Celebrating our uniqueness
I'm musical. I love painting with words. But as for actual art, well the self-portrait on the right is about as good as I get. I'm a natural mimic and have a tendency to break out into random comedy characters. I began with impressions of the teenage boy next door when I was 3, went on to Mary Hopkin (UK's Eurovision entry in 1970) and Frank Spencer and then invented Belinda Barrington-Blythe, who sang opera in one key whilst accompanying herself on the piano in another. The Vicar actually fell off his chair laughing at her, and he rarely cracked a smile. Belinda Barrington-Blythe The older I get, the more I wonder who I really am. Who any of us really are. Can we really be so sure about our own identity when we depend so much on the context in which we relate to others? I'm a sister, a Mum, a Granny, an ex-wife, a preacher, a church leader, a mother-in-law, an employee... and everyone who relates to me does so from their own particular context. I believe in life af...