I think I just want to be mum to everybody,

like I am to my three kids at home.

Oh this is what normally the leaving 6th formers,

they give me a little parting gift.

So if it's not flowers or chocolates I quite often get

a few little teddies, so they're quite nice memories

of boys that have gone.

I think we've got 1,500 on roll.

So 1,500 over 18 years is quite a lot of kids,

and they're such good boys they still always

come over and say hello which is lovely.

So my husband often says

"are we ever going to go anywhere

and not see somebody you know?"

I'm an instructor in the army cadets.

First of all when I was asked,

they were looking for volunteers,

I really believed they needed a cook!

And that I'd go away at weekends and maybe feed them.

I didn't in my wildest dreams know that

I was going to train like a regular soldier

running round with rifles and things.

My least favourite is the weapons.

I like the adventure training.

I abseiled off a cliff at Weymouth a few years ago

and that was quite exciting.

The kids wouldn't do it so I did it first.

So they had to then, if an old granny can do it

then surely the kids can.

In there I'm still twenty.

I have three children.

My middle daughter, she's 25,

although she's not actually mine,

she's a young lady that I've brought up.

I was asked to babysit her when she was 3 weeks old

and the parents didn't come back for 8 months.

And she's still with me now.

I phoned the social services and said

"look this has happened, it's not an issue,

but do I need to legally tell somebody?"

And then course you start the ball rolling

and the social services come round,

check, obviously that you're the right person,

and myself and my husband did some fostering training

But yeah it was difficult but not alien to me,

because I found out at my mum's funeral

when I was only 18, that one of my brothers

wasn't my brother.

So my mum had done exactly the same.

So, it didn't even register that I wouldn't

love this little girl that had been left at my house.

I just like to be involved and help people.

My mum always brought me up that if you can

help others you should.

This is what I tell the kids...

They can make the change.