FOR 13 years I lived in London while I worked in the magazine industry, and I enjoyed a lot of what I got to do.

Some of the highlights were working on profile features of some fascinating people.

Liza Minelli was a gentle and captivating woman who chain-smoked throughout the hour-long interview.

She told me that when she was a child, Marilyn Monroe used to come upstairs and wake her up to have a chat when she came to her mother Judy Garland's dinner parties.

Another favourite of mine was Debbie Moore, who set up Pineapple Dance Studios. She turned her life around when her husband left her at the age of 21, and the shock triggered an over-active thyroid which made her put on weight.

She took up dancing to keep fit, which led to her setting up her studios, and her business is still thriving more than 30 years later. These were interviews that just leapt off the page.

However, when I was starting out, my heart sank with certain assignments. I assumed that the likes of someone who had made up one fifth of a pop band that had split under dreary circumstances several years earlier would not make a particularly interesting interviewee.

But on those occasions, whenever I started researching whoever it was, I would always find at least one interesting thing about them. Those were the nice surprises, and proved that there are no uninteresting people – only uninteresting questions.

I was musing the other day that it's a real shame many stories go untold because the person it happened to is not in the public eye.

It would be interesting to continue writing the same sort of features that I used to write for glossy magazines, but with a local bent - 'at-home' shoots with Salisbury citizens who have led interesting lives or have a colourful turn of phrase, and behind the scenes coverage of the Salisbury Festival, Christmas pantomimes or summer solstice.

I wonder if there would be a demand? If any readers would like to nominate individuals for such a focus in Wiltshire Society magazine then drop the Journal newsdesk a line.