My dearest friend Tess sent this to me as we had had a conversation about who we are and who supported us and our upbringing and our choices and our reasons for our choices. You know those chats.

She sent me this link and after watching the video I can relate completely. My dad was even a doctor too (although he did support almost anything we did).

Be like a weed… 102 years old and she has recently discovered painting – which is something she always wanted to do, but didn’t, for various reasons.

• How often have I postponed things I wanted to do for some now long-forgotten reason?
• When did I stop myself from doing something because I imagined others would not approve?
• What were some of those things?