I'm retiring from Radio Times next week after 26 years at the mag & more than 40 years in journalism. I've just been interviewed for RT about my career by Russell T Davies. The best leaving present I could wish for.

I love @WhitbyMuseum but do I need a tote bag bearing an image of its star exhibit, a withered hand? Actually, I think I do.

Reading a crime thriller where the author keeps using 'phased' instead of 'fazed'. Infuriating. Why does no one spot these mistakes in the edit?

Oh I miss him. If he were still alive he'd still be wonderful, still have that glorious, glorious voice, and those songs...he was a peerless, shamefully underrated songwriter. #georgemichael

Oh, this is just wonderful. Somebody To Love. His finest moment. Possibly. Thank you #georgemichael #BBC2

I moved to London roughly 30 years ago, a naif from the North, & #georgemichael was the first properly famous person I'd ever seen 'in the wild'. "Look", I said to my friend in the fancy restaurant, "that bloke looks just like George Michael....oh..."

I assume everyone on Twitter is wading through ad after ad after ad on their timeline, in my case mainly for outdoor lighting, Hawaiian shirts and private jet hire.

This is unwatchable. #queenofoz

Re-reading my musty Adrian Mole books, probably for the first time since they came out (this is a strange off-shoot of watching the harrowing Best Interests). They are fabulous. "I think I'm turning into an intellectual. It must be all the worry."

Reading the brilliant, funny The Exhibitionist by @CharlotteMende1 & laughing long & loud at her description of a character having 'Beano knees'.

Nannyish warnings before crime dramas are so lengthy and absurdly specific - 'contains injury detail, blood and violence from the outset.' We know, it's a murder mystery, get over yourselves. #Dalgliesh

Such a treat to be sent an early copy of @AnnCleeves's new DI Matthew Venn novel, The Raging Storm, out on August 31. Ann's one of my favourite writers, so this is a real privilege.

One of my favourites in @nicolaupsonbook's splendid Josephine Tey series. So beautifully written, and with such a gut-punch ending.

So I've watched the entire #ColinFromAccounts for a second time & now I must beg @PatrickBrammall & @harriet_dyer for a second series. Please.

David Tennant should be made permanent host of #HIGNFY. He's brilliant at it.

I have binge-watched the brilliant Aussie rom com Colin from Accounts (iPlayer), I love it with my heart and soul, and I need a second series.

Sarah Lancashire - a proper star.

I love Unforgotten, but one niggle - didn't Sunny have kids in previous series @ChrisLangWriter & @TVSanjeev? Have I mis-remembered this? If not, where are they?

A spate of deaths...an abandoned housing estate dripping with menace...a young protagonist at odds with a dangerous world that doesn't understand her. Prepare to be thrilled by Black Thorn from my clever pal @sarah_hilary. Out in July. @panmacmillan