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Thanks Jezi You beat me to it!

It's a really lovely photo and a good write up about the day in your column Cameron. Thanks.

great picture xx

It was a great day - good to catch up with Anthony and I was chuffed to meet Pete.

I must say you're looking very smart Cameron, and Pete's matching red hair and T-shirt look good and the setting is very nice.

Thanks for the write up and photo

Glad you had such a good day Cameron

shucks Christine lol...

You can't see that shirt very well - it's nice in real life but looks a bit bleuchy bland in the pic.

Needless to say, Pete and Anthony looked stylish (or at least, more stylish than me hahaha)

We're on the steps of Lord Snowdon's studio there - nice place.

Got this email from the BBC about their series called "IDENTITY".

Hi Cameron, just to let you know there's been a change in the schedule for Identity. The show that you recorded is now going out on Friday 5 October at 1430 hrs on BBC2.

My job has been made easy again It's a shame the picture this week isn't Cameron's as it is quite funny!

I wonder if grumpy old men feel justified in their grumping. Or do they just grump for the sake of it? I’m feeling quite within my rights this week to be annoyed and I’m sure plenty of you will be the same. Some of you will have experienced the kind of thing that leads to this type of annoyance.
My mother has a much bigger house than I do, probably valued at double or more than the amount mine’s worth. I was at Mum’s for tea a couple of days ago and she had received her house insurance renewal. Nosing to see what she has to fork out, I was horrified to find that her premium was about half of what I pay! By pure good fortune, my renewal was waiting in the post box when I got home. I rang the next morning, saying that I thought my premium was FAR TOO HIGH. Having scouted about on the internet for quotes, I knew that I could get a much better deal than my current premium, and I know it’s always good to be armed with info from other insurers to try and persuade your existing one to give you a better deal.
The ‘insurance advisor’ on the other end of the phone started off by telling me what a good policy I had, that they don’t issue this type any more, that my rebuild costs would be unlimited in the event of a collapse or other fiasco. He said there was very special additional cover for any of my possessions that happened to find themselves damaged anywhere in the World. When I said I didn’t mind that cover being removed if it would reduce the policy, he had to admit that it didn’t actually incur any additional charge. That really started to get my blood boiling.
I went on to say that I knew of two companies quoting £169 less than his company was, so all of a sudden he was able to swipe £82 off my premium. When I pushed and said that it wasn’t enough and that I would have to consider changing providers, he put me on hold so that he could speak to his supervisor.
Miraculously, he came back tearing another £67 off my premium, bringing it to within £20 of the cheapest internet quote.
Why don’t they just do that in the first place!



We’ve had a brilliant week with Aberdeen-based television production company Tern TV. They’ve been in Orkney producing two Songs of Praise programmes for the BBC, one of which is a Christmas Eve special; the other will be shown in January. They have filmed a fantastic mix of Orkney talent, including the outstanding group of young Orcadians known as “Hadhirgaan” and exceptional pipers Andy Cant and Raymie Peace who form part of folk group “Three Peace Sweet”. Also featuring is a vocal group I used to be part of called The Mayfield Singers and the Kirkwall Grammar School Choir. I’ll be co-presenting the Christmas show with newsreader and broadcaster Sally Magnusson.





We know that fish and veg are good for the brain – but it seems they’re good for the body too. Not only does Japan boast the World’s oldest man, Mr Tomoji Tanabe (who celebrated his 112th birthday on Thursday), it’s also home to an incredible 32,000 centenarians. Either we’ll have to move over to Japan or start eating more fish!



Radio 1 breakfast DJ Chris Moyles might be heading to the States to audition for a part in offbeat director Quentin Tarantino’s next film. Unlike most struggling actors, I don’t suppose the $800 audition fee will put a big dent in Moyles’ £12,000 a week pay packet. I think it would be great fun – I wonder if he has his Equity card.



With Helen Mirren taking Best Actress in a mini series/movie at the recent Emmys in LA, I was over the moon to read about Sally Field scooping the award for Best Actress in a drama. My earliest memory of the cute-as-apple-pie Sally Field is in the 1977 Oscar and Golden Globe nominee, “Smokey and the Bandit”, starring alongside Burt Reynolds. Yeeeehaaaaa!

grumping....lol. what a great word.

to grump; I grump, he grumps;she grumps, they grump. Grumping: the act of being grumpy; they all grumped together; they attended the annual meeting of the Orkney Grumping Club

Great news about Songs of Praise. That might even make me watch it! - it needs a bit of new life in it Cameron - d'you think they might give you a job?

Hah - you never know.

ps You think THAT'S grumping! Wait till you read next Monday's piece hahahahaha!

Jezi have you missed a week, or am I going mad?

Anyhoo - enjoying Spain at the mo, what a heat.

Why Jezi you naughty girl you should be taken outside and shot

You may be going mad as well but I did miss a week.... been a bit preoccupied this week sorry.

Darius the dairy farmer from Poland getting employed in Orkney. He speaks about how levels of unemployment have always been low in Orkney but when his friend who is a dairy farmer went to take on a worker he found that a lot of the workers have been snapped up by the building trade with good wages. Darius appears to be fitting in well apparently and he mentions the Isle of Wight where they are offering classes to help non-locals with 'etiquette' which he thinks is a great idea.

Jade Goody's house apparently getting £30k worth of stuff stolen but Jade and the police saying nothing has gone missing.

Clearing out the garage and deciding to wash his car but got a bit soaked when he realised he had a "weird sensation" in his leg... found that the hose pipe had gone up his trouser leg and soaked him Muppet.

A lady in Siberia giving birth to a baby weighing 17.1lb which was thankfully born by Caesarian section.

And as you may have gathered from the post above... he's spending the week in Spain.

Thanks

erm just to say I lost last week's paper as I was a bit busy and can't remember much of what was in it.

shall make sure to keep tomorrow's though and if last week's turns up will put up a quick summary.