Adrienne Dines was born in Dublin in 1959. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, she moved to Weybridge to teach in a convent school, before spending 10 years in Aberdeen teaching, writing poetry and speeches following her marriage to a BP oilman. Now back in Weybridge, she is a contributor to church publications and is still a speechwriter '" for world champion canoeists, social functions and even ordinations.