Yes, doesn't Peter Hennessy claim that if the nuclear subs can't get the Today programme for three days they can open their secret orders? No doubt the unions know this and that's why they are only planning 24 & 48 hour strikes.
I knew there was going to be a strike & therefore prob no Today but I still spent several very confused minutes this morning wondering if it was really Sunday lunchtime, or alternatively whether Clement Freud or Nicholas Parsons had died and they were broadcasting Just a Minute in tribute.
It shouldn't be allowed, especially on a Monday. Clock radio thingy wakes me up for the beginning of the Today programme, I rise to John Humphreys and his merry band. Well actually I hit snooze a couple of times and then grouch a lot and kick assorted teenagers out of bed and start the cattle drive through showers/food/chaos which signals the next of the happiest days of their lives.
It was all so wrong. I thought it must be the earlier slot when they have weird time filler programmes and hit snooze. Then I fiddled with the dial thinking it had drifted off signal to Radio 3 (actually quite good programme with Ken Clarke on Jazz). Fuzzily realised that Something Was Wrong with the world. Ohmigawd its 7:00 already, I am Late on a day when I have to whine my way into sunny Blackfriars. To add insult to injury I end up having to get self mobile and household active to some interminable drivel on R4 about "The Building of Terminal 5" and how terribly, terribly interesting and fab it all was. (Not around my neck of the woods it isn't matey). Plainly this was my punishment for early slackness. Ended up on a Late train to the sounds of 'Just a Minute' which at 7:30 is simply Not On so switched iRiver away from radio to music in attempt to recover sanity.
How to start the week utterly disoriented. (I think reading this I'll just move to Tonbridge Wells.)
Even Jon Snow's (brilliant, incidentally) daily Snowmail was entitled "How to cope on a day without Paxman or Humphries".
Ugh, 7AM.
Just a Minute is very much a 6.30 PM programme. To my mind I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue really spiritually belongs at around 10PM, as the evening turns louche. Certainly the sun should be well above the yardarm before either is considered appropriate.
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Date: 2005-05-23 11:20 am (UTC)I knew there was going to be a strike & therefore prob no Today but I still spent several very confused minutes this morning wondering if it was really Sunday lunchtime, or alternatively whether Clement Freud or Nicholas Parsons had died and they were broadcasting Just a Minute in tribute.
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Date: 2005-05-23 10:56 pm (UTC)Clock radio thingy wakes me up for the beginning of the Today programme, I rise to John Humphreys and his merry band. Well actually I hit snooze a couple of times and then grouch a lot and kick assorted teenagers out of bed and start the cattle drive through showers/food/chaos which signals the next of the happiest days of their lives.
It was all so wrong. I thought it must be the earlier slot when they have weird time filler programmes and hit snooze. Then I fiddled with the dial thinking it had drifted off signal to Radio 3 (actually quite good programme with Ken Clarke on Jazz). Fuzzily realised that Something Was Wrong with the world. Ohmigawd its 7:00 already, I am Late on a day when I have to whine my way into sunny Blackfriars. To add insult to injury I end up having to get self mobile and household active to some interminable drivel on R4 about "The Building of Terminal 5" and how terribly, terribly interesting and fab it all was. (Not around my neck of the woods it isn't matey). Plainly this was my punishment for early slackness.
Ended up on a Late train to the sounds of 'Just a Minute' which at 7:30 is simply Not On so switched iRiver away from radio to music in attempt to recover sanity.
How to start the week utterly disoriented. (I think reading this I'll just move to Tonbridge Wells.)
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Date: 2005-05-24 09:12 am (UTC)Ugh, 7AM.
Just a Minute is very much a 6.30 PM programme. To my mind I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue really spiritually belongs at around 10PM, as the evening turns louche. Certainly the sun should be well above the yardarm before either is considered appropriate.