Holiday in Brum and a Christmas Present for YOU!

I had a really lovely day on Tuesday – an away-day to Birmingham.  Using the excuse of a business meeting I had lunch with the lovely Kim Nash who had booked us a table in Turtle Bay, just behind New Street Station.  It’s a fabulous Caribbean restaurant, serving delicious food, wow cocktails and offering great service in great surroundings.  When I left Euston it was drizzling; that awful damp almost-rain that has ruined the life of people like me with wavy hair, turning it frizzy.

But!  In Birmingham the sun was shining.  It was a beautiful day – and if … Read the rest »

Parked Up Sidekick Alley

Last week it was such a refreshing surprise to hear a woman’s voice on Radio 2.  Jeremy Vine was off on his hols and Vanessa Feltz was sitting in for him.  It had dawned on me a few days earlier that Radio 2 has male presenters on the whole day through; Chris Evans, Ken Bruce, Jeremy Vine, Steve Wright and Simon Mayo.  Poor old Vanessa gets the up-at-dawn-slot of 5-7.30am and then the only other female voices heard from then on are giving the traffic news or occasionally reading the news.  Janice Long gets midnight.  The only female I can … Read the rest »