paranormal phenomena in an ancient our first ever equity crowdfunding 1966 Cornish manor house! Janey will speak campaign for MakeLoveNotPorn - Professor Clare Morris (Mrs Griffel) in College at Somerville Creates on first ever, because historically, no writes: In January 2024 I became the 23rd November. crowdfunding platform would permit a Vice-President for Professional Affairs of sextech venture. The wonderful actress the Royal Statistical Society. 1975 Jameela Jamil proposed that she lead a 1967 Linda Appleby writes: My book The campaign as lead investor, and brought us Kingdom Is Yours is due to be published to WeFunder. We are targeting $1million, Jennifer Barraclough writes: My main this year. It looks at the connections and while at the time of writing we news this year is having self-published a between personal experience and world are a third of the way there, the good short book Migraine and Me: A Doctor's events. I’m busy with church, samba, the news is that this has enabled us to begin Experience of Understanding and Coping Oxford University Society. I belong to building what parents and teachers with Migraine, available from online the Somerville Book Group and looking have been asking us for for years - retailers. Otherwise I continue to live forward to our Literary Festival MakeLoveNotPorn.academy, our 0-18 happily in New Zealand with my husband in November. and beyond sex education expansion. We and cats, and enjoy occasional visits hope to release a bare-bones Minimum to Oxford. Sandy Libling (Sandra Matthews) Viable Product, as they say in tech, in a Michèle Roberts writes: I chaired the writes: I still live in Sydney Australia few months’ time - watch this space! UK Student Prix Goncourt 2023 jury at whose natural beauty, dynamism and the Institut Francais, talked about Colette warmth both climatic and social I love. 1980 at the 2024 Oxford Literature Festival, However I am travelling about 4 months Victoria Andrew (Canning) writes: and reviewed two of Edouard Louis’ of the year to various places, visiting I have an extensive volunteering books newly translated from French. My sons, granddaughters and daughters- portfolio in my profession of Chartered latest book, Colette: My Literary Mother in-law in New York and in London and Accountancy. As well as serving on came out in August. exploring the world anew. Last year I ICAEW Council (the profession’s travelled to Jordan and Uzbekistan as well governing body) since June 2019, I Sarah Roberts writes: I received a PhD as less unusual places which challenged have recently been appointed as Chair in Art History from the Open University my unexamined ideas of borders and of ICAEW’s Ethics Standards Committee. in 2022. My book Ambition, Art and settlements. I often go on cultural hikes Other recent appointments have been Image-Making in an Early Quattrocento in Europe with Sydney friends but I am as a member of ICAEW’s Governance Court - the Palazzo Trinci Frescoes was equally happy travelling on my own, an and Appointments Committee, Technical published by Taylor and Francis on activity which recalls the person I was Strategy Board and Ethics Advisory August 1st, 2024. before children, marriage and, indeed, Committee. Plus I am a peer support 1969 settlement. I write a little poetry which member and an honorary Vice President travelling on your own clearly stimulates, of CASSL (the organisation for ACA Revd Dr Linda Robertson (Branch) but no longer sing in a choir due to trainees in London). Somehow I manage writes: This year I was awarded a PhD in my travelling and inability to get to to fit in a day job (albeit part time since Early Modern History by the University rehearsals. I am no longer involved in my husband’s retirement in 2023). The of Dundee. I am currently working on a the film industry but I am still Chair of highlight of our year was attending series of full transcriptions of witness an industrial property fund of which I the wedding of our only child, Alex, to depositions in the Chichester Consistory am a co-owner - a job I can do through Dominika in Poland. Court, primarily from the Stuart period, Zoom while travelling, a pleasing legacy with 5 volumes already published as from Covid times. I spend quite a bit of 1984 e-books by the Sussex Record Society. time in London, where we have bought Shân Wareing writes: I started a new 1970 a flat, and would welcome catching up job as Vice Chancellor of Middlesex with old Somervillians, and would equally University. Despite financial challenges Sabina Lovibond published 'The Quiet welcome those who travel to Sydney. in the sector, I'm loving it. It was a good Hermeneutics of John McDowell', 1976 opportunity, too, to reconnect with in McDowell and the Hermeneutic Somerville as it made me reflect on how Tradition, edited by Daniel Martin Linda Salt writes: In April, I was elected the benefits of education grow over a Feige and Thomas J. Spiegel Chairman of the Woking/West Surrey lifetime and extend across generations. (Routledge, 2024). Group of the Alpine Garden Society. 1985 1973 This is in addition to my 8th year as Churchwarden at All Saints, New Haw. Rebecca Jones writes: After more Janey Fisher (Anstey) has published I continue to enjoy playing alto sax in than two decades as the BBC’s Arts the third in her series of Jeremy the Bourne Concert Band of Woking, correspondent and 26 years at the Swanson mysteries, Priest Hole, which celebrating its 40th anniversary in BBC in total working as a Chief News received a review in April's edition of July 2024. Presenter and Reporter, I decided to QUAD magazine. Set in Cornwall during 1977 leave the Corporation last year. I am Lockdown 2020, it falls into no genre continuing to host events, talks and very clearly, being a mystery with a Cindy Gallop writes: I'm delighted to conferences for literary festivals and historical core, married with some peri- report that in early 2024 we launched organisations including the Royal Opera 29