I gave someone a book he wrote this last Christmas... oh yes, A Christmas Anthology. I was shocked to find that he hadn't merely edited it but had written the whole thing and illustrated it beautifully himself with watercolours. It was a lovely little book (amazon.co.uk) and unusual to find an book for Christmas so I snapped it up.

he started off as a bit of a joke but he's managed to stay the course somehow and now he's a British gardening institution. Just as well since the previous one died and left us with a really weird mix of gardening presenters. Honey - you know that awful woman who presents sometimes on Gardener's World and did Chelsea? And of course everyone's least favourite Monty B Don (the B stands for B***dy - that's what my mother always calls him anyway!). Joe Swift is quite sweet though.

speaking of BBC presenters going grey - I saw Mark Curry on BBC Breakfast today for the first time in probably 15yrs, and my was that a shock! So no, I don't think they'd stop using Alan Titchmarsh at the BBC if he went grey. If you work at the BBC it just makes you distinguished!

Oh dear... I fear you're all going t need a lot of translation for this thoroughly British post. I'm still getting to grips with who's still around and who's not and who's come from nowhere in the last few years as far as British television is concerned. Some of it is an unpleasant shock (whatsisface Brand at the Brit Awards! - ick!).

I'll stop now... I really should've gone to bed hours ago.

Kerri.