Retired now from previous employment as a Management Consultant, journalist and author. Now actively involved in painting and writing and, when time allows, cooking, entertaining, reading, antique collecting, and matters of local history. Having left my bonsai collection with friends in France I have recently acquired two new trees.and rekindled a longstanding addiction. My working life was spent promoting equal opportunity in the work place and in life generally and I wrote and lectured throughout the UK during the seventies and eighties on this topic. To support women during the recession of the 80s I established a national charitable organisation - Women in Enterprise - aiding women to set up 'real' businesses by offering free start-up advice and contacts. View all posts by molliekaysmith