When I won the title of Miss Transliving International 2019 at the Haddon Hall event in March this year, one part of the prize was a free makeover at Sophie’s in Plymouth. Well I am perfectly capable of doing a fairly decent make-up on myself and as Plymouth is a 270 mile drive away for me, on the face of it, it seemed hardly worth my while to take up the free makeover offer (and for this reason I didn’t take up other ‘free’ offers which were also part of the TLI prize). But I had met Juliette, the person behind Sophie’s, some 16 years ago, and had got on really well with her then so I didn’t need much of an excuse to go and meet her again. Also I needed to make a visit to the Dumbleton Hall Hotel in the Cotswolds to sort out some details for our Dumbleton Days event in November, and as this was about half way to Plymouth, by combining both trips it wasn’t quite so crazy to go the extra distance to Plymouth.