Still reason to be proud! A quintessential English weekend

Never mind the goals. Or ..er..goal. Just remember, it was a wonderful English weekend, with fantastic English weather, and me and my boys had a smashing barbie in the garden whilst watching the burning sausages with one eye and the TV with the other.

I even screamed like a groupie when we scored the second goal-that-never-was! I had no idea I was that excited about football. And pity poor David Cameron, having to watch the footie with Angela Merkel. How utterly humiliating! Perhaps today we should be thinking about ways to cheer each other up!

I'm away from BBC Berkshire this week, and I'll bring you up to date on any gossip if I come across anything interesting. Have a great Monday! This week's Anne Diamond Show is being hosted by Sarah Walker, who writes:

Today on the phone-in, we were talking about the sunshine. The long hot sunny days we're enjoying in Berkshire at the moment will create memories we'll hold with us forever, and I heard some incredible stories of sunny days gone by. Julie in Thatcham told me about how, when pregnant in June 1971, she was walking along Bournemouth sea front when the zip on the back of her maternity dress started to burn her. She was forced to run along, stripping off in front of aghast holidaymakers as she went. Maureen in Newbury remembered puffing up the steps of the sun-drenched Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading just hours from giving birth to her daughter in 1976. Oh, and then there was Roger in Hungerford who maintains that the mere smell of strawberries takes him back to post-war Reading when he would play out all-summer long and return home to a glorious spread of soft fruit in a glass bowl.

I also caught up with Bonita Norris on the show today. A year ago, she told me that she'd had a crazy idea as a youngster to climb Mount Everest. On May 17th, she became the youngest British woman ever to do so. Despite intense press attention since her return, she tells me that she isn't interested in a TV career and wants to keep those crazy ideas coming. In 2012, she plans to journey to the South Pole. So maybe we're not all so obsessed with the sunshine.