Have just been allowed back into the building to pick up my things and delete my files on the computer, and hand in my presenter pips before I knot my spotty handkerchief on a stick and head off into the middle distance.
It's been great knowing you. I love you all....
All I can say is I hang my head in shame for not fulfilling my Glass Box obligations. Can you ever forgive me?
sequin
Jump to more content from this blog
PM The evening news and current affairs programme presented by Eddie Mair.
iPM The programme that starts with its listeners. Join the discussions online and contribute ideas for a weekly programme presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey.
Read the final report of the PM Privacy Commission.
Meet the commissioners, view the terms of reference and hear the Commission Chair Sir Michael Lyons explain his approach.
³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ © 2014 The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read more.
This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.
RSS feed
Email us
Listen to PM
You are forgiven Sequin :-) We owe you a debt of gratitude for *NOT* allowing three double decker buses and a fork lift truck in between you and BigBen.
When you next bump in to Eddie you must let him in on the secret.
But Sequin, Glass Box obligations are in Mr. Mayor's domain. They even include posting the Glass Box so early in the day that it gets lost under a large number of postings from a train so that it has to be reposted.
I quite realise that mistakes in some obligations deserve disciplinary procedures. In some extreme circumstances these could include dismissal. However, should recent problems be deemed to deserve such action, then it should not affect you! I am sure that Mr. Mayor is gentlemanly enough to do the right thing and, although it would be a shame to see him go, he would not be missed too much. As they say, "The show must go on!"
H.
Ah, give my head peace! You know you will be back. The place would fall apart without you!
Sequin - don't gooooooooooo............
Re:- Humph - If Eddie went would he take the Blog with him do you think.
I suspect future canditates may let it die of thirst and malnutrition.
Sequin, stand firm....Eric already knocked you off the Blog - don't let him bully you any more!
In fact, get your own sweet revenge and hide his coffee mug - that'll show him! ;o)
Hide his coffee mug? Better to superglue the lock in the snazzy coffee shop where he gets his quadlattes! ;o)
Oh no Sequin, don't leave us. You're far better than Eddie. We wholeheartedly forgive your Glass Box oversight - after all, it is nothing compared to Mr. Mair who forgot to turn up to the programme for two days running. I think that award went to his head.
Come back Sequin! Otherwise I'll boycott PM and just listen to the Westminster Hour...and Today...and all the other things that you do.
Some tributes I stumbled across esp for BigSister and Aperitif :-))
Hear! Hear! for Eddie Mair. Soft and fluffy on the outside, until the kill. One exact question to the interviewee and their weaknessess are exposed for all to see. As for the set - it is soooo last February. Newsnight is the only serious news programme on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TV, it is not Newsnight-The Musical. Shape up please.
Wendy Byrom, Guernsey
I wanted to comment on Eddie Mair's impeccable presenting on Monday's night show [25.07.05]. He exuded calmness, authority and an intelligent wit and it was a real pleasure to watch.
John Johnston, London
Thank you for letting the wonderful Eddie Mair loose on Newsnight, and maintaining the programme's impeccable Scottish ethos! Please can we have more of him?
Alex Scott, London
Hooray for Eddie Mair - the sharpest wit on radio comes to television. Please tell me he's going to be a regular!
Mac, United Kingdom
Hands up everyone who wants Eddie Mair to host Newsnight more often or on a regular basis? What a refreshing, engaging presenting style - calm, warm, incisive and funny. No sign of any aggression - more a centred way of getting to the core of a story or interview without the dramatics or hostility seen in some journalism. More please!
Caitlin McKiernan, East London
Sequin:
Pip removal? Appendicitis perhaps?
Hope it isn't too painful .....
Oh thanks Jonnie (9)! See Humph (2) He can't go -- you're going to make me cry! I mean Sequin's lovely and all that -- and of course she is forgiven, I mean blimey, it's not as if one couldn't just put ones Glass Box comments elsewhere. No big deal Sequin: don't worry! -- but PM without Eric?! It'd be like Scotland without midgies -- just wrong.
POOSH!
Oh dear Miss Quinn, I knew all this overwork would end in tears. Now listen to me and calm yourself. You're just a tiny bit delusional after your hectic few weeks. I'm going to try and tell you what's real and what isn't...
You HAVEN'T been sacked from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳. That was just a nasty dream you had when you nodded off in the studio during one of your epic multi-presenting session days.
You WILL be asked to present PM again at 4 hour's notice, anytime Mr Mair fancies another sick-leave day (I knew letting him hear that original report about skiving off work was a bad idea).
You DON'T need to be responsible for the Glass Box when you're on PM. For goodness sake - delegate, girl. We have a blog Prince for that kind of menial task. Don't soil your hands.
Now just unpack that little spotted handkerchief, & put it back on Eddie's desk where he can find it again on Monday.
You pop home now, & have a nice lie-down before it's time to get up again at 3 am tomorrow for work.
The rest of the evening's your own. Enjoy!
Sorry Appy (11), I am not too sure that I understand you. You say that PM without Mr. Mayor would be like Scotland without midges. Are you saying that one of the things that you look forward to, when going north of the border, is a chance to meet all those midges? Or that when you tune into Radio 4 at 5pm you would be happier with the absence of Mr. May . . . [THWACK] . . . I dink I udderdand id dow. :[]_(
H.
Humph, you're a card :-)
That would be the Joker, eh Humph?
Giggles!
Well, as long as Sequin hasn't taken the bongs with her instead of the pips, we'll be all right at 1800.
Sequin - deep breaths, all is well, come and calm those frayed nerves at the Beach. Its partic pretty today and theres some lovely stuff on the bar.
WW: I wouldn't worry. Sequin sounded fine last night on her own territory .....
Partic pretty? Is that related to Partick Thistle by any chance? Strange to say, their ground featured on an episode of Taggart that I watched over the weekend.
WW: I wouldn't worry. Sequin sounded fine last night on her own territory .....
Partic pretty? Is that related to Partick Thistle by any chance? Strange to say, their ground featured on an episode of Taggart that I watched over the weekend.
Big Sis - I wouldn't know to be honest! Is Partick Thistle a 'real' place or just a random name?
Sequin;
You know that the PM crowd couldn't manage without you.
Eddie even noticed that Carrie, Ritala and yourself tidied up the mess on his desk while he was away, although he thought it was the cleaners wot dunnit!.
Si.
Well, I had to google to find out, WW. Partick is a place, now part of Glasgow. I think the 'Thistle' bit is just a scottishness.
It's a very old football club (from the 1870s, it would appear). I always think of Saturday afternoons and the football results when I hear the name. One of the more distinctive and interesting club names.
BS - thanks for that. It is oddly evocative, Queen of the South is a good one too.
It's Irish, y'know, and probably originates in a misspelling...(too old for a typo)
;-)
ed
Queen of the South is the Dumfries team, a mere 20 miles from here. But I'm a Rugby fan.
xx
ed
Whoops! Premature exclamation again! Sorry :-(
WW I like Queen of the South, too.
Not sure it was Irish gaelic, EdI. But this helps:
Partick - originally Perdyec, from the Gaelic aper dhu ec, meaning the place at the confluence or mouth of the dark river
Sis,
;-)
ed
I never liked football as a child (it was very much something for the boys, and I was a girly girl), so why is hearing the football scores such a good memory?....
I know somebody called Patrick Thorne who feels obliged to support Partick Thistle.
Well, Appy, I guess it reminds me of childhood and my dad. He'd be watching and checking his football pools, I'd probably be bored and waiting for something else to happen ..... but I was in the same room as my dad, something which will never happen again. Some names always held more charisma than others, and many from the Scottish League fitted that bill.
I was probably a tomboy, but didn't play football.
Appy - I know what you mean; leaves me cold now though!
Appy;
Football scores.
You mean like Forfar four, Fife five.
Or something?
Si.
Yeah Big Sis, WW, it's probably the Dad -- and for me, Grandad -- thing.
Si, Tee hee - yes!
Appy: that is very, very cheeky. Get you to a Naughty Step NOW!
The sing-song of the football scores was the background to my grandmother checking her "coupon". I used to wonder what on earth she was doing, and why it was always best if they scored a draw?
Si - that would be Forfar 4 - East Fife 5.
Eh? How is that cheeky? I'm missing something here Sis: I was agreeing that it was probably the nostalgia of hearing the football scores when spending time with my Dad and Grandad when I was little, that makes them a fond memory now. If there's something rude in there you're going to have to explain it to me! Is your mind even worse than RJD's?... :-)
Val P - When I was small and listened to the Football Results, I always thought that there was a Scottish football team called Hearts Nil.
Appy:
Apologies if I misconstrued your comment. It had come across to me that you thought my dad and your grandad might be contemporaneous - RJD's always trying that one on me!
Is the Naughty Step only for the poo-rude these days then?
Ap (37) - Now why do you have rude and RJD in the same sentence? I wasn't even in the conversation! And I think that you will find that Big Sis might have been questioning why you should equate, in age terms, her Dad with your Granddad. I think you should apologise to Big Sis. I’ll wait!
Oh no! I see what you mean RJD!! No, no, no Big Sis -- I just meant that in my case it also brings back fond memories of my Grandad -- I wasn't suggesting that would be at the same time as your Dad! I wouldn't presume to estimate anyone's age here on the frog -- except that I know RJD is knocking on a bit in dog years :-)
Sorry Big Sis -- and Witchiwoman come to that!
And as for Now why do you have rude and RJD in the same sentence? I didn't even know the Naughty Corner existed until you got me into bother! Can I come out now?
Ap (41) - Oh, that's clever. Ditch the ageism against Big Sis and transfer it to me.
As for "Can I come out now?"
What ARE you trying to say?
RJD;
As A kid and right through until more recent years I've searched the dictionary in vain for a well-known cricket word 'englandbattingcollapse'.
Must be an obscure dictionary I haven't seen. :-(
Si.
Hello everyone!
RJD - uhuh, you've cracked that one before, is this a sign of (your) age? repeating yourself? Perhaps they should consider a name change though, it might change their fortunes....
btw we're going digital from this week, I could send you the link if you're interested? Onward and upward.
Val P - I couldn't remember if I had done it before or not. Yes, to the digital link though. One of the guys in the office had a son at Uni in Edinburgh and became a bit of a Hearts nut whilst there. I'll pass it on to him as well, if he doesn't have it already.
Belinda - Hello to you!
Si - Yes I know that one. Funny that the Aussies have never had an equivalent word!
Big Sis (39) You are quite right, I shouldn't presume the Naughty Corner is only for those who are misbehaving in the RobbieDo sense. My naughty mind just thougt that was what you meant!
Funny but your 39 wasn't there when I replied earlier to RJD's message -- which is now below it.
"Can I come out now?" refers, of course, to re-eerting the full frog having been confined to the naughty corner. What're you trying to suggest matey?
Oh I'm all confused on this thread! But I know a chap I can blame for that -- I like to blame him for most things around here... :-)
Hello Belinda! In fact, hello everyone!
Ap - Don't worry I'm confused all the time!
External QA audit nearing completion - I'm going to the Beach for lunch at the NC bar as soon as the auditor leaves!
Maybe I didn't write something here but I'll give it a shove anyway.
Val P - I've been back and found you and Aunt Dahlia tramping all over my "last word" thread. This has to stop! I have laid a trap!
Would you like to have the last word here RJD?
Will do then RJD - look out in your inbox Thursday/Fridayish.
Sorry about the Last Word ;-). How often do you get audited then?
Val P - every six months and I'll keep an eye on the inbox, thanks.
Ap - Unfortunately I am resigned to the knowledge that I will never, ever have the last word. I am male after all!
No, no, RJD, go ahead, be my guest (tee hee)...
Ap - Nope! - I'm not playing that game again. You all just laugh at me behind my back.
I'm just going to the Beach and catch up with the camels - at least they don't make fun of me.
There there RJD, don't get the hump.
I'm happy to arbitrate!
I bet if I had "sexy knees" I wouldn't be treated this way!
You telling us you don't RJD?
Oops there goes your last word again, tee hee :-)
A few weeks ago there was a malicious posting on the Frog which pointed out that one Frogger appeared to post the first contibution to a large number of threads. I am not being malicious, here, I am just passing on something that "appears to be".
Whilst checking through several threads last weekend, to see if I had missed any interesting comments, I noticed that a certain name kept occuring just above the Post a Comment box. Doing a count back I found that at that time 12 of 15 consecutive threads, that is 80%, ended with comments from Appy.
I am not saying that Appy feels a need to have the last word on threads. She even offered, on the 18/3/07 Beach (comment 90), to let me have the last word on the Blast Off thread of 14th March and was true to her word. So RJD (53), if the offer is made, then I would trust that it is done in good faith.
H.
Ap - Who have you been talking to?
Humph (60) - Have you nothing better to do?
RJD (62) - I do not think so . . . what had you in mind?
H.
POOSH!
For pity's sake?! Why has my reply to Humph been moderated then? There was absolutely nothing controversial about it!
Re RJD (61) Well not to me, obviously!
H.
Humph, I said something like: Gosh, is that true? I hope you will all assume it is because I don't like to be rude and stop whilst there might still be a conversation going on, rather than because I feel compelled to have the last word.
I recognise the irony therein.
POOSH again!
Appy (67) Yes, it was absolutely true at the time although I acknowledge that the situation did change. As I said previously (60), it was just something that I noticed whilst quickly going from one thread to another and although the numbers were true (lies, damn lies and opinion polls), I was not trying to suggest any compulsion on your part. Also I wanted to point out to RJD that when you offer to let someone else have the last word, you are a person of your word and that he should trust you on that.
H.
At the risk of having the last word here, thank you Humph.
Quick -- somebody say something! I feel very self-concious!
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it
I like the last word too!
Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
That stood along the floor and by the wall;
And some loquacious Vessels were; and some
Listen'd perhaps, but never talk'd at all.
Val P (72) - Well, we know that!
I'm fed up with that Omar using my keyboard - but he does talk sense!