The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Serial_Apologist]

Cats show affection

Indeed they do - and it's not just to gain food. Oh, and they're not the main culprit when it comes to the alarming decline in bird species and numbers - we are.

[LMcD]

Ailurophobia is defined as "an irrational fear or hatred of cats"...

... Your hatred sounds entirely rational to me LMcD

OG

I'm just going to see whether Amazon can deliver me a tin hat by tomorrow morning.
A couple of years our social group invited a chap from the Cats' Protection League to give us a talk. His opening sentence: 'Let's face it - a cat is a killing machine' - wasn't quite what any of us was expecting.

[teamsaint]

I'm just going to see whether Amazon can deliver me a tin hat by tomorrow morning.
A couple of years our social group invited a chap from the Cats' Protection League to give us a talk. His opening sentence: 'Let's face it - a cat is a killing machine' - wasn't quite what any of us was expecting.

We got our cats from the Cats Prevention League.

First Question: “ Do you live near a road ?”

[Richard Tarleton]

I've given many talks to local WIs, where as often as not the speaker is asked to judge a little competition amongst the members (my first, back in the 1980s, was "Best autumn arrangement in an eggcup"). After one, a sympathetic member remarked to me "You're lucky you didn't have to judge our cats".

[kernelbogey]

We got our cats from the Cats Prevention League.

First Question: “ Do you live near a road ?”

Was s/he armed?

[kernelbogey]

.....Martin is going to be presenting only Sunday Breakfast... and from next weekend Elizabeth Alker will be presenting on Saturdays. I've expressed my views on her before: I won't be listening on Saturdays. That's a big loss for me.

Listening this morning (Sunday), I find we now have an 0830 news headlines inserted (I was not listening to the first half), which I find another retrograde step. Someone has decided to stir the weekend Breakfast pot and I don't like the result.

Perhaps I imagined it but it seemed as though the Martin's presentation today had lost a little of his customary joie de vivre.

[stortoterpsicho]

can put up with cock ups but where do you tune in now on a saturday morning for core classical repetoire?
i wish elizabeth all the best in her new responsibility but the selection needs a bit of fine tuning to say the least. a loyal r 3 listener but a bit exasperated

[oddoneout]

can put up with cock ups but where do you tune in now on a saturday morning for core classical repetoire?
i wish elizabeth all the best in her new responsibility but the selection needs a bit of fine tuning to say the least. a loyal r 3 listener but a bit exasperated

Of the 14 pieces 9 were what might be considered 'core' repertoire, but I think that if that's what you want then mornings are possibly not your best bet? In any case Saturdays have a different arrangement because of Record Review - plenty of 'core repertoire' but not in the form you presumably want it!

[Serial_Apologist]

can put up with cock ups but where do you tune in now on a saturday morning for core classical repetoire?
i wish elizabeth all the best in her new responsibility but the selection needs a bit of fine tuning to say the least. a loyal r 3 listener but a bit exasperated

Welcome to the forum, stortoterpsicho.

[antongould]

can put up with cock ups but where do you tune in now on a saturday morning for core classical repetoire?
i wish elizabeth all the best in her new responsibility but the selection needs a bit of fine tuning to say the least. a loyal r 3 listener but a bit exasperated

Yes she didn’t so much crash the pips, in the style of Wogan, but showed up for the News 4 minutes early. Still she solved it the modern way by sticking in a trailer for her own show ...

[Stanfordian]

Yes she didn’t so much crash the pips, in the style of Wogan, but showed up for the News 4 minutes early. Still she solved it the modern way by sticking in a trailer for her own show ...

In Munich, I've put on Radio 3 at breakfast and the odd selection of music, the tiresome trails (for Radio 2) and the voice of Elizabeth ('I want to be yer mate' and master of 'six form chatter') Alker, although I can't hear her word endings, has made me turn off after 15 minutes. Awful!


Just play the music! The spoken contribution needs to be only minimal.

I just wonder how many young people are drawn to this adulterate selection.

[kernelbogey]

I tried, I tried this morning, hoping the sing-song nursery voice had perhaps been modulated, but no - so off after twelve minutes.

Edit: And looking at the playlist I can see what storto means.

[DracoM]

<< Elizabeth ('I want to be yer mate' and master of 'six form chatter') Alker, >>

Oh, YES, YES, YES!
Grinds the teeth. Imagine being sat alongside her on a long train journey? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

[kernelbogey]

<< Elizabeth ('I want to be yer mate' and master of 'six form chatter') Alker, >>

Oh, YES, YES, YES!
Grinds the teeth. Imagine being sat alongside her on a long train journey? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

I think you'd probably be ok - she'd have her headphones in all the time.

[Stanfordian]

<< Elizabeth ('I want to be yer mate' and master of 'six form chatter') Alker, >>

Oh, YES, YES, YES!
Grinds the teeth. Imagine being sat alongside her on a long train journey? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

I can actually think of someone worse to present. She's Natasha Raskin-Sharp (host of antiques shows) she's not a classical music expert as far as I know, but why should that matter these days.

Gosh, I must be careful what I wish for.

If wonder who this rubbish is aimed at. If it's intended to entice younger listeners - well the potential younger listeners I know, wouldn't be seen dead with this.