Known as Lyndy to friends and family, though always Carolyn at work, I was born in West Kirby, on the Wirral peninsula of Cheshire in 1950. For the next 21 years I moved around the Wirral living in Caldy, Meols, Noctorum, West Kirby and Hoylake, going to school in Birkenhead and University in Liverpool.

57 years later I live with my husband, Colin (and our cat The Lodger) in Shropshire, next to the beautiful River Teme looking across at the Mortimer Forest and Ludlow castle and church.

In the intervening years I have:

• taught for 5 years (James Allen's Girls' School, Dulwich and Elmfield Upper School, Bromley)

• worked in the early days of Word Processing and the world of PCs

• founded and run a successful business for 25 years with offices initially in Sevenoaks, Kent, then Sevenoaks and London, then London and Maidenhead, then Cookham, Berkshire, then Chislehurst, then Seal, then Tonbridge then near Sandwich (all in Kent) and now finally (I hope!) Ludlow

• enjoyed Motor Sport (actually doing it myself) and Cricket (watching only), hated learning to fly though I did get as far as passing most of the ground school exams and flying solo

• moved house 17 times mainly around Kent but also Surrey, Berkshire and Cornwall, recently moved to Ludlow in Shropshire

• been married four times but divorced only three ....