It’s said that everybody has a song track to life and for Carolyn Yates, Lee Marvin’s “I was born under a wandering star” would be as good as any.
A qualified teacher, she has taken her acclaimed programme for unlocking children’s learning all over the world – an echo of a childhood during which she was never in one place for very long.
Currently the chairperson of Castle Douglas Development Forum, Carolyn has been living locally for 30 years, most of those in her current home outside the town she shares with husband Ken Gouge.