The secret of a good secret

An old friend sent me a message: can I tell you a secret?

- JENNIE RIDYARD

Of course you can, I replied. As Dolly Parton might once have said, if you've got nothing nice to say about anybody then come sit by me.

I love a good secret. The average person is believed to harbour a dozen secrets, five of which they've told nobody else.

These secret secrets tend to be the shameful, guilty ones, the personal secrets that could do us the most harm.

So, will I keep this secret? Well, apart from possibly telling it to the entire readership of The Citizen, it's a definite maybe.

Anyway, they didn't ask me to.