I was asked by the British Heart Foundation to photograph Dame Esther Rantzen at her beautiful home last week.

Dame Esther is an ambassador for the charity and was generously donating a huge pile of goodies to her local shop; there were some great book titles and a huge pile of music (her choices closely mirrored most of my collection - although I don't know what that says about my taste as she was giving them all away!) on top of that there were lots of other goodies such as tennis rackets and even a snowboard.

It was a blazing hot day and she was ever the professional as she endured the heat of the sun to pose for a selection of shots and looked cool as a cucumber!

She even posed for a quick selfie. What a lovely lady! Thanks Esther!