My friend Jenny Baynes, who has died aged 73 after a stroke, once made me laugh so much that I had to lie down in the street. Six foot tall, and quite a dresser, she made people laugh all her life.
Her school performance of the title role in Toad of Toad Hall is still remembered; much later, her comic verse sent up middle-class parental aspirations. She played the flute, sang in choirs, was a gifted watercolourist and travelled widely. But the centre of her life lay in her love for her husband, the theatre and radio producer Jonathan James-Moore, and their daughter, Kate; and in her inspirational work as a teacher.
