On moving to Wales, a new creative writing class, inspiring teacher and the International Eisteddfod encouraged the budding writer. She had work published in the Church Times and Mothers’ Union magazine Home and Family.

‘I learned that including an illustrative colour photo gained Brownie points and an additional fee,’ she says.

Now unable to turn off the flow of prose and poetry, Margaret responded to a request from an American publishing company featured in WN. Her story, The Chalice, about the Yorkshire Ripper, was published in an anthology of true ghost stories in 2004.

‘Of course there have been some stories, poems and articles which have been returned as unsuitable,’ says Margaret, ‘but these have been outnumbered by the successes.’

She now contributes monthly to a village magazine, has written several hymns, and is up to chapter thirteen of a book based on 40 years of vicarage life.