A Grand Fantasy Weekend ?

We had £1000 min winner today – Sandy from Yateley answered all 10 questions correctly and bagged the £1000 – well done Sandy I say, but it got me thinking to the question PG always asks me ‘If you won £1000 what would you spend it on?’.

Now that IS a good question….so in Al’s real world; it would have to be either start saving for a deposit on a house or pay off a debt – oh dullsville!

Now my fantastical world is much more interesting; I live in New York just like Carrie Bradshaw et al (guess which film I saw last night?!) and I would spend my £1000 on a designer handbag and if I could walk in them, some Manolo’s – it may tip over the £1000 mark if I’m to do it properly but what’s a few hundred between me and my bank manager. Alternatively I could take the £1000 have a little flutter and see what rewards I could reap from taking a leaf out of Las Vegas’ book, but I’m not the gambling kind I’ve decided, I like mine a dead cert as they say and what I have just realised is that the exchange rate is so good I could get 2 of each – right I’m off to take my bite out of the Big Apple…

Have an enjoyable weekend – I’m going shopping and happy spending to Sandy – it is after all her money I’m dreaming of frittering away in my fantasy world!

Posh x

PS Go and see the film; its fun and full of brilliant ways to escape the routine of your normal life…

Back from the Big Apple...

So, after ploughing through my 400 odd emails, 395 of them spam, it feels like I never went to New York! Had an incredible trip, saw 6 Broadway shows, ate tons of food and drank some lovely beer/wine. How lovely it was yesterday morning when my alarm went off at 4.30am - "hurrah" I shouted!

However, I've returned to work to find out how busy Claire, Saffron and Clem have been on the newsdesk in my absense, providing you with some fantastic local news.

I also have some exciting news which I can't share with you just yet, but involves me getting back on a plane and travelling many miles to produce some special reports for Eagle Radio - stay tuned for more!

Rob Harris

Questions & Answers

Ah, the bank holiday blues – I have them today - after a very relaxing weekend doing not much apart from enjoying Brighton beach, I was sorely disappointed not to be able to nod off last night.

After a dose of the sea air, I was hoping to be able to crash and burn at about 9.30pm but alas "No" at 1.30am I was still wide awake and asking all of life’s questions…

What are my top 10 things to achieve before I’m 40?

Would taking a year out and helping those less privileged than myself be a life changing experience?

Or shall I just stick it out and attempt to buy a house – potentially a life changing experience; the amount of money I have to save I’d be on the poverty line!

Was Rainbow really as crude as the You Tube videos would have you believe?

And why oh why does my cat pull socks off the radiator and meiow until you get up & pay her attention at 3am – I’M IN BED!

So these questions and more were circling my brain like a pack of vultures circling its prey…I eventually I dropped off at about 3.30am & my alarm went off at 4.15am so not the longest nights sleep but I certainly put the world to rights in my head… now I just need to find meaning of life…well that should be easy…!

Happy snoozing

Posh x

Busy doing nothing...

I’m looking forward to the bank holiday weekend immensely, and why would that be I hear someone ask? Because I’m doing big fat nothing! I have from Saturday night until Monday night with have nothing planned and I can’t wait.

It's going to be one of those weekends where I catch up with life – which appears to have escaped me in the last few weeks – doing paperwork – dull as dishwater but necessary – clean the house, do some washing and clear the garden of all its weeds that have sprung up from nowhere. All very pressing tasks and some may say dull but these are the issues that have been rattling around the more empty parts of my brain and thus making me worry.

Call it a girl thing, but I do believe an organised house leads to an organised mind – hence why I’m so scatty! Now, don’t get me wrong, all work and no play makes Posh a dull girl so I may even treat myself to seeing Indiana Jones on the big screen after I’ve decluttered house & mind– who says the life of a radio presenter is all glitz and glamour – mine’s certainly not and I love it – bring on the mundane I’ll be a lot saner for it!

Have a relaxing Bank Hol

See you Tues

Posh x

It's worth giving everything a go once...

Today I’m mostly thinking of Mushy Peas! I honestly thought that a more vile looking and tasting substance did not exist…they look like, actually I can’t say what they look like as it’s too disgusting and not something I want to contemplate at this time in the morning but I think we all know what I mean…and the thought of eating them turns my usually iron stomach to a wibbling mess…

However I have been proved wrong…on a little excursion to Weymouth a few weeks ago I was very lucky to be treated to a chish and fips supper and was asked if I’d like the aforementioned Peas…I turned my nose up and grimaced which drew cries of ‘What you don’t like Mushy Peas???’ Yuk yuk yuk I said…anyway to cut the ensuing conversation short, I conceded, under duress, to at least try a teaspoonful… ‘I’m 30’ I thought… 'I might pass away tomorrow and I’ll never have tried mushy peas!’ and I have this weird mantra that I should try everything at least once…

So, out they come, sitting in separate bowl (a personal request as I couldn’t have them contaminating the lovely fish) and my spoon is placed, with trepidation & slight curiosity if I’m honest, into the green mush.

Oh how it looks like green lumpy frog sporn…and into the mouth they go…and do you know what? the strangest thing happened; the mushy, lumpy, slightly vinagrey peas hit my taste buds and I actually enjoyed them – the texture took a while to get over but the taste was really enjoyable!

So off I went and woofed down the whole bowl to myself – much to my families disgust and slight smugness. Mmm maybe I’ll try Ravioli next - my new top most revolting food….

Have a good day

Posh x

Filling the void...

I’m still reeling from the fact that PG and Melanie (GPAC date no 3) have hit it off…we had an absolutely brilliant week last week with Give Pete a Chance and now it’s all over I feel a little empty inside…but that’s mainly because I like interfering in PGs love life and dammit I can’t do that anymore…

So what can I do to fill that void…? I’ve decided today to think about the songs I used to snog to at the school disco or the Merinden Hall, Frensham when me and my best friends threw parties for anyone that would come along…the one song that springs firmly to mind was New Kids on the Block when they did a cover of Neilson’s classic – ‘I Can’t Live if Living is Living is Without You’ ( I used to lurve NKOTB) or, as PG said this morning, ‘Crazy for You’ by Madonna.

I can still remember the absolute joy at being asked to dance by a young gent, that shall remain nameless, placing our hands on each others shoulders and swaying from side to side like never before…I thought that was the best it could get and then…we kissed…wow…fireworks!!!…oooh a little wet, aaah soft, ooh his hands getting lower, aaah my necks getting stiff & what on earth is that…

Then the music stopped and said boy moved onto my best friend and I moved onto his…well he was a better kisser after all!

See you tomorrow

Posh Al x

Wasn't It Good? (Oh So Good)

A little tired this morning, but that's for a very good reason.

Last night I went to see 'Chess - In Concert' at the Royal Albert Hall, a special performance of the 80's musical, introduced by Sir Tim Rice!

Real musical lovers will appreciate how excited I was, the rest of you will just laugh at me and then resume your bad mood because the football season's about to end! There was a lot of celeb spotting going on, but the whole evening was incredible, great performances from Idina Menzel, Marti Pellow and Josh Groban.

So that's not the end of my excitement, because early tomorrow morning I'll be heading along the M25 to Heathrow for a trip to New York! I wish PG all the best with his dates as 'Give Pete a Chance' continues, and also hope that Posh picks a goodie to join him in bed!

I will be back at the end of the month and give you a good run down of my American adventure!

Rob Harris

Naked Woking...

Summer's finally here and Woking Park's been lucky enough to host me and the dog in the afternoons to make the most of the warm weather.
I would like to add, I remain fully clothed when I'm in the park, unlike some guys who live by the embarrassing English rule that one must remove ones top, whether one be a scabby teenager, or whether one by an old man with moobs. Most unpleasent whichever you may be, so please think twice before removing t-shirts.

After a few pints down my local tonight, the most exciting part of my weekend will be watching Speed Racer at the Imax at Waterloo, really looking forward to that. Then I have to start thinking about packing ahead of my trip to New York next week - yay!

Enjoy the weekend weather and the inevitable smell of BBQ's around the area!

Rob Harris

A Posh Al never forgets...

I’ve failed…miserably…all I can do is apologise … and the only thing I can blame it on is an ailing memory…I have to say I didn’t think it would get me this quickly, although it’s been creeping up for years.

I even bought a book called ‘Intelligent Memory’ some months ago but have forgotten what most of it said, something about testing your memory on a daily basis, but how can you do that when everything is made so easy; calculators, predictive texting, that funny little paper clip that pops up on your computer to help you write a letter, they all conspire to make you forgetful and thus the worst has happened (well according to the computer man who told me off this morning) I forgot to blog yesterday...

See you tomorrow

Rob Harris Recommends...

After a lovely long bank holiday weekend I can pass on some Rob Harris recommendations. There is a much wider choice of garden gate locks available than I ever realised, growing your own herbs can be fun for about 10 minutes, Stardust is a really rubbish movie, but Iron Man is brilliant, and The Trout pub in Oxford has the best pub garden I've seen in ages.

Now it's a day full of realising it's Tuesday and not Monday, so I'm celebrating by going to buy a bike this afternoon and sitting in another pub garden, but this time in Woking.

All that before I'm off to Single Spies at The New Victoria tonight - I shall post a review tomorrow. Enjoy the sun!

She's So Vain...

This morning we not only found out that Brits consume nearly twice as much alcohol as our continental colleagues but also stay in the pub for twice as long – with an average arrival of 6.14pm and staying until 10.14pm!

I scoffed at this as if I’d never done it myself - "What, Stay in the pub for 4 hours? Never!"

It didn’t take long to realise the hypocrisy of my thoughts as I recall spending most of my young adult life in pubs for that long (in fact probably double that time) and by 2.14pm today, I'm wondering where my first drink of the bank holiday weekend is coming from!

And then my thought turned to the Breakfast Show this morning and the words of our Crew Ride recipient echoed in my ears (He’s 8) "Today at school we’re looking at what alcohol does to the look of your inside body as well as your outside body"

Well if nothing else I’m vain so maybe tonight I’ll give the booze a miss!
It takes an 8 year old to tell you these things sometimes!

Happy Bank Holiday weekend love Posh Al x

X marks the spot!

After being hooked to The Apprentice last night, playing that guessing game as to who's going out, and arguing with the other half over who it should be (actually we both agreed with Alan last night!), I thought I better start considering who to vote for in the local elections today.

I live in Woking, so will be one of the thousands walking to the church hall to cross a box with a stubby pencil. I worked my way through the mountains of campaign leaflets that had come through my letterbox over the past months and went to bed. I have a new digital radio alarm clock, so it took me about an hour to set my alarm for this morning!

Today for us Journo's is always the calm before the storm; tomorrow will be incredibly busy but exciting as the results start to come through. Of course, I hope to be able to bring you the latest from 6 tomorrow morning, plus Claire and Saffron will be journeying round the area all day to broadcast your views on the results.

That means a relaxing afternoon for me, pizza for dinner, a cross in a box and then early to bed. Happy voting!

Rob Harris, 96.4 Eagle Radio Head of News