my 20's and then more recently joining in a "Big Sing" of "The Messiah" at the Royal Albert Hall, London in a choir of over 1000, accompanied by orchestra and organ to a packed audience of 4000 - a marvellous and uplifting experience.

Reading: I have always been a book lover and took this one step further by becoming a librarian. See my earlier posting in this series A Book Lover.

Collecting: I also have always been a "squirrel", collecting things throughout my life. I was introduced to stamp collecting by my uncle and remember my first album and stamps around the time of the Queen's Coronation in 1953 when so many new stamps were bieng issued by Britain and the Commo.nwealth. I later went onto concentrate on thematic collectionscostume, of wartime and of early advertisements. A great hobby - cheap to buy, easy to fit in a case, and lovely to look through.

Scrapbooks - I was an avid scrapbook creator from an early age. The first one I remember was again in 1953 of teh Queen's Corocnation and I still have ones I compiled in my teens of ballet pictures and historic costumes. My mother also encouraged me to create holiday scrapbooks and I used to cut out pictures that appealed from "Girl" and other magazines, ranging from cute & cuddly animals, picturesque views, dancers, the Royal Family and then eventually film stars and singers. My latest scrapbook efforts have featured Christmas cards - see my posting Creating Christmas Scrapbooks - and of course using computers