WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2007

REQUESTS
I’m happy to play any requests you may have - provided, of course, they are in the BBC music library here and I can access them. If you do request a track, though, please tell me not just what and why, but also when. I know the ‘audience profile’ changes substantially as the night wears on and it isn’t always clear to me when you might be listening out for the track you’ve asked to hear. So please indicate - within, say, one hour - when you would like the track played.

TRUCKSHUNTERS CERTIFICATE
I obviously still have much to learn about blogging. Firstly, I’ve been saying on air that it’s possible to load pictures as part of your comment. As you will see from yesterday’s posting, I seem to have been lying to you. Loz has found it impossible and HE should know, after all! Sorry if my ignorance has caused anyone grief.
To kinda make amends, here are a couple of Loz's pictures.
Also, Kev has come up with an awesome design for the Truckshunters Membership Certificate which I can’t show you because it doesn’t seem to be in the correct format. Sorry, Kev. I wonder if it can be converted into a jpeg. Or is that what it is already?
I think maybe I should slow things down a bit until I actually know what I’m doing.

COWS
Wasn’t the response to this throwaway item interesting? Both the weatherman (Steve Weston) and listener Val in Chapel House told gruesome stories about fatal bovine attacks. I had no idea! Although, as I said on-air, I often felt a little uneasy walking my dog Taxi on the Town Moor when the cattle were there for the summer. They are BIG animals and they don’t always take kindly to people wandering across that particular pasture. Is the story of the attack on Hunter’s Moor true?

GROSVENOR TRUCKSHUNTER ROBINSON THE FIRST
My misleading information notwithstanding, I still hope Loz’s offer to name a rat after me stands. What a singular honour! Alan Savage, keeper of the Millennium Arboretum at Cramlington, once flattered me by naming an oak sapling after me. You can still see it by the footbridge over the A189. And now I can’t wait to see the rat! My reputation is spreading. Loz’s website, incidentally, is lhpianotuning.co.uk. Quits, Loz?

TRUCKSHUNTER GEM
I really had been mooching down amongst my old 45s when I came across Those Were The Days. I used to like the ‘purity’ of Mary Hopkins’ voice and bought two other tracks by her - Goodbye and Temma Harbour - as well as her Postcards album. I don’t regret the purchases in the slightest. I wonder what’s become of her?

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NOTE
Please bear in mind that the views expressed in this blog are my own and NOT the views of the BBC.