It would be true to say
I never expected what I wear in studio to be an issue, but Big Sis has enquired re my attire on the webcam. PLEASE don't make me start worrying about what to wear. The joy of radio is that I can turn up looking like a tramp (and often do. And as for the smell...) and it won't matter.
There is no rhyme nor reason to whichever rugby top I wear. But that's very boring so I will try to think up some kind of code: a secret message I am sending to webcammers via my shirt.
In the meantime, you'll notice a new link on the right hand side: for easy access to all Hugh's photos. I always do that kind of thing when I'm in blue.
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Well, of course Eddie, you are right and your attire should be of no interest to other people.
However colour is extremely important. Bruce Gyngell who was once in charge of TV-AM insisted that everyone should wear pink. The set was also pink. It鈥檚 possible that Aric will have done some research on the topic.
It would also be true to say ...
that what you wear in studio is not an issue for me in the sense you imply, Eddie. What a mischief maker you can be!
No, never ever worry about what you wear. It's the rugby shirts that are intriguing. Not worrying. For what it's worth, I'm in my ermine this morning ;0), but I digress ...
If I were you I'd get Captain Gatso to deal with the webcam.
Coded rugby shirts? Whatever next!
Thanks for cheering up a gloomy morning!
Off-topic I'm afraid, but Ive just noticed that Celebrity Prime Minister Tony Blair has responded to the now-closed e-petition on scrapping ID cards, including this reason why ID cards are so important:
"Terrorists routinely use multiple identities - up to 50 at a time."
Well that's convinced me.
Hey, (look,) don't terrorists routinely use cars? Let's introduce surveillance of all traffic movements.
(Drat. Don't you hate it when your satire is overtaken by real life? e.g. electronic road pricing)
Still, at least he's not advocating keeping everyone's DNA in a big computer database whether or not they've committed a crime...
(Doh!)
I dived into this thread shocked at the implications implied about Big Sis, but was immediately reassured that you are up to no good again, all is right with the world.
Metal Moggie (3) : I hope you won't mind if I re-post your excellent comment at the Furrowed Brow.
It's worthy of Serious Discussion!
(And while I'm there I might peruse the whisky section of the FB bar, in search of something with which to make a hot toddy...)
Fifi xx
If the letter bomb suspect wasn't cross-eyed, would he appear on so many newspapers?
Love the shirt.. yours not his
Eddie, just wondering if you know my friend Kevin Bakhurst at News 24? We were at primary school together, & I haven't seen him since, so the definition of friend is a loose one. He remembers me as being nice though, which is good enough for me! He loves his job, as I think you do yours, which is just lovely all around really.
Did I spy a Barbars' shirt a week or two back, Eddie? If so, you're just showing off with your good taste!
This is where "technology creep" gets you. (THat's not a term of abuse, by the way). It's insidious, but it spells trouble... Until a couple of years ago, I used to do a whole summer of outdoor concerts. We had mics, but the joy of it was that it didn't matter what we wore (as long as it was black) or looked like because we were miles away from the audience, high up on a stage, & it was night time.
Then, some clever clogs introduced a video camera. And a giant screen at the back of the stage. Then we had a remote controlled camera in the roof, as well as one with an operator on stage. And ever more fancy lighting. Suddenly, at any moment, you could be seen in hideous clarity filling the screen. With no warning, & only the sniggering of your mates (if they happened to be able to see the screen) to alert you to what was going on. The stress levels immediately doubled, & getting dressed time trebled as we tried to put on makeup in the portaloos in the dark. (The orch went bankrupt, by the way, & I'm still sad about it)
But hey, Eddie, what about a giant video screen outside wherever it is you work, showing the studio, real time, you treble life size, etc etc. Now there's a thought your managers haven't tried yet! Better than those naff pictures they've got outside the beeb in Manchester (if a presenter leaves do they have to scrape the picture off immediately, I wonder?)
oh no - that's a shame. SSC produces an excellent posting (wit, humour and a point!) but now I don't know where to go. Shall I comment here or where we are 'supposed' to...
I'll do it here cos I'm contrary and cos otherwise I'll forget my response.
oh darn.... I've forgotten what I was going to say....
The only times I've looked at the webcam either no-one was there or nothing moved - not very entertaining.
Plus the image is so small you can't really make anything out. Or do I just need new glasses?
Fifi (5):
Please do! I have to confess to laziness in not hunting down the Brow's current location before posting that. (I forgot about the handy sidebar links.)
(I've already posted this to AnneP Chez Jonnie's, but for the benefit of others I'll repeat here)
To 'get in close' with Eddie on the Webcam: In Internet Explorer, when you've got the image up, press CTRL+ repeatedly until it's the size you want. Alternatively, there's a zoom facility on the bottom right of the webcam window, but the choices are more limited. And the quality seems to be better using the ctrl+ procedure.
Anne P,
Right-click on the image and select "view image"
It gets bigger, but still doesn't move very much.
Eddie,
Speaking of looking like a tramp, etc., have you ever visited 'civilisation' for supplies while 'camping'? The smell of woodsmoke follows you and heads turn.... It's like a walking campfire going by.
xx
ed
Sparkly:
Who is it that's up to no good, then?
Can't a girl ask an innocent question of a rugby-shirted Scot these days?
Incidentally, I wonder who it is that's threatening to spread rumours about our Eddie?
Anne P (7) : There seems to be a sort of random freeze-frame arrangement ... it updates every 10-15 minutes or so.
You can make the image bigger, although TOO big and it gets rather blurry.
Look for the '100%' in the bottom right-hand corner of the window. Click on the arrow, and then select the magnification you want. I normally select 150%, and then size the window so I can also see the time reference at the top.
Hope that helps. No new glasses yet for you!!
Fifi ;o)
oh yes, that was it.
I'll be wearing a green rugby top this weekend Eddie. The code is... well, pretty bloomin' obvious.
Will you be in blue?
If so, I'll be holding a copy of the Guardian and whistling "The Fields of Athen Rye"
If I'm whistling "She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes" just keep on walking and don't look at me.
Shh
Try doing a session without the rugby shirt Eric, just to see if anyone notices. (Does anyone think I'll get away with this one?)
I think whatever you wear is very sexy Eddie. I've never watched the web-cam and I've seen about 2 photographs of you (including the one above), but I'm sure my statement is true.
I confidently predict that a posting I made about an hour ago will now, like magic, reappear. * How do I know? Because I am now about to repost it!
Re the webcam:
To enlarge the image - when you've got the image up, press CTRL+ repeatedly until it's the size you want. Alternatively, there's a zoom facility on the bottom right of the webcam window, but the choices are more limited. And the quality seems to be better using the ctrl+ procedure.
[* This assumes, of course, that Eddie has asked the moderators not to reveal this secret!]
I've just had an idea.
The studio is empty for much of the day I believe. Now what about utilising another camera for the editorial desk. The output could be switched back to the studio at 5PM.
"There is no rhyme nor reason to whichever rugby top I wear."
So, the "This one's clean so I'll wear it today" principle doesn't apply?
Speak to Sequin, Eddie, I'm sure she'll help out.
SSC(3) and others,
I tried to post a reply to the comment that Fifi said had been reposted in Forrowed Brow. Comment was not there, and I'm not sure if my comment - re ever-growing database state - will or has appeared.
Annasee (8), it's even worse if the giant screen is, for some reason, in front of you, i.e. behind the audience, so that everyone in the band & choir can see what's happening whilst just watching the conductor, while the audience have to turn their back...
The reason for that arrangement, however, may give an indication as to the organisation that arranged that (we were just borrowing the facilities after the event). The set up was arranged by the London 2012 olympic bid. So London 2012, why did you need the video screen behind the audience?
Eddie - I'd always understood that Radio 4 presenters wore evening suits. But perhaps the webcam captured you on dress-down Friday.
If only BT Openzone would work at the station I could check out your shirt tonight. It's just like 'Window on your world' there were no 'one use cameras' in WH Smith. See the whole damn world is conspiring against me. Have you gone for a polo tonight? I bet Peter Donaldson wears a mac.
Eddie - I'd always understood that Radio 4 presenters wore evening suits. But perhaps the webcam captured you on dress-down Friday.
Eddie - I'd always understood that Radio 4 presenters wore evening suits. But perhaps the webcam captured you on dress-down Friday?
Eddie - I'd always understood that Radio 4 presenters wore evening suits. But perhaps the webcam captured you on dress-down Friday?
If only BT Openzone would work at the station I could check out your shirt tonight. It's just like 'Window on your world' there were no 'one use cameras' in WH Smith. See the whole damn world is conspiring against me. Have you gone for a polo tonight? I bet Peter Donaldson wears a mac.
Eddie - I'd always understood that Radio 4 presenters wore evening suits. But perhaps the webcam captured you on dress-down Friday.
SSCat (3) wrote, quoting the prime minister, "Terrorists routinely use multiple identities - up to 50 at a time." Imagine trying to introduce a couple of terrorists who are using 50 identities at a time:-
鈥淎re, there you are John or Alan or Christopher or James or Michael or Demetrius or Richard or Bill or David or Jacob or Eddie or Bernard or Fred or Paul or Vladimir or Kenneth or Adolf or Mark or Robert or Gareth or Steve or Kieran or Nicholas or Graham or Brian or Stuart or Peter or Toby or Alan or Phillip or Clint or Albert or Joseph or Simon or Ian or Terry or Ferdinand or Saul or Floyd or Barry or Carlos or Walt or Reuben or Hugh or Hasad or Karl or Frank or Nigel or Derek or Kevin. Could I ask you to put that gun down? I want to introduce to a very good friend of mine - Alice or Fiona or Elizabeth or Susie or Carol or Kimberly or Jennifer or Jane or Deborah or Grace or Frances or Kirsty or Angela or Anne or Lydia or Gillian or Elena or Rachel or Belinda or Laura or Molly or Kalila or Felicity or Alexandria or Nicola or Diana or Emma or Abigail or Desdemona or Olivia or Kay or Hannah or Ruth or Deidre or Mary or Emily or Farrah or Barbara or Josephine or Wendy or Tabitha or Sadie or Heidi or Kasi or Janet or Karen or Danielle or Renee or Michelle or Gladys who is interested in purchasing a dirty bomb.鈥
鈥淪orry, what was your name again?鈥
鈥淲hich one?鈥
H.
You should really have had a better contract with "no web cam" as a clause.
If I want pictures, I'll watch TV. If I want voices, I'll listen to radio.
But, speaking of TV and fashion, our trusty newsreaders/presenters give no end of entertainment with some of the outfits they wear and as for the local stations ...
Keep with your tramp-like appearance for as long as you like and just put a paper bag over the web cam.
Is that a Leicester shirt today??? I shall have to send a Harrogate Rugby Club shirt down pronto. They may be languishing at the bottom of their league, but at least they've got bright kit!!
Blue in shirt, but not in tone.
Whose that with you on the webcam tonight, Eddie?
I think you look very smart.
'The Boy's in Blue"
Great idea Johnnie, I'd also like to see some of those meetings where Eddie gets irritated by which news programme gets which story, camera in editorial meetings please!
Jonnie (17), Forgive me, but, "eh?"
Ok - so absolutely, definitely at 17:00 by my computer, the webcam showed Eddie in a Leicester-looking rugby shirt. It now shows nothing of the sort. Eddie, are you changing during the pre-recorded bits????
I'm surprised Frank Field is not announcing special legislation to mandate what rugby shirts we may or may not wear !!
Enjoy your pancakes tonight, Eddie!
May I have a whinge about the whingers - those who have a problem with being charged for UNAUTHORISED borrowing from banks. If you went into the supermarket and took some sugar that was not authorised by the shopkeeper you would get charged for shoplifting. Please tell me the difference from stealing from a shop and straling from a bank?
Thanks for the viewing tips all, for once IE7 does it better than Firefox, but you'll never get me to admit it!
whisht, why not whistle "The Fields of Athenry"? It's a much better known tune. ;)
Mary
Whisht (10)
Soddy do cod fuse. Data'll deach me do dry add be elf fool wed braid dot wurr kig ride.
Doze butch beddur dudday, ta.
Bag to blog damorrah.
Veevee
Helena (27) : I don't think anybody's whingeing about being fined for unauthorised borrowing from banks, Helena.
It's the fact that the banks have been *profiting* from people going overdrawn etc, that is no longer allowed.
They're allowed to recoup their necessary expenses to get their money back .. but that's all.
;o)
Fifi
he he Madmary - you just can't trust these cut-price compilation CDs now can ya?!!
I should've known those wooly jumpers on the cover looked fake!
Fifi (36) - I once stuck a stone up my nose and ended up speaking like that. You should be careful!
Apparently I didn't make a fuss as we went to hospital and had it removed by a nurse... I don't think I was "really brave" but rather incredibly embarrassed (which is surely alarming for a 4 year old...?)
The difference between stealing from a shop and straling from a bank?
Well, "stealing from a shop" is illegal and can result in a fine and/or prison sentence, whereas "straling from a bank" is something I've not heard about before -- is it a kind of celebratory dance performed when unfair charges have been refunded?
(Tee hee).
Whisht (40) - I suppose you will be telling us next that that was the last time that you were stoned!
Appy (41) Strale:
1. v. intr. go with quick steps on alternate feet, never having both or all feet on the ground at the same time.
2. v. intr. flee, abscond.
Well after all this talk about how bad Telly is for us all, I expect the Froggers and Bloggers will be the next to get targeted!
Just spent a ridiculous amount of time on YouTube!
I've watched Karen Carpenters parents just after Karen died.
Simon and Garfunkel singing 'The Boxer' on David Letterman
David Bowie singing Changes, last year.
but most amazing of all, loads of Procul Harum footage, Gary Brooker was a really amazing songwriter.
Whoops! Forgot - this is Eddies blog isn't it, better go, see you all in the morning.
Oh, Big Sister, t'was oor Eddie mischief making of course!
Why is it that many froggers complain about being moderated, and then the moderators fail to weed out four of the 5x posting from Brightonram? A good post may be worth repeating, but...
Sparkly Helen - what are you doing frogging at 4.22 in the middle of the night? I only ask because i have your best interests at heart.
RJD - LoL, actually I'm not certain but I think I may have used that verb in a past life, it certainly sounds familiar.
The Built -In Colour Supplement, Big Sis, would that be The Rugby Shirts?
Oops - too fast, I really must get it together to make all my comments in the one post, it saves time in the long run.
ValP - What a good idea!
RJD (49) - erm... ah.... well.... er.....
I can't remember.
um, actually, memory loss.... that doesn't help does it...?
[whistles "she'll be coming round the mountain when she comes...."]
Hi there, Whisht. Good to see you (even if you are a bit the worst for wear!).
May I just say how much I like today's strapline?
Valerie P, thank you, but you probably don't want to know about my gastric issues last night! All is now well again.
Sis (58),
As my mom used to say, "Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back!"
;-)
ed
EdI: ????
Re yesterdays interview with the British Council for Muslims. This organisation was given considerable air time discussing the changes that they want to British Schools. In the interest of unbiased reporting isn't it time they were interviewed to discuss what concessions/arrangements are made for Christians in Islamic countries?
Who fancies a game of I Spy?
Sis (61),
Ain't you Liz? If not, the joke don't work.
xxx
ed
EdI: ???????? - Nope, I don't see the joke .....
Hi Big Sis
methinks EdI thought you were Liz congratulating herself on her own strapline - hence the patting yourself on the back reference!
I wanna say that I like the Fifi one today, "A gentle eddy in current affairs"
nice.
Should've realised that we have an eddy in the pond....
(now goes back into hangover mode... Ireland winning has left me croking* worse than a frog....)
*[intended spelling!]