Gail Bell

1 Up and at it - what is your morning routine? The mornings that I am able to, I train.

FINAL auditions recently over, the stage is now set for British Youth Music Theatre's (BYMT) latest reincarnation of Belfast author Tony Macaulay's "ordinary" childhood, with the much-anticipated Breadboy opening at the Lyric in July.

WHEN they said you could swim in the lough – an actual lough, presumably with fish – during a late summer spa break to Finn Lough, I have to admit my first thought was, "No, thanks, I would rather have a nice sterile swimming pool where I can smell chlorine and see what is swimming with me.

1 Up and at it - what is your morning routine? How has it changed? I waken about seven o'clock or 7.

TAKING a trip to a peace park in Japan while standing on a Belfast street might seem like a virtual leap too far, but perception and reality have always proved a heady mix for visionary artist, Deepa Mann-Kler.

1. Up and at it - what is your new morning routine? How has it changed? I have three kids and my wife is expecting, so mornings can be really busy.

Gail Bell asks experts and people in the public eye what keeps them going. This week: Emma Finnegan from Banbridge, the first occupational therapist in Northern Ireland to be working in a mental health capacity within the Southern GP Federation

SANDY Cuthbert is at home at Ballyhackamore in east Belfast, excitedly explaining in her cadenced "slightly posh" Geordie accent, that all voices, wherever they're from and however tuneful, are remarkably redundant in a visionary new 'choir' which has classes starting up across the city this week.

1. Up and at it - what is your new morning routine? How has it changed? Before I had my daughter, it was a case of 'Get up, have breakfast, check emails and get straight out to work'.

1. Up and at it - what is your new morning routine? How has it changed? I wake up in the mornings and go for a 45 minute walk.