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You can't pigeonhole me ... geographer, biographer, broadcasterm historian, weathergirl, scientist, cosmonaut, Latin scholar, PhD student, playgroup leader, mother ... because of my magpie brain

Vanessa Collingridge talks to Stephen Phelan

BY the time Vanessa Collingridge is on her deathbed - a scene she can picture so readily that she invokes it twice this morning - she may have nothing to lament except a failure to pace herself.