WINGS OF LOVE

Claire Petulengro, 48, from Brighton

Taking a deep breath, I smiled at my client.

‘Let’s take a look at your palm,’ I said, turning over her hand. I focused hard – but I was aware that my two girls, Lucy, now 12, and Honey Bea, 11, were lolling around in the background, looking bored.

I was known as the ‘witch girl’ at school

‘Why don’t you play outside, girls,’ I suggested. ‘Just stay where I can see you through the window.’ The girls went outside and I kept one eye on them as I carried on with my reading.

For 10 years, I owned a palmistry