A few common themes emerge when I survey the different ways my character is tangibly expressed – in the clothes I choose to wear, in how I choose to decorate our home and garden, in my writing and photography, in crafts.

In no particular order:

• Colourful
• Natural, inspired by nature
• Lively
• Not minimalist
• Soft
• Tension between mess and calm
• Warm
• Slightly unconventional, quietly rebellious
• Guarded, enclosed