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The Spirit of radio

14 Friday Oct 2011

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Well a really busy day today what with one thing or another. I heard the Rick O’Shea 2fm radio show was coming to Sligo and we are big fans and I ‘tweet’ them on a regular basis so we had to go in and meet them :)

As you can see I was starstruck (as usual) Rick and Cormac are really nice guys. I sponsored Rick for the RTE 2fm ‘Dress-up for Barnardos ‘, which you can find here.

On the way home there was a little dog running all over the road. We stopped the car and tried to catch him but he was so fast and running all over the place. It was horrific the amount of cars that just didn’t slow down though :( In the end he ran towards a church so I’m really hoping he went home. Poor thing.

Schools out for Summer

02 Wednesday Jun 2010

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Schools out for Summer, originally uploaded by magnum_lady.

So school finished today for Lucy until September…..which means no more school runs :-)

Happy days. Bring on the good times.

Well today was eventful. I did some gardening and got the grass cut (pretty boring but it needed doing).

I have been listening to Tony Fenton on Today FM all week and he has been giving away tickets to Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), for his show next year in the O2. Both Jono and Andy (and me) are big fans so as it’s Jono’s birthday on Friday and Andys next Wednesday I thought it would be great to try and get on air and win them.

So the cue to call came and I nervously phoned up and left my name and phone number. Blow me down but about 5 minutes later the phone went and it was Today fm…..well I screamed down the phone! Luckily I’d calmed down a bit by the time I got talking to Tony Fenton.

All I had to do was pick a song from the ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Roulette’. The first song was Thin Lizzy with Jailbreak, I like the band but not that song so I went onto the next song which was Bon Jovi Living on a prayer.

I also won some cd’s as well as the tickets……very exciting :D

An apple a day

17 Monday May 2010

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An apple a day, originally uploaded by magnum_lady.

The photo is my new baby :) I’m having great fun with it. I know actually know how to use it thanks to Lucy.

Isn’t it a great time that we live in with all these gadgets and technology. When I was a young ‘un there were no videos, games consoles, cd players or computers……what a hard life ;)

I remember having a little tape recorder and trying to record the Top 40 from my transistor radio. Then I would spend hours playing and pausing the tape trying to make out the lyrics….no google to look them up. Although on a good week the Smash Hits magazine would publish the ones I wanted.

The first computer game I got was a ping pong game….a bit like this one:

I got my first stack system (with a cd player) in 1987, I was 19….it cost an arm and a leg and was only a ‘cheap’ Dixons one. It still had a record player so I could play all my singles and albums.

I remember watching movies with a cine film projector. They were so fiddly, you had to get the film in just right or it would all go haywire. Then the video recorders came out. It was a fight between VHS and Betamax. We had VHS recorder with the ‘piano keys’ and a wired remote control.

There was no such thing as Sky, so Top of the Pops on a Thursday was a really big deal. Would I go back to the old days? No way!

Gerry Ryan

01 Saturday May 2010

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Gerry Ryan, originally uploaded by magnum_lady.

I was shocked yesterday when I heard that Gerry Ryan had died.

I was on twitter and saw a mention that something had happened to him…..of course sometimes rumours are just that and it turns out to be false.

In this case it was true. To people that don’t live in Ireland Gerry was a well known DJ on 2fm which is a national radio station.

I remember when we first moved here in 1991 watching him on the tv and of course he hosted the Eurovision song contest when Riverdance was first performed.

I wasn’t a fan of the radio show, but I feel sorry for his partner, family and friends. He was only 53.  RIP Gerry.

The Ryan line is closed.

This is an article from the Tribune on Sunday 2nd May, 2010. It explains what exactly happened on twitter.

Another week nearly over

25 Thursday Mar 2010

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There hasn’t been a whole lot going on so I didn’t do a blog. This week seems very long. I keep thinking today is Friday.

I’ve been listening to i102 and all week they have been doing this experiment. Aparently if you talk and think about yourself nicely then you will look better and younger, then if you think horrible thoughts about yourself. So a charisma expert cut an apple in half and put one in a ‘hate’ jar and one in a ‘love’ jar. i102 have done the same and are being horrible to the ‘bad apple’ and lovely to the ‘nice apple’, aparently the bad apple rots quicker. I was tempted to try this myself….but I feel really sorry for the ‘bad apple’…..am I sad?? lol

Lucy finishes school tomorrow for two weeks…..yay I get to sleep in. We are going to see the X Factor next week. I got tickets for the kids as part of their Christmas pressie, we are looking forward to it.

We are also going to see a show called An Evening with Sgt. Pepper. It’s on in Sligo. Andy is a big Beatles fan and I love any kind of concert or show, it should be a good night out.

My mum got a call from the GP the other day asking her to go for a hospital appointment. What happened was mum had a scan last year and cancelled going back for the results. The hospital got onto the GP asking her to attend another appointment. Mum is now really worried that the cancer has come back. I really hope everything is OK. I’m not sure when the appointment is yet as she hasn’t got a date through.

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