The latest fashion and an exciting new watch range

I'm very much looking forward to this week's shows as I have two hours of fabulous yet diverse fashion - Tiana B and Dreamkeeper. So, watch out for a chance to update your wardrobe or to add something truly stylish to it. 

I'm excited too about a rather fab watch you'll see me wearing which is from a brand new range called Elite. "Elite. That sounds familiar!" I hear you say... not surprisingly because it's the name of one of the top model agencies in this country, and if you take into account the calibre of their models, I know you're going to LOVE their watches.  

Been loving Glen Campbell's Style File and the guessing game to see whose shoes he was showing... I think you're all brilliant to have got them pretty much right each time! Seems Catherine Huntley and I are closest in style with our shoes, but I take my hat off to you, because the amount of time our feet are actually on screen is minimal, so clearly your eyesight is a great deal better than mine! Do you think it would work with the guy's feet? Not so much variation on a theme perhaps...

Time's a funny thing...

... and I find it harder to remember where I left the car only an hour earlier than I do recalling childhood memories. I did laugh reading Debbie Greenwood's blog about her big birthday. Kathy and I are only a year behind her, and yet, as she say's, it's hard to think where the years have gone! 

It all begins at 50 - and according to journalist Molly Parkin, who recently wrote about the improvement in her love life having hit the big 5 0, we have a lot to look forward to! Between you, me and the gatepost, Debbie Greenwood - contact lenses or not - looks a lot closer to 30 then 50, and having spent many a hilarious evening in her company, she can take years off you - which in my case is a bonus! As my kids pointed out when I said the lines around my eyes were laughter lines, "Nothing's that funny, Mum..."

After a busy, although enjoyable, weekend with Liz Earle and her TSV, it all ground to a very satisfying halt on Sunday with a roast beef lunch. Time to recharge the batteries... and do the ironing... oh, and watch the BAFTAs... didn't Kate Winslett do well!

My Windguard umbrella and a special evening

By jingo, we couldn't have picked a better time to have brought you the Windguard Umbrella could we?! In fact had Michael Fish been better informed on 15th October 1987, we could all have battened down the hatches!!!

I hope you ordered yours and are now experts in the use of this amazing technology, which not only opens but closes the umbrella at the touch of a button! What I find most useful is being able to open the door of my car without stepping out - I simply press the button to open the umbrella and am then protected from the torrent of raindrops that seem to be constantly hailing down on me. 

May I just issue a word of warning though... do make sure that the person parked next to you is not leaning into their car to stick their parking ticket to the windscreen at the same time that you're opening your umbrella... not a good way to make friends or influence people...

My New Year's Day game

Well, happy New Year to you all!! I seriously have to do a double take when I write anything with the year 2009 - as the window cleaner pointed out when I gave him his cheque!

I managed to get to see my friend Jo before work on New Year's Day as it was her birthday, and I was initiated into a rather strange but challenging game called "Rip One Off". It's cheap, cheerful and it involves an empty cereal box and a lot of stretching...

Basically you have to be able to pick the box up with your teeth but without putting your hands on the ground. Amazingly Jo and I came joint first with Libby - who's only 9 and managed to pick up just the flat bottom of the box unaided.

It was because of this that you may have noticed me laughing hysterically when on air with Glen Campbell during our Dennis Basso hour at 11pm. Having hopped off my stool to get a sip of water in the break my knees were so stiff I was having trouble getting back up there again! The delights of ageing eh?