Jackie Day was a musician/cabaret artist from the skiffle days and for 25 years was a qualified tailor. She founded and managed for eight years a project that made fashionable, made-to9-measure clothing for physically and mentally challenged young people. She has worked with young ex-offenders, helping them to turn their lives around, find employment and activities that would keep them out of trouble. When her husband died, Jackie started writing a light-hearted column in a local advertising magazine called ‘The Unwidow’.