This is what I look like now. My profile picture from BBC publicity is way out of date. We’re talking about older people in the workforce today on Call
#youandyours
What’s the world of work like for the over 50s?
The beautiful William died this week. He was 11. He had cancer and he wasn’t sick for long. He had a great life. I don’t believe anyone was ever unkind to him. I didn’t want to Tweet it. It makes it more real I guess.
I have survived an encounter with the two most incisive and funny interviewing duo in the world
@janegarvey1
@fifiglover
@BBCRadio4
The wonderful Sam edited out all the libellous bits. Perhaps we will publish them separately……
I really enjoyed it.
I got the posh glasses out for friends coming over later. My Mum bought me some like these many years ago. They were seconds from TJ Hughes in Liverpool. I loved them and used them until they broke. I found them again second hand online.
This morning, we stood outside the garden Derek Jarman made at Dungeness. He wrote: "Paradise haunts gardens, and some gardens are paradises. Mine is one of them." No picture can capture the beauty and joy of it.
Our new dog is a rescue from South Korea. She arrived on Monday. I think we’re bonding well. She pulled an old grey cardigan of mine down from the sofa to sleep on. I’ve decided we will share it
@thedogteamuk
Maisie the Korean rescue dog enjoying the cheese course after breakfast. We’ve had a tough few weeks with her barking at night. I came down this morning to a silent waggy dog. I feel like we’re getting somewhere….
Here is the beautiful dog who is joining our household soon. She will fill the dog-shaped hole left in our hearts by the equally beautiful William Dog.
What I love about Fortunately is that the friendship is so strong that even when they are a little stern with each other, we know they love each other really…
@fifiglover
@janegarvey1
@BBCRadio4
Maisie our rescue dog from
@thedogteamuk
would really like to sleep in safe place she’s chosen in the hallway. She tries it for a few minutes now each night when I go up to bed and then she joins me. It’s where she’ll sleep one day I think, when she’s more confident.
We are very proud that
#YouandYours
was honoured last night for our work raising awareness of scams. We were nominated by Katherine Hart from Angus Trading Standards
@CTSI_UK
@BBCRadio4
Maisie my rescue from South Korea has brought me a lot of joy. We’ve had some great walks this weekend. I think she’s cherishing the memories.
@thedogteamuk
Just started wrapping Christmas presents. Everything is very last minute this year. My husband has been in hospital but all better now. The paper by
@ANGELACHARDING
is so beautiful it has lifted my spirits.
I planted this a couple of years ago. It’s an evergreen honeysuckle. It had done absolutely nothing and then suddenly these spectacular swags hanging from the branches of an established rambling rise. It was worth the wait.
This is William cooling his belly in the waters under the magnificent Lambley viaduct. I’m back from a great break in Northumberland and looking forward to tomorrow’s
#youand
yours William heard me on Fortunately
@janegarvey1
@fifiglover
and wagged his tail.
Here’s my rescue Maisie, discovering the joys of water with her new friend Molly. Thank you
@thedogteamuk
for bringing her here. She’s the one in the harness.
My husband doesn’t cook or even make a sandwich. He went out to buy one this morning but left the bag of shopping on the floor. Our rescue dog Maisie
@TheDogTeamUK
doesn’t cook either and got there first. I don’t believe she’s really sad despite her expression.
Maisie the Korean rescue
@thedogteamuk
is writing the story of her new life in the UK. The first chapter is called: Why I Can’t Sleep Alone in the Kitchen. Welcome to the bedroom Maisie. You snore a little but then so do we….
I gave some plant holders to the local florist today. They were from past gifts and I had no use for them. The florist was really pleased and made me take this bunch of ranunculus. I didn’t fight too hard.
This is Maum really relaxing. Our last dog William used to sleep on his back sometimes. I wondered if this little rescue dog would ever do it. I hope she knows she’s home.
I wasn’t going to send Christmas cards, the post being what it is. Then some arrived yesterday and made me smile. So I sat up writing mine. They’ll be delivered eventually.
I know this is showing off so forgive me but I have just come home to this birthday gift from my friend Nicky. Homemade gifts are so brilliant. I could never make this myself. Clever woman.
This is one of the most amazing investigations I have every heard. It's about how fraudsters can gain Lasting Power of Attorney over the finances of people they've never met, and sell their homes. Well done
@sharivahl
#youandyours
@BBCRadio4
This is one of my favourite roses, Madame Alfred Carriere. I love the way is fades from blush pink to cream. This picture from our garden makes me look forward to summer.
I saw this today on a walk through Dingle Woods. It’s alongside the path, the tree has pushed its roots through sandstone. It’s so beautiful and the colours are pure Arthur Rackham.
I knew Paul O'Grady when I was a teenager in Liverpool. He was a friend of a friend of mine. I went to see him at the Liverpool Empire as Lily Savage. It was unforgettable, an absolute scream. What a successful, joyful life, inspirational.
I loved Paul O’ Grady and I loved Lily Savage. He was in the trenches fighting for our community during the HIV & AIDS epidemic. Lily Savage was a genius & subversive creation that managed to reach mainstream audiences - the impact of which was transformative. RIP & thank you.
It’s a strange life without the beautiful William Dog, seen here chasing a ball on holiday in Northumberland last year. I’ve been up since seven but made a curry still in my dressing gown. We’d have been out for a long first walk by now.
Here’s my fabulous friend Rona wearing her Dryrobe after a swim in the sea at St Andrews. She has been seen wearing it in Waitrose. I interviewed Gideon Bright, the man who invented
@dryrobe
today on Gap Finders
#youandyours
@BBCRadio4
Soups of the day in my kitchen this Sunday are Delia’s leek, potato and onion on the left and my mother’s chicken soup, made with the carcass of a roast chicken.
‘No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away…The span of someone’s life…is only the core of their actual existence.’ I’m making chicken soup like my great grandmother, Winnie Rice
@q_terrypratchet
@robertshrimsley
@FT
#youandyours
@BBCRadio4
Inspired by
@Justine_Siebke
and
@ouronehome
to show off my own garden furniture. It’s more than 20 years old. It went all black and horrible and a friend, Jon, restored it for us. It took him weeks. It was a labour of love.
Really looking forward to meeting the chef and restaurant owner Gary Usher
@GaryUsher_
and his friend and mentor
@AngelaHarnett
#youandyours
this lunchtime in a new regular feature called Gap Finders.
I went to Crosby with a friend over from San Francisco who had never been to Liverpool. We saw the high tide begin to go out over Anthony Gormley’s 100 life-size, cast-iron men. So disturbing and evocative.
I'm talking to Greg Jackson today. He set up Octopus Energy. I thought it was just another energy start up but there's a lot more to it than that. Which is good because we're speaking for half an hour..
#youandyours
@BBCRadio4
@OctopusEnergy
@g__j
Thank you for all the words of praise for this series. I admire the police officers who reopened this case, exposed failings in the original inquiry, stuck with it for 8 years and came out of retirement to deliver justice for Rikki and his family.
For more than 20 years the case of the murder of six-year-old Rikki Neave went unsolved.
@wrobinson101
tells the story of the case that's stayed with her for more than half of her working life.
Listen on
@BBCSounds
:
My Valentines Day flowers. What do you spend on romance?
#YouandYours
it’s our phone-in question today.
@FelicityHannah
is presenting. I’m off to hospital with my husband for a post op checkup. It’s romantic in its way.
My Christmas tree from last year decorated with my Mum’s lights and old ornaments of mine. How do you do your Christmas decorations?
#youandyours
this lunchtime.
My friend Jon gave me this card today. It’s a photo his wife Kathy took of my little rescue Labrador, Maisie, last January when they walked her in the snow. So beautiful
@thedogteamuk
I planted this today. It’s ivy with a partridge berry in the middle. I bought the planter at the Hampton Court Flower Show more than 20 years ago. I still love it.
This mouse used to help Bagpus fix all kinds of stuff. Soon we’ll all be doing that. It’s a thing.
#youandyours
this Wednesday lunchtime
@OfficialBagpuss
@BBCRadio4
He reads a lot in his spare time and loves Liverpool.
Last year’s Amaryllis flowering in my kitchen. There’s a second bud to come. I followed advice offered here and fed it after it flowered last year. It was out in the garden all summer. I missed the step where you put it in the dark for a while so it flowers at Christmas.
I’ve just finished a great day of gardening, repotting agapanthus and these hollies and partridge berries. It isn’t a holiday if you don’t end up with mud on your jeans.
Making salad for dinner.
@michelrouxjr
says his grandmother always put the onions and vinegar in first, then added the other ingredients and the oil. When you serve the salad, the onions at the bottom of the bowl are pickled. It’s so delicious.
Tell us about your best vintage furniture bargains. These are mine. The chair is from eBay, the lamp table was free from my in-laws. It was covered in coffee stains and needed a new shade
#YouAndYours
@FurnForAll
I’ve been a bit busy because my rescue Labrador has arrived. She’s been quite stressed to start with but starting to unwind. I’ll post some pictures later.
What in your home makes you happy? For me it’s old family photos. These are me and my son, 22 years ago, my grandparents, Mum and two of my sisters
#youandyours
@BBCRadio4
We’re talking about that today
@MOgundehin
My Mum-in-law, Dorothy, had a whole service of this blue and white pottery. It’s Spode. When we cleared her house every single piece was either chipped, cracked or glued. She was from the War-time generation that wasted nothing. I found this jug in EBay. I love it.
Maum my rescue dog from South Korea woke me with loud barking at 5.45am. It’s the first time she’s done that so perhaps something spooked her. Luckily I have dog-loving neighbours. I think she is anxious and over-tired. She’s asleep at my feet now
@thedogteamuk
A colleague brought this into work today. Her daughter made it. It’s so magical. It reminds me of Easter at school. It’s the fluffy bird with the wonky beak.
I’m putting the sweet peas in. Maisie my little rescue from
@TheDogTeamUK
is helping. She’s like a goat. She’s nibbled on a few. Like
@TheMontyDon
she’s pinching them out.
Here is our dog William, still healthy at ten. He’s been out twice today in the rain. Sadly, too many dogs bred in the lockdown solely for profit are sick and are being given up to rehoming charities. We’ll be reporting on that tomorrow (Monday)
#youandyours
@BBCRadio4
My mother made this shawl for my baby sister in the 1970s. I wore it in my hippy days. Lots of people would knit and crochet clothes then. Those skills are coming back thanks to
@TomDaley1994
If you’ve made stuff, I’d love to see it
#youandyours
@BBCRadio4
This story is so tense and so sad. Jane Garvey at her wise, incisive best. I bet no one got out of the car or wandered off to make a cup of tea during this
@janegarvey1
@BBCRadio4
PS. Can I be on ‘Fortunately’ please?
I feel a little bit better after a lousy day and night. It is COVID. I tested positive this morning. These latest strains are very infectious. The only place I have been out to is the shops for food at the weekend.
A colleague at work with the her daughter made these gifts for everyone in the office today
#youandyours
@BBCRadio4
It’s a kit for making a chocolate mug cake. I’m going to do it tomorrow. I will post the results xx
Most evenings the dog takes me on a straying walk. There’s not much walking but he does a lot of sniffing. It’s the dog equivalent of reading the papers, as good as
@ClaerB
@FT
or
@CarolMidgley
@thetimes
I have been away from You and Yours just lately, making this series. It begins on BBC Radio 4 on Monday October 3rd at 1.45 with all 10 episodes available on BBC Sounds. This is a trailer. I think it’s an important story with new evidence.
Spending my 59th birthday filming with
@BBCCountryfile
- particularly delightful as I was judged ‘too old’ for TV in my mid 40’s. I’m only here because of other’s campaigning (thank you!) but we’ve a way to go before older women are properly appreciated in media, and beyond.
Do you have a kitchen drawer of shame like mine? Full of stuff you should but can’t get round to selling/ donating/recycling? Post a picture. We’re taking about this tomorrow
#YouAndYours
@BBCRadio4
@TheBHF
Declutter Challenge
This story is part of what we have uncovered in a new series The Boy in the Woods. It starts today on
@BBCRadio4
at 1.45 with all episodes on
@BBCSounds
Rikki Neave police 'ignored scientific evidence'
I've been working on this series with Sue. It's an extraordinary story. I've never heard anything like it in all my years as a broadcaster. It's not to be missed.
It looked like just another love story
But beneath the surface lay something much darker and more complex. Less than 24 hours until the launch of Million Dollar Lover
@BBCRadio4
@BBCSounds
with the most amazing team ever
@wrobinson101
@joelmoors