Great to talk to an old mate...

We hardly ever get to see each other much, but we do always stay in contact, thanks to text messaging! When we first worked together, there was no such thing as texting, no emails, no twitter, and actually no computers. I remember our first fax machine, brought into the ATV Today newsroom in Birmingham, where Nick worked as the sports presenter, and I as a newsreader and reporter. It was the size of a Mini Metro.

A lot has changed since those days. He's a dad now, and a grandfather! And I'm a mum of four - all of my sons now several inches taller than me. Nick has since become a "veteran" in the world of tv and radio. He started his career at BBC Radio Birmingham some 40 years ago, has since been presented with a lifetime achievement award, and hailed as Speaker of the Year!

He's a great admirer of the poet AE Housman, who wrote "A Shropshire Lad".

This is Nick's favourite:

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,

I see it shining plain,

The happy highways where I went

And cannot come again.

Catch Nick tonight on Midlands Today