Hope you are enjoying our bumper edition of My Weekly. I’ve done what we all do which is to flick through and get an overall impression, knowing I’m going to return and soak in properly everything our paper treasure box has to offer

 Well, after chatting a few weeks ago about plastering logos all over our clothes and accessories you can only imagine how glad I am to see a much larger article in our magazine which include some of those thoughts.

My chest costs! I don’t mean the two little bags of silicon propping up my boobs, I mean it’s not there as a cheap advertising hoarding.

Last week I sat people watching in one of my favourite locations: Heathrow Airport Terminal 5.

Joy of joys, thank you My Weekly for taking us back to the 1970’s. Born in 1960 I’m a decade baby and these were my teenage years of exploration into music, fashion and life which included the biggie boys.

I know Cher wanted to turn back time but if I could stop for a while, it would be in the summer - and not the summer of a foreign holiday on a faraway beach - it would be our summer, our good old British summer! I love them.

How much do we all love a bumper issue? More of everything, and by the time you read this I’ll be on a plane clutching my mini-mag of travel fiction and can’t wait. I’m the ultimate beach reader, it’s my holiday pleasure and beyond happy under a parasol with my nose in a book.

Do you do what I do, as soon as I see it land on the matt,

I know, unlike other items of post, it’s a treat and like a child at Christmas I rip open the envelope and take my first flick through.

I’m sitting here thinking which of all the things flitting through my mind am I going to pull out and share with you this week?

How many times can we talk about decluttering? Well, every day in my book, it’s an essential part of our wellbeing tidy home, tidy mind, eradicate and radiate. I don’t know anyone who is focused yet has a light open ‘uncluttered’ mind with a healthy attitude to life and seems to get the best out of it who operates back at base camp (home) in chaos because it’s virtually impossible to achieve.

This is a major event for our country, viewed around the world and I’m lapping up everything I can. London is preparing itself and as I live in the centre of the action it would be criminal to miss out. Where I’m going to be on the route? I’m not sure, but the upside of it being shorter than our late Queen’s Coronation and funeral will make position decisions will be less complicated

Our Editor Stuart asked me this week if I had any tips on how to be smart with our finances, he said “I’m not talking about shopping in charity shops, and I know you’re not Martin Lewis just other bright ideas you might have?” 

Well the older I’ve become the more I’m convinced time has strapped itself to a supersonic jet. I honestly was telling a friend the other day Mark and I had been together for three years when in actual fact it’s four this July, and was it only Summer 2021 when I was going through the final drafts of my book ‘How To Age Well The Secrets’ while sitting in a hotel room in Santorini?

I’ve joined a Gym; Not a fancy pants gym, no coffee bar, sofa, TV, swimming pool, sauna or social activities it’s just an inexpensive weights gym with one studio for classes.

After one of the best BAFTA’s on record with Alison Hammond smashing it in her presenting role both on stage and back stage chatting to stars together with Richard E Grant next come The Oscars.

How often have you said, “What I need is a holiday” And by this you mean packing a bag, leaving the country and preferably heading to the sun for two weeks, returning restored with all your weary woes gone like magic?