of newly sharpened pencils.

jeli.

Hi Pen - yes I'm OK thanks for your thoughts.

As for the house - well you can probably imagine what its like at the moment - awful!! Not a space to be had anywhere and have had to call out engineers for broken boiler, overflow gushing down and now the bath won't empty - and all that has nothing to do with the work being done!!
Its definitely going to go over budget!!

Darce xx

Wow, another great blog with lovely photies!! Enjoy the 'Pool Chris!

I may actually have to watch Wossy on Fwiday then, if you're going to be on it!

T xxxx

Oh, I meant to say, there's an article on Chris in today's G2 magazine. Not very impressed I'm afraid. A summary of the book including little bit too much of the writer's opinion, and not enough of the interview with Chris...

Hi Ali - thank you xxx

I'm putting off with wearing shoes and tights too, still in flip flops - mind you I don't have much of a choice of what to wear at the moment - can' find anything in the house!!

Darce xx

Loving the bloggettes pics. Howdy all! how's everybody? Not much to report from the airport today. Interesting times though, I was going to buy the Grauniad, still think I will, not only for the G2 bit but there's dinosaur footprints in there!

J

Cheryl/Gingembre: I didn't get to see the blog the other day - what's happening on 20th November? Something to do with CiN, and includes Chris?

I just like to keep up to date!

C xx

Hi ya

SOOOOOOOOOOO pleased to know you're on Wossy this week!! Thanks a lot to Cherylthediva for your help with Twitter. Still haven't got it sorted but I'm going to have another go as I was short on time before.

It's great that people are getting to meet our leader but I'm gutted I'm not one of them. Hoping to catch up with you one day Christophe, just wanna tell you to your face just how happy you make my days.

Off for lunch with my best mate and to open my birthday pressies as it was the big day yesterday. Decided this year that I'm not going to get any older, I'm just going to 'revisit' old birthdays. Yesterday I was 11 for the fourth time and we had jelly and buns to celebrate.

Love to you all. xx

Morning all

Chrissie - I contacted Hells Bells hoping to get something sorted that as many bloggers as poss could take part in for CiN / Drivetime / CLP. Sadly, my idea was a non starter for perfectly understandable reasons but Hells Bells put me in touch with the guy who organises the people who take phone pledges on CiN Day. Basically, there are now 4 of us (me, Gingembre, Bagpuss and Sexagirl) going to London on 20th November to do a stint of pledge taking for CiN.

So, so excited - really cannot wait!! May have to take the day off as unpaid leave but it will be worth it. Whether we get to see CLP or not, who knows, but just to give a bit of time for such a worthy cause AND get to have lunch beforehand with 3 fellow bloggers ..... perfick!


Crazy - you're welcome! And I love the idea of going backwards with birthdays, although being Forty-Onederful ain't all that bad, most days.


Wonder if Chris has been Bingo'd yet!??!

Deevs
x x x

Remember when CLP said he didn't think Bloggers getting together was a good idea? Think you have all blown that thought out of the window! What a great bunch of mates all around the country - all enjoying a funny sort of new friendship!

DWNB

Just wanted to say Tiggs - 'here I am' been too busy up darn essex early part of week,

Just caught up since Monday eve - glad today seems to be a nicer place to be

JG - if yoos is lurking - get your gajus butt back on here love!

Isnt our CLP just The Man - making people feel so special - I cant wait to meet him, Tiggs - we need to get a plan - I'll send you a message

Anyone else coming to Chris's signing in Brizzle on Friday???

debs
X

CLP - brilliant pics of some brilliant bloggers, and "the mighty Rips" of course! Only kidding Rips! :)

Beez, hope you make it to Brum, and got rid of the tarantula

Hope Bingo decided to do his shopping afterwards, he'll have knocked all the books off the shelves carrying that lot around.

Thanks to all of you who sent me messages, you made me cry, and eventually laugh - what wonderful people you are!

JG x

Just finished bottling up my chutney which has been cooking since Saturday, well condensed.

Kids can now come in to house without the clothes pegs on thier noses.

Wow on the bloggy photies and Susan, your very own private sitting!

Off to work in a mo, just afer sorting out the airing cupboard and making sure there isnt someone in there that shouldn't be!!!

Happy Humping all.

MTF.xx

Did ya hear me shouting JG, did ya.

MTF, a little hoarse now.Neighhhhhhh. LOL.xxx

Hi everyone,
Wow, another great photo - it will keep me smiling all day - thanks Chris and all the bloggers that are getting to the book signings. There is a real "feel good" factor in knowing what a great crowd of people you all are.

Mx

JG

Likewise.

This lot on here are truly, truly wonderful himan beeeenz!

Deevs
x x x x

Debs, dya own a pair of wellies??

MTF.xx

Chris,

More bloggers pics - great stuff! What a top bloke you are.
Yes we are a polite lot - it is Radio 2 we listen to you know and not Radio 1!
Rips - you look just how I imagined you - how strange is that?
Jakeygirl - Welcome back - don't let the b*s grind you down.
I was hoping to get in to Brum tonight with my newly arrived book but plans have been scuppered - d'oh! but will watch Wossy on Friday instead.
Happy Wednesday.

Nic

Heart on sleeve time ..... feel free to scroll on down ....

I felt really really pants this morning, down at heel, a grizzly auld mizzog and not my usual bouncey cheery flippant sunny self.

But I had a word with meself at lunchtime and am sticking 2 fingers up to anyone who rains on my parade.

Have also booked a lovely spa day in November for me and Himself, and a table at Aldo Zilli's Soho restaurant for over Christmas.

Life ain't so bad after all.

And Rips ..... "the mighty" eh!?!?!

Thanks everyone.

Deevs
x x x

Deev, I guess we all need to shake ourselves sometimes (some of us more often than others eh??). Glad you managed to get rid of the mean reds - sometimes it's just something small innit? Or in your case, a spa day and Aldo Zilli hehe!

Lovely.

AF x

ps quiet this afternoon...

pps by "some of us", I meant me, not you. You hardly ever have to shake yourself, which is a good thing, I think, rather than having to shake yourself reasonably frequently, like me, which I think is not such a good thing.

Ahem.

Cheryl #25: thanks for explaining - I could tell something exciting was going on! I really, really hope you guys get to meet Chris. He is something special, and I won't ever forget meeting him.

DWNB: I think Chris is actually over the moon with the blog. I have only just remembered today that he said to me that he thinks the blog is great - and I replied, as honestly as I could "yes, in the main"!

Debs & Tiggs: yes, get a game plan, if you can!

JG #28: Glad to see you here. And you know exactly what I am talking about re: Mr Evans - he signed my book ChrissieS exactly the way appears on the blog!

Margot #31: yes, it is incredible how the book signings are bringing the bloggers together - we didn't set out for it to be this way, but it is great!

I hope you guys don't mind me saying a couple of things about yesterday: first, Chris just could not believe it when Mary told him Rips was in the building! He actually stood up to shake hands with Rips, and I don't know which one was more excited! Secondly, when the photograph was taken, I was saying, through gritted teeth "I hate having my picture taken" and Chris, through his gritted teeth replied "tough"!

Ooooh, sorry to keep going on!!

C xx

Flower, or may I call you Petal, beeenz as we've met n'all

I don't like to shake myself too frequently. The wobbly bits wobble y'see. I tried jogging t'other day - the locals in the village thought it was an early morning earth tremor!

Luv yaaaaaa!

Deevs
x x x

Chrissie

Rips vs CLP - surely the greatest meeting of genius since .... errrrm, since ..... well, err EVER really!

Maybe Rips will let me be his agent ..!?!?

Deevs
x x x

peeeeeees: lovely to put a face to the name! x

Cheryl: thank you - but I must confess I did say to Mary before we met Chris, that I did try to swap my face for someone else's, but to no avail!

And, sorry, much as I am fond of you, I would like to be Rips' agent! Handbags at Dawn, I reckon!

C xx

LOL Chrissie!

OK, I concede .... he's all yours! I'm a lover, not a fighter!!

Cheryl x x

Ello Ter CLP & ALL Blog Dudes....

Bingo Star ere....

Firstly nice ter see more photos of fellow blog dudes and ter put faces ter the names!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice of CLP ter bang the photos on the blog!!!!!!!

Ave just goot back from abitta shopping in central Liverpool and most importantly getting me copy of CLP's new boook and best of all.... managed ter meet CLP, get me boook signed and INDEED ave me photo taken with CLP!!!!!!@!@@!@!!!!!@!!@!!!

Must admit though.... went abit star struck terdee.... yeah Bingo Star star struck and nearly forgot ter take with me the boook Chris 'ad just signed!!!!!!!!!!
Think abitta me shyness kicked in at just the wrong moment.... could do with giving mesen a wreet kick!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any way really nice ter meet CLP although the time a 'ad with 'im... it goes so fast.... would love ter 'ave a proper drink with 'im, goot so many things i'd love ter ask 'im!!!!!!!
Maybe alotta of the answers are in the boook - know what am sayin'!!!!!!!

Talkin' of aving a drink with CLP.... don't know if a should say this just yet.... but Chris said 'e's thinking of maybe doing some kind of do for all of the bloggers.... suppose it would be in London and just like a normal blog meet!!!!!
CLP asked me what do we do on a blog meet.... a said we just meet in a nice bar.... ave a few drinks then go on for a meal and slowly get more and more drunk until it's last one standing.... or noot az the case might be!!!!!!!

A think now that CLP 'as meet a lot of uz the past few dee's 'e's realising that were all a good bunch of dudes and noot a loada NUTTERS!!!!!!!!!!
Well.... maybe mesen excepted on the NUTTER bit.... but am 'armless!!!!!!
Sure Suzie could vouch for that..... well a 'ope she would!!!!! LOL!!!!!

Any way really nice thought of CLP.... a 'ope 'e does do a do for us all..... could all just meet at a BIG bar in London or The Docklands like we did in April!!!!!!!!! Be great!!!!!!!
A tell yer too all..... all who've met CLP.... you'd love Jono Saunders just az much.... equally az friendly and nice!!!!!!!!!

Oh well back down ter earth know, sorry now, gotta do abitta maths 'omework know, sorry now!!!!!!!!!

Bye!

PS CLP - Don't worry about the TV diet.... when we 'ad our arms arooound each other.... yer felt slim from where a waz standing!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

PPS ALL - WHATTA COINCIDENCE >> A once goot asked ter go on The Jono Wossey Show when a goot inter The Guinness Book Of Records at 14!!!!!!!
100% TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It waz when Wossey waz just starting out with a small show on Ch4 interviewing the weird and strange.... unlike terdee with all the top celebs!!!!!!!!!!!!
A fitted inter 'is criteria perfectly!!!!!!!
Goot a call from a researcher off 'is CH4 show.... the only thing that stopped me going on even a really wanted too....... me shyness kicked in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALL 100% TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PPPS Finally - Looking forward ter Shooting Stars terneet.... 麻豆社2 9pm.... Notice the new bloke aka Angelos on there.... 'as me in stiches.... 'e reminds me a bit of when a waz 19, looks a bit like me before a discovered shampoo at 20.... Ahhh 19 ter 20... the dees a waz just moving from train spotting inter working in a pizza shop full time!!!!!
Going up in the world BIG style!!!!!

Take a look at this link.... VERY funny >>>>>>

JakeyGirl - Yes a decided noot ter take me drainpipe inter the boook store.... even though a thought it might be signing CLP might remember.... a thought the same thing.... might knock all the books off the shelves!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!

B'sMum - 'ope yer make the Brum gig later.... yer won't regret it - VERY friendly iz CLP!!!!!!!!!
Good luck Beezer!!!!!!!!!

So Bingo can we look forward to seeing your photo with CLP on the blog tomoz!?!?

Pen xx

PS Chezza - I'd love ter join in on the Children In Need thingy!!!!!!!

WHATTA CONCIDENCE!!!!!! Ave often thought the same thing... i'd love ter 'elp out on the phone lines or something similar!!!!!!

Any chance a can get involved???????

Bingo

I'll vouch for ya hon .... you is not a nutter! You is luverly!!

Deevs
x x x

Awww Bingo: what a great post! Glad you had a brilliant time with CLP! Don't worry, you are not alone when it comes to the shyness kicking in - I could hardly speak, I was so nervous!

And what a shame about the Jonathan Ross programme - but totally understandable for a young guy of 14!

Cheryl 42: joint agents? I am always open to compromise!

C xx

Soz Bingles, as far as I know there was only 4 places for the CiN thingy in London. However, you could always try and contact your local 麻豆社 (麻豆社 Liverpool?) as they may still be looking for phone dudes.

Chezzamondo
x x x x

Ello Penny - Errr a don't know, a think CLP took a photo on 'is camera phone aswell az mine... ave ter wait and see but be nice if 'e does!!!!!!

Be great if B'sMum gets 'er photo taken too!!!!!!!!!!!

Must admit.... been a great week for CLP getting out and about and meeting all of 'is, bloggers, fans and listeners!!!!!!!!!!!

Brilliant post Bingo, and so true, very exciting and the time just whizzed by! I said to the others afterwards I felt it all happened in fast forward mode, just wish I had the opportunity to re-wind :o) xx

Well done to Cheryl, Gingembre, Bagpuss,Sexagirl and Bingo for helping out at CIN.

Mary xx

Oh well Chezza... a am jealous!!!!!!

Always wanted ter do that mesen!!!!! Nice way of 'elping out!!!!!!

Any way good luck ter yersen, it's a nice thing ter do... and all for a good cause!!!!!!!!

PS Thanks for the non nutter bit!!!!!

Someone, anyone..............what has happened to our Baz!?!?

Pen xx

OOH Bingo, very much looking forward to seeing you and CLP snuggling up - two gorgeous hunks together, yumdeyum!!

T xxx

Chrissie - Yeah am just glad there wasn't a BIG crowd of people watching!!!!! LOL!!!!
Sure CLP iz used to it.... specially after doing the Abba gig a few weeks back!!!!!!

MwK - Yeah, the time with CLP... yer wait for your turn... seems like ages... then when yer see 'im.... it goes in an instant!!!!!!!

It reminds me of going ter see Santa when yer kid at yer local department store.... just glad a didn't ave ter sit on 'is knee!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!
PS Ave 'eard wreet at the crucial moment alotta kids wet themsleves too..... the last thing CLP would need!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know Bingo, I almost forgot my books too! I was so caught up in the moment, have a lovely photo of CLP and me on facebook! I'm still on a high!

Hilarious re Santa!

Mary xx

Arh, I'm all warm inside reading about your encounters with Chris xx and it is nice to put faces to names, looks like we might have some more Chris/Bloggers photos tomorrow - can't wait.

I've only ever had one book signed and that was by Jeffrey Archer at a Foyles Literature Luncheon, where I sat next to Quinten Letts - oh get me!! My Mum does have her name in the Acknowledgements of a Midsummers Nights Dream (I think - will check), so she's a bit more famous than me.

AliB
xx

Sparkleytinsel - What are you like!!!! LOL!!!!!!

Seriously though.... looking forward ter reading all of CLP's boook..... think we've goot alot in common.... both grew up on north west council estates.... and a 'ad alot of part time jobs az a kid.... a worked on bulding site, with railway workers - track and signal box, even drove a train at 14 ('ope nobody from the railway iz reading this) a garden centre, builders merchants.... in fact a waz abit mad.... made friends with some gas men digging up the road and they ended up letting me use the pnuematic drill.... imagine 'ealth & safety terdee... they'd go mad!!!!!!
Also 'ad a job in a newsagents... paper round and then used ter spend me 6 pound ALL on chocolate.... a tell yer reading CL's book bringing back memories of the things a goot up to!!!!!!!

Aye what's 'appened ter those noisy pneumatic drills????
Used ter always see the gas or water board digging the road up with them!!!!!

Any way... gotta get me maths done!!!!!!

MwK - A keep meaning ter join the FB but never get round to it!!!!

Ave ter sort it out soon!!!!!!!!!

Defo off this time.... goot me maths 'omework!!!!!!!

AliB: Thanks for being so understanding re: all the Chris chat! I certainly don't need to get on Twitter - I have been Twittering enough all day on here!

Your book signing with Jeffrey Archer does sound quite grand - and Quinten Letts is awfully, awfully! Good for you!

The only other book signing I ever attended was with Noel Edmonds. As Hazel would say ..... that's not for here!

C xx

PS Finally - A waz talkin to a lady in the queue in Liverpool.... very nice and apparently she iz Scouse Sarah's mum!!!!!!

Aka The Scouse Sarah from CLP's team aka the one with the untidy desk!!!!!!

Bingo, the only thing I see the workman doing now is looking into the hole!! lol

Pen xx

Hi chris

the book signing is going really well great to see the ever wonderfull bloggers got to meet to

Chris take it easy on route home marks a pro & get you home safe & happy love to you all I be watching the jr show

Take my me dear freind

Best wishes

Stewart

Penny, you're so right! the other day I drove past not one but 4 of them just looking into the hole!!!

T x

afternoon all, hope you're well?

If anyone is left down here and not still up there on cloud nine can I just say how cool it is for you to have met Chris and more importantly for him to have reacted the way he has.....a true gent.
- my envy has turned to jealousy.

BIngo - I look forward to seeing the pic/hearing Chris' version of your meet up, plus how cool to have a 'proper' chris organised doo!!!!

Off to colect the ankle-biters

bonnet de douche

KWx

Take chris my dear freind missed wording
t.t.f.n

Bingo: that's great you met Sarah's mum. And how lovely that she queued like the rest of us - if I were her, I may have been tempted to pull rank!

C xx

Gingembre - I don't think I will ever come down from cloud 9!

Mary xx

ps. can I just re-phrase what I said about the photo on facebook? I hate having/looking at photo's of me, the only reason I say it's a good photo is because the man himself is in it.....

Sorry me again!

I keep meaning to say, meeting Chris yesterday and getting together with the other bloggers made me realise how much I miss being a part of the blog xx

Hi Everybody.

Sounds like everyone who's had their book signed has had a great time. Is so good to hear that Chris is as nice in real life as he sounds. His blogs this week are just going to get longer with all the pictures he's going to have.

Wonder how the pencil collection is going?

Laters peeps. Boy1 has been detached from tech for at least an hour. I'm worried he may collapse in a minute if i don't let him have the lap top.

Seza xxxx

I don't know how many people have been to the book signings but reading one of the Scottish papers the journo who interviewed Chris reckoned he barely made double figures, which I find hard to believe!!

^^^ that link didn't seem to work..........

Also, never pleased when CHris is on holibobs but think he's going to need next week to recover from this week!

Bet he can't wait to get home to see the missus & the little lad.


Seza xxx

Sylvia: I saw the "journo" from the Sun. Believe me, he was a waste of space. I do believe that the fact he works for The Sun really tells us all we have to know.

I watched Chris very closely when he was dealing with the Press. He was patient and very accommodating. Some of them were the exact opposite.

I honestly don't know how many people were in our queue (Mary and I were No.1 and No. respectively!) but I can say that every single person he spoke to had all the time in the world to have a chat, have a photograph taken, whatever. I really do feel that Chris would have reacted the same whether 40 people were in queue, or 400.

I do not like the red-top Press!

C xx

Sylvia and Chrissie

The Manchester Evening News said only 30 people were at the Trafford Centre, but there were far more than that during the hour or so I was there.

Best to take no notice!

JG x

Well said JG!

And just for clarification - I was No.2 in the queue!

C xx

Afternoon each

Have put my book down for a second to pop in and say that ive just picked my nephew up from `big school` for the first time and the `Aunty Scoobs` he gave me when he saw me has fair taken me back up to that cloud 9... so shove up everyone! Brilliant!

Deevs..sounds like a great plan to cheer yourself uP!

Flower.. trust me hon when i say every single one of us has to shake ourselves more than we would probably admit..and knowing when to do it is half that battle so in my world that makes you more than half way to being very normal..and having met you a few times i reckon you are FAR more normal than me so keep smiling hon..x

Mwk..great to have you back..please stay again!

and ChrissieS.. you dont look a bit like the image i had of you! Not a bad thing..just different to the pic i had in my head!

Bingo...brilliant post.. can tell how much it meant to you to meet CLP..and lets hope something does happen eh..be great to get EVERYONE together at some point if thats even slightly possible!

Everyone else.. hope youve all had a reasonably smooth middle of the week day.the downward slope is almost here!

mSc x

PS - one thing CLP did mention the other day is that he is DEFINITELY going to keep blogging...yay,yay,yay! x

JG - i saw that aswell! THink they must have been at the wrong shop!

Oh, and meant to say the other day..if the man who was behind us in the queue reads this..then `sorry we took soooo long`! We was very excited!

Wonder if CLP is ready for his Beez invasion...?!

mSc x

Scooby: I know what you mean - you get an idea of what you think people will look like, and sometimes it's just not what you imagine. How I would have loved to present myself to Chris, with Cheryl Cole's face and body and said "hi, I'm ChrissieS"!!

C xx

Afternoon ladies and Bingo!

Please do not feel bad for regaling your tales of meeting the lovely CLP - hey he is why we are on this ere blog so are interested in what he has to say or do! Keep em coming!

I too am looking forward to my bit of cloud 9 on friday!

great to hear snippits of things to come - how AWESOME would a blog meet for all of us! Whoo!

Feeling good about life today - so sharing the love with anyone who needs it!

debs
X

Whoo indeed Debs!roll on fri for you and tiggs!

and Chrissie.. you is MUCH nicer than the one you refer to..sure she is a lovely person but eat a doughnut girl!

mSc x

Hey what about this for Chris's new Breakfast Show; Tel has the TOGS and TIGS, so CLP can have the CMAGS - Chris's middle aged geeezers!!

Scooby: bless! As I have said here before, I have definitely won my battle against anorexia!

Thanks everyone for letting me prattle on all day - it's been brill!

See you tomorrow.

C xx

Hey Chris, I'm at Celtic Manor on Monday too. Do I get a discount on your book??

Chrissies - WAIT!!!!

Hello All

Sorry haven't got chance to catch up properly on blog, will read over tomorrow! Just back from work and about to dash back out. So won't be back on tonight.

BUT....I just briefly read ChrissieS's posts and I have this to say...

After meeting her along with MWK and Rips I would like to say that she is one of the nicest, warmest and friendliest people I have come across in along time! Immediately you trust her implicitly and I felt as if I could tell her anything. I would have abs loved to have stayed on with Mary and Chrissie for the afternoon!

But much more than that.....the one you refer to ChrissieS.....was recently referred to on Mock the Week by one male Scottish comedian (Frankie Boyle I think he is called!) as looking more like a Twiglet every day!!! Now nothing against this lovely girl, but come on, who want to be referred to as a twiglet!! He was not being complimentary! and the thing is every time I see her, in those hair ads that's exactly what I think!! Whereas you are just as warm as toast! And if we are doing crisp references then you're my salted tortillas, with salsa, sour cream, guacomale and cheese!!!! I just luv ya!

dreamer
xxx

Ps thanks for the coffee Rips, what a gent! x

Helloooooooooo

feeling a mixture of embarrassment and excitement over the photo on the blog. I hate having my photo taken but just had to do it to prove I really did meet the wonderful CLP. He is as skinny as a rake so no idea why he keeps going on about losing weight and going to the gym.

I think I am on some sort of cloud too and still can't quite believe that was me yesterday. You do come over all tongue-tied though. Maybe if we meet again I won't be so overawed. Rips obviously is a natural with all the celebs he hangs out with.

Must go and cook tea - catch yous later

xxx

Scoobs, yes, I saw the bloke in the queue behind us as well, although he was grinning away, so 'spect he was alright about it - actually CLP spoke to someone on the guy's phone, so he was dead chuffed too!

Anyone heard if Beez got to Brum?

JG x

Tiggs and Debs would love to come down to Brizzle to do it all again if I could - enjoy xx

JG - hello and glad you decided to stay. Wouldn't have been the same without you {{{xx}}}

Chris

I read the piece in the Guardian today.

Stuart Jeffries asked proper grown up questions and your answers were very honest, even if they did show that in the past you have been not quite a nice as you are now.

It seems obvious that SJ liked you and isn't better to have an article like this than a piece of ar$e licking which doesn't tell anybody anything that they didn't know and makes the subject seem shallow and superficial.


I did try to put a direct quote from yourself into this post, but it failed the profanity filter, you naughty boy.

Just heard from Beez

Chris has been Beezled!!!!

big grins all round!!!!!

debs
X

Maybe we could be CEPs - not the mushrooms but Chris Evans' People.

Nic

Re length of queues - as I keep telling me other half, it's not the quantity that counts, it's the quality ..lol...

Nic

Nic - like it CEPs best one yet in MHO - gets my vote!

debs
X

Debs - brilliant!! So glad she got there!

Nic - LOL

JG x

PS...Just heard a lot of shouting from upstairs, think Mr JG has been joined the shower by the dog! hehe

Hi all

Nic am liking CEPS, good call

JG LOL How's the dog? hehe

Hope Chris is ok after meeting Beez, How d'you reckong his ribs are after the hugging?

Think you all look lovely in your pics, such smiley people. Wouldn't it be so cool if Bingo is right about a CLP meet.

How much hugging would go on then!!

Seza xxx

Evening bloggeroonies!

I'm so pleased that you're all having such a great time meeting CLP and getting to meet each other too. It seems ages since I last saw any of you. I wanted to get to Brum tonight but by the time I got in I just sat down and dropped off to sleep (can't be helped) so have missed out. I'm sure that Chris will have been a lucky man if Beez managed to get there as she's a top bird if ever there was!!!

Maybe if there is a big blog meet (as mentioned by Bingo) then I will move heaven & earth to try to get there.

Keep letting us all know how lovely it is meeting the big-man (and by that I mean tall!!) and share all the photos wherever possible.

Luv
Lyndyloo
Booboo & El-Bumpo
-x-x-x-

Evening All,

I don't think I came out of that picture as well as the gorgeous girls and Mr Evans......
Looks like someone has stolen my trumpet mid blow!

Still - I don't care - what a great memory!
Thanks for your over generous comments Ladies, I felt like a thorn amongst roses.
I think Scoobs should also get quite excited by them, as Glasgow is clearly in desperate need of a decent optician.....

Glad you experienced the same warmth as we did Susan.

It must be a really odd experience for Chris - to be plucked from what is his version of normality, and then chucked around like a rag doll....having thousands of pictures taken, phones thrust upon him to speak to strangers, bloggers requesting all manner of bodily contact.
......actually - not that different to normal.

Chris - Enjoy the normality and bliss that is home life tonight - I am taking the 'mighty' in the best sense and once again thank you for making it such an enjoyable experience.

Rips

x

PS - I don't wish to overstep any boundaries here - but Dreamurdream, should change her name to Dreamy x

PPS - Chris mentioned organising a blog meet to us, but I didn't want to mention it and jinx it - looks like it might be a goer now...WoooHooo!

Diversity on Pride of Britain- a a true match
xxx