This photo was taken when I was eleven years old, attending a ballet school in Buckingham. I’m third from right. It's "The Very Large Turnip" that I appeared in. I read that “The Very Large Turnip” (or "The Enormous Turnip") is a traditional Russian folktale about a farmer who grows a gigantic turnip that is too big to pull up alone. Through teamwork and perseverance, he calls on his wife, granddaughter, dog, cat, and finally a tiny mouse to help, eventually succeeding together. This was also around the time I wrote my first children’s book. I scribbled it in an old ledger that my father gave me from his shop. I used to carry the book everywhere, up trees, on a bank of soft primroses by a little stream, in school recesses…. Sadly, the book, which I completed writing in a year, was later lost somewhere in my travels. I do still have part of it though, which I plan on resurrecting and publishing one day.
