Gail Emms' Blog by Gail_Emms

Hello! Hope everyone is well? I have to say that I am feeling a lot better after last week and those annoying little bugs that are going about. Harry is still a bit bunged up, but I am feeling fighting fit! I have been making a conscious effort to eat healthier and eat more fruit and vegetables, as I know my diet hasn't been the best. Sometimes I get so caught up cooking meals for my boys that I forget to eat healthily myself! I have been trying out some new recipes - Thai butternut squash curry, roasted vegetable pie, chicken and vegetable curry (I am determined to get Harry to like curry! I am failing at the moment!) and a Moroccan lamb dish.

But I really want Harry to experience as many different tastes as possible. It's all very well having good intentions with food when I am at home, but when we are out, it is a very different story. Ed's mum Margaret had her birthday celebration at the weekend and she booked a table at a nearby Italian restaurant for us all. I went for possibly the most unhealthy options of goat's cheese to start, spicy pizza and then cheesecake! Bit of an overdose of cheese eh?! I do love it though.... For Harry, I ordered garlic bread and pasta carbonara, except Harry fell in love with garlic bread and decided that was all he wanted to eat. Even though he loves carbonara, he wasn't having it and just kept shouting for garlic bread.

Then that horrible moment happens when your mother-in-law looks at you as if to say, well it is a special outing, and so Harry's dinner was as much garlic bread as he could eat. Followed by chocolate ice cream. Great! But it was a special day out and it was a very nice evening. I drank 3 glasses of wine and was drunk!! It has been a while since I've had some alcohol! And not only were we celebrating Margaret's birthday, but Ed's brother Jonathan and his wife Jessica are expecting their second baby, which is due in August. That's why I got so drunk as I was drinking Jessica's allocation!

So it was 6 months to go until the London 2012 Olympics and BBC 3 Counties radio celebrated by having my radio show "Road to 2012" broadcast live from the BBC flat overlooking the Olympic Park. It was very weird not being in a studio and being in Stratford with the Olympic Stadium so close. We got Ellen White (Arsenal and England women's footballer) and Andrew Baggaley (GB No. 1 table tennis player) down there as well. We were also meant to have Greg Rutherford (long jump) too, but bless him, he got confused and thought it was the next day. Ha, ha, embarrassed him for that mistake!

I stayed over in the area as I was part of the BBC 3 Counties breakfast show with Simon and Lorna and it was really interesting being a part of a show which isn't sports-themed and hearing from Lorna who isn't particularly sporty. I know I am biased when it comes to sport and the Olympics, so sometimes I get a bit carried away. But I think I managed to convince Lorna that the Olympics are good and to be honest she wanted to know more about the gossip and the parties afterwards! I couldn't possibly comment! After the breakfast show and waking at 4.45am to be prepared for it, it wasn't a case of going back to bed, as I had to head up to Loughborough University for a Lane4 presentation with my ex-coach Andy Wood (that's him on the right).

Andy and I have been working hard on a talk that tries to explain why our coach/athlete relationship worked really well and how we made it the best it could be. It was nice doing a presentation with Andy in front of some very important people, as it gave two totally different perspectives on achieving the same goal. We are even learning new stuff about each other that we had no idea was happening at the time and I'm really excited about working with Andy more. He was supposed to be joining me for another presentation at Mercedes Benz World in Weybridge, but he left me to fly solo! It meant I could say what I liked about him....! Not really - I was nice! It was for Kerry Foods at their awards presentation and they were lovely people and I really wanted to stay, but my mum was babysitting so I had to get home. I hope everyone had a fab night as it looked like it was going to be a good one!! See you next week!