My special skills included driving a small car filled with helium balloons, memorising children’s names – and tolerating parents’ behaviour
From the age of 16 to 22, I was a children’s entertainer. Most often a fairy, sometimes a witch, ballerina, princess or mermaid – with conspicuous legs underneath her tail. One time, hilariously, a ladybug.
The hourly rate was excellent, the costumes were cute and the tiny customers even cuter.