‘Not taking up music was one of my biggest regrets’

Hazel Davis, 49, is a writer and media trainer. She lives in West Yorkshire with her husband Bob, 48, and their daughters Clementine, 14, and Gilda, 12. Tapping my blue cowboy boot to the beat, I begin to sing. I’m definitely in my happy place. Despite being a musical child, I was never really encouraged to take up an instrument. I had a go at the violin for a while in my teens, and joined Kent Youth Choir for a time in the 90s. Once grown, like many, I abandoned my musical hobbies. But I did en...