She has been turning heads in Deal as the Mercury’s advert­ising executive, but Carolyn Moore’s singing pursuits mean the same is happening in Thanet.

The singer-songwriter from Westgate has recorded two songs and she took to St Mildred’s Bay at Westgate with a group of friends to film the video for her song I’m A Girl.

“It was just going to be me in the film,” said Carolyn, 56.

“I turned up at the beach not knowing what we were going to do and while I was out my friends came round to my house.

“I wasn’t there, so they came down to the beach and they ended up getting involved,” she said.

The video is fun and flirty and shows the English seaside at its best with frivolous dancing by colourful beach huts, mods on shiny bikes and a very sassy (and familiar) waitress.

The end result is an infectiously happy music video, the perfect complement to Carolyn’s catchy lyrics and sunny voice.

It’s not all about kicking her heels up and celebrating being a girl, though.

Carolyn’s songwriting took a poignant turn in 2014 when she found hundreds of
lovingly-kept letters from her dad Robert to her mum, then known as
Patricia Tapley.

She said: “My dad died in 2004 and my mum died in 2014. She was a hoarder and kept everything. When she died I saw all my dad’s stuff was still there – he could have just come back and carried on like he had never been away.

“In one of the rooms, in the back of a cupboard, I found about 500 love letters written in the two years before they married.

“When they married on St Patrick’s Day in 1951 he stopped writing them because they had started living together.”

It prompted her to put pen to paper and she recorded her song Love Letters that same year, with the video being filmed at St Martin’s Church in St Martin’s Hill, Canterbury.

“It is the oldest church in the English-speaking world and it was lovely being in the place where they married to film the video,” said Carolyn.

“I learned so much about my parents from the letters. My dad played the piano, which I never knew, and my mum used to have a dog, Lassie, but in later years she was scared of dogs.

“Without the letters me and my brother might not even exist.”

Carolyn is now moving on to pastures new, having worked for the KM Group since 2012.

She will be branching out into property development and be spending more time writing songs.