The John Thornton School of Reflexology at the University of Milton North

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Get well soon Maud!

I had to google AA but I agree, those are serious twiglets. Not as nibblesome as some I have seen though, IMHO.

I was all set to feel very very jealous because I had never had a celebrity dream of the Close Encounter kind. However after reading some of the candidates other folks' brains had decided to conjure up, maybe that's a plus.

But Twiggsy, Jedward, really? How did you cope with that hair?

I didn't dare risk the poetry either, just in case they had the one about the knight at arms alone and palely loitering..

And Home thoughts from Abroad . it's the bit about the buttercup that always sets me off.

Anyway, I am shattered so I think I shall go and see what my brain will come up with in the way of dreams. Why am i not optimistic?

Goodnight all.

PS I hope Maud's toe is more cocktail sausage than chipolata, today.

Massive, they had been on telly every night for a few weeks, in Celebrity Big Brother - luckily there were no real details though

I don't know the poem version of Home Thoughts much beyond the first few lines but what gets me is a song of the same name by Clifford T Ward. The lyrics are different to the poem but it's sort of based on that, about a man who's moved abroad and left a woman at home. Oh, it's so sad.

I am trying to rewatch last week's Spooks, in preparation for trying to understand tomorrow's but it's even harder to concentrate when the kids are coming in every twenty seconds with one crisis or another.

Oh crikey, Clifford T Ward.

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Sorry to have been AWOL last night. I felt extremely bleurgh - think it might be the exotic cocktail of antibiotics and vast quantities of painkillers - so lay in bed quietly groaning and for all the wrong reasons. Anyway, we have indeed moved into the cocktail sausage phase, although things are Still Not Quite Right.

Gosh. I hadn't heard that song for probably 30 years.

::Sobs quietly into lace-trimmed, cologne-soaked hankie::

Oh, Small, I had a peek at your lovely fireplace. I couldn't get a sense of scale from the photo, but we were advised against trying to fit a wood burner into our existing cast-iron surround (which was a bit like yours) because the woodburner needs a certain amount of clear space around it, both for fitting and for burning without setting fire to the house. You might find that even the teeniest woodburner can't be fitted in the gap. That is one reason why we got a whole new fireplace the only decent thing in the house.

On the final part of our progress north. Looking forward to being in my childhood pink painted bedroom tonight within the Dracule castle! with broadband so I can see some pretty pictures within the academy with more ease!

How are you all? How are the various toe and feet ailments going? Hope all having relaxing weekends.

Gosh. I hadn't heard that song for probably 30 years.

You never listened to MY programmes then, Maud :)

Hello Vampy! Goodness me, how long is this journey taking you!?

re. fireplaces, I am thinking that we also couldn't fit a woodburner into ours. I am very confused by my fireplace. I was expecting it to be a big square hole but there's just a little bit that looks like part of the chiumeny. I'm wondering whether that is the fireplace, or is it a thing that we can chop away and there will be a sqaure hole behind it. Am waiting for my dad to come up and tell me.

We have just been out for lunch and then DrTwigs took the kids to the park whilst I went shopping for a new coat (which I didn't get, grrrr). Not on the 'killing time until the kids' bedtime' portion of the day.

Hello, Vampy.

Toe is much better, than you but I am not telling Mr Thornton that, so that he has to continue with the foot massages.

I'm just going out to do some gardening. Wish me luck! And enjoy the trip down memory lane.

Oh, hello Twiggy. I am ashamed to say I have very rarely listened to Your Programme even though my record collection probably now forms its and its successor's playlist.

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Yep, that was a staple!

That's alright though, I never listen to it either :) I did work on quite a lot of shows and they all had very different music and ranged several decades!

DrTwigs used to say that one harsh winter would see most of my presenters off...

How terribly rude of Dr Twigs...!

Good job Dr Twigs hasn't seen me then the callow youth!

Well they were all over 80... !

Blimey, James is a bit of a stroppy wotsit on Strictly tonight, isn't he? I like it

Yes, what was he yelling about?

My dear daughter told me it started at 8pm, so I wandered in from the garden to find I'd missed half of it. Grr. Thank heavens for iPlayer.

Here comes Harry. Did you see Craig on It Takes Two when he said Harry would've got another point last week if the leather jacket had come off completely? ::saucy::

Lookin' gooooooooood, Mr Judd!

He's only 17¾, Twiggy!

I think James disagreed with what Len was saying about Brendan - apparently he shouted "Whatever!" We don't watch It Takes Two so I didn't hear that but v. funny :) He looked gorgeous in those tails tonight though - and the bit where he whispered in her ear

::Orders extra ream of paper for Twiggy's LoL, which now outweighs the London phonebook::

Anita and Robin are dancing to .

Anita actually looked halfway decent tonight. SHe's looked positively demented the other weeks...

One of my fave songs was on tonight too. Loved lulu's dress, btw.

Yay! Made it!! Finally in the rocky outpost called home!! and I missed strictly and my new toy boy HJ

Glad the toe is getting better Maud but good plan on keeping it to yourself - no point in stopping the foot massage of they still doing you good!!

What show you used to do twigs? [nosey emoticon!]

Trying to decide if z factor is going to be worth watching compared to the rubbish was of last week's!!

Z factor's probably not a bad name for it is it?!

Ps twigs we broke the journey by visiting two sets of friends on the way - that's why it was more of a progress than straight journey!!

Ah my, Stevie Wonder.

Just because a record has a groove, don't make it in the groove. You said it, Stevie baby.