Nobody’s perfect (except maybe my dental hygienist who never eats sweets!) So yes, I bake and eat cookies, cakes, squares, scones, and being the carb queen that I am, my favourite, bread.

I don’t love running. Even though I’ve been doing it for over 35 years, ever since my friend Sue, whom I met skiing in the singles line at Sunshine Mountain in western Canada, dragged me reluctantly to a local track to join her for a few laps.

Remember the movie The Age of Adaline? Blake Lively plays Adaline Bowman, a young woman who stops aging following an accident at the age of 29. As Adaline negotiates a life on the run because she has turned into a freak and people want to perform experiments on her, the viewer is left thinking “be careful what you wish for!”