Roses are red, violets are blue, Valentine's Day on BBC Breakfast, that means rhymes for you.

June 2024, Manchester: "Today we can lay a new foundation of stability." Less than two years later: is the PM's own job stable? Interested to find out on BBC Breakfast if the Westminster drama is even on the radar of people here.

Ten years and counting. A (brief-ish) personal thread. Last week marked my ten-year BBC work anniversary. As baby-faced and hairier-faced Peters of the past suggest: it was always a dream to work here. I still pinch myself on a very regular basis.

"That's why you're wrong." I felt a bit bad being so brutal to our Naga on BBC Breakfast this week, but some things - like butterscotch Angel Delight - are worth defending.

Barp's pears in Mars bar sauce hits the big time finally...

Findus Crispy Pancake anyone?! Pink custard?! Apparently, we're having a nostalgic nosh fest: buying old school food and rating retro recipes! I want to know for BBC Breakfast: what is your favourite meal from back in the day? I might make mine for Charlie and Naga!

🚨 🚨 🚨 BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITY ALERT🚨 🚨 🚨 I really struggled to get into journalism and the media. I worry things are harder now. So, this is brilliant. careers.bbc.co.uk/job/First-St... Paid, four-week placements here in Salford. Share far and wide!

Do that thing you've been meaning to do. Have that conversation you've been meaning to have. Mum had this signed Kinks drum head in a plastic bag for years. It was going to get framed "at some point". When she became unwell, I framed it. But it was too late for her to enjoy it.

I FEEL BETTER! I don't ever lie on BBC Breakfast, but this might have been a slight exaggeration! Contrast therapy 🤣 Sauna? Yes! Cold water? No!

Not had to pack this for a BBC Breakfast broadcast before...🤔

Caught in a SUBSCRIPTION trap? No way out? Some of our BBC Breakfast viewers have shared their experiences with products and services that are easier to sign up to than they are to cancel...

It is too early for a Saturday, but #SaintsFC needs must.

Luckily, I don't mind looking silly on the telly. Today's BBC Breakfast called for me to put my "hard work" face into overdrive...

My thoughts today are with anyone who has lost a loved one this past year. Christmas will be forever changed, but the wonderful memories you've shared will live on forever. Merry Christmas to you all. Here's to a peaceful and joyful one for you and yours.

To absent friends.

After many aborted attempts, I finally started something a year ago today. A fitness journey of sorts. I lost a fair bit of weight and am now slowly, sustainably building some muscle for the first time in my life 🤣 Feeling stronger, healthier and more alert. Plus, having fun!

When you try, and fail, to combine your BBC Breakfast business duties with a spot of trick-or-treating. My bucket, still, does not runneth over.

Have you ever bought a greeting card from Temu? Designers say hundreds of their images are being stolen with the ripped-off versions making fraudulent sellers thousands of pounds. Now, Temu has said it will remove them more quickly. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today is National Coming Out Day. This year, I shared my story with the BBC Pride staff network for an article for the internal paper Ariel. I thought I'd post it here too. It's a very common story really.

If you're heading to the EU from this Sunday, you might want to have a watch of this from BBC Breakfast today. Changes are coming! And yes, they might be the beginning of the end for a stamp in your Passport when you travel to some countries.

Dame Patricia Routledge. There will never be another like her.

Have you had issues with InPost? Waiting for Vinted deliveries? Customers are reporting serious disruption: delays, parcels without tracking updates for several days, uncollected items. InPost has apologised, calling it "a software integration issue". www.bbc.com/news/article...

Have you had issues with InPost? Waiting for Vinted deliveries? Customers are reporting serious disruption: delays, parcels without tracking updates for several days, uncollected items. InPost has apologised, calling it "a software integration issue". www.bbc.com/news/article...

Having the space to really talk, express opinions and share experience is so rare these days. So kudos to Sean Farrington, @felicityhannah.bsky.social and my colleagues for creating this new pod. Proper big bosses talking at length. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

This was a beautiful moment of symmetry. I first saw @ollyalexander.music-social.com with Years and Years at Glasto in 2015. It was the same day as London Pride and Olly made a beautiful speech. Then, I got to see them more than a decade later at Manchester Pride. Very special.

Here we go! #SaintsFC

Just when I thought I'd covered every plant theft pun going, my BBC Sounds colleagues bring 'shrubbery snatchers' to the party! Amazing! Full report is well worth a three-minute listen... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Happy Birthday Mum! I hope wherever you are you're having a blast, dancing away, enjoying some cake, maybe having a tipple. Missing you today, as always.

Been thinking a lot about the line writer Jonathan Harvey said at his Scene festival event in Manchester recently: "to entertain is to make people stop and listen". How true.

Keys. From living in temporary homeless accommodation, after my late Mum had her dream home repossessed when I was a kid, to flat owner. Can't quite believe it. Couldn't have done this without my amazing husband. And the bank, of course.

What did we do for our first anniversary? We went back to the theatre we got married in. We walked the same way. Except this time we came back with a bit of the theatre. Some lovely seats!

Welcome to...the Championship! F**k 'Fergie Time', this is the era of 'Still Time'! #SaintsFC

FOOTBALL. IS. BACK.

Well this has just set me up just lovely for the season starting tomorrow. Can't wait. Really looking forward to more misery. #SaintsFC

War of the worries. I have a feeling it WON'T catch on, but it's how I'm describing today's interest rates decision. Why? Which worry is the Bank of England most worried about? Which worry is worse? Inflation or the economy? Follow it on BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce....

Buying your first place is an adulting revelation, isn't it? There's the cost and stress, obviously, but also the legal/paperwork overload. Just when I thought I'd seen most things in life I am suddenly considering a Conveyace from 1789 and terrorism insurance for a car park.

Thanks to the Roving Canal Traders Association for being impeccable hosts today. And to Steve Lammiman for the 🎥, Marta Newman for the production. Some really interesting points made about the revival of our canals, but also the climate challenges and funding issues facing Canal & River Trust.

From coal and cotton to bars and bakeries! I'm off to Market Drayton tomorrow to find out for BBC Breakfast how our canals are once again helping to keep our economy afloat. Except it's leisure now, not industry. But could a few challenges barge in to spoil the party?

Agyemang. Kelly. That corner flag pose. ICONIC

The story of Mum's glass...

Back in Salford on BBC Breakfast this morning after the #HMAwards25. Didn't win but I would have been mortified if @felicityhannah.bsky.social hadn't! What a pleasure to be shortlisted and to be in a room full of people trying to improve financial education. Plus I came home to this...!

Tomorrow on BBC Breakfast... ...I'm talking about one of the fastest growing sporting industries in the country. It helps create so many careers. And sorry Sunderland...it isn't football!

Happy Sunday! If you're looking for cultural inspiration, book to see the beautiful human that is Sarah Louise Young this week at the Hope Mill Theatre. I saw an early version of This Is Your Tribute and its joy. It made me cry. Sarah always makes me cry. hopemilltheatre.co.uk/event/this-i...

Heading to the tip this weekend? Have you booked a slot?! The team on BBC Breakfast have found more councils are asking people to reserve their visit in advance. Some appear to be tracking or limiting visits too. Good news for traffic or bad news for fly-tipping?

What a privilege to step into the Stonehenge stone circle at the weekend for the summer solstice. Extraordinary experience.

Solstice first light.

Nearly four months since we lost Mum. Think about her every day. Her cousin sent me this today. A Christmas thank you letter Mum wrote in January 1994! It's like Mum is back with us. Her powers of prediction were poor though. I'm still not a civil servant...!

🚨 Winter Fuel Payment - the details 🚨 🔥 Around nine million pensioners will get it - new income threshold: £35,000. 💷 New means testing will save the Govt. just £450m a year, as opposed to £1bn+. 🚫 Those above the threshold can opt out or there will be an automatic payment back.

Made a little cameo on BBC Radio 4's Money Box this weekend. Catch up here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... The show covers water bills, savings, mortgages and a rather random 25p weekly bonus for people over 80... Well worth a listen!

TARIFF WHIPLASH! The boss of UK Steel called the last few days a rollercoaster for the industry. I thought I would have a go at telling Naga about the MAD timeline that businesses have had to deal with... ...deep breath needed!