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maria is livid. she cannot contain herself with fury. she is our executive producer and runs our ship with a firm but fair hand. but today she is incandescant - because i forgot to do the blog. i am in disgrace. i can only apologise. i wish that i could make up for it by writing a truly magnificent blog - one that beats all other blogs. but look at the time i'm writing this - 7.29 am. all i can think of is coffee, bananas and why the News 24 jingle is so annoying. i'm too tired to use capital letters. help.
i can pass on to you one true tale from the week though. a friend of mine works opposite the Royal College of Anaesthetists (they get capital letters - you don't want to offend someone who might one day be in charge of your eternal sleep ). apparently this week the entire building had to be evacuated. because of a gas leak.
tee hee hee
well what do you expect this early in the morning?
upper case is back next week
best and all
fi
Please could you ask this very nice gentleman whether he does the same work with stroke patients. My mother had a stroke 3 years ago ...
Complain about this postDon't let Lynn Truss see your entry - remember Eats, Shoots and Leaves? A lack of properly written English is always to be abhorred, no matter what stress factor is bearing down on the writer.
Complain about this postPlease could you ask this very nice gentleman whether he does the same work with stroke patients. My mother had a stroke 3 years ago ...
Complain about this postPlease could you ask this very nice gentleman whether he does the same work with stroke patients. My mother had a stroke 3 years ago ...
Complain about this postoutrageous! what do we pay our license fee for? I forsake my Saturday morning lie in for this show!
Complain about this postHi Fi,
Complain about this postlove the show - in fact it has changed my life. Since your piece on knitting I am half way through a tank top: cables; ribbing and everything, I hadn't picked up a knitting needle since my granny died (I was 13 and am now 40)
The reason I am emailing is partly to tell you about my student fancy dress fruit experience: I went as a bunch of grapes - the grapes being balloons which were stapled by well meaning friends all over my then slender 'stalk' body with a papier mache twig and leaf fixed to my head. We went to the party via several working mens pubs and needless to say I arrived at the party legless and grapeless.
My other reason for emailing is to add my comment to those who contacted you re. the remarkable work of the poet working with people with demetia. I worked with people experiencing dementia and their carers for some years as an occupational therapist and found the piece painfully truthful and to identify a way of thinking about dementia that could inform a new, more compassionate way of working.
A word of warning to the listener who said the work was rubbish - if you work in this field you need to look after yourself and keep an open mind, if you can't do that it's time to move on my friend.
Does your keyboard not feature a capital shift key, Fi? If you're not going to do the job properly, why bother to do it at all?
Complain about this postDisgrace, eh? That makes two of us. Pace*, Maria, but mine's worse. I've double-booked a speech so one eager audience now has a contract out on me. What a dipstick. but we both get a blog post out of it. Not all's lost, then.
Complain about this post* that's Latin, not an instruction to march up and down the office like a tiger with toothache
Funny how Paddy O'Connell on the current Broadcasting House inadventently flatters Fi as he attempts to imitate her cadence.
Complain about this postHi Fi
When Home Truths was taken off the air ,i thought nothing could replace it. Its format was so good, being the voice of the people and all that! But i have been listening to your programme whenever i can,and i find it riveting.
Since i came to the UK , years ago;radio has been my teacher and friend,especially radio4. I have learnt a great deal not only about life and the universe but about the British people and the country.
Complain about this postMay be sometime i will tell you about my lifes ups and down,as i did on the previous programme ,three times .
I love and have always loved your voice.
sabina ahmed