12) TO DO LIST

There are a few things I'd like to do before I'm 40 - which isn't far away now!

1) Go to the opera. I would have shuddered at the thought as a child but now, I actually like the better known of the arias - not that I know anything about them.

2) Take the kids to a musical in the West End.

3) Take the family to Monze in Zambia, where I was born, and to walk past Vic Falls & take in a safari.

4) Have a really proper grown-up dinner party at our new house - we move in in three weeks!

5) Get a short story or novel written from beginning to end - even if no one wants to publish it.

6) Lose half a stone, of course.

7) Make time for a regular massage or facial or, preferably, both!

8) Have a capsule wardrobe of stylish clothes that fit in all the right places (see 6)!

How about you?