My beautiful wife Giselle fulfilled one of her “30 at 30” challenges yesterday by successfully getting us mentioned on Liza Tarbuck’s programme on BBC Radio 2. Those close to us know that Liza is an unmissable part of our weekend, partly because of her excellent and eclectic taste in music, but mostly because she’s utterly bonkers. A regular feature of the programme is Liza reading out what people are cooking for their Saturday night dinner — usually with a description of a delicious spouse or partner and a bottle o’ plonk (usually Pinot Grigio — we didn’t disappoint!). After trying, without success, to get on the programme last week (it felt particularly cruel that another Giselle was read out instead), we succeeded yesterday — followed immediately by jumping around the room for a good five minutes.

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