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Two stepper
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.... get an early night tonight, there might be an early morning earner for you on the wireless tomorrow... Guess who's got a sore throat again ?  |
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Toggy tea slurper
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:15 am Post subject: |
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I like Sarah my my god dosen't she whinge  She's one of those people you dread asking how she's feeling because you would get a tirade of aches and pains.  |
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Two stepper
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:01 am Post subject: |
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| I work with a woman just like her, nobody asks how she is, she has a pain and something wrong with practically every part of her body and she's nowhere near fifty yet. My dad's the thick end of 80 and could run rings round her. She's also one of those folk that, if you tell her you know a bloke with two wooden legs.. she knows somebody with three ! |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| Two stepper wrote: | | She's also one of those folk that, if you tell her you know a bloke with two wooden legs.. she knows somebody with three ! |
That would be Jake The Peg wouldn't it? HEY!! that sounds like it could be a hit record doesn't it?! 
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Two stepper
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | | Two stepper wrote: | | She's also one of those folk that, if you tell her you know a bloke with two wooden legs.. she knows somebody with three ! |
That would be Jake The Peg wouldn't it? HEY!! that sounds like it could be a hit record doesn't it?! |
Damn, I wish I could have got my bet on at the bookie, that someone would mention Rolf's mate before they closed the book on it ! |
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Toggy tea slurper
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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Has there been a day when Sarah has not moaned about either some illness or the studio.
A few weeks ago it was too hot "I nearly fainted" "I felt sick" then it was too cold "I'm wearing a thick jumper and a scarf"
Then there's the weather, too wet, too windy, too cold, too hot, etc |
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SantaFefan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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You should visit my Retirement Home Toggy, I hear much more than that!This morning, the four ladies playing scrabble in the conservatory (no curtains) said it was too bright!
I could feel my Basil Fawlty alter ego coming on.. " You couldn't sit somewhere else? Right!, I'll just turn the sun down a bit should I? Fine..." |
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Toggy tea slurper
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes but presumably the folks in your retirement home are of advanced years, how old is Sarah? about 55 or so, she moans like a 95 year old |
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Mark Mayhew
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Hopefully Richard will be in Sarah's chair for tomorrow if she's feeling so poorly. |
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Toggy tea slurper
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I suppose it rather depends wether he's available. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Toggy tea slurper wrote: | | I suppose it rather depends wether he's available. |
I'm sure he is patiently waiting by the phone. Maybe Pete Mitchell could give us an encore of his highly successful one man comedy show tomorrow morning?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| SantaFefan wrote: | You should visit my Retirement Home Toggy, I hear much more than that!This morning, the four ladies playing scrabble in the conservatory (no curtains) said it was too bright!
I could feel my Basil Fawlty alter ego coming on.. " You couldn't sit somewhere else? Right!, I'll just turn the sun down a bit should I? Fine..." |
What did you do about the herds of Wildebeest galloping across the lawn, Santa?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I was more worried about the Siberian Hamsters round the bins! |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| PJ in Kent wrote: |
What did you do about the herds of Wildebeest galloping across the lawn, Santa? |
Hanging gardens of Babylon |
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PJ in Kent
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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I just hope you didn't mention the war
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| So he is covering, and he was listening to her yesterday. He always sounds like he's never been away. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:19 am Post subject: |
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Good work Richard-nice to hear you first thing this morning.
Have to leave for work 10 minutes before the end-did he say he was covering for Ms Sicknote tomorrow. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:20 am Post subject: |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | So he is covering |
Well we never saw that one coming did we? |
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PJ in Kent
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:54 am Post subject: |
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What I found strange was that for someone with a sore throat, it didn't seem to affect her voice at all
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:55 am Post subject: |
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Yippee! The King is back! Give that man the gig permanently, he brightened my first morning run back to work.
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Cherskiy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| PJ in Kent wrote: | | What I found strange was that for someone with a sore throat, it didn't seem to affect her voice at all |
Yes, I thought that too - sounded like she'd been winding up to having a day or two off from the comments I heard her making on Monday and Tuesday. The only evidence I heard re a sore throat etc. was that she stopped halfway through a sentence and had a drink of water....
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Ian Robinson
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| To be fair to her, there is a thing going round that gives you a very sore throat but -in my experience- doesn't really affect the voice. It's just dry all the time, so she was probably drinking lots during the records... |
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PJ in Kent
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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Cher, yes I think you're right mate- she was just winding up for the sickie.
Beeb management must have sorted out a stand-in well in advance... mind you, with the amount of whining she does about her constant "ill-health", I imagine they have a stand-by jock on permanent alert 24/7
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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As soon as I heard SK mentioning that she had a sore throat, and that we could well hear somebody else doing the show tomorrow, I immediately thought that Richard Allinson would be heard this morning. And so he was.
As a matter of interest, the R2 duty manager at BH has a standby list of presenters who get the phone call as soon the scheduled presenter can't get in to the studio. They have a roster, which means that - in RA's case - he couldn't go out on the town the night before just in case he gets the call, and he must keep his mobile phone switched at all times. It could be that he was told yesterday that he would be in the studio this morning. |
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Another alarming thing I've noticed very recently about SK is her insistence on refering to the Skeleton Staff as "The SS" 
Polishing up the jackboots for a foray into Poland, are you, Bunty?
Given the age of a fair proportion of her listeners, it's not the best chosen phrase is it
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I hate the cliqueyness of her show and its assumed audience - it took my wife and I a long time to work out what she meant by "SW's to you.." etc. and when we did actually figure it out we were singularly unimpressed. It assumes that people also listen to Steve "aren't I great" Wright - which neither us do. |
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| firewirefred wrote: | | I hate the cliqueyness of her show and its assumed audience - it took my wife and I a long time to work out what she meant by "SW's to you.." etc. and when we did actually figure it out we were singularly unimpressed. It assumes that people also listen to Steve "aren't I great" Wright - which neither us do. |
I don't see how that's any worse than Terry and his TOGS. And the Steve thing suggests the clique is not just Sarah's listeners, but Radio 2's listeners. It's a big joke for those who listen to Radio 2 a lot, and I think that's actually quite warm and friendly. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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I don't see how that's any worse than Terry and his TOGS. And the Steve thing suggests the clique is not just Sarah's listeners, but Radio 2's listeners. It's a big joke for those who listen to Radio 2 a lot, and I think that's actually quite warm and friendly. |
I guess you're right in part - better that that the in-yer-face radio that's so prevalent today. Or - worse - local commercial radio first thing in the morning!
We did finding ourselves asking" WTF...... is she on about???" when we heard her say SW more than a couple of times, though. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Keep close to your telephone tonight Richard.
Hopefully you'll get the call asking you to cover for Sarah Sicknote Kennedy tomorrow.
NB-At least we know you will not be tuning into the Apprentice tonight as you advised on your BFBS Radio 2 show earlier today. |
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Mark Mayhew wrote: | Good work Richard-nice to hear you first thing this morning.
Have to leave for work 10 minutes before the end-did he say he was covering for Ms Sicknote tomorrow. |
No he didn't say he was covering Sarah as I would expect he will take one day at a time. Oh he did say " Sarah get well soon, and please come back with a little moan in his voice sounding like he dosn't like early mornings " |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Mark Mayhew"]Keep close to your telephone tonight Richard.
Hopefully you'll get the call asking you to cover for Sarah Sicknote Kennedy tomorrow.
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I would expect he didn't need to sit by his phone as it's already set out for him to cover. You talking like he's reading your post at the same time Now calm down it's only a radio show and Richard |
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| It does seem like this happens a few times a year like Wogan taking a sicky. I do wonder this is because Richard is needed to full fill his contract with Radio 2 and so many people moan we dont' hear enough of him? It does make you wonder? You can't help people being unwell. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I would be surprised if Sarah turned up tomorrow. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Oi Occomore-My tongue was firmly in my cheek when I posted about Richard sitting by his phone-lighten up. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Well the schedule does say Richard for the morning. Sarah will be back I would expect Monday. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | It does seem like this happens a few times a year like Wogan taking a sicky. I do wonder this is because Richard is needed to full fill his contract with Radio 2 and so many people moan we dont' hear enough of him? It does make you wonder? You can't help people being unwell. |
Allinson won't have a contract with R2. He'll be used on a per-show basis. He is a freelancer and is on the open market - hence his work with BFBS and others. I am sure he will be actually paid a modest retainer to be on the R2 standby roster whether he's called or not. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| firewirefred wrote: | | mark occomore wrote: | | It does seem like this happens a few times a year like Wogan taking a sicky. I do wonder this is because Richard is needed to full fill his contract with Radio 2 and so many people moan we dont' hear enough of him? It does make you wonder? You can't help people being unwell. |
I am sure he will be actually paid a modest retainer to be on the R2 standby roster whether he's called or not. |
Still must be a good wage? |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | firewirefred wrote: | | mark occomore wrote: | | It does seem like this happens a few times a year like Wogan taking a sicky. I do wonder this is because Richard is needed to full fill his contract with Radio 2 and so many people moan we dont' hear enough of him? It does make you wonder? You can't help people being unwell. |
I am sure he will be actually paid a modest retainer to be on the R2 standby roster whether he's called or not. |
Still must be a good wage? |
Not to be on standby it won't. It's not a wage, either, just a fee paid for the actual days that he's on standby roster. If he gets called in then he gets a fee for the show he does and that's it. |
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Mark Mayhew
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Very good show delivered by Richard earlier today-really enjoyed it.
Hoping Richard is able to complete his hat trick of appearances tomorrow Friday.
Richard Allinson rocks. |
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