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Blimey, if I'm first I'm GOBSMACKED!! Doubt it, I've probably done something wrong. Been on holiday for a week so catching up on blogs and lovely to be back at work of course!

Trivia info eh? Hard to think when on the spot! What about doggy related ones as that's my forte - the breed of dog featured in the film Turner and Hooch (as Hooch the dog) was a Dogue de Bordeaux - aka a French Mastiff. Hope that helps! xx

Morning CLP, glad you had a good weekend!

The names of all of Snow White's seven dwarfs are Doc, Grumpy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Dopey, Happy and Bashful!

Why did I think of that? Cos I can't stop sneezing!

Hope you had a great holiday Chr!

JG x

Morning CLP! Best of luck with WWTBAM! Factoids ... hmmmmm ...

can't think of ONE interesting fact at the moment! Mind you 'tis a bit early!!

T xxxxx

found one ...

London football club Tottenham were formed in 1882, and originally named after Harry Hotspur - one of Shakespeare's characters in Henry IV

T xxx

Just one more ...

Australia has the world's largest population of wild camels with one hump.

Why does that make me laugh???

T xxxx

Morning Christoph, good luck with Millionaire, hope you and Tel make lots of dosh for CiN.

Will have to engage brain and have a think about a general knowledge factoid, best you ask Steve Wright! lol

Hello to everyone else.

Pen xx

pee ess, bit on the murkey side here weatherwise, hope it improves

Morning CLP and bloggers

Weather here today is Glasgow is stunning - blue blue skies!!

Few fact for you Chris, will delve into my 'heid' and see what else comes up!!!

The official β€˜Sanskrit’ (Indian) name for India is Bharat.
The current monarch of Norway is King Harald V.
The polar bear's scientific name is Ursus maritimus, which means "sea bear."

Lots of luck, you and Tel will make a great team!!

dreamer
xxx

Good monning Chris .

Just like to say that you were fantastic on The One Show ,and would like to see alot more of you on there.
Take aways dont hurt that much ,It's enjoying them that matters .

Which US city hosted the 2002 winter olympics ? = Salt Lake City.

Which political leader's autobiography was bought for a record $3Millionin in 1985? =Ronalds Reagan's.


Which Country provides the backgroudd for "Out OF Africa"? = Kenya.

Good luck

Bids.xxx.

Found an internet quiz site so here goes!

Q1. John Spilsbury is credited with putting together which baffling invention in the 1760s?
Answer - Jigsaw puzzle
John Spilsbury was a London-based mapmaker and engraver who invented the jigsaw puzzle back in 1767. His first puzzle was a map of the world, simply a map of the world attached to a large piece of wood. He cut out each country from the piece of wood and gave the completed puzzle to a geography teacher so that his students could learn where the countries were by reassembling the map of the world. It took a 133 years for the first puzzle for adults to be invented and only eight years after that, a worldwide craze for these puzzles was in full swing.

Q2. A plot element in a film is often called which one of the following?
a. Macbeth
b. Macduff
c. MacGuffin
d. Macleod
Answer - MacGuffin
A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is "a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction." Sometimes, the specific nature of the MacGuffin is not important to the plot such that anything that serves as a motivation serves its purpose. The MacGuffin can sometimes be ambiguous, completely undefined, generic or left open to interpretation. The MacGuffin is common in films, especially thrillers. Commonly, though not always, the MacGuffin is the central focus of the film in the first act, and later declines in importance as the struggles and motivations of characters play out. Sometimes the MacGuffin is all but forgotten by the end of the film.

Q3. The old name for which island country is the Latin word for beautiful?
Answer - Formosa
Taiwan (also known as Formosa, from Portuguese: (Ilha) Formosa, meaning "beautiful (island)"), is the largest island of the Republic of China (ROC) in East Asia. Taiwan is located east of the Taiwan Strait, off the southeastern coast of mainland China. Since the end of World War II in 1945, the island group has been under the government of the Republic of China.

Q4. Which sport legend was given the nickname Le Crocodil?
Answer - RenΓ© Lacoste
Jean RenΓ© Lacoste (1904 - 1996) was a French tennis player and businessman, nicknamed "the Crocodile" by fans because of his pugnacity on court; he is now known primarily as the namesake of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929. Lacoste was one of The Four Musketeers, French tennis stars who dominated the game in the 1920s and early 1930s. He won seven Grand Slam singles titles in the French, American, and British championships but never made the long trip to Australia to play in their championships. He was the world number one player for both 1926 and 1927.

Q5. On the Voyager 1 spacecraft there is a golden record with greetings in different languages and a collection of various Earth sounds. There is also a 90 minute recording of music from many cultures. Which two artists appear the most on this record?
Answer - Bach and Beethoven

Q6. Which politician is the co-author of the book Judo: History, Theory, Practice?
Answer - Vladimir Putin
One of Putin's favorite sports is the martial art of judo. Putin began training in sambo (a martial art that originated in the Soviet Union) at the age of 14, before switching to judo, which he continues to practice today. Putin won competitions in his hometown of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), including the senior championship of Leningrad. He is the President of the Yawara Dojo, the same Saint Petersburg dojo he practiced at when young. Putin co-authored a book on his favorite sport, published in Russian as Judo with Vladimir Putin and in English under the title Judo: History, Theory, Practice. Though he is not the first world leader to practice judo, Putin is the first leader to move forward into the advanced levels.

Q7. What are the signature songs for each of the following characters?
a. Kermit the Frog
b. The Cookie Monster
Answer - Two answers
a. Bein Green and
b. C is for cookie

Q8. In Japan, what is a Gaijin?
Answer - A foreigner.
Gaijin means 'outside person'

Q9. The following words are from which songs with the word 'world' in the song title?
a. It's the only thing that there's just too little of
b. But it wouldn't be nothing without a woman or a girl
c. That's great, it starts with an earthquake
d. Jeremiah was a bullfrog
e. Don't know much about the French I took
f. Well gidy up gidy up and get away
g. Birds sing out of tune and rain clouds hide the moon
h. Other eyes see the stars up in the skies, but for me they shine in your eyes
Answer - Eight answers
a. What the world needs now is love sweet love (David and Bacharach)
b. It's a man's man's man's world (James Brown)
c. It's the end of the world as we know it (REM)
d. Joy to the world (Three Dog Night)
e. Wonderful world (Sam Cooke)
f. Rockin all over the world (John Fogerty, Status Quo)
g. A world without love (Peter and Gordon)
h. You're my world (Cilla Black)

Q10. Fabulated Marshmellows, Protozoic Spliff, and Netherworldy Mugwumps are all examples of a two word search query that returns exactly one hit in google. What are these queries called?
Answer - Googlewhacks

Link to website is

Daisy x
Back at work for a rest!

Christoph

If Barack Obama had not become a politician he would liked to have become an architect.

Pen xx

Afternoon each!

Well..what can i say apart from a fab day on Saturday, with fab people and a fab Beatles tour thrown in (see what i did there...?!)

My first `big` blog meet and all i can say is peeps are even nicer in real life than they come across on here...if that is possible!

And Bingo is officially as mad as a box of frogs..but in the nicest way possible...fantastic entrance as those who can see the pics will concur!

So, thank you to everyone who was there and also everyone who wasnt..great to meet everyone! next time i think we will need a whole pub and not just a bottom floor to take over!

Now Monday morning is not the best time to be asking me quiz questions..and how can i follow Daisy anyway...but...

Q - What is the name of the debris left by a glacier retreating?
A - Terminal Moraine..and debris at the side is just called Moraine.

Q - Which strings does a violin have?
A - G,D,A,E (lowest to highest)

Q - What is a traditional gift material for a first wedding anniversay?
A - Paper

Thats it..brain frazzled..LUNCH!

catch u all later.,

mSc x

Greetings Of Niceness Ter CLP & ALL Blog Dudes....

Bingo Star ere.....

CLP - Yes all at the Liverpol Blog Meet 'ad a most nice teem, although the ladst thing a need ter do iz rack me brain for indepth general knowledge questions az me brain 'urts enough after the weekend and ave goot ter recover ready for me maths class termozza!!!!!!!

Az for a Japanese Acer.... a thought it waz a make of running shoe!!!!!!!!

Even though me mind iz in pain i'll try ter think of some Q's & A's.... just 'ope a don't end up in A&E!!!!!!!!

Just wanted ter say a BIG Ello ter all who came ter the Liverpool Blog Meet & Especially Chezza The Diva for organising it all - WHATTA STAR SHE IZ!!!!!!!!@!!@!@!@!!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@!!!!
It waz great ter meet so many blog dudes!!!!!!

The only bad bit of the weekend waz getting me mobility scooter stuck in the lift doors of me 'otel & the bloke who sold me a compass in a pub!!!!!
When a goot back ter me 'otel a noticed the compass 'ad no co-ordinates aka no points.... it then a realised buying it waz pointless!!!!!!!!!!

Yer learn the 'ard way!!!!!!!!

I'll bang some more blog meet 'appenings on the blog termozza!!!!!

Gotta go.... busy at work!!!!!!

PPPPS Actually, na... i'll leave it until termozza!!!!

Gotta go...................

GOURANGA TER ALL C.I.N. TAKE PARTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#12 - Reminds me of the amount of times it tooook me ter get me scoooter out the lifts doors & through the pub dooors!!!!!!
Reminds a bit of X-Factor and jamming dooors!!!!!

Nothing terdo with The Doors of course!!!!!

Bye!

Moring Christoff Lammie Pie . .

I like your thinking . .

I think the handiest way for us to drop some facts is maybe to write about what we know best, where we're from etc, so . .

Northern Ireland consists of 6 counties in total. The "province" of Ulster has 9 Counties, 3 of them being not in Northern Ireland at all - those are Co.Donegal, Co.Cavan & Co.Monaghan - all counties in the Republic of Ireland
(the other 3 Irish provinces being Leinster, Munster & Connaught)

- you probably knew that anyway . . .

Good luck . . .

DtM

Hiya Peeps

Gald to see the Liverpool lovlies are slowly drifting back to us.

How long before we send a search party to look for stragglers left behind?

Useful info.

SCUBA stands for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apperatus

TARDIS is Time And Relative Dimensions In Space

DEFRA is Department of Enviroment, Food and Rural Affairs

Also a Mackeral Sky is a sign of Bad weather approaching

Good Luck!!

Seza xXx

Afternoon from a gloriously sunny north west.

A bit frosty this morning, but i like it !

Good luck CLP, here is a bit more trivia ......

Q What was the title of the first James Bond Film
A Dr No

Q What was the name & call sign of the Apollo 11 Lunar module
A Eagle

Q What is the wife of a sultan called
A Sultana (honest!)

Hope you have a blast and get loads right.

MC xx

OOh..its properly quiet on here today isnt it?!

Just wondered..any of the Scottish contingent about...need to make sure you got home safely!

mSc x

I think CLP has frightened everyone off making them think of a fact in their posts!

Hope you got home OK too Scoobs? It took my friends over an hour to get out of the car park after the aborted Morrissey gig!

JG x

THanks JG..didnt take me long at all to be honest..was home for midnight plus 5 minutes! Car park was empty and i assumed the concert had finished a bit earlier than we thought it would...but didnt know it was THAT early til i saw the news yesterday! As Errol says..thank goodness noone wanted those tickets from that woman!

Hope youve stopped sneezing!

mSc x

No, still sneezing, and starting to feel quite rotten actually :(

You made good time then, although I bet the motorway was quiet. I was home by 11.20, so not bad! Ended up on a similar route home, but not quite the same, still down the A580 - t'was quicker though!

Fact - the bridge at Ironbridge was built by Abraham Darby III

JG x

Ooo Ooo Ooo

Have got email today about the answering phones thing for CiN!!! Says where we've got to go & all about the phone messages.

Very excited now. It's coming up really quickly!!

Am going to try & have a bake sale at work as well that week but not sure how that's going to go.

Seza xXx

Chris,

I go to a quiz every week and I can't think of a good one to recommend! I will have a think and come back a bit later. Mind you I think you and Terry move in different enough spheres to allow your combined knowledge to be pretty wide ranging anyway. And with your 'phone a friend options, I'm sure you'll be fine!

Nic

Hi Chris.
Good luck with Millioniare,sure you and Sir Tel will do really well.
Thought you looked really good on the one show.
love to all.x

Ooh Seza..very very exciting! Sure you are gonna have a brilliant time! And may have to ring up and pledge lots of small bits to try and get to speak to one of you 4!

mSc x

Greetings and Salutations,

The state flower of Florida is the Orange Blossom.

Volkswagen, literally translated, means "People's car"

The lambada dance originates from Brazil

Brighton was the only town to become a city as part of the official Millennium celebrations

Robert Burn's birthday was originally celebrated on January 25th

The turkey was the bird that performed the wedding in the Owl and the Pussycat

Nellie the Elephant met the Head of the Herd on Mandalay Road

In instrumentation, the Leader of an Orchestra always plays the violin

Bewick and Whooper are types of Swans

Ian Botham won the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sports Personality title in 1981



Just a few facts in case they come up...

Cheers

Dr. T.

Cor blimey. Not sure if I can help you Christophe. I seem to have a head full of answers, but I've gotta be arst the question first. NBG at all for you I feel.

Let's see though.

Oranges are not the only fruit.

The Beatles were originally named the Quarry Men.

Bob Paisley is buried in the churchyard where Lennon and Harrison used to be choir boys.

The land upon which Gatwick Airport is built used to be a race course.

England won the World Cup in 1966.

The Great Hurricane was on the night of 15 / 16th October 1987 (just after I finished hosting an Ann Summers Party, but that's probably not for here).

The colour of water is blue.

That'll have to do now.

Anyhoo, you were SUPERB on the One Show. Most defiantly one of their better guests! I'm sure you and the Lord of Wogan will do brilliantly on Wednesday. You seem quite bright, and I'm certain R Tel isn't as green as he's cabbage looking.

The Scottish contingency did arrive home safely. As did I. Evenshually. But that is an entirely other story. Which I can never tell MWK. Because she was worrying anyway. I neither got arrested, nor sold into white slavery. Suffice to say, I had to prostrate myself in front of several staff in order to avoid both those outcomes.

Fab weekend. Thanks to everyone who was there for being so lovely. I already toasted Deev.

I'm not a bad boy
love
hazel
x

Hi Tim!

Peess. I don't really think Mr W looks like a cabbage.

Can't think of a question at the moment Christoph just getting my head around facebook!
Thankyou you lovely people that have sent me a friend requests but still trying to work out what i'm supposed to be doing, will get there eventually...well i managed to get logged back in here last week and that was bad enough!

love Loli x

Evening All,

Just got home - only kidding! Thanks to Bingo's fab directions we managed to find our way out of Liverpool a lot quicker than we did going in!! Delivered AnnieG and ChrissieS safely to their waiting families.

I had a brilliant time, so good to meet everyone such a great bunch of people. We had such a laugh, can't remember the last time I was in pain from laughing so much!

Scoobs - thanks for our wee chat, you are a sweetheart!

Bingo - Thanks for being you! Gorgeous and entertaining ;o) xx

Hello to Julian our "Beatles Tour" driver! xx

Chris some facts for you:-

Chief Cashier for the Bank of England is Andrew Bailey

The quantity of 20p coins issued without a date was between 50,000 and 200,000.

They are said to be the first undated coins to be circulated in more than 300 years.

The date on the new 20p was moved from the 'tails' to the 'heads' side when the country's coins were redesigned last year.

The coins without a date were created by accidentally pairing up the new 'tails' side with the old 'heads' - meaning no date appeared at all.

Facts about the Statue of Liberty:-

Official dedication ceremonies held on Thursday, October 28, 1886

Total overall height from the base of the pedestal foundation to the tip of the torch is 305 feet and 6 inches.

Height of the Statue from her heel to the top of her head is 111 feet and 6 inches.

The face on the Statue of Liberty measures more than 8 feet tall.

There are 154 steps from the pedestal to the head of the Statue of Liberty.

A tablet held in her left hand measures 23' 7" tall and 13' 7" wide inscribed with the date JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776)

The Statue has a 35-foot waistline.

There are seven rays on her crown, one for each of the seven continents, each measuring up to 9 feet in length and weighing as much as 150 pounds.

Total weight of the Statue of Liberty is 225 tons (or 450,000 pounds).

At the feet of the Statue lie broken shackles of oppression and tyranny
During the restoration completed in 1986, the new torch was carefully covered with thin sheets of 24k gold.

The exterior copper covering of the Statue of Liberty is 3/32 of an inch thick (less than the thickness of two pennies) and the light green color (called a patina) is the result of natural weathering of the copper.


Mary xx

Oh no Hazel did you miss the train?

I kept saying all the way home "why haven't we heard from Hazel?!" Did you have long to wait for the next one?

Mary xx

Blimey Mary!! There's a few facts there!!

Glad you all got home safely, and more quickly! Lovely to meet you, and sorry we never got to have a proper chat :(

It's turned really foggy here after a lovely bright, but very cold day.

Just about to make some tea, and trying to time it with Mr JG's bath - he's been outside most of the day, poor love, and is frozen to the bone!

JG x

Chris,

The Father of Immunology was Edward Jenner.
Whose dying words were "I want to live because there are a few things I want to do"? - Aneurin Bevanhnology Education Council
In which county is Corfe Castle? - Dorset
Who painted Accommodations of Desire? - Dali
What do the initials BTEC stand for? - Business and Technology Education Council.

Good luck!

Nic

Oops mis typed...

The Father of Immunology was Edward Jenner.
Whose dying words were "I want to live because there are a few things I want to do"? - Aneurin Bevan
In which county is Corfe Castle? - Dorset
Who painted Accommodations of Desire? - Dali
What do the initials BTEC stand for? - Business and Technology Education Council.

Good luck!

Chris

Countries which have changed their names -

Sri Lanka was Ceylon.

Iran was Persia.

Mexico was New Spain.

Ethiopia was Abyssinia.

Malawi was Nyasaland.

Iceland was Bejam.

Ha Ha Barney - Bejam, went the way of Timothy Whites & David Greig.

Anyway Chris, I think there is a good chance of you getting some questions right if you can get over the terror of being a 'celebrity' trying not to let a great charity down!

If you are reckless and lose....bad, if you stop at 500 squids just in case, also bad.
So no pressure then.

Rather than give you a fact I would remind you that often when an answer doesn't spring immediately to mind, look at what you know it can't be. So many contestants don't do that & sometimes it's the key. There are only 4 possibles after all.
Anyhoo I shall be sending positive vibes to you & Sir Tel I hope you raise loads & have loads of fun.
x x

evening all, hope you're well?

Looks like the Liverpool meet went well, Bingo you truly are mad!
Don't have much trivia to add to that already printed.
Luther Vandross sang backing vocals on David Bowies "Young Americans".
er, sorry that's about it I'm afraid, poor show I know.

TV gone all wrong in chezKW today, lovely lcd without picture but sound still ok, just went off without warning????

Can't wait for CiN next Fri, really hoping to meet CLP too (will take book just in case....

..maybe my boot too!!!!)



bonnet de douche

KWx

Glad to see you all reaching your final destinations ,ie ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ safe and sound.

How many Scottish monarchs have been called James? =Seven.

Who in 2003 became the first rock star to perform a concert in Rome's Coliseum? =Paul McCartney.

What was the largest valued euro note on the day the currency was launched? = 500.

Bids.xxx.

wasnt convinced by you ... mayo interview.

Hi chaps back from the Pool. Not caught up yet - will do later when pics been put on fb. What a great blog meet. Well done Deev for organising and so many coming from each end of he country to attend, including ole me n Jovial from middle England.
Can I say our Bingo is an absolute star and he is the best tour guide of the Pool we could have had despite the fact he walked my feet off!! All did warn that I don't "do" walking but I walked flippin miles yesterday! Well worth it ferry cross the mersey the cavern club for a sing song - and loads loads more - the lot!

My head full of Liverpool at mo CLP so good luck to you and Sir Woge

Liverpool has 2 cathedrals Bings will give you details but if I recall the big one took 177 years to build.
The statue in Albert dock is Billy Fury and not Elvis as most think.
The Quarry Men were playing at the church fete where John was once a choir boy (not Paul if I recall)when Paul & John first met. and Ivan somebody or other introduced them (community centre has brass plate)
What?!!! I'm old - can't remember all the flippin names!
Eleanor Rigby's grave shows her name but she was married to Woods so why Eleanor Rigby on gravestone? Not alone in grave either! Just her name......There is also an E R bench in Pool.
The old town hall hasn't been cleaned so the tax man can't see it!!! PLEASE ignore that last one - that's a Bingo"ism"

Right - off to do pics.

Laters

Beezer xx

Evening each

Hells teeth! How difficult is it to get on this blog these days? Or is it only me?

Chris, my head is full of rubbish, wouldn't be any good to you at all I'm afraid.

Well - back from Liverpool and what a great bunch. We all had a ball - lovely people - great craic and loads of laughs. Mary was a brilliant chauffeur (that's not right, is it? but it'll do), sailed down the motorway, sailed back up, little hiccup in Liverpool with the village idiot but Chrissie kept us laughing with her daftness. Next year Glasgow folks.

Back later when I've put all the photies on FB (fingers crossed) xxxxx

blinkin blimey think i need a week off work to read and look at all the photo's on FB. Thank you everyone.


Loli x

A'reet chuck!

I'll keep it brief. Had a blast, had a ball, Bingo Star sez it all! Thanks to everyone for turning up - good effort! Thanks to everyone for making me laugh til it hurt. Thanks to everyone for being so bloody splendid!

My highlight - Sunday afternoon singing Hey Jude in The Cavern. Life don'tget much betterererer - wish you'd ALL been there. My harmonies were to die for, and yes, they nearly killed me!

And yes, I'll admit to sobbing my heart out in the John Lennon section of The Beatles Experience, all alone with me myself and I, and my thoughts of what a great man John was and how tragically young he was taken from us. Reading about his murder whilst listening to Love - all too much for little auld me.

A truly, truly fab gear la weekend.

Spesh ta to Bingo - you, kidder, are a true Star and no mistaking. Proud to have you as a friend geez, innit!?! And dinner Sunday night - amazing! Thank you x x x

It'll take a while to come down from this one.

Deevs, owner of the coolest hat in the Universe!
x x x

I have a photo of that hat Deev, just having a problem getting it on to FB. Wasn't that a fab weekend? Love you all. xxxxx

Just back from taxi duties, so only a quick pop in to say...

Nice to see everyone back safe and sound.

Have really enjoyed going through them all, and there are more to come??

Am on a fizz free challenge this week, yikes!!

MTF.xxx

Annie - is that the Sunday lunchtime pic I didn't know about!?!?!

Lovely to see you again.

MTF - you gotta come to the next one ... with Bids, natch!

Emotional Deevs
x x x

Thanks Deevs, setting up a blog piggy bank in anticipation.xx

OMG - am inspired to post further to 'pool blog meet.

Bingo - a real star!!! Love the idea of a 9 point turn on a mobility scooter in the middle of a pub!!

Thank you one and all for sharing it with us lurkers.

All the best to you CLP and Sir Tel for Wed. Go with your gut feelings, they will probably be the best ones.

OMG how old am I !!! Taken me till now to put pics on fb!!! Mind things take longer with me these days!!!! :o) and the tags of me with the other guys! still got to get round to that!!!!

Big message to ChrissieS - get your butt on fb - I was "told" to and the pics there are flying around like confetti bringing back huge laughs as I type!!

Christoph - can I just say your faithful bloggers are an amazing bunch of folk - each and every one I have met are just the best and as Deev says laugh till you hurt - or in my case lose my eye make up - and it's waterproof!!!! You are So missing out not getting to one.

I gather you all guess we had a blast!!! Will put a pic on CLP bloggers when I can figure out how - so you can have a look cos I restrict my pics to friends as I am still clueless on fb!!!

Should I be here? Nope !!

Nighty nite smiley peeps

Beezer xxx

Pee ES Bingo - you should do a double act in some way with CLP - the result would be beyond anything ever done before! A 10 minute Bingo spot on the Brekkie show!!!? Set us up for the day IMHO xx Nothing beats smiling xx

alright everyone!

Just to say i miss you all. still no bbc allowed at work :o( wanted to say i'd had sneaky peeks at a load of liverpool meet pics and it looked ACE! properly wicked weekend. lovely to see all your smiling faces.

Look after yourselves...

Now a night time lurker...

$horty.xxx

p.s - desperate to attend a meet so whenever there's a midlands or london one i'll walk there if i have to! xxx

Bless shorty - just been back on t'other side to check the zillion messages - must admit - I would walk to the next one too! Had such a blast could do with extended week-ends with all these guys. So many this time didn't get chance to have good chat with all - the time just zapped by so in a way feel deprived didn't get chance. Am positive there will be more though.

I really must go to bed !! Still thinking about Bingo and Chris spot in my imagination though!!! For those who have met Bings I am sure they will follow my drift!!! Really am off now! giggling!

Nighty nite smiley peeps
Beezer xx

Morning all,

Have a lovely day - it is too early to see what it is like but it was foggy last night so fingers crossed!!!

C

Morning all

Body clock still on Scouse time, so not had a lot of sleep which will bode well at about 3pm today, I am sure!

Now watching Sunday's MotoGP race - nowt like chaps in leathers to wake you up in the morn ....

Beez - toadally agree! Am thinking along the lines of "The World According To Bingo", or "Bingo Wings It" - CLP can set Our Man a daily challenge and Bingo can report back in his own inimitable way.

You just now, sorry, know, that everything would be 100% True!

Cath, it's foggy here this morning, and I'm not talking of The Blackburn Bullet of Superbikes fame!

See y'all later from the Factory d'fun

Deevs, contemplating wearing The Hat for work!
x x x x

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CATH!!

x x x

See the birthday girl is up bright and early.

Have a lovely day Cath.X

Good morning too, to everyone else.

Tis a layer cooler now.


MTF.xx

Howya gobdaws!!

By the crin what a weekend we all had by the looks of it, the 'pool meet seems to have gone with bang thanks to the Deev and Bingo, hurrah!! Am still a bit ragin', mind. Ah well, I've me tent and me billy-can and the sou'wester prepared for the O2.

Now then. Questions for Who Wants To Be An Eejit. Let me think now.

Saint Patrick was born in Scotland.

Dublin means Dark Pool.

Leprechauns are shoemakers.

Tipperary borders 8 counties and it's a bloody long way off.

Hmm. Will 'ave to think a bit..

OOOooo did I just hear El Tel say CLP is doin' a book signin' in Dublin at the weekend? Marvellous, I'll be there wit me book an' the freshly-sharpened elbows. Hurrah.

Clodagh.xx

What I was going to say is that, obviously, it's all gone mad over here over these 'ere Jedward twins. All over the papers, the news, the pubs, etc.

Now, speakin' as one who would rather stick me head in an angry beehive than watch the X Factor, I have to confess I watched the thing on Saturday. Ok, that wa partly because I was tied down and forced to by my gang of awful eejits, but in fairness, it was because I was curious to see what the fuss was about.

Ergo, not being a particular fan of Simon Cowell, the man leaves me indifferent, but I have to say that the man has pulled an absolute stroke a genius. All this nonsense has the textin' lines jammers and the show all over the place. Mind you, am greatly disturbed by people deranged enough to be makin' death-threats. What the...

So fair play to him.

But I'll be washin' me hair next week. Or stung to death.

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