When I discovered there’s a company that makes children’s drawings into keyrings, I knew it was time to immortalise my son’s most famous depiction of me in silver for eternity. I give you “Mummy With Her Lady Bits.”
Right then. Should have been having a massive party for my 40th tonight. Totally appropriate to wear the dress for my garden drinks instead, right?
#iamveryoldnow
Watching the last ever
#BBCSouthToday
from Oxford with a heavy heart. My colleagues have been so committed, hard working and dignified in the face of such uncertainty - and then, in the knowledge of the closure. They’ve done their best til the last.
Four MILLION people have now seen “Mummy With Her Lady Bits” in the 24 hours since I posted it. It’s a little bit gobsmacking! 👋🏻 to all my new followers - I hope you like silliness and swearing (oh, and news) because that’s essentially all you’ll get here. 😬
It’s been a magic day, an emotional day - and
@OUFCOfficial
are off to the Championship. What a club. What a county.
@bbcoxfordsport
and the whole team working have been spectacular. Cannot wait to get back on
@BBCOxford
on Monday & celebrate (after a MASSIVE sleep…)
#COYY
Here at
@BBCOxford
we want to turn Oxfordshire yellow to celebrate
@OUFCOfficial
getting to Wembley for the playoff final… LOOK what our engineer has done to our normally very red studio! Amazing!
Spoke to my dad this afternoon, he’s 75 & retired. Tells me he went to the pub with his friends last night to watch a band, rolled in at quarter to one this morning. He got up to do some jobs, “realised he’d overreached himself,” and spent the rest of the day watching TV. LEGEND.
Just created a political analogy of which I feel
@ChrisMasonBBC
would be proud... Theresa May’s situation is like a parent trying to tidy up while the kids are still awake. You get the lounge done, turn around and it’s covered in a thousand Lego bricks again.
#Brexit
Continuing our
@BBCOxford
bid to turn
#Oxfordshire
yellow for
@OUFCOfficial
’s trip to Wembley- we’ve got
@OxfordCastle
to hoist the flag this morning! YES! Let me know how you’re turning your corner of the county yellow please.
This is why I’m not on your radio this morning, keeping you company, having a laugh, telling you what’s going on in Oxfordshire and doing the job I absolutely love.
For the last 6 months I’ve been volunteering with a lovely lady, chatting and walking together. She sadly died just before Christmas and today we said goodbye to her. Volunteering’s brought as much to my life as I hope it did to hers and I will continue it in her memory.
AMAZING work from the Cake Shop in the Covered Market after I said I wouldn’t have a problem cutting into and eating any cake… I am absolutely gonna scoff this! 🍰
@BBCOxford
Lucy Bronze, tanked, on stage in Trafalgar Square in what looks like a ski mask singing Martine McCutcheon’s Perfect Moment to Jill Scott. EPIC.
@Lionesses
#victoryparade
@mrnickharvey
Man goes into a bar with a lizard in his pocket. “I’ll have a pint for me and a half for my mate Tiny here please,” he says to the barman. “Why do you call him Tiny?” asks the barman. “Because he’s my newt.”
I say it every year but I’m just 💯 here for the warm cuddle of joy that is Junior Bake Off. The triumphs, the disasters, the tears when they go out. Rav, Liam and Harry. It’s just bloody gorgeous.
@BritishBakeOff
Rosie and I (not that one) on the way to Wembley to watch
@OUFCOfficial
’s playoff final in 2010. Wish I knew where that bloody scarf was, and no, 14 years and two babies later I do not still fit in the tee 😭 Still can’t wait to do it again on Saturday though!
@BBCOxford
One more thing before I crash out… if you’ve taken the time to come and say hi to me at Wembley today, or have messaged on social media this week, and tell me how much you’ve enjoyed the
@BBCOxford
build up to the
@OUFCOfficial
match - thank you… (1/2)
@JNRaeside
Also: now v famous band at the start of their career who agreed to a backstage interview and then either refused to answer or sneered/eye rolled and gave a monosyllabic answer to every single question. I interviewed Sophie Ellis-Bextor the same night and she was a delight.
@sarajcox
@ClareNews2
There is no such species as a panther, it’s just a name for a black leopard. My 8-year-old son told me this and I told him that couldn’t possibly be true and googled it. It’s true.
Is it wrong to say one of the bits I’m most excited about in today’s game is hearing my mate Robyn smash the commentary?! Glad everyone else is loving her as much as we do ⚽️ 🎤 ❤️
Happy
#WorldRadioDay
📻 It’s the best job in the world, one of the oldest and most widely consumed communication mediums, and yet modern and reactive. Both intimate and public. Powerful. Thanks for listening - and if you haven’t, give your local BBC radio station a listen today!
@bellamackie
Although there are people who’ve just never watched it because they think it looks shit and they’re not bothered about whether something’s popular or not. 🙋🏼♀️
I know for city folk this is not a big deal but I am on a bus which goes DIRECT from my nearest town, Witney, to ACTUAL LONDON! Dream! (Would like one at the weekends too please
@Oxford_Tube
) 🚌
The boys baked and juiced and launched their own charity sale in the village and have raised £216.58 to be split between two charities important to them,
@SeeSawCharity
and
@ysubcharity
. Very very proud of them!
Been living my dreams for the last eight months and can’t wait to carry that on in 2024, starting as I mean to continue tomorrow morning at 6am
@BBCOxford
. Honestly the best job in the world, what a lucky girl I am.
Arrived at the Kasstad for my
#coronavirus
#vaccine
just in time to hear Jerome Sale
@bbcoxfordsport
announce that
@OUFCOfficial
were into the playoffs and I’m already done and back in the car! Admit I let out a little *yay* when the nurse told me it was the Oxford vaccine.
@glosswitch
@foodycatAlicia
@MooseAllain
My cousins have the surname Mankey. We stopped using it at restaurants after the local takeaway shouted "Mankey meal for six" in a room full of people 😂
Twenty years. Twenty years ago this week I got my first radio job. Through pic 1 (playing DJ at Sure FM at Sheffield Uni, 1999), to now. Feel so HASHTAG BLESSED to still be working in this never-boring industry despite the horribly early alarm call.
My five-year-old’s best friend decided to give him one of his t-shirts, because he’s missing him. He put it on and said “I love it, and it smells like him.” MY HEART. 💔
#lockdownlife
10-year-old me’s radio-fanatical heart is breaking today seeing so many former colleagues broadcast their last radio shows. It’s a truly magical thing to do for a job and I’m so sorry it’s coming to an end for so many people.
Thank you to my amazing sneaky team
@ClodaghStenson
&
@Becca_Steph
who went behind my back and sorted me out press access to go back to
#Wimbledon
yesterday and re-run the dream trip that got drenched last week. Ended up on No.1 Court to watch Eubanks vs Medvedev. DREAM. 🎾
Before… and after! Lovely to be asked back to
@BeaumontSchStA
to talk to graduating students about my time there, my career in radio and to give them advice. Not been on that stage in front of people since I was the narrator in Joseph in 1994 🤣😬
Totes emosh morning evicting
@DPrever
from the
@BBCOxford
building. What a ride we’ve had. He leaves with his own varnished rhino dung (thanks
@CotsWildTweets
!) and here he is making me the first coffee he’s ever brought me, with divine cupcakes from Mrs P too. 😭😭😭
Full isolation in action
@BBCOxford
this morning - two soundproofed glass panes and 10m separating
@dprever
and I. (Quite pleasant actually... 😂) Here for your calls and keeping you up to date with all you need to know on
#Coronavirus
until 10am.
For any of us who’ve loved radio since we could speak, the idea of being able to do it to the very last, like Steve Wright, is just blimmin marvellous, to be honest. 📻