Right, well here we go again.

Welcome to the Blog one and all. You will be pleased to know that in spite of the radical new look that the show will have this Sunday, the Blog will, to all intents and purposes be more or less the same. I'll get to all that in a minute, but first; I watched a film called The Orphanage on Tuesday, it was out the at the cinema at the beginning of the year and I never made it round to seeing it, so I bought it on tuesday and went straight home to watch and I have to be honest with you, it scared the bejesus out of me.

Thanks for dropping by.

Hello.

Isn't Hello a great word? It can be used as a normal greeting - Hello. A really over the top, cheesy greeting - Hello!!!! Or as a means of expressing suprise - Hello! - Excellent.

Difficult to get the differences across here, admittedly, but you get the idea. Maybe I'll take you through it on the show on Sunday, or maybe not.

Hello.

Firstly the title, if you didn't hear the short snappy handover from my show into Mike's yesterday (between 1.45 and 2.15 or thereabouts I think) you won't have heard Mike struggling a bit with the technology in the studio, and in particular the speed of the minidisc players. He suggested that this would be a good title for a Blog, by which he meant his Blog, but I've stolen it!

Ah Hoy Hoy.

Firstly, no messing around, I apologise for Sunday's programme. Various problems occoured that I won't go into, unfortunately it left us without several important things, such as CD players and so we had to improvise as best we could. I think it sounded ok, and the emails and texts that were coming in seemed to be taking us down that route too, however, it wasn't as I'd have wished it, so my apologies.

Alright?

How are things with you today then? It's Friday afternoon at about half past 2 and so here is this weeks slightly delayed Blog.

Good day to you all.

How are things with you then? Yep, I'm great, thanks for asking.

As you know this would usually be where I chat about what I have been upto this week and therefore what you can expect to hear me talking about, amongst other things, on the show on Sunday. However, since Sunday I have done very very little so there is, as you can appreciate, a slight flaw in this usually watertight scheme.

Howdy Doody - These openers are getting worse by the week aren't they.

Good Afternoon (assuming of course you're reading this in the afternoon and that it's not the first thing you check when you turn the computer on, bleary eyed at quarter to 9 in the morning. "Yes, he's updated it, look. Forget the Rice Krispies, come over here")

Well, it will all be back to normal this week I think and the dream Sunday line-up will return. Wake up to Andy, followed by 4 full hours of me and then Mike and his radio show taking you through to 6oclock. Sounds alright doesn't it.

Well hello. I'm back, in case you thought the show on Sunday was some kind of fancy pre-record, it wasn't and I'm here.

I got back from Abu Dhabi, thanks to Mike for his Blog last week by the way - never a truer word spoken, late on Saturday so I expected the show to be a little ropey if I'm honest, but it wasn't - even if I do say so myself - and from the volume of emails and texts we got in I'm hoping I wasn't the only one who thought that. Although I've been wrong before......