This week, with DONNA HALL, 38, Blackburn with Darwen Council's executive director (corporate resources)

MEMORY: Aged three. sitting on a swing in the back garden on a blazing hot summer day and being overcome by a feeling of perfect happiness. We were setting off on our annual family holiday to Blackpool and Cliff Richard's Summer Holiday was playing on the radio.

LOVE: Most definitely Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

HOME: A bedsit over a hairdresser's in Headingley, Leeds. There was always a strong smell of perm solution and the rent was £8 per week. It was later declared unfit for human habitation.

HOLIDAY: Blackpool. My Mum and Dad went there every year since their honeymoon in 1950.

AMBITION: To be a pop star.

HEROINE: I can't remember her name but she played the seductive vampire in Carry on Screaming.

RECORD: Tiger Feet by Mud.

CAR: A bright red Ford Escort with a black vinyl roof -- it was my pride and joy.

JOB: Teaching English in Istanbul after I finished university. I earned a pittance but had an unbelievable time.

PET: A talkative budgie called Joey who lived to a ripe old age.