June 2012

Flagging, Pork Pies and Pole Dancing...

7th June 2012

It’s only the second day back at work after the extended bank holiday weekend and Nick and I are flagging.

As breakfast show presenters, it’s sometimes difficult for us to strike the right balance between being cheerful:

“Good morning! Come on guys! Get up and at ‘em. Wakey, wakey, rise and shine! wooohoooooo!”

And being honest:

“I don’t know about you, but I feel knackered. Here’s some Adele.”

A funny show all in all though. David the butcher (from Weegmann’s of Otley) popped in with some pork pies and sausages for us. (NB, if you ever want to get into the studio, just turn up at the station bearing food. It’s a simple screening process but it serves us well.)

Catch you tomorrow. Stay safe.

Posted by Jennie at 10:32am

Daft Ian, The Little Chef and Scandalous Behaviour...

6th June 2012

Hello

Jen here, relieving Nick of his Breakfast Blogging duties. Good job dude!

I’m back at work after having ten blissful days off...and looking at the papers today, it seems that the Queen’s been up to something. I’m not sure what exactly, but it’s got something to do with excessive amounts of bunting. I’ll get back to you on that with an exclusive when I’ve got more details.

In my absence Nick’s started playing the theme tune to The Golden Girls at every opportunity, he’s put the Secret Sound kitty up to £1000 and, brace yourself, he’s vacuum packed himself into some sort of Miami Vice t-shirt today.  

In other news, on today’s Breakfast Show:

We had daft Ian on the line today trying to shed some light on this bunting madness.

I gave Nick his belated birthday presents. To the untrained eye they could appear to have been impulse bought from a motorway service station. (One on the M42, for instance, perhaps purchased as I was driving home to Harrogate from Malvern yesterday afternoon.) As luck would have it, I believe that Nick is a big fan of all Little Chef merchandise. See the glee in his eyes, evident in the photograph below.

I told you all about when I went to see Elton John last night in Harrogate, oh he was good.

And then there was the unfortunate business of Nick and I copping an eyeful of two of our colleagues getting amorous in the car park at the crack of dawn. There we are, Nick and I, minding our own business, in the studio as usual, and we’re faced with that sort of scandalous behaviour.

What are we meant to do? Not tell everyone listening?

Catch you tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by.

Posted by Jennie at 12:18pm

It is nearly my birthday and I was bored so we sabotaged the News

1st June 2012

This morning I was giddy for the long weekend but I had no Jen to mess about with? So what does one do? The answer is simples...mess about with Gav’s news.

Just for a bit of fun we ran a ‘secret’ competition on Facebook to come up with a word that Gav had to somehow ‘work in’ to the 8am news.

Of course 90% of the suggested words were rude. But there were a few clean-ish ones. Some of my favs:

Perplexity

Eskimo

Satan

Tarzan

Furball

Globules

Sausages

Weebles

Undercrackers

Fondue

Penguin

Crackerjack

Willy Wonka

Constipated

Mango

Horny

You’ll have to listen to the clip to hear what word Gav went for.

I always make a point of saying this on a Friday – Thank you for listening to Stray FM.  This is without a doubt the best job in the world. I absolutely love doing the Breakfast show and talking to you each morning. Stray FM has the most beautiful listeners and that is a fact.

 
Have a brilliant weekend. I’ll be back with Jen on Wednesday and don’t forget she has claimed she WILL interview Elton in Harrogate on Tuesday so it should be very interesting.

Nicholas

Posted by Nick at 11:29am