will pick it up on the way to workHIP HIP HOORAY IT'S TUESDAY
I just went to the toilet for a wee and as I did so farted. It was the strangest of little farts like a nervous trumpeter tuning up on his first night in the pit of a new orchestra.
What a balmy night. Have you ever known a September eve to be so tropically sticky ?
The birds are already at it, a-cawing their way to the dawn.
Myself, I was a bed early after an exhausting weekend. I promised myself a night in with a CHINESE take away. I over ordered as I always do and there is now more in the fridge this morning than was on my plate last night.
It was a good night in as I didn't even get round to turning the telly on. A few phone calls, the evening paper and then falling asleep whilst doing the crossie in bed. Bliss.
The only thing that was missing was a little read of a decent book. I think I'll start a new one today.
Now what about that VW BUG of mine...
You remember way back when the blog started and I chanced upon a little beauty that was for sale round the corner. Well she was a babe with a history and a few cracks beneath. So, once purchased... off she went to the BUG hospital for some treatment. Yesterday saw her discharged. (The second I've finished this blog I'm off to give her a ride and a good wash, it's the least she deserves.)
The story of the BUG was a lot to do with the lady that I bought it off, apart from being absolutely gorgeous, she seemed like a good person. It felt right that I should buy this car off her, she neede to sell it and I wangted to buy it.
Yesterday, or a couple of days ago we talked about the "feeling" when it comes to buying things, in this instance we were talking about a house.
Well I think the "feeling" has a lot to do with the person you're buying something off. If they're pretty decent and vaguely at ease with themselves there's a good chance that they went through a similar journey to you when looking for and buying whatever it is they are now selling.So, in a way they have done a lot of the searching and checking out for you. Not only that but since they have been the custodian of said "item for a sale" they have probably passed a little bit of their magic on to it as well., their love and attention.
On Saturday I think I found "the house". It's owned by a brilliant guy, an AUSSIE, by the name of DENNIS, he has the energy of a teenager despite being in his mid fifties.
When I scrunched up his drive in my old jag, he came running towards us screaming about what a @%$*&ing great car this was, his dad used to have one just the same, could he have a go in it ?
We were a good ten to fifteen minutes on the car before we even turned to look at the house.
The house was a beaute, totally done. A great vibe, old but light, homely but not chintzy. An amazing kitchen, all glass out onto the garden, uninterrupted views of about half a mile, the sun was shining, DENNIS was flying...
I think DENNIS could be a friend, if not a guru, a wizard even...
The "feeling" was definitely there.
We checked out the house, moving from inside to out, upstairs to down, several times. I was becoming more and more excited, I was walking faster, practically bouncing, my speech was becoming more unintelligable, I was turning into a hyperactive cartoon house buyer...
I could live here, very happily, for ever. Yes definitely.
"What's the asking price ?" I enquired.
"Oh asking prices, we don't do those," he replied, "just tell me what you think it's worth and I'll tell you whether I'd like you to leave or not !"
Wow.
"Can I get back to you on Monday," I said.
"No worries mate, do what you gotta do."
Ain't that the truth.
x.
P.S. Thanks for the reco' - Leo Hickman sounds good will pcik it up on the way to work.
P.P.S. Took the bug to the carwash, they scrubbed and scrubbed but she didn't get any cleaner ! Ahhh. She's still a babe though.
P.P.P.S. Just had some of last night's cold CHINESE. Delicious but now most of it is stuck in between my teeth due to my ever diminshing gums....
P.P.P.P.S. Who will it be FREDDIE or STRAUSSY ? They still haven't told us. Bet it's the big man.
P.P.P.P.P.S. Not going to the gym... dam it, yes I will.
Comments
Morning Chris and the bloggers
Mmmmmmwah!.
What a fab blog....I'll have to think about that for a wee while ..... more later.....
Keep smiling
Rachel
x
Love the sound of Dennis Chris, it sounds as if the guy just dont do convention. I'm sure, given the opportunity he would barter, maybe even for your jag and another place to stay!!
Have you ever thought what it would be like without money, no I dont mean using turnips either. If there were no money the pace of life would slow down almost to a grinding stop but would we be richer in our relationships with people. Well for a start we would have to hone our skills in negotiating as barter would be norm, but surely we would get to know people a whole lot more. Instead of looking at the quantity of people we deal with we would have to concentrate on the quality of a few simply because to know someone, you have to give over some time, which of course is precious and that is one thing that money cant buy, but would we be richer, less heart attacks, happier, I dont know.
Books Paulo Coelho 1998's The Alchemist its a great read, and how did the car run after the Hospital?
Mornin Christoph and fellow bloggers.
Great blog as always Mr C, when you get that feeling about something, it is the head and heart principal and if it feels right and good always go with the heart, cos when the hearts happy - yippee - the whole world wears a smile!!!!!!!!!!!!!.....
Have a great Tuesday guys - the suns out and we are sliding towards the weekend
Luv and hugs
Mayhem
xx
ONLY ME forgot about blogging yesterday completely slipped the mind DOH! DOH!
hello christop and fellow bloggers/ettes
so the cars a dream and a house(nearly) sounds great!
dennis sounds a really top bloke.
the best farts some i reckon are from the old faithful baked bean(phewwww!) wot a stinker they can be not that i would know of course!!
catch u's ltr
Wow!
More information than is needed at the start but that has to be the most fantastic viewing of a house ever!! Hope that you decide to go for it and then post piccies on your website for us bloggers to see.
Absolutely agree with buyng things off people who give you the feeling - but it's also the same for selling. The people buying my house I know will love and care for it the way me and my husband have.
Must start work now - lots to do before my hollybags on Thursday - Yippee!!!
Alison xx
Gooooood morning all! The rain has made it fresh and clean, but already it's muggy, and I'm dozey already as every time it lightningings I wake up to count to the thunder...got to 17 in the end...perhaps will have small sleep later.
Hi Chris
We like your story a lot! We've just bought a little old H reg Ford Fiesta. It only cost £200 but is in superb condition and it had only done 54000 (really) miles from new!
The guy who was selling it is an old chap, seemed like one of Tel's old 'Actor Managers' dahling, and from the first time I spoke to him regarding the car he was so keen to make sure that me and the boy were ok with the car and the price. He went round pointing out all the dints and dings and enjoyed my test drive...He was lovely, a bit vague and a complete gentleman. He even walked around to our house and posted the spare key through the door...the only thing was, a lot of streets round our way have similar names...so I then had to chase round to find the right house as he told me he'd written the reg number on the envelope...Dear car thief, please find enclosed etc etc. ANYWAY found the key, and yesterday the boy took a picture of the miles as it clicked (for the very first time) to 55555.
We had the feeling about this little car without even seeing it, and it goes like a bomb even now boy has turned it into a mobile tool box.
It was £200 we didn't really have all but for the necessity, and I'm sure we could have spent the money on a different car, but it had to be this one, do you see?
Rockin robin
love
hazel
x
Absolutely great blog chris!
I have the "feeling" about a house to rent. It is a three bedroom house in a villiage I lived in as a little girl. It has a huge garden, andthe best thing about it is it looks out onto open fields!!!
Now from six I grew up on a council estate, and my few was rows and rows of identical houses. For my boy to grow up to this open space would be heaven!!
So please chris and fellow bloggers send out positive fibes for this house to be mine and my world to change!!!!!
Thanks!!
em25xx
Morning bloggers and bloggettes!
WOW! That house sounds like a corker, Chris. The "feeling" is certainly a factor in things whether you're looking for cars, houses, clothes or, well, anything really! Even friends.
Whenever I look for a new place, there's that moment when you walk in the front door and can immediately imagine yourself doing the same thing time and time again - you're home and you know it. You can see if someone has put their heart and soul into a property and if they have it's almost as if it gives something back, a vibe that says it'll be your haven, somewhere you can feel safe and happy and never regret walking into.
Fingers crossed for this one, Chris.
Have a good day all, counting down to five o'clock and off to fuel up on caffiene!
Cat x
I trust this house move will not take you too far away from our sunny corner of Surrey?!
if you have the "feeling" then money should not be an object - because you will get up everyday and think WOW! I live here!
hope you all have a good day
J
Morning Blogheads!
Having just bought my first home, I know exactly what you mean. It's the feeling you get from the seller that the house you are viewing could be your home and if its present incumbent never felt at home or excited about the place, then chances are you're not gonna get that vibe either.
Hope you enjoy your BUG.
Cameron, a Scot in the Medway
Morning Christophe, morning all.
I am a blog virgin, so here goes.......
Yet another sage - like blog. I wonder how you can be so philosophical at that time of the day!!!!!
Love the show. Looking forward to listening to you on my way home from work......
Love Mel C
Morning all
Hmmmm. Well I agreed yesterday about "the feeling". We moved house 2 months ago, all the viewings we did there was no connection whatsoever. Until we found "the one". It was the first house where I could actually picture myself moving around, hear myself and mine filling the rooms and garden with our laughter.
So we bought it, and it's just as fab as I had pictured. The only reason for me mentioning it is that the couple we bought from were a right pair of mean & miserable buggers!!!!! There was no feeling with them, I can assure you!!!!
Must go, feeling a bit peckish now. The only trouble with bringing my sandwiches (in tupperware box) is that I eat them by 10.00am!!
Ta ta
H xxx
Wow Chris ..... Dennis sounds like a beaut.... Wish I could meet him...... Just the kind of fella I'd love to have in my life - be it as a friend or more.... Hope you and your (future) home make the grade and you'll be really happy with your decision.
What a superb blog today...
You have a such a great talent at making me want to be a better person, everything you describe I want to taste and test out...
Were you always like this or is it something that happened over time? You must have your off days?
I'm a graphic designer and it is really fast paced which I dont mind but I'm finding myself getting stressed out for no reason, clients, colleagues, bosses adding to the massive pressure of my day... How can I become a better person as I know as soon as I start to become stressed or snap at someone I feel its not me and its not right...
How does everyone deal with the day to day ordeals without ripping yours or someone elses hair out??
I'm honestly seeking help here....
Can anyone help?
morning chris and bloggers!
I just moved into a new house 2 weeks ago and you're bang on with the person you buy off!
She was a lovely lady who had to move for business reasons.
We hadn't bothered to look before because it was far to expensive for us, they dropped the price, we took a look and loved it. I think it helped because she was listening to radio while we were viewing!
It's a fantastic house in a fantastic peaceful location and so far the people in the same street seem really friendly, I love it and it feels like home after 2 weeks, just as well looking at the morgage!
Good Morning Chris and Fellow Bloggers! Excellent news about the house, it sounds fandabidozi but don't forget, "A House is made of bricks and beams, A ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ is made of hopes and dreams". It certainly sounds like this house could be "the one". Look forward to hearing more news. Jeannie x ;0)
Wow!
So happy for you Chris - 'the feeling' is SO important!
We bought a house earlier this year and the funny thing was... when we first viewed it 'the feeling' was strangely absent. The place was a temporary home to a mate of the lady we bought it from, so it was a transient space. Maybe thats why the feeling wasnt there?
Anyway, the second time we viewed it, we just looked at each other - both knowing that the smiles slowly growing on our faces where because that crazy lovely excitable feeling was a-creeping up into our souls. The ladys mate had moved out and the place what empty... it was PERFECT. Everyone gets a great vibe from it. Maybe because it is a home again? and feels loved and special?
RIGHT YOU - your next book... may I suggest 'A LIFE STRIPPED BARE' by Leo Hickman. It fits in with yesterdays green and ethical musings.
Its unputdownable...
Happy Tuesday everyone - enjoy that lovely fresh smell after the rain (that Dorset is smelling like at the moment)
Kyleigh xx
ooops! sorry, I misquoted in my last post, think I should have said "A House is built of walls and beams. A ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ is built of love and dreams". KC ;0)
Hi Chris,
I have been reading the Blog for a while but this morning I felt compelled to share, apologies if I am a little late joining in.
It’s a strange one ‘that feeling’ I had it so strongly when I bought my house, it all felt so right - like truly coming home. I put in the offer 5 minutes after the first viewing, seconds after which, I noticed the name engraved over the door was that of my grandfather whom I had loved dearly it was Victor House. Not so cosmic in itself, however, the street name is my birth stone and the post code included my age and my initials, enough for me to feel an exciting if slightly freaky bond with a pile of bricks and mortar, especially on top of the feeling that it was my house already and the other people walking around on the open day were intruding!.
After a broken relationship and moving across the country it felt like every choice in my life and every path taken had lead me to this point and that all I had to do was move in to make my world ‘right’.
I have lived there for two years, and have always felt safe and secure within its walls. I have found a new relationship - with a man whose life path has been so close to mine over the last ten years without us meeting its bizarre, until finally it seems the universe chose to put him in my path.
Unfortunately this man lives over a hundred miles away from my beloved house and has a job that he loves, unlike me (and so many others) so I have recently embarked on a new journey and have moved to be with him.
I’m feeling more than a little displaced at present, looking for work and settling in to a new town is far from easy. However, I have come to realise that even though I once felt that Victor House was my home in the world, that it would take care of me for the rest of my life and I couldn't imagine leaving it. I no longer have to live there for it to have that meaning. Victor House gave me security and comfort, this alone stopped the world spinning long enough for me to lick my wounds and to take on life again.
I might not be able to take the house with me but the lessons and loves gained during my time there will always be with me and for that I will be eternally grateful.
Bring on the next exciting episode in all our lives!
Jenner
P.S – I know this note wasn’t exactly about the owner of the house, as she was mad as a box of frogs, made the purchase a real hassle and I don’t get the impression the house was that cared for at that time. Even so, if only for the fact she was selling when I was buying I am thankful.
Hi Chris
Back again,
had a think.... click wur.....buzzzz .... not really sure about house prices , always difficult to put a "value" on what may be the last place you ever live.... cost though is entirely different... ... once you've decided you like a place, take all the emotion out of it and be business like, otherwise you'll end up paying more than you should..... .. employ a negotiator... like, Phil, Kirsty, both of em or some other property folk to deal for you........ on the other hand ... if you really want the place ..find out what it's worth then..... make him an offer he can't refuse and it's yours ...... most folk though, wouldn't have that luxury.
Picking up on yesterday's blog about buying the car you dreamed of owning when you were young........ it's just the best feeling when you can do that ........I was in a show room,... sat in a red Toyota MR2 T-bar ( Mkll) in the early 90s ...(.91) I think.... black leather interior .. all the gadgets of the era..... I wanted it.... so badly....... it was so me....... the price tag back then though was,..... so...... not me... a couple of years salary........never in a zillion years would I be able to afford such a dream car................. three and a half years ago,... I bought what looked like exactly the same car........ although I know it wasn't, cos I imported mine from Japan...... I paid practically nothing ( in car terms) a little over a months salary, spent a few more months salary having it refurbished... everything renewed, engine, gearbox suspension, wheels, paint job .....air con repaired......bolted in (well not me .. man in overalls) some up to date stuff..... and safety features ... and bingo..... my dream car ....... for less than the cost of a brand new euroblob today.... ... you know the sort I mean, all those, look the same, bland, characterless ( usually silver) blobs people drive around in. I wouldn't swap my lil' red baby for any other car on the planet.............. there's too much of me in it, to let it go............
I hope you enjoyed the drive this morning....... ....
Keep smiling
Rachel
x
I'm actually a collecter of old games. I thought this might be of interesting Chris.
hi
lovely man
hope you are well - sounds like it!
so you have found the house- very good - now don't forget we have to come to help you move in and have a little drink or two!
i have decided from some news i had this morning that - life really is so short and you have to enjoy it! so i am going to have to do what is necessary and take you out chris!
going now to try and work
byexxxx
I just wanted to say how much I loved your blog
yesterday, I think you should write a book
along the lines of Noel Edmond's Positively
Happy, although I think you need a proof
reader as sometimes your spelling goes a bit
wobbly!
I am a real believer in following your heart and
trusting your instincts; Dennis sounds like a
great guy so i think you should buy his house -
go for it!
You said you need a good book to read, A
Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving is
wonderful, you would love it.
Thankyou for making me look at my life and
appreciate it,
Love you too xx
Greetings!
Having only just read Chris's blog from yesterday I have to add one piece of advice re the local charitable contributions idea - don't write a cheque, do a direct debit or standing order instead (no matter how small and insignificant you may think it is)! "Many a mickle makes a muckle" as they say in the far off lands north of the border!
Charities rely on a stable income stream. Random acts of generosity are lovely and makes us feel better but the hard yards are the ones travelled over weeks and months and years by the donors who make regular donations. If you take out a standing order of just a couple of pounds a month (less than the price of one drink) it mounts up over time. Obviously do as much as one can afford but even that amount makes a difference if enough people do it!
Just saying!
:-)
I was laughing at the toilet and fart section. On You Tube.com there is a segment on Bush Farting. On Farts.com, there is a Britney Spears doing "I Think I Farted Again".
Morning Bloggers and Chris,
Dennis sounds like a God -
do what you gotta do Chris make the offer.
You must be full of "feeling", from the car and the house - go with it and enjoy.
Hope the clouds blow away so I can take the kids to the zoo.
Have a good day one and all..
Listen later
xxx
Totally agree about the 'feeling' when you buy things from other people, houses, horses, baby seats or whatever. That's what makes you want the purchase or not, more than the item itself. However when we bought this house, where we've lived so happily for 23 years, there was no owner to meet - as it was an executor sale - but I guess his friendly spirit must have been around because it had the greatest ever feeling, and just oozed a happy past (many centuries of it!!) It turned out he had been a very popular head master of a local prep school and many a game of schoolboy cricket had been played on our grass (hesitate to call it a lawn). The joy has endured.
I find 'the feeling' is important when you meet people the first time too - they either feel like my type or they don't. For me it's something about being a softie or rather hard...but truly I don't judge by first impressions, and generally I find that the more I get to know someone, the more I like them. There's so many facets to discover and admire!
I wonder what makes that 'feeling' between people? Something about inner contentment maybe, for that tends to show in people's faces, or being at ease with themselves (even if not contented in hard times). Don't know what it is really.
Dennis sounds like a real Dude, Chris, and it's great to know you've found your dream house. Assume this is the weekend pad?
You all feel like lovely shloggers
Love to all xxx
Listen every day but just caught up with the blogs.
Watched your cricket tour of India on the Community Channel of Sky last week for the first time. Like yourself I was in tears. Money on it's way today. Loved the bit where you knocked on the girls door of her house, or at least where it was untill swept away. You brought a smile to a very sad situation.
RE The Bug - Just bought a 1960's Lotus. Came in 1001 bits.
The Feeling - House hunting 3 years back. Looked at 5 houses and my wife and I said "nice" to most of them then walked into one and said "this is it" after 5 mins. Had bought it by that night! And it is The One, Perfect.
Hi Chris
I know what you mean about pre-owned stuff. I'd much rather have a vintage/second-hand item with some history than a new one.
Old stuff is definitely endowed with the spirit of its previous owners. A good feeling will draw you towards something inexplicably.
If I had the cash and a garage to put it in I'd be driving a midnight blue Jensen Interceptor.....
x
Aren't we lucky to have feelings.......
Hel (Dogwith)
Hello again
This is a very spooky day.
Kyleigh (18), I ordered that book from Amazon this morning!!!
Jenner (20), the "feeling" I described earlier on about my new house was confirmed by the fact the house number is my dad's birthday, the streetname is my dad's name, and the postcode is made up of mine and my brothers initials.
I'm obviously tuned in today....
H xx
I moved in to my house 11 years ago, it's great, I love it, i had that feeling when i first saw it and continue have the feeling when i get home from being away.
it's full (too full!) of things i love and that the people i hold dear love.
it's great for entertaining in summer and winter.
oh how i love my little house. i hope that chris does what he has to do!!
But as my friend says......."what's for you won't go by you"
enjoy the rest of tuesday
mackiexx
Hi
Has anyone read BLINK by Malcolm Gladwell. It explains the reason we get the 'feeling' and we are able to make snap decisions. Guest for the show maybe and he can explain it all!
Sx
Hi Chris,
First time on the blog... thought I'd break myself in gently. If you're in need of a new book and fancy something a bit different, very funny and very true (if not a little daft), try "Zigzag Street" by Nick Earls. It's what I've been falling asleep on for the last few nights. It's made me think of you a few times (which is odd I know, as out here in listenerland we don't know you but feel like we do), and I think you'd quite enjoy it. The book at bedtime (with hot chocolate of course) is an essential part of my nightly ritual... sometimes to the detriment of actual sleep if the book is too good, as with this one.
Enjoy (possibly!)
Fraudham x
Good Afternoon 1 & All
Hmm Christopher, we've now got the car (how's it driving?), we even may have the house .... all we're left to find now is the wife - the list is getting shorter by the day.
Dennis sounds like a star, don't you just love it when you meet someone that you just instantly like - back to the 'feeling'. Anyway give us more info - did you get back to Dennis on Monday and where's it gone from there?
Toby (15) - are you having enough 'me' time? Just enough to make you feel chilled and relaxed or is your life a constant go, go, go!? I think sometimes you do need to just sit back for a couple of minutes and just breathe. We do live in a society now where it is/can be just non stop from getting up right through to going to bed, be it work, travel, tv constantly on and I do find it helps to just shut down for a minute every now and then. Also try and think of something that makes you smile, I often find that this chills you out, whether its a memory, imagining looking at a photograph or something funny - it all helps...... and if all else fails just sing.
Am really looking forward to this evening got hubby's best mate (since about the age of 5) coming round for a meal, he's in the RAF so we don't get to see him anywhere near as much as we should. This means that this evening will be full of 'do you remember.... "ha when you were running round the flash with your wellies flopping against your knees" ...' kind of stories, plus lots of noise while the kids all try to tell him at once what's happening in their lives whilst also trying to beat him up at karate etc. Hmm, and I'm looking forward to this I must be mad :) Just realised though that I called him 'hubby's best mate', strange that, - well I think after 19 years I'm now gonna claim him as my own.
Am now off to start throwing myself around the kitchen - have a good afternoon everyone.
Hear you at 5
Katie
x
To Hellbell (#32): enjoy it! It WILL change the way you do stuff!
We now have a lovely organic veg box delivered by Riverford... it comes with a cute letter about the farmer who has grown the spinach (or whatever).
To Toby (#15) Me too... also a Graphic Designer... you just have to try not to stress when clients change the brief for the 10th time... grrr I know.. I dont know if this'll help but I read 'The Art of Happiness' by Howard Cutler and Dalai Lama. Makes you take a step back you know? and realise that even the most annoying pompous client is simply a human being with the same need for food, water, love etc...
Except he used better words THAN WOT I CAN DO!!!
xx
hi fellow cob......
well nearly spat out my soup reading the first line of todays blog.....
very silly me has done my back in ,.... no not by moving furniture .....changing a car tyre, ,,, but bending down to pick up a sweet packet!!!!!!!!! now how daft is that. so im sitting funny at the computer, in a little discomfort waiting for the ibpfofen to kick in.
went camping at the weekend to ashurst had a really great time and i must share this story with you....
a couple of years ago,one of our friends chris was having a few beers at home , kronenburg... all going well -wakes up the next morning and finds he cant speak proparly, panics and phones his wife who is a nurse and she manages to suss there is something worng with him and tells him to go to the doctors.
the doctor in a state of alarm tells him to go straight to the hospital for an mri scan, as he thinks hes had a stroke....as the days went on and waiting for the results to come in, he got full use of his speach.
after phoning the doctors to find his results are all clear he decides to celebrate with a few can of the aforementioned beer.guess what happened the next moring.............
we now call it when you cant get your words out you know like when you know what you want to say but you just cant say "The Kronenburg Syndrome"
we did laugh ...................
barb
BOOKS ---------Perfume ,by Patrick Susskind, recommended to the book club by Emma, or Shadow of the Wind ,by Carlo Ruiz Safon---a must for everyone
Morning bloggers and shloggers!
Well Chris thanks for sharing you morning constitutionals with us it was just a little to much information……..but thanks anyway :-)
The house sounded great to me until the price? If that were me and I am sure many of the other bloggers and shloggers on here would agree if I have to ask the price then generally that means I can not afford it
A new old house, such exuberance when many of the countries population can not afford so called reasonably priced housing. We in this country have this ideology that we must own our castle where as many of our European neighbours do not hold such status on home ownership and rent for their entire life. My kids will have to wait for me to kick the bucket and even then only invest what the government let them off with in inheritance tax to enable them to put a deposit on a place of their own? Are we odd or are they for the way we think about housing and who has got it right?
The Bug sounds great!
I keep and old beauty on the road. She has great a great engine, nice smooth lines and is always looking her best. My model costs a fortune to keep going but I think she is worth it, I have thought of trading her in for a newer model but I love her just the way she is………………..of course this model is my wife and she drives a modern car as she can not even check the oil……………a bug would kill her back! I spoil that woman :-)
Keith
Good afternoon Chris and Bloggers!
The house sounds brilliant Chris. Looked for my house for a year before finding her and getting the "feeling" and have now been here 10years and still love it! We are in a small village with a pub and our house sits alongside the canal. Its very tranquil and a great place to come home to at the end of the day!
Judging by the title and the fact that you told Dennis you'd be back to him by Monday (and on your show last night you were talking about why we in the UK buy our own homes not rent), I'm assuming you have offered already? Hope its been accepted and the house is yours!!
Am off to New York for a night so will miss this for a few days unless I can get hold of a computer in the hotel!
Take care one and all.
Weezie xx
Hi Chris,
Congrats on getting a bug! Lucky you.
I had a lovely yellow one as my first car. It was very unique to say the least. We had a massive rainstorm one afternoon. The next day I was driving and could hear water sloshing at the back of the dashboard, hmmm.... different. Later that day it beautifully poured out of the radio when I went up a hill! 1972 - 1303 Volkswagen Beetle with water feature!
Later moved on to a beautiful red one. Had to give up on the classic ones due to welding bills. Very, very sad to give them up. Got a smashing new yellow convertible one now.
Happy driving.
Nx
Well I had "the feeling" when I brought my flat a year ago - so much so that it was the first and only viewing I had....and within a few days of moving in I discovered I live downstairs to a man with 4 noisy teenage boys with appalling taste in music. Since then the sash windows have broken... the toilet flush has broken... the lights in the kitchen have broken... the sink in the kitchen leaks and rattles (think the tap is broken)...and there is a putrid smell that filters through the back door anytime anyone upstairs lets a tap run....and it had mice. Oh and the freeholder is a complete w. So much for "the feeling".....but then I did buy it from a clown (literally). I say be careful about that "feeling" especially when it comes to shelling out quarter of a million quid.
I love this blog by the way - and am quite embarrassed at just how excited I get when someone "answers" a posting of mine! x
Hey Chris and fellow bloggers!
House sounds fab Chris and I think you just have to go with it. It's hard to put values on things, but if it feels right, you just have to pay what it's worth to you. Dennis sounds like such a cool guy that I know he wouldn't rip you off anyway!
Books - Possession by AS Byatt and Holy Cow by Sarah MacDonald. Both for different reasons - Possession because it's just so heart breaking but strangely compelling. And Holy Cow because she's trying to find herself and trying all sorts of different spiritual stuff and decides in the end that a mix and match spirituality is what works. Certainly works for me.
I must be calming down - the man who winds me up simply by walking into my office has just appeared and I didn't want to punch his lights out !
Take care all, Happy Tuesday
Susan
xxx
G'day Christoph Lamby-Pie and the Schlog Squad!
Hope you went with your feelings and the 'force' or whatever and made an acceptable offer to Dennis. How we're all on tenterhooks about whether you've got a new house or not.
Never mind the spelling, at 6 a.m. you're doing well getting your eyes open.
Toodles.
Wow - that was an early one.
Why do men always fart when they wee? In particular in the morning. I never understand that. I always thought farts are associated with... (no best not).
In terms of books - I'm reading Sandy Toksvig "Whistling For Elephants". It's strange, funny and different. A bit like me!
Glad the house is sorted - sounds like you have made another mate.
x
Toby (15) whenever I get stressed by bickering colleagues, annoying bosses or frustrating customers I just get up from my desk and go for a wander for a minute cos even that simple little move away from my desk helps no end. I'm not near the phone, the email or anyone and it gives you some time to cool off and have some peace. Think of the funniest thing you can and just laugh for no reason.
Hope that helps :o)
P.S. looking at book recommendations - The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova was fascinating, creepy and a great look at relationships (both familial and romantic) - found I couldn't put it down when I started it. Excellent stuff.
Ahh classic cars. Great fun however Blue Angel you should be careful buying a MR2 import as you may find the parts impossible to get in the ukah well enjoy.
...buggere alle this for a larke...
'Good Omens' by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
...and the review it should have on the jacket - "THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ AND READ AND READ AND IT'S COMING ON HOLS WITH ME AGAIN" (Hazel Love)
You won't find it in the 'Self Help' isle either.
Buy it and enjoy it
Laugh and laugh
love
hazel
x
Dear all
I understand where Chris is coming from on this one. Does it not happen to all of us that we enter the place of our eventual abode and in an unnaturally short space of time make our mind up that this is a place we would like to live?
How does that happen, I wonder?
Perhaps we have evolved 'Ideal ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ' genes. It would explain some worrying trends in the output of daytime television for a start.
It is notable that a similar thing happens when we spot a would-be partner, our next car, hi-fi, bathroom suite, lawnmower, bbq etc.
The common thread amongst these items is that they are supposed to make us happier, after we possess them. So perhaps we are looking more at an epi-genetic-life-pathway algorithm for 'material goods (y)=happy (y)=better life chances (y) = more offspring (y)'
If so, it remains unreported in the scientific literature. Instead, perhaps we should be looking at the idea of memes.
Try this thought experiment at home. Remove all material goods from your life. Leave yourself, and everyone around you, with nothing more than the essentials for eating, drinking, keeping yourself warm and dry, and basic hygiene (ie, a source of uncontimated water and a hole in the ground). Throw in some basic health care for good measure, but nothing that requires electricity.
Keep your friends and relatives in close proximity.
Now ask yourself, are you any less happy?
If the answer is no, then you may have, at some point in your life, received a meme that makes you think that buying that house is what you need to make you happy.
If the answer is yes, you are probably depressed.
End.
(This comment was provided by McCrumble's Deep Thoughts Ltd - a free philosphophical serivce from the Cumbernauld Humanities Institute, proprietor Dr Joseph McCrumble)
EMMA (#42) me too!!!!
In fact, my first answer/namecheck was from the lovely HELLBELL (#32) and now I see that CHRISTOPHE has taken me up on my book idea as mentioned on a PS he's added.
hurray!
Kyleigh feeling silly and excited talking to all you lovely bloggers when I really should be doing 'proper' work.
xx
Oooh Chris, how exciting!!! So ... did you get back to Dennis with an offer??? Did he accept????
Green tea for the gums mate, and co-enzyme Q10.
The car sounds lovely. What colour is she? And what's her name??
Hello everyone else, hope you're all ok. I haven't read the rest of today's blogs yet, I've got a sore throat :-( - not that it stops me from reading but I'm even slower off the mark than usual!!
xxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Chris
This is the first time I have come to look at the blog, but listen every day on my drive home (to the show not the blog cos that would be silly!).
I do hope you read our comments, cos I'm going to ask for your help! I work on behalf of Radica UK and they are trying to make a new toy, it's called Music 20Q (based on the old game of animal, vegetable or mineral - remember it?) anyway, they are doing a music one, but it uses Artificial Intellegence to work and this must be taught to it, so we need thousands of people to go onto their site and ask it questions about their favourite UK music star etc. Do you think your listeners would help if you announced this? it's not prodcut placement as the toy does not exsist as yet, it is a way to be a part of the inventing of a new toy! - the website is - email me if you need more details!!
Hi All,
Wow, two very poignant topics for me today, House and Car.
I bought my 350 yr old house 20 yrs ago, it was a derelict cottage on the moors. An old lady, bedridden, lived in the bedroom, and had a crate of stout next to the bed, and lowered the big wrought iron key down through the window on a piece of string.
I fell in love with the place instantly, amazing energy, feeling of presences and stories to tell, surrounded by trees, blackberry bushes and Lilac. Even though I offered her less than some property developer offered, she accepted mine because we liked each other!!
I moved into a caravan at the bottom of the garden, no experience of this before, no running water or leccie or loo and spent 2 years lovingly rebuilding and rennovating it.
Here I am, 20 years on with a 16yr old son and 2 broken relationships... I bought the buggers out...somehow, the house knows us and is caring for us.
I've fallen in love with the 'love of my life' who is living over 100 miles away, and we're getting close to deciding how to be together. Maybe it's time to move on and let our home care for another family.
The Car...I dreamed of having a Land Rover Freelander, I bought her 7 years ago and named her 'Freda'. My son and his friends insist on me being the flight captain whenever we set off on a journey...welcoming all on board and describing the speed, height and inflight entertainment.
Sadly 3 months ago I had a 'bump' in her, and she's only just coming home today after loads of 'kaffufles' with the garage and insurance. Friends are telling me to get down to Car Craft and send her on her way...
too much negative energy. What do you think?
Debbie
Helen Davies (#52) - that game is super addictive...
I tried it with the Beastie Boys, and it won.
...Lets see if can get Nitin Sawnhey...
Just a quickie for Dr Black
re: imported MR2s
That's a big myth ... all parts are available from any Toyota main dealer ....... I've replaced just about everything possible on mine without a problem........ most parts are common to the UK version...... only minor items ( Sunshades, fog light switch, some power steering components and the fuel computer are different..... oh and the rear bumper.. but lets hope I never need a new one of those. :) They drive on the left just like we do so the steering wheel is in the right place and all the switches are in English as well as Japanese.... now ... if you were to import an MR2 from the USA then you have big problems .. they are very different.....
Keep smiling
Rachel
Hi Tommy Trumpet
Nice to see the boy in you is out to play this morning before you get all sensible and grown up on us. x
My house buying experience was quite different from most including yours. I am essentially a child so my house was chosen by friends (unplanned) which is not a bad thing as I would typically go for the pink fluffy house or the house with the quirky wonky ceilings, walls and roof. I have not a single investment bone in my body and would not know it if it smacked me in the face (quite a cause for concern for my parents and loved ones).
I now live opposite these friends so I know they must love me and would only have picked a fine house for me. They told me that this house was the best one in the street as they had been in many over the years so I believed them. I had to see it to make sure that my sofas would fit in and that I could throw a decent party but I didn't view a single other house.
Being a singleton (by choice, I'm not a minger!) and a really hard worker regualr gatherings of friends at home is really important to me. Breaking bread, playing games, laughter, music and dancing are the major contributors to the good feeling in my house and myslef for that matter. Food for the soul. Next time I'll be orgaising drunken football but that will be in the woods at the top of the road as my garden isn't quite big enough. This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV and I believe it was on TFI. There were two rival vineyards whose land shared a border and once a year they got drunk and played footie. Every few minutes they would go to the sideline and drink more wine. They were so drunk that they would miss the ball nearly every time they went for it. It was hilarious! I'm always looking for ideas for games for up to 20 people (preferably keeping clothes on) so please write in with your ideas.
Several neighbours (who are fast becoming friends) have commented on what a lovely atmosphere I have placed in the house which was previously owned by Mr Dull and Mrs Duller. I believe that house chose me to live there and I'm perfectly happy with that. By coincidence it turns out that two other people I know from years ago live in the same street as well as two other people who know my dad from years ago. I've never felt so snuggly buggly in a 'hood' and it just gets better and better.
Sadly no houses for sale in my street at the mo but I'll let you know if one comes up. In the meantime good luck with Aussie Dennis.
Debs xx
P.S. Freddie.
Toby 15...
Thanks for the advice.... Surely knowing when there is a problem & trying to tackle it is half the battle?!
nice deep breaths!
have a good stress free day!
DEBBIE 53# - Please read this - it is written for love and hope x
I think you need to re-read your blog to yourself. I don't get the impression (despite what you say) that you are particularly happy. It feels as though you are making excuses or reasons why or why not all the time, instead of taking life by the horns and trusting in your instincts.
You sound as if you are almost welcoming negative energy around you so that you can bemoan that everything seems against you. You remind me of an old (and very very dear) friend of mine who can never quite make up her mind what to do. She always needs a safety blanket, so never quite makes the cut. She is one of the most generous and loving people I know, but doesn't give the same consideration to herself.
I really don't mean this to sound horrible in any way, I just think that you need to take a step back from yourself, stop trying to see how difficult everything is, and look at how easy it might be. However many broken relationships and difficulties you have had, you needed them to get to where you are today.
It's not the house caring for you, it's YOU who is caring for you, and it is you who is holding on to something tangible and secure. Therefore it can only be you who can make the decisions. Take a chance on your intuition for a change, don't over analyse, go for it and enjoy life.
If Freda needs to go, let her go, and make sure you properly grieve. If she doesn't, thank your lucky stars that she's all ok, and that she'll give you another 7 years.
I found the love of my life (the boy) nearly four years ago, and I'd stop a speeding bullet for him I love him so much it hurts sometimes...
As *mackie 33#* quoted, what's for you won't go by you (unfortunately that's the good as well as the not so good!) so start feeling better!
Good luck
love
hazel
x
Sounds better than Mrs Evans - but I doubt life would be as stimulating and full of fun!? And I probably wouldn't be as loved.
Based on yesterdays subject - should we all watch "An Inconvenient Truth".
Isn't it just - so how many of us brought in our own sandwiches? etc etc etc
And if we all drive old cars - would we not be making things worse?
And "Don't Forget Your Toothbrush"! - sorry couldn't resist - it may clear the chinese food away.
hi
Just smile Toby (15) and take 5 x
helen #52
great game - i've heard about this on the radio but i really don't need anymore distractions!! perhaps i should jsut say NO!
mackiex
Wot a fab "Feel Good" blog today Chris!
Methinks that Dennis is a perfect illustration of the Aussie "No Worries" philosophy on life!
Great to hear the Bug has been "released" - Enjoy her and all her quirks.
My dream initially is a Stag, but basically any of the wonderful classy cars of yesteryear, an original Mini, Anglia, Zephyr or a for "best" an Austin Healy or if I win the lottery a Cobra, but thenagain you can go right the way back to the old bugattis circ 1920's etc - wow - what a way to arrive anywhere - especially Tescos!!!!!!
Love your enthusiasm that generates out through these blogs, Chris. But I have to say I love reading your "regulars" replies too - you seem a great bunch from all walks and viewpoints.
Just been released from the office so off to tune in - hope I haven't missed toooooo much
Roll on Wednesday
Love 'n licks
xxx
Just for the info for Blue Angel.
I'm sorry reading your blog again you mentioned you bought an MR2 MARK11. This was not a T bar and not a classic. I had the the mark1 for a few years a fabulous car .. now I have the mark4 .
Jap imports are cheap because the parts are in short supply.
KEEP GRINNING
Hi Chris
This is my first attempt at blogging so ... well - here goes...
I fifnished work early today on the proviso tht I was haveing a delivery of shopping delivered but really I just wanted to catch the whole of your show! I usually miss the first part and have to liten to it on the web using the listen again feature.
The piece on yesterday's show regarding "snooze buttons" was great. I have always been a fan of them and said that one would be my luxury on a desert island if I was on desert island discs! But this morning I resisted ( well I only pressed it once) and I felt so much better when I got up and felt more awake at work too so there must be something in it!
Just listening to today's show now - oh must go - my shopping has arrived!!!
Shazza-Lou
X
Hello dear... farting, onion crisps & Guiness... O.K. at the beginning of a relationship on a Sunday morning but the minute you're having second thoughts... nightmare... the smell lingers... but then when he isn't about you kinda miss it... & hello Mel C... #12 is it you... (have to ask)... small world if it is...I posted one on Friday which didn't make it... felt pretty paranoid ... amazing... I don't know if there are any rules of blogging... I didn't swear... just mentioned Bunny Boiler & constantly auditioning... & how it felt good to say it after thinking it from the first blog...had to be done... gotta be true to yourself... stay cool.
hi again fellow cobs...............
* 42* emma was that you that recommended the book perfume?? enjoying it so far thanks,
*50* kayleigh just thought id say hi......
*52* helen GREAT game but i have to get the dinner on now....., have passed it on
barb
Well this is my first blog entry - a lot of people seem to say that!
I am surprised at how few entries there are actually, I expected that there would be tonnes of messages coming in every minute and that anything that I wrote would be lost in the mire.
Why are thousands of people not writing in????
Dan
HAZEL # 58 and ME # 53
Thanks so much for creating the time and for caring enough to sense. Your observations stopped me in my tracks.
What felt like providing security for my Son, possibly did have a secondary benefit...my own security.
I'm a performance/life coach and NLP practitioner, and am generally very aware of my feelings, intuitions and 'states' and I totally get what you are saying about what has happened in the past, needed to happen for us to be where we are today.
It's a case of 'physician heal theyself' and I need to get back to intuiting with my heart and not thinking with my head.
Debbie X
Chris,
I lot of info for your morning habits. Thanks for sharing.
I woke up with the rain tipping down at 2am like a monsoon. The cat never came in until I went to work at 7am, of course she was very wet.
Mark
On the VW thing... such happy memories... I had a beetle in the '70's... it was pale blue & I had it re-sprayed sunshine yellow ... it was the first time I had gears... & I just loved it... never let me down... our other car was a Chevrolet Impala... my ex-husband used to tell me not to mention that I drove a small car... bless him... how times change... Wow! the only other car I just loved to pieces was a Mini Moke... white with red/white roof (awning type fold down top thing)... that never let me down either... I used to have a little wooden mallet to bang down the battery cables which were always jumping off... snogging, sweets, farting & cars... what a lovely blog... ciao ciao.
hello Chris,
Dennis sounds a doozy, anything important and you simply must follow your heart. (If ya don't it'll get ya in the end)! Hope you got your house.
Decided not to comment on the fart, - we girls don't of course......strange; my nose seems to be getting bigger!
luvvies bloggers x
hi Chris,
if the house feels right buy it, we looked at over 20 houses before walking into our home.
Since then we have found out that our home is 100 years old and there has only been 4 families live in it, and every family had 2 sons, guess what, two boys 8 & 10, would`nt move from here for anything.
Hi Christopher and Bloggers
BOTTOM - BUBBLES AGAIN. HEE-HEE. I think that the best ones are the ones that ladies (like me) produce - you know the silent but deadly version. KILLER POOMPS. This is what we call them in our asylum of a home.
Am so pleased that you found the house of your dreams - really hope all goes well and that you and yours live happily there - possibly little feeties may pad across the floors one day.
Ahhh - you know what they say (you know - them that always say these things) - with a new house comes a new baby. Ahhhhh.
Hubby off to Coventry tomorrow for two days - I will be bereft without him, so will blog for hours and hours I'm sure.
I wonder if people who reside in Coventry ever utter a word. Sorry off on a tangent again... Menopausal brain.
My first ever car (14 years ago when I passed my test) was a little orangey red mini that I called Mabel. Lovely little car whose heater never worked and which had a bakelite steering wheel - consequently when it froze hard, I would have to drive along holding on to the steering wheel with one hand for 10 seconds and then swop over to the other hand while I blew warm air onto the first.
Eventually I had blown so much warm air on my hands that the inside of the windows had totally steamed up all the way round the little car.
Passed my test first time aged 32 (late bloomer), never stopped chatting through the test, and when I was told I passed - I asked the Test man whether he was sure!!!!!!!!!!
Such a lovely man - gave him a big kiss on the cheek and then went home to kiss my lovely man as well.
Really quite a challenge - driving while swopping hands every ten seconds and not being able to see where I was going or what I had bumped against. Hey-ho the bliss of driving your first car.
You'll have to give the car a name Christopher - cars are always girls don't you think - I think you should call her BLOSSOM..........
BOOKS - BOOKS - BOOKS. You must read 'The Moon's a Balloon' by David Niven (the film star) what a brilliant book - laughed like a drain in bed, just couldn't put it down - laughed so much had to go for a weeeeeee.
BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is another by David Niven - by this time my bladder was totally empty 'cos I spent most of my time in the lavvy 'cos the book made me laugh. No bladder control unfortunately - just tickled my funny bone.
#15 Toby - try going into the loo and having a good cry - I do this on a weekly basis, as I work with some silly thoughtless people who make me upset on a regular basis. Can't afford to change my job though 'cos I've got a scarily expensive mortgage and have nightmares about negative equity.
#58 Hazel Love
What a sweet person you are. Being so thoughtful to Debbie - people like you are what makes the world go round. Big hug from me to you for being lovely..... xx
Off to bo-bo's now - heavy day tomorrow at work (probably spend some of it in the loo crying).
Take care everyone - sweet dreams to you all.
Love
Myra xxx
Grateful for all the book recs. Have noted all and plan to read - since we seem to enjoy the same things. Could take me some years as I seem to have so little time to read, much as I love it. Must love other things more,as I s'pose I could make time by giving up other things.
Chris has brought us all together! What good work...I'm happy about it anyway
What's bigger than the Stones on your show ? I heard you blabbering on about it, but must have missed the detail.
Is it crisps ?
Wow, Chris, you are sooooo right about that 'feeling'.
I have just done the same thing buying a piano. I just knew that it had been loved when I went to look at it. Makes it easier for me to love it too.
I'm worried about the weeing/farting thing though - the kids in my classes are always farting - i just hope they don't start weeting themselves in my lessons!
Bubs
Liked the England Hockey Coach's blatent Aussie bashing! Good for him. I think a trend could start here, get on any 'official' and get them to commit professional suicide on air!
Excellent!
Different works....or so we're being told.
Okay, everyone has either gone home or gone to bed and left me alone and ever so slightly (or more than slightly) tipsy and with an internet connection so I'm definitely with 'Parsley the cat's daddy - no 75) in wanting to know what it is that we've missed?? You wittered (scuse the not so pleasant verb there) on about something being bigger than the Stones and then never said nowt (or not that I head anyway while trying to cope with cooking and noisy house) and I had the radio on till 7 --- so what is bigger than the Stones Chris??? (by the way this is in your eyes cos in my eyes lots and lots is/are bigger than the Stones cos I don't particularly like them).
OOps - I think I'm either waffling or rambling cos that last paragraph lo9oks pretty big to me. Had a great night which included a friend being involved in the merriment even though she was miles away and only there by phone - oh the joys of technology.
Right I'm off now, hopefully you'll blog early in the morning and this will remain unseen by many an eye.
Sleep tight 1 & all
Katie
ps Where have all these daddlylonglegs come from? there's hundreds of em round here lately.
The story of the phlosopher and the jam jar.
One day a philopsophy professor was giving a lecture about the meaning of life.
He gave each member of the class an empty jam jar and a selection of rocks, pebbles, gravel and sand. He asked each pupil to see how many rocks they could fit into the jar. With a smirk and wondering what on earth they were going to learn from this infantile exercise the students did as the professor asked. Some managed six or seven rocks - others only two or three.
"These rocks", said the professor, "represent the really important people in your life. Mum and dad, brother and sister, wife and children and close friends. They are the centre of your universe and the stabilising influences in your life.
Next he asked them to add as many pebbles as they could. Reluctantly they obliged him and added maybe ten, twelve, fifteen, twenty.
"These", he added, "represent the other significant people in your life. Your aquaintances, colleagues, neighbours and heroes". By now the students could see that their jars were quite full and had some idea of where this was going.
The professor then asked the students to add the gravel to their jar. With a bit of shaking and shoving they managed to fill most of the gaps. "The gravel is a representation of all the 'extras' you enjoy in life." said the professor. "Religiion, politics, food, car, music, clothes, sex, recreation, sport, books, etcetera. Now you may think that there is little room for anything else. But here's where the sand comes in.".
Each student had now grasped where the professor was going with this and obliged him by taking a handful of sand. Seeing that there was little room in the jar took the students took pains to see just how much sand they could fit in. Every one of them managed at least a handful and many tried to fit in much more.
"The sand, although seemingly much less significant" said the professor, "represents all the things in life that we atke for granted - the conveniences. The corner shop, the local pub, the roads, parks, sea, sunshine.......I could go on".
By now every student could see that their lives were very full indeed and congratulated the professor. He had given a very hands on demonstration of the structure of the content of their lives. As they began to pack their bags and leave for their next class he said, "Hang on a moment. I have one more thing for you to add to your jars".
The students were curious but each and every one of them could see that there really was no room left in their jars for anything.
The professor handed each of them a can of beer and asked them to pour it ito their jar. Sure enough plenty of beer flowed into their jars until they overflowed and each of them wondered what this could possibly represent.
"However full you may think your life is", said the professor, "there's always room for beer but if your jar is full of beer there'll be no room for rocks, or pebbles, or gravel.......".
Mange tout. x
I'm an Evans Virgin, having visited for the first time this morning. Thoroughly enjoyed your rantings & look forward to reading more as and when possible. I AM a drivetime listener, being behind the wheel of a coach usually returning to Plymouth from London Victoria coach station. Keep up the great show Ginge, you're doing a 'Proper job' as we say in Cornwall, me Ansom'.
Rob
Farting is good for the system!!!!
Hi Chris
On noticing your love of a good book I wondered if you had heard of a site called "bookcrossing.com"? If not, its a great idea, you read a book of your own and then register it on the site where they issue your wee book with a number. Then when you've read it you leave it in a public place, anywhere'll do. I have left books in public loos, at bus-stops, in pubs and cafes and then someone will pick it up and hopefully register it as found on the site (you put a sticker on it with the number and web addy) and you can trace its 'journey'. Anyway at the very least it gets rid of all those books you may have lying around! Give it a look I find it quite a buzz when you get an e-mail saying that someone has found your book. Great blog by the way, I feel like I'm living in your house!
Hi Chris,
I get the impression that you are into delving into the soul, meaning of life and all that. Also suspect you are a fact lover, and can't stand advice/opinion offered which has no substance.
So, on the subject of books on the meaning of life etc, it would be a delight to hear your top ten (or more?).
Here's one from me:
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [1992] - try pronoucing that after a skinful! The most mumbo jumbo free, scientifically based, fact filled book on achieving happiness I've ever read. Truely remarkable. Completely BS free.
Look forward to your recommendations....
Cheers
Dave.
Hi to all Bloggers,
Been meaning to view this site for yonks now as it's referred to all the time in the show - and finally I have got araound to it. It's fab - in places funny, in places informative, always interesting and entertaining. What a lovely bunch of listeners we all are and how nice to read what everyone has to say. Not that I'm saying much but just a huge pat on the back to whoever kick started this off in the first place and a big thanks to everyone who posts on it.
A quick thought spared to one of my twin daughters who has just had elastics fitted onto her brace and is finding them hard to deal with, a thought spared for the other twin who has been told she can have hers removed early (it's hard to be pleased for one and at the same time comiserate with the other - but will all be worth it in the end I'm certain) A final thought spared for my son, who has somehow convinced one of his sisters that she would benefit from swapping her mobile phone with his. Reckon he has an ulterior motive there somewhere.... Time will tell.
Thanks for a brilliant show - I LOVE IT. Along with Terry Wogan's, Jeremy Vine's and Steve Wrights!!
Sam X
I'd be interested to know what other classic cars you have Chris. I used to own a 1974 Jag XJ6 Series 2 4.2, in Sable (mid brown kinda colour, rare for that model). You mentioned your own Jag on here, and the Bug. And the Moggy Minor i heard you mention on the show the other week.
Don't mean to be nosey, just interested in old cars, is all.
Cheers
Hi again Mr. Evans.
I know what you mean about "the feeling". When my ex wife and i where looking for our second home (our last) we looked at a few houses. We were talking one night and i told her that when i walk into a house and feel that i was walking into my home, i'd know we'd found the one. We looked at a few more, before looking at this particular one, where i had "the feeling". I didn't tell her that i was feeling it. But when we'd left and were back in the car, she said to me that she now knew what i meant about feeling at home, cos she did with that house. Then i told her i did too. The rest, as they say, is history.
And so are we!
Be cool.
uyaogju
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers are leading the way at this years MTV Europe music awards with four nominations...