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Fran Godfrey

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Breakfast show presenter on Mellow Magic. Ex BBC R2. Happily single. Always trying to be a better Christian. Regularly fail. Owned by Cavapoochon, Barney.

South Oxfordshire
Joined December 2011
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Fran Godfrey
8 months
Can't believe that Steve has gone. A terrible shock. Radio can be such a special friend in the hands of a kind, funny, empathetic broadcaster who knows his art. Steve was such a person. Always kind to me when I worked at R2. Deep condolences to his family. Rest in peace Steve x
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1 year
'You'll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley.' (Sting) Remembering the peerless Sir Terry Wogan on what would have been his 85th birthday today. May he rest in peace. We miss him still. (Not sure pic shows barley…Terry would know) 😢
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Fran Godfrey
9 months
When we were young. I feel so lucky to have been a tiny part of the fun which was WUTW. On the 8th anniversary of losing Sir Terry Wogan… Deadly, Boggy and I remember absent friends. May Terry, Pauly and Dukey rest in peace. There'll be mirth in heaven! x
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Fran Godfrey
7 months
Sending love on Good Friday: a solemn day for Christians. If you’re not a believer, can you believe in the philosophy which tells us to treat one another as we would like to be treated? Stop. Think. Be kind. You know it makes sense. xx
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Happy New Year, my dear friend. Yes, you. If you’re reading this then it's you. I wish you every joy, all peace, great good health and everything you wish for yourself and those you love. May all your wholesome dreams come true: don't give up on them. And choose kindness. Always
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
September Morn. Glorious sunshine in beautiful woods with happy Barney. Life is good. My fervent hope is that you, too,can find something to make your heart happy. Look for the simple things… ❤️
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Barney, posing with his new haircut. He slept in his bed last night, instead of stretched out on a mat. Hope he’s not cold..
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
Younger brother Nick treated me to Abba Voyage.🥰 We're blinged up and hot to trot… Spectacular show. Ears still ringing! 'Thank you for the music'… I wore my jewels on the train all the way home. Nick bottled it!
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Barney before and after his visit to the Grooming Parlour. Mischievous scruff versus cute teddy bear. Sooo soft though…
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Barney posing very nicely with his smart new haircut. I can’t describe how very soft that coat is now… wish you feel it!
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Fran Godfrey
6 months
Barney's 3rd Birthday. Pic 1 - I sing 'Happy birthday'. Unimpressed. Cake. Eating cake… amazingly. Topping - mashed potato.😋 With his presents from Marian, including toy slippers as he always goes for hers when he visits her. A lovely day. #spoilt dog🥰
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
“If I stand here, does that frame the shot?”. Lovely October afternoon, as summer time comes to an end in a few days. So blessed to have fresh air and peace. Thinking of those who don’t.
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
Two years old today. Barney's Official Birthday Portrait. Should have made him a doggy cake. Failed. Don’t think he noticed. Do 'Terrible 2's apply to dogs?
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
I made my bed neatly, as you do. Put fleecy throw on top in case Barney jumped up on bed. He did. The fleecy throw ruse didn’t work. With training, he could get a job turning down beds in an hotel. Might destroy the mint choc on the pillow though.🙄
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Fran Godfrey
10 months
So another year ends. It’s easy to look at so much grief, hostility & intolerance during the last 12 months & feel helpless in the face of it all. We can make a difference. If you can’t love your neighbour, just ACT as if you do. It works. Peace and joy in 2024, my friend. 🥰
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Somebody… not mentioning any names… but somebody took me out when the forecast was for rain. Somebody had a brolly. Others didn’t.
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Fran Godfrey
10 months
Muffle-up Monday. Brrr. Barney is hot to trot in his polartec tankini. 🥰
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
To Mums everywhere: Happy Mother's Day. I hope you’re being spoilt and managing a lie-in. To those whose mothers are no longer with us… they are really. Living on in you. x
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
I woke at 3am and disturbed a sleeping dog when I went to make and drink a cuppa in the kitchen, aka Barney’s bedroom. He snuck off and found his way to my bedroom. Seems fair, I suppose. 🥱
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Well… this is Barney. He's coming to live with me on 19th. Never had a dog before. How hard can it be? 😬😬😬
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Cold weather? What cold weather? Seems warm enough to me…
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
We have had our hair cut. We can hardly wait for the next muddy walk in the woods…🙄
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Happy Birthday to #MellowMagic . Can it really be 6 years since we first got together for Breakfast? Thank you for your loyal support and your stories. Much has happened, but we're still here, getting through it together. xx
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
From both us… wishing you a very happy, peaceful and love-filled Christmas and a healthy, safe and joyful New Year. Thank you for being kind. And from Barney… where's the Christmas food? xx
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Fran Godfrey
9 months
Mud? What mud? Don’t care. This is fun…
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Another new day… full of exciting possibilities and potential. Any minute now… 🙄
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Whatever’s bothering you… relax… all things must pass. x
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
A pair of haircuts. Mine took 40 minutes. Barney’s took 2 hours. He's got more hair, I guess. It rained relentlessly. I carried him under my umbrella back to the car. Of course I did.
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Fran Godfrey
10 months
Well, well. What have we here? It’s a Christmas present for Barney, that's what it is. As he's been so well-behaved all year (!), Santa has called in. Merry Christmas to you,my dear friend. Sending love and hugs. xx
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
Hot weather haircut! Barney relaxing/posing in 'his' leather armchair. He still has a little bald patch from injections in his arm when he had a tooth out… it's not an error by Alex the Groomer!
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
After initial wariness and fearsome barking, Barney discovered that the 'intruder' in the garden was a foil balloon which had escaped from somewhere. He then made short work of it. The balloon was slightly deflated and ❤️-shaped. That dog has no sense of romance.
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Obstacles in life? We get through, one way or another… xx
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
Finally got round to posting pics of garden wall. First is original wall with hanging baskets. Then Bro Nick at work… with some cladding in place. Then completed cladding. It’s still up… not blown nor washed away by storms. Yet.
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Fran Godfrey
8 months
Well… here it is my teeny Apple Crumble made in the air fryer. Not an exciting pic, but it tasted very good. Recommended. See ⁦ @JimDavisOnAir ⁩ for the recipe. Go on… live adventurously!
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Oh joy! The freedom… and quite obedient too. Barney enjoys a run in the park.☀️😌
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Fran Godfrey
6 months
Our first early evening walk in summery weather. What wonders our world offers. I am so blessed here with lovely countryside. I hope you can find some trees and blue sky wherever you are. Sending love and peaceful thoughts your way.
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
Trying to do a bit of housework. My Little Helper is ready with the spaghetti duster glove…🙄
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Barney had his first experience of sleet during our morning (short) walk. Also the first time he wore his coat. I thought a hood would be a step too far…
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Friendship. That’s what's important. Barney (foreground) with his chum, Cockerpoo Edward. Edward is also my friend, but that could be down to the quail and oregano treats… 😋
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Fran Godfrey
9 years
Our friend, our Togmeister, the warmest broadcaster, the best fun. Our loss is heaven's gain. Requiescat in pace. Latin. He'd like that.
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
So many lovely walks in the countryside. So few dry ones just now. Squelch: that's a good word.
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Seriously. Will the ground ever be dry again?
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Fran Godfrey
8 months
Many thanks to @JimDavisOnAir for looking after the Breakfast Show on #mellowmagic while I luxuriated in a long weekend. Back with you on the radio Tuesday from 6am. Jim is back in place at 9am. Missed you all.
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Cheer up! Shortest day next Wednesday and then the days start getting lighter and longer. 🙂
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Barney digesting the morning's news. Everyone has an opinion, it seems…
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Barney, with waggy tail, joins the little lamb at the Nativity scene…
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Huge thanks to @JimDavisOnAir for looking after Mellow Magic Breakfast so brilliantly for 3 days while I hack and wheeze…like so many of you, I know. We're in this together, paracetamol, honey and tissues to the fore! Enjoy Christmas:be kind and no squabbling! Life’s too short.
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
Kings, Queens, crowns, concerts… enough television now. (I liked the horses though!)
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Muddy little Barney had soo much fun with other dogs leaping all over him in the field today.
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
One bath later… that’s better! It takes it out of a chap, though.
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Fran Godfrey
8 months
Mothers… where would we be without you? Well, not here at all. We owe you. To mothers everywhere… here or alive in our memories… thank you. Happy Mothering Sunday. 💕
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Fran Godfrey
9 months
The garden Under-stairs cupboard is complete! Greg the Fence came to fit it today. It was nick-named the Pizza Gate by those who constructed it! Wonder if Barney would like it as a kennel. I’m thinking - no.
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Rainy days and Mondays always make me bored…
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Fran Godfrey
7 months
Feel the love. ❤️ Barney getting some attention from a couple of impressed Bichon Frisé fans. He's 25% Bichon himself. See the curls…
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Fran Godfrey
11 months
'All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey'… November. Has its own beauty. We love the Seasons… they give us markers through the year. There’s a lot of mud in them there woods though!
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Fran Godfrey
7 months
Hello you. So looking forward to being back with you for Breakfast on #mellowmagic from 6 in the morning. A million thanks to the amazing @JimDavisOnAir for sitting in for me last week. To come… Barney meets some nuns, but doesn’t change his habit. (Geddit?)🙄x
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Quite chilly here this morning…
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Autumn in full swing. Barney has spotted some sheep in a neighbouring field. From their woolly coats, he thinks they might be second cousins, twice removed.
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Tried to dodge the rain showers. Missed again. Now resting in our dressing-gown! Barney never seems to blame me nor hold a grudge for letting him get wet repeatedly. What a dog. 🥰
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Well, I think we've all had mornings like this, Barney…
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Barney bathed. And very nearly dry! And almost happy about it. The washing machine in the photo did NOT feature in the bathing process.
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Fran Godfrey
10 months
And this is what Santa brought. A new little friend for Barney. Now I feel guilty for not getting him a real dog friend… (It ain’t going to happen!)
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Barney is really not too sure to make of the 'grunting' rhino. Sounds to me as if Rhino has been at the early Christmas sprouts.
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Back with you on the wireless tomorrow from 6am on Mellow Magic. Hooray. Looking forward to it so much. Missed you. Thank you for your kind 'get wells'… they did the trick. 🥰
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Barney's had a busy morning shredding a cereal packet and trying to get the label off a washing liquid bottle. So helpful.
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
My brilliant niece-in-law, Renata, has built a Christmas Chimney, ready for Santa's delivery to Tommy (8) and Kira (6). All made out of cardboard. The chimney, not the children. Ho! Ho! Ho! 🎅🏻
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Puppy (just about) and poppy, showing our support for the Royal British Legion. Barney looks quite Churchillian, I thought. Only with more hair.
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
Spot the difference! One perm is natural. The other isn’t. That'll be me feeding Emma, my baby niece many years ago when I thought I wanted curly hair. I was wrong. Why isn’t Emma screaming… why am I smiling? Curly Barney… now that's handsome.
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
Looking forward to being back with you for Breakfast on #MellowMagic on Monday. Missed you. Tell me… I’ve dug out the family silver (!) Jam Spoon with little hook… am I being classy or a fuddy-duddy by using it? Keeps the buttery bits out of the marmalade, mind you.
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
He's not really traumatise! Just a bit fluffy. I’m hoping his curls will return when he's less 'blow-dried' and brushed! He is VERY soft though. 🥰
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Barney watching television coverage of Her Majesty's death. I think she would approve. May she rest in peace.
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Oh, to have no cares at all in the world and to be able to sleep like this. (And to look this cute when you’re asleep!)
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Someone's feeling the loss of a hour last night as we move into summer time.🙄
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Barney - mightily relaxed by listening to Mellow Magic Breakfast! On a good day I have this effect…
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Even Barney’s not sure of the way out…
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Rainy days and Mondays… tra la la
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Thanks to a present from my sainted brother, Tony, missives pushed the letter-box are safe from the prying teeth of Barney. You can now confidently put the cheque in the post…
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Barney is terribly helpful when it comes to recycling cardboard boxes. But it takes it out of a chap…
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Then again. Fluffy bed, good; Leather chair, better. *Sigh*
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Happy memories of last weekend. Was it all only a week ago?
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
Our first attempt with the Doggy Frisbee. Me - rubbish thrower. Himself rather more interested in anybody (or anydoggy) who might be appearing on the field.
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Fran Godfrey
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My younger brother spent 11 hrs in The Queue yesterday. After listening to his experience,I want to pay tribute to the police, St John's Ambulance, security people, marshals, volunteers & all who helped manage so well such a massive operation. Thank you👏👏
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Finally allowed Barney into my studio this morning. He clearly loves what I do…
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Barney experiencing his new Anxiety-reducing Bed. Clearly very anxious. 🙄. Find the dog!
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Colder nights; warmer duvet needed. Barney is SUCH a help.
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Heatwave passed. Cool kitchen floor of less interest for sleeping. Rain and thunder this morning made no impact. His 'Now That's What I Call Sound Effects' training cd has stood him in good stead.
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
'Something's a-foot… not sure I’m going to like it.' Barney just before his bath!
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Fran Godfrey
1 year
Developed a croaky cold over the weekend… ‘there’s a lot of it about'. If you’ve suffered, I hope you feel better now. On the plus side, lovely @JimDavisOnAir will be taking care of breakfast on Mellow Magic this week. Thanks Jim. ❤️
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Question: What IS it about puppies and human footwear?
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Fran Godfrey
2 years
Here we have the Mystery choc cake recipe… the one which appeared, handwritten decades ago by my Mum and with no title. Jim made it and recommends it. Give it a go… it’s not Lent yet and January is such a long month! x
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Fran Godfrey
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Too warm for his 'proper' bed, Barney decides the towel-on-the-floor combo suits him. Asleep, he's on his best behaviour…
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Fran Godfrey
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Wound up the alarm clocks ready to be back with you on Mellow Magic from 6am tomorrow. Huge thanks to @DanOffTheRadio for looking after matters so brilliantly last week. Missed you all. 😘
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Kneeling down to take a photo of Barney for kind and interested listener who asked; before I could get a pic at his level…
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Barney was clearly too warm in his fluffy donut bed, so, while I was busy working, he stood it up on its side and slept on the carpet instead. 😊
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Barney's haircut. Something around the eyes makes him look disconcertingly cross when he claims not to be.
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Fran Godfrey
5 years
Big cheer for our posties. This is one of two similar loads to be delivered today by my fab nephew, Mark. Hooray for posties everywhere. 👏🥰xxx
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Fran Godfrey
3 years
Gareth and Trevor from the Eagles tribute band, the Illegal Eagles, with great nephew and niece, Tommy & Kira. A night the children will treasure for ever. Btw, Trevor and Kira swapped hats for the pic! The Band members were sooo kind… thanks chaps! x
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Fran Godfrey
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Here's a low resolution video showing the woods where I get lost every day… but every day… when I walk Barney. Oh, how I long for a good, or passable, sense of direction! Could I work a compass?
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Trying to get festive. Barney is not impressed with his new Christmas collar. I think it may be the little jingling bells. If he swallows one of those he'll be jingling for some time… had to remove it! So much for festive spirit.
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