When I was pregnant with my second son, I was a presenter on Radio 4's Today programme. I was on a freelance contract so I knew full well maternity leave was out of the question.
For seven months I've been taking the weight-loss drug Mounjaro. I've had no unpleasant side effects and have stopped hearing what's been described as 'food noise'.
I thought of Dad when I read that Health Secretary Wes Streeting has ordered an inquiry into what he has described as an unforgivable child hearing scandal.
I can't count the number of times over the many years we've been together that my husband has said: 'I think you love those dogs more than you love me.' I've never said: 'Of course, you're right.'
There is no doubt that Lucy Connolly did a very stupid, very offensive thing in the heat of her upset after Axel Rudakubana attacked girls at a dance class in Southport last July.
More than 30 years on, I acknowledge that, as Dolly Parton puts it in a new record dedicated to her husband who died earlier this month aged 82, 'I wouldn't have been here, if you hadn't been there.'