The battle is hotting up for the Countryside Alliance's Rural Hero Award, which is due to be presented next week.
I've helped judge some of the other categories in these Awards, but haven't been involved with this one - so am intrigued to find out who'll win.
As I reported a while back, two of the contenders are Janet Street Porter and Clarissa Dickson Wright.
The presentation is in the House of Lords (I missed the gallery canapes, so I'm determined to get my share at this gig!) and feathers could fly.
Street Porter has been writing only recently about how she's not a great loser. In her column in The Independent, she outlined why a good tantrum can be better than diplomacy and said: "I've never been a wallflower when it comes to screaming and shouting." So let's hope she keeps her cool if she's not the winner.
I reckon Dickson Wright would probably take losing more gracefully. There again, she's a colourful character and no stranger to unconventional behaviour.
She claims that, during her alcoholic years, she had sex with an MP behind the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons.
Brings a whole new meaning to the term Private Members Bill.
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