Thanks Anna. How are your bunions?

I'm deeply grateful to the world's..no galaxy's.. favourite and certainly fittest agony aunt: Anna Sorry-But-With-The-Best-Will-In-The-World-I-can't-fix-your-leaking-taps Raeburn who kindly suggested the title of this blog, "Mike's Pen". Anna is known to millions of radio listeners who tune into her radio show on LBC-97.3 every weekday from 2pm... (Plug over, now when can I expect the cheque...) although personally I've never understood the term "agony aunt". It implies that whilst addressing caller's often complex dilemmas, she's trying to twiddle the knobs with arthritic joints, nursing her bunions or readjusting yards of bandages around the worsening gout infestation. Another strange term used on radio: "Shock Jock". It conjures up visions of kilt-swirling Scotsmen being struck by lightening. Some might say that's a good thing but I couldn't possibly comment. I've never met Anna although I suspect she'd be a superb dinner guest; would fellow guests be enthralled or consider throwing themselves off the balcony? Would I need plentiful supplies of aspirin in case her pain worsens during the pudding course? Or should I transfer her pain over to Kelvin Mackenzie, famed ex-editor of The Sun who seems to feel it daily? Again, Anna, thanks.