The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[oddoneout]

On the occasions I listen I feel she’s only going through the motions, with little enthusiasm or real attempts to engage the audience - surely there are others who could do a better job, but the formula is not particularly good and rather tired.

On the plus side that does tend to damp down the worst excesses of gush... I agree though that something isn't going as well as it might for her, but I've just seen that she is one of those unfortunate people who have been left with debilitating symptoms post-Covid, so that may well account for it.

[antongould]

On the occasions I listen I feel she’s only going through the motions, with little enthusiasm or real attempts to engage the audience - surely there are others who could do a better job, but the formula is not particularly good and rather tired.

Skellers of course retains his boyish enthusiasm

[antongould]

On the plus side that does tend to damp down the worst excesses of gush... I agree though that something isn't going as well as it might for her, but I've just seen that she is one of those unfortunate people who have been left with debilitating symptoms post-Covid, so that may well account for it.

Oh I didn’t know that OOO could well explain it ........

[oddoneout]

Oh I didn’t know that OOO could well explain it ........

I don't do twitbook but the comments reminded me that she had been ill early on and so I did a bit of googling

https://twitter.com/suzyklein/status/1303320567022583808

[Bryn]

I don't do twitbook but the comments reminded me that she had been ill early on and so I did a bit of googling
https://twitter.com/suzyklein/status...20567022583808

The relevant programme can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000mczc

[cloughie]

I don't do twitbook but the comments reminded me that she had been ill early on and so I did a bit of googling
https://twitter.com/suzyklein/status...20567022583808

Would explain her lack of enthusiasm - but I loved the sting in Lady Effingham’s fox’s tail! (Whenever I see the name Effinigham I often wonder whether there any Blindinghams they associate with!)

[antongould]

But back on title, a, IMVVHO, sublime piece of autumnal Finzi played this morning ..... well done The Squire ..... he did say he’d chosen it ......

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh I didn’t know that OOO could well explain it ........

The last time I heard her was well before covid struck....

[Serial_Apologist]

Would explain her lack of enthusiasm - but I loved the sting in Lady Effingham’s fox’s tail! (Whenever I see the name Effinigham I often wonder whether there any Blindinghams they associate with!)

I believe that inhabitants of Effingham in Surrey are often asked that question!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

On the occasions I listen I feel she’s only going through the motions, with little enthusiasm or real attempts to engage the audience - surely there are others who could do a better job, but the formula is not particularly good and rather tired.

Didn't she invent the formula? I'm thinking of this endless, well-past-its-sell-by-date game of adding to the imaginary playlist, prompted by her patronising suggestions of how "you" should decide. It may be better than its predecessor (recognising a tune played backwards), but that's hardly a valid excuse.

[oddoneout]

Didn't she invent the formula? I'm thinking of this endless, well-past-its-sell-by-date game of adding to the imaginary playlist, prompted by her patronising suggestions of how "you" should decide. It may be better than its predecessor (recognising a tune played backwards), but that's hardly a valid excuse.

The run-up to it is tiresome( less so when Mr Skelly is presiding), and I try and block out that bit, but it has evolved further in that the results are more often multiple offerings run as a sequence, and the incidence of something less obvious or mainstream is higher.
I've just realised that yet again B'fast and EC have got mixed up. Oh well, those in the nay lobby will say "the morning schedule is all an equal waste of space anyway" and those who do listen will ride the blurring boundary without confusion.

[antongould]

The run-up to it is tiresome( less so when Mr Skelly is presiding), and I try and block out that bit, but it has evolved further in that the results are more often multiple offerings run as a sequence, and the incidence of something less obvious or mainstream is higher.
I've just realised that yet again B'fast and EC have got mixed up. Oh well, those in the nay lobby will say "the morning schedule is all an equal waste of space anyway" and those who do listen will ride the blurring boundary without confusion.

Yes I agree OOO it has developed into something I enjoy and a lot of the pieces are new to me and often, IMVVHO, quite wonderful.

[french frank]

The run-up to it is tiresome( less so when Mr Skelly is presiding), and I try and block out that bit, but it has evolved further in that the results are more often multiple offerings run as a sequence, and the incidence of something less obvious or mainstream is higher.
I've just realised that yet again B'fast and EC have got mixed up. Oh well, those in the nay lobby will say "the morning schedule is all an equal waste of space anyway" and those who do listen will ride the blurring boundary without confusion.

Speaking as a nay-sayer … once irritated everything irritates. The whole highly obvious idea that 'we're thinking up ways to engage, you, the listener, in a little bit of thoughtful fun' makes me sigh in weariness; but as I always say, as businesses say: "Customers don't complain: they just don't come back."

[kernelbogey]

I've just realised that yet again B'fast and EC have got mixed up. Oh well, those in the nay lobby will say "the morning schedule is all an equal waste of space anyway" and those who do listen will ride the blurring boundary without confusion.

Post prandium omni animali tristia sunt.

[oddoneout]

Post prandium omni animali tristia sunt.

This animal tends to get sleepy rather than sad, however I'm operating in ignorant guesswork here as I don't have Latin apart from masses etc, and google returned this "It looks like there aren't any great matches for your search". Huh, at least I own my ignorance...
As is sometimes the way a mildly interesting snippet was thrown up by my various searches https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sunt The word may be unfamiliar but the feeling isn't.