From Gilly's window....THURSDAY 7 FEBRUARY
GILLY’S PICTURE
Nice, innit? Taken from her front (or was it back, Gilly?) window. I wish I had a view like that! Thanks for sending it, Gilly.
If you have a digital image you’d like to see bannering the blog - of your garden, your house, your favourite view, your dog or even of YOU - send it to my BBC email address; but try to make sure it’s a LOT less than 1Mb in size. Thanks!
IMPONDERABLES
I’m off the week after next and one of the things I’ve decided to do with all those acres of Nightshift-less time is to clear out my emails. My electronic inbox is bulging with unused information, untold jokes, unanswered questions, unplayed requests....I’m truly sorry if you’re one of the people who responded, for example, to my calls for trivia, witty insults and imponderable questions over Christmas and the New Year. I was overwhelmed with the amount of quality stuff that arrived in every conceivable way - email, text and snail-mail - so much of which languishes unappreciated in my ‘make sure you use this soon’ box.
To try and correct this obvious injustice - and to show you that I really do appreciate all the contributions you want to make to The Nightshift - I’ve put together a list of The Great Unanswered Questions Of Life from the many that were sent to me over the holiday period. It’s been compiled from the suggestions of at least a dozen truckshunters, to whom I’m very grateful. If there are any ‘imponderables’ you’d like to add, please feel free!
* Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?
* Do blind people dream?
* Why, when you’re waiting for a bus, do two go in the opposite direction?
* Why do plastic bags never open from the end you try first?
* Why do banks charge you for having ‘insufficient funds’ when you have insufficient funds to pay the charge?
* Can you cry underwater?
* Why do people believe you when you say there are 4 billion stars but always check when you tell them the paint is still wet?
* Why do obstetricians and gynaecologists leave the room when you get undressed?
* What is it with pirates and parrots?
* Why exactly don’t cats like water?
RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
A gratifyingly large number of websites have been recommended since I sang the internet’s praises a couple of weeks ago; you surfers are coming out of the woodwork (to mix my metaphors unforgivably). Some of them are less ‘serious’ than others but that’s the great joy of the Net, isn’t it?
notstarring.com is a curious - even pointless - website that tells you which film roles actors auditioned for but didn’t get...
24hourmuseum.org.uk is a truly amazing and regularly-updated descriptive listing of over 3,000 museums, galleries and heritage sites in the UK...
kissthisguy.com is the funniest site of misheard song lyrics I’ve come across so far...
groomgroove.com (recommended by husband-to-be Mark in Consett) tells it how it is...
quoteland.com is a great source of quotes, as its name suggests...
nationalarchives.gov.uk is the source for historical documents and information held by the Government; it’s a brilliant website.
There are dozens more, as you can imagine. I’ll try to mention as many as I can as time goes by.
If there are websites you’d like to recommend - serious or frivolous - get in touch.
BOB’S YER UNCLE, FANNY’S YER AUNT
The third question in this nine-parter is.....Which pop group did Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke found in the early 80s? Keep the first letter of the answer with the two you (hopefully) already have (see the last two blogs) and await developments!
CONTACT ME
Post comments on this blog or contact me in any one (or more) of these ways....
ian.robinson@bbc.co.uk
ianstuartrobinson@googlemail.com
text 07786 200954 (while the programme is on-air)
call (between about 0545 and 0630 Monday to Friday) 0191 232 6565
Ian Robinson, The Nightshift, BBC Radio Newcastle, Spital Tongues, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE99 1RN
NOTE
Please bear in mind that the views expressed in this blog are my own and NOT the views of the BBC.
GILLY’S PICTURE
Nice, innit? Taken from her front (or was it back, Gilly?) window. I wish I had a view like that! Thanks for sending it, Gilly.
If you have a digital image you’d like to see bannering the blog - of your garden, your house, your favourite view, your dog or even of YOU - send it to my BBC email address; but try to make sure it’s a LOT less than 1Mb in size. Thanks!
IMPONDERABLES
I’m off the week after next and one of the things I’ve decided to do with all those acres of Nightshift-less time is to clear out my emails. My electronic inbox is bulging with unused information, untold jokes, unanswered questions, unplayed requests....I’m truly sorry if you’re one of the people who responded, for example, to my calls for trivia, witty insults and imponderable questions over Christmas and the New Year. I was overwhelmed with the amount of quality stuff that arrived in every conceivable way - email, text and snail-mail - so much of which languishes unappreciated in my ‘make sure you use this soon’ box.
To try and correct this obvious injustice - and to show you that I really do appreciate all the contributions you want to make to The Nightshift - I’ve put together a list of The Great Unanswered Questions Of Life from the many that were sent to me over the holiday period. It’s been compiled from the suggestions of at least a dozen truckshunters, to whom I’m very grateful. If there are any ‘imponderables’ you’d like to add, please feel free!
* Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?
* Do blind people dream?
* Why, when you’re waiting for a bus, do two go in the opposite direction?
* Why do plastic bags never open from the end you try first?
* Why do banks charge you for having ‘insufficient funds’ when you have insufficient funds to pay the charge?
* Can you cry underwater?
* Why do people believe you when you say there are 4 billion stars but always check when you tell them the paint is still wet?
* Why do obstetricians and gynaecologists leave the room when you get undressed?
* What is it with pirates and parrots?
* Why exactly don’t cats like water?
RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
A gratifyingly large number of websites have been recommended since I sang the internet’s praises a couple of weeks ago; you surfers are coming out of the woodwork (to mix my metaphors unforgivably). Some of them are less ‘serious’ than others but that’s the great joy of the Net, isn’t it?
notstarring.com is a curious - even pointless - website that tells you which film roles actors auditioned for but didn’t get...
24hourmuseum.org.uk is a truly amazing and regularly-updated descriptive listing of over 3,000 museums, galleries and heritage sites in the UK...
kissthisguy.com is the funniest site of misheard song lyrics I’ve come across so far...
groomgroove.com (recommended by husband-to-be Mark in Consett) tells it how it is...
quoteland.com is a great source of quotes, as its name suggests...
nationalarchives.gov.uk is the source for historical documents and information held by the Government; it’s a brilliant website.
There are dozens more, as you can imagine. I’ll try to mention as many as I can as time goes by.
If there are websites you’d like to recommend - serious or frivolous - get in touch.
BOB’S YER UNCLE, FANNY’S YER AUNT
The third question in this nine-parter is.....Which pop group did Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke found in the early 80s? Keep the first letter of the answer with the two you (hopefully) already have (see the last two blogs) and await developments!
CONTACT ME
Post comments on this blog or contact me in any one (or more) of these ways....
ian.robinson@bbc.co.uk
ianstuartrobinson@googlemail.com
text 07786 200954 (while the programme is on-air)
call (between about 0545 and 0630 Monday to Friday) 0191 232 6565
Ian Robinson, The Nightshift, BBC Radio Newcastle, Spital Tongues, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE99 1RN
NOTE
Please bear in mind that the views expressed in this blog are my own and NOT the views of the BBC.
2 comments:
ian? thankyou.!
such a lovely surprise.
my pic taken from the front garden last summer, overlooking the park.
durham cathedral nestles just behind the line of trees,
the bowls pavillion in view,
a listed building with it,s new roof, putting green unused in foreground, at one time this park was full of flowers and hedges of lavender, so pretty, now it,s nearly empty.
The bowling green is still used regularly, it,s very popular. lovely to sit there in summer.
theres a very distinctive shape in the blue part of the sky.
I,m a closet cloud spotter.x
Gilly.....answer the question! Who's the girl?
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