My career as a Primary School teacher with responsibility for music from my second year has been very rewarding. I took very early retirement, the best move I ever made! I am well-travelled and have been to most countries, too numerous to mention making use of my French, Spanish and Italian I learnt at Wycombe High School.

I love to play the piano and achieved 8th Grade. My sister and I played piano duets and at seventeen we won a competition in Slough judged by Joseph Cooper from the BBC2 Face The Music programme.

I have ridden horses since five and even met Princess Anne who then was patron of the Riding for the disabled at Radnage House Riding School. I now have two horses and two Llamas. My sister and I were some of the first people to keep Llamas 25 years ago. I now have two young Llamas.

I love producing and presenting programmes on Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio, brightening up the patients stay in hospital.