The kids have taken best years of your life. You gave it all willingly – even through tantrums and constant ‘Why? Why?’ of childhood into raging hormones and cupboard raiding of teenage.

Now they’ve moved on and you’ve moved to mid-life. With financial pressures of raising a family gone, you’ve begun to think about you for first time in a couple of decades. You find yourself wondering what you used to do before you had children, or, more to point, what you’re going to do now.

There’s got to be a good decade or two left for you to work, but you’re capable and could do most jobs standing on your head, with your eyes shut and your hands tied behind your back. You want a challenge, but more than that you want to do something you love that will make a real difference to world. But question is, what will you turn your talents too… And what are talents again?!

I understand that women in their forties, fifties and sixties have an abundance of wisdom and experience to share with world, but sadly not enough do this. Too many hide where they hardly get noticed, suppress their wisdom and forget massive experiences they can share.

The truth is that if cardigans have survived as long as they have there must be something about them that we like.