OLDER ? YES. WISER ? NO.
Just blogged and got completely wiped. Gutted.
Here goes again.
Great couple of weeks away. Has seemed like for ever due to the fact that it was completely jam packed.
We had COMIC RELIEF. We had the foot ball at the New Wembley, I was easily the worst player on the pitch but we had a real laugh anyhow. Then there was lots of work on the new house which is about to become the old house. Then there was golf and eating for a few days and then back home to host an internal BEEB awards night last week and then off to Ireland for a birthday weekend with pals.
Didn’t get back till last night when we went straight for a curry and then watched a particularly hard to believe episode of 24. I’m losing my faith in Jack !
This morning was the show and an hour of decisions. The type of decisions one can only make free after a couple of weeks of brain space. My goodness a little bit of down time goes a bloody long way don’t it ?
Made a semi massive discovery whilst I’ve been away but that will have to wit until tomorrow.
A short week for all and isn’t everyone in such a good mood for a Monday.
The sunniest day a kid could wish for. And as a new forty one year old this kid is good to go.
It’s good to be back, no really it is. I feel an important few months coming on. Watch this space why don’t you.
Comments
Chris,
So glad you are back! Happy Birthday!
I can't wait until 5pm to hear all about it. Take care folks and have a great Monday.
Amanda
Hello Christoff
How wonderful to have you back. Must have checked at least 20 times today to see if you were there.
We have missed you sooooo much.
Tell me, did you scale the beautiful Snowdon whilst on your holibobs?
Catch you at 5
Mangetout
Welshrarebit
xxxxx
Yay!!!!!! You're here - welcome back chumberley CLP ... man, how we missed you!
Happy birthday for yesterday - sorry its late but I too have been busy.
Your two weeks sounded fab! I've got some time off over Easter and have packed lots in already ... spa day, zoo visit, spring clean the house ...and sp the list goes on, and on, and on.
As much as I wanna escape the portacabin, knowing you're back on air at 5 today I will stay here until 4.55 pm then head out for my drive home to your wonderful wit and wisdom.
Tout le monde, mon amie!
CtD x x x
Chris is back! The boy is back in town the boy is back in town wooooeee weee(sing to tune of Thin Lizzy)! Oh cant wait until going home listening to show, how i have missed Chris and his mates and our mates!
Will listen to him on my way home from work and also when i am cooking the dinner tonight dancing around the room with me glass of wine and feeling soooooo goooood!
He's back! yipeeeeeeeee
Welcome back Christophe - shame about the wiped post - I'm sure it would have been up by 11.17. Glad to hear you feel better and invigorated. Sunshine and longer days and for me anyway, daffodils, make life more entertaining. I wonder what the semi-massive discovery is - that you are actually Vanessa Feltz's little brother?
Mmm - mange tout and ciao one and all. xx
Blimey - am i the first?
Great to have you back Chris. You have me all intrigued - semi massive discovery?
Will be glued to the wireless for the next few months!
Alicia
Wow, Chris - we're all intrigued with this news! Cant wait to hear what you have got up your sleeve. .
Welcome back anyway - here's hoping for a good one tonight.
Weather over here in Belfast is also fine fine fine. Summers here and the time is right . . .
Afternoon Christoph
Good to see that you are in fine spirits after your time off.
A bit of sunshine really makes a difference, doesn't it?
Lets hope it hangs around for the weekend.
'Cos I'm playing golf!
First time in years. I shall be accompanying the club captain for a round on Easter Monday. I went to the range yesterday to see if I could remember how to hit the ball.
I could. Sort of.
So, if you have any spare time Chris, I could do with a few pointers!
Have a great first show back. I shall be in the car on the dot of 5.00.
Peace & love
MfR
PS Ice is slowly melting.
SO GLAD YOU ARE BACK CHRIS. HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR YESTERDAY. CAN'T WAIT FOR 5 XXXASHY
Yay you're back :o)
Am looking forward to 5 oh 5 - hope foxy is doing OK with the little one :o)
Jo
Looking forward to 5pm. Stuart was a great stand in, but there's no substitute for the real thing.
Welcome back Chris!
Christopher,
Happy Birthday, you do not look a day over ....
Keith
Welcome back CLP!
Hope you had a good birthday in my neck of the woods!
If only it was a short week here - hard to believe, but Good Friday in Ireland isn't a public holiday! It's a Bank Holiday and most companies give the day off as a bonus, but lucky me finds a company that has us in the office for the day! How's about that!!?? So my Easter weekend gets cut to 3 days...boo hoo, I'm coming back to Blighty!
Still, the weather here is most excellent, since the clocks changed it's been great. Pity we didn't change the clocks in January!
Anyone got caught out with April Fools yesterday by the way??
Will be fine tuned for the show at 5, the net connection has had a rest and is ready to go!
Tickle :)
CLP!!!!
Thanks goodness you're back!!! I've missed you and the gang far more than I'm prepared to admit!
Really looking forward to tonight's show, I expect you will have lots to tell us about your break.
Things have moved on in the last couple of weeks, with the sad demise of Moose. The man beneath has decided he needs to move on and has shed the Mooseness we all came to love. Hopefully, he will be back here in one guise or another.
Well, this is my week off work, so am not going to hang around here much this week.
Welcome back honey!
S xx.
Gingetown is open again. The saloon bar is filling up, the dancing girls preparing themselves. The lonely sole has sobered up. It`s gona be a rootin`, tootin` time cowboys and cowgirls. Hang on to your saddles...
Its been a long 2 weeks for us not on holiday. Looking forward to the 5pm show to hear all about it...
My sister Sarah has introduced your show and blog to me... Many thanks to her - you're the best on the Radio!
Welcome back and Happy Birthday...!
Us kids love the sun!
Sally (Aged 34 and 7 weeks!) x
Hi Chris....
It's good to have you back. Looking forward to the show tonight, and tomorrow, your big discovery that's gotta be a cue for some ELO ...;)
I've been on holiday too.... in Cornwall , we stayed in a hotel where there was a party of 12 birdwatchers from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ making some sort of nature programme or other... I think that they were really the canned laughter department on a jolly ... blimey did they laugh ... even at breakfast..... never a dull moment and not one of them young enough to still be at work....... there's hope for us kids yet.
Keep smiling
Rachel
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Me thinks that you have been off the telly for far too long christophe. I love radio and I am sure you do too but I don't think you can beat really decent telly. Also let's all be honest here before you radio lovers start to wail - CLP's impish good looks are wasted just being on the airwaves - why not a bit of both?? Need you back on a Friday night pleeeeeease!
great that you are back!
Welcome back Chris - we have all missed you tons!
A belated Happy Birthday for yesterday- am a great beliver that birthdays should last about a week so this weeks' show should be one long party!
Will be in the car from 5 listening hard - we need more news of the fox and her new cub!
Big Love to all bloggers - have been reading all but not posting much. Good luck to all starting new jobs - i start mine on April 16th and am leaving current job this Thursday!!
Only 46mins to go!!!
Belles x x x x
How old is the new James Bond?
Sorry couldn't resist!!!!
Welcome back CLP,
So you have a little surprise up your sleve then!!!
Looking forward to the show,
Love Deb x
way hay! Ginger is back (i'm ginger too so it is OK)! happy birthday Chris for yesterday! and you've brought the sunshine, lovely lovely!
looking forward to the show tonight - kids off for the Easter break, no rushing out to after school stuff - although I have had mum.........mum............mum..........mum.........mum.......from 10 year old bouncing child in pyjamas (also ginger) do they not understand I AM SELF EMPLOYED AND NEED TO WORK THIS WEEK TO TAKE NEXT WEEK OFF!
teenage daughter surfaced at 1.30pm wow - I've been up since 7am, hung out washing (had to transfer neighbours stuff from my line as they had left it out overnight - honestly)!, fed animals emptied dishwasher, got dinner prepared, walked dog (twice) saw client, drawn up existing layouts for a job - the usual Monday mum stuff! how's everyone elses day gone and who won the sweepstake ?
Sammie - glad to see you remembered me!
Fab weekend - managed to get the trampoline back up - great weather have had bouncing kids all weekend! (and dog) not me - pelvic floor and all that! but we are slowly reclaining our garden back from the building site! Hooray!
CLP - waiting with bated breath - what do you have in store for us today?
love to all bloggers
Love Dot
Woooo Hooooo (Air Guitar Solo)
Bonjour Christophe, welcome back!!
Loyal Bloggers and shloggers all logged in and ready to party in the sunshine (Moose excepted, farewell fair Moose!)
You sound in good form!!! Looking forward to the drive home!!!
DD out
Welcome back!
...radio pre-tuned back to R2 as i parked it this morning :)
Hello Chris et al
Aah, holidays. Glad to hear you had a good time, Chris. I can't actually remember how much fun a holiday can be - the last one ended in disaster, and with No3 on the way I'm not putting anything in my diary just yet.
Did the curry by any chance affect your ability to suspend your disbelief in 24? I saw one episode in the first series and decided it was totally unbelievable. I remember I was eating a curry at the time - maybe we've stumbled onto something here...
J McC
Welcome back Chris, glad you have had a lovely fortnight, today has been a beautiful day, I'm off to babysit for my friend's kids so she can go to see Lemar in concert and then off to the Roald Dahl museum tomorrow! So nice to be off work, wish I never had to go back.
Well done on your nominations, thoroughly deserved. I can't wait for the party!!
Em xx
Chris
Welcome back Chris and also welcome to the land of the 'over 40's'. We are all over 40 but some of us are more 'over 40' than others : )
Gaby
xx
really...really...really good to have you back! and perfect timing for the school holidays...which means i can kick back and relax whilst listening to my favourite man on the radio! rather than on the bus on the way home...still top notch stuff!
Well done on comic relief night...was super! oh...and saw your fast lap on the best of top gear last night! impressive driving there chris!
Happy Birthday for yesterday! :) hope you had a fun filled day!
take care all!
toodle pip!
:) x
Chris!!
its....soooo good to have you back! and perfectly in time for the school holidays...which means i can kick back and relax as i listen to you from home...makes an alternative to on the bus on the way home...of course its always as good!
Congrats on comic relief night...was super!...oh and i watch the best of top gear last night...and you were on it with your fast lap on the track! boy that was impressive!
Happy Birthday for yesterday! hope you had a fun filled day!
take care one and all!
toodleloo!
well, it would seem that lots of people are experiencing or about to experience change, shifts, excitement and plans. Cant wait to hear all about it!
Happy belated birthday CLP - you're looking gorge!
xx
PS Ice Ice Baby. xxxxx
Chris, Hope you had a very 41st Happy Birthday in Ireland, respect fellow Aries person.
Heck! It's Good to be back!
I now have a agent SLM Ltd - representing me as a presenter for TV and Radio of course, anytime you need some help.. or a guest in the studio.. get in touch.
Sounded fantastic tonight! roll on...
Sam Downie
Bristol
Welcome back Chris.
But oh what a tease you are!
EG
Congrats to Crazy Horse on the sweep. Normal service resumes on Friday morning.
Keeping it short and sweet tonight. One of my favourite films is on, so happy viewing.
MW, a!
PS Them sirens did this to Pete. They loved him up and turned him into a horny toad!
PPS CLASSIC!
Welcome back lovely Christoff. We missed you!
Great show tonight.
Love Catbird xxx
It was great to have you back last night CLP, I've been away for the past week so managed to get through it ok... still there's nothing like Drive Time with yourself m'boy!
Hello all you Bloggers out there!!!
Luv
Lyndyloo
&the Bears
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Welcome back CLP!! Happy Birthday for yesterday xx
Happy Tuneful Tuesday lucky birds!
Made even better by the jolly soundings of Mr CLP last eve...didn't get to listen to lots as me and the boy were helping a friend move house...and put his bed together...and got home around eight...too leight...
Hope Mrs Evans is doing ok and was suitably pampered on Mothering Sunday!
the sun is up the sky is blue and it isn't raining in my heart
love
hazel
x
PS For those of you who may be interested...
I've never watched it. Just haven't. No reason. But I thought the article was amusing...
Great to have you back Chris - not the same the journey home seems bleak without your outbursts and opinions.
If you ever get to play Augusta im always available to play in case you can't find anyone else!!!!
Bet you would love the chance to fire one down off the first tee.
Great show keep up the excellent work.
unfortunately, being older does not make us wiser - we just get used to getting it wrong! but thats the fun of life eh?!
Anyone else wondering were CLP is this morning - has the excitment of yesterdays show got too much for him already!!!
Belles
PS - Am wondering why Dave Spikey and Peter Kay are no longer friends? Any one have the answers?
Morning schmorning!!
Day 2 of CLP's return. I expect there to be a much improved attendance here later on today - registration will commence at 2 pm....
The Moose, well he's back! Great news for all!
Hael, should you have been helping anyone move house, given how poorly you are? Take some of your own medicine and give yourself a break woman!!! There, all done. {{{}}}
I have now created a OAMC of my own. Me and two of my friends (we live about 50 miles apart in an odd triangle, we have called Bermuda - cos time just vanishes, obviously!) have now decided to diarise for monthly meetings at each others houses. Thing is, we've all had it tough over the last two years and have been there for each other. Now things are improving, it's easy not to put as much effort in, but we want to, so we will.
Right, am off now to do fun and interesting things with the kids (err - does tidying bedrroms count?). Will check in later for registration... (Yes Miss!).
Happy days,
S xx.
Helllooooooooooo!
Can I register early, as come 2pm I shall be tied up (thankfully not literally) with a local WI group educating them on the ways of recycling.
I can't wait to leave this job!!! Counting the days? Me? Heck, yes!
I too was wondering wassup with the Spikey/Kay combo? Someone please tell us ....
Loving Dermy on the Ken Bruce slot - p'raps he can cover for CLP next time our man's on holidayz?
Currently preparing loads of handover notes and procedures for whoever takes the baton after me. It's really tough documenting everything you do on a daily basis, as it all becomes second nature after a while. Putting into coherent paragraphs and instructions is really testing me !!!!
Well, best get back to it - the quicker I get back to it, the quicker it'll be done.
Til tomorrow blog amies!
Viva La Diva!
Cheryl x x
Hazel here miss.
...and Sammie...please let me rush to reassure you...the boy was doing the moving...I was there purely in a 'Beautiful Assistant' cum supervisory role.
I did have to pass the occasional screw, however, but we won't go there.
husky
love
hazel
x
ps Good to see you Dot and Mayhem xx
pps Icicles are twicicles as nicicles
ppps Gaby.
Hello all
Whilst you are all waiting for Chris to appear, why not pop over to my new blog
It's my attempt at throwing a fresh perspective onto the often confusing world of current affairs. The world will keep on turning without me, but maybe I can throw the occasional curveball to make things wobble on their axes, or something like that.
J McC
Welcome back Christoff!!
It's so good to have you 'home'. We await all your news with bated breath!
A few of your bloggers are meeting up in Glasgow tonight and we'll certainly raise a toast to you for enabling our friendships!
Have a blast of a day back!
Huggles, Susan
It's sooooooooooooo good to have you back...............
Pen blwydd hapus for Sunday... XX
J. McCrumble - is there something scary in the water in Cumbernauld?
Anne
Sorry I am going for the dentists for todays blog sweep. Tooth Hurty (2:30) for me!
DD out
PS Hazel glad your bright and breezy today
PPS KFC rocks at the right time and the right place
PPPS bright young thing!!!
Anne G - I don't actually live near Cumbernauld. The Institute gained its name from its glrious founder - the eminent Victorian scientist Prof Ebeneezer McCumbernauld (see archives). So I can't really comment on what might be lurking in the waters. A man once told me he was fishing in the river Kelvin near Kilsyth when he caught a giant salmon that glowed in the dark and could count up to three. This struck me as something strange, but the couldn't verify his story so I chose not to take it any further.
Hope this helps
J Mcc
J.McC - very helpful. Was the giant salmon a relative of the lone sole?
Anne
Its still quiet around here!!!
Loved Dermot today - have been office bound all day and agree he should take over when out belived CLP is on hols - an equally delicious boy!!!
Belles x
Anne
The lonsome sole to which you refer was last seen pining for his mate, who was lightly fried in butter by Ravel, my trusty research assistant, last week.
J McC
Oh dear it's gone 2 pm - sorry I'm late Miss but my dog ate my - oh no that's another excuse. JMc what happened to the other blog? Is CLP going to reveal his big secret today - in the blog or on the show? Susan S envy you your blog dinner. Anyone out there in the North of England?
Ciao xx
Is it me, or is it going R E A L L Y S L O W L Y today?
Like a tortoise on crutches...like a snail with a walking stick...like a hare with a broken leg...use your imaginations.
R...E...A...L...L...Y...S...L...O...W...L...Y
and I have just run out of loo roll. and I'm in the middle of nowhere...and before you use your imaginations for this one...I think I'll leave it there.
ahem
love
hazel
x
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CLP where are you?
You are excusee on a Monday and a Friday so I hope you have a note for being late today! :o)
So great to hear your lively personality through the airwaves lastnight :o)
Mary xx
'Scuse me...is this the mis-plaiced lonesome sole?
Favourite song - "Skate Away" by Dire Straits...
...or is that the trail of the lonesome pine?
like I said....
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Hi all,
Oh Hazel how right you are, I'm going to try to stop looking at my watch - I'm sure it's going backwards today, I'm sure 1.30 has been round twice.
And NO LOO ROLL, I can always fax you some if thats of any use.
I'M BORED, BORED BORED roll on 5.30 so I can get out of this place.
Cheers
Nicki
PS I want to break free!!
I agree Hazel Love today is going mega slow!! Like a Sloth on sleeping pills!
I am trying to drag out one days work in to two and a half days so i dont pick up anything new before i leave!!
Someone has just come bustling in to my office tho saying how quick the day is going!! She must be mad!!
Still no signs on Christophe - anyone think he wont blog today - just to keep us all waiting for his big news!!
Big Loves
Belles x x
Hazel - it's as slow as a blind tortoise navigating a minefield against the wind
Penguin -fear not, my web-footed friend. The original blog is still going strong. I'm just diverting people onto the Daily McCrumble blog to advertise it and stimulate some comments / interaction. So far, no joy.
J McC
I agree Hazel Love today is going mega slow!! Like a Sloth on sleeping pills!
I am trying to drag out one days work in to two and a half days so i dont pick up anything new before i leave!!
Someone has just come bustling in to my office tho saying how quick the day is going!! She must be mad!!
Still no signs on Christophe - anyone think he wont blog today - just to keep us all waiting for his big news!!
Big Loves
Belles x x
Hi
Wait til you reach up in the high fifties. Your perception is heightened. Time passes really quickly and for me at least the list of things i want to complete and to do gets longer not shorter. I have more fun than ever. Frankly even the sadder areas of life don't weigh as heavily as they used to.
So my old soldier, Keep Smiling it helps you feel better and it really irritates all the old grumpies!!
Glad to see so many could make it in time for registration - others are conspicuous by their absence and will be reported!!!
HL - bet you made a fab glamorous assistant. In charge of screws too - aren't you the lucky lady???
And yes, it's going very, very slllooowwwwlllllyyyy, I'm defragmenting my hard drive (wish I could do the same to my brain) and it's taking an age. One of the kids has downloaded something dodgy that's causing all sorts of hassle, so decided some long overdue PC housekeeping was required... wish I hadn't started.
WHERE'S CHRIS??? Bet he blogs just as I do....
S xx.
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Welcome back Chris. Saw your lap on the best of Top Gear on sunday, competitvness is in us all no matters how laid back we are!
Well thanks to you (not says him indoors) we are going to get an Eglu. Received the how to look after your chickens today will check it out before taking the plunge. Will keep you posted!
Truly lovely day yesterday, but for me o'h so sad had to make the decicion to say goodbye to my dog, he may have been old and 'orrible but he was my old and 'orrible, miss him already.
Saty safe.
M