Hello there and thank you very much for the overwhelming response to my first two blogs of the year! It meant so much to me to hear from you after all this time and to know that life continues to be pretty good for most of us, with some marvelous milestones achieved by others – congratulations!

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Welcome! So glad you’ve found me here on my new website and I hope you’ll enjoy this week’s missive. Fingers crossed all is well in your world and you’ve seen a bit of sunshine? Hard to believe we’re through July already – a month that’s been far more grey and wet than most of us would have liked! And that’s what I’ve always loved about being lucky enough to holiday abroad – the promise of sunshine for at least a week!

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And just like that… I’m retired after 23 years of presenting at QVC!  Even now I struggle to get my head around retirement, as it always seemed to be something other people did!  As far back as I can remember I’ve always worked: I started a paper round when I was nine, worked the weekends and school holidays in my teens, and had my first ‘proper’ job in London when I was 16 years old.  

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