My special skills included driving a small car filled with helium balloons, memorising children’s names – and tolerating parents’ behaviour Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email My special skills included driving a small car filled with helium balloons, memorising children’s names – and tolerating parents’ behaviour Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email F rom the age of 16 to 22, I was a children’s entertainer. Most often a fairy, sometimes a witch, ballerina, princess or mermaid –