JENNI MURRAY: Last week I welcomed a new arrival to my household - a three-month-old chihuahua puppy named Maggie. Yes, at 74 I have brought home a bouncing, yapping bundle of fluff.
It's 12 years since I had the gastric sleeve operation that I thought would end my lifelong nightmare of weight gain, weight loss, followed by yet more weight gain.
Michael Parkinson and I had a great deal in common. Working-class kids from Barnsley, we knew instinctively how to carry out a great interview. But his fate has given me the shivers.
I'm now going to write something I never imagined I'd ever think, let alone express in public: too many women are being hired to present iconic sports programmes on the BBC.
It's all very well for the Health Secretary Wes Streeting to be issuing orders to overstretched casualty departments at the time when flu, norovirus and Covid are on the rampage.