WITH temperatures soaring, writer and sun worshipper Mel Fallowfield, 49, is happily stripping off in her garden, despite being in full view of her neighbours.

“It’s famously said there are two certainties in life – that we will pay tax and we will die.

I’ll add another one, when the sun comes out so do my boobs!

I first experienced sunbathing topless when I was interrailing around Europe 32 years ago. 

Our first stop was Nice in the South of France and the beach was filled with beautiful French women, insouciantly strolling along with their boobs on show, to me they were the height of sophistication and I wanted to be just like them.

Within an hour me and my two girl friends had whipped off our bikini tops and joined the topless crowd. 

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No one was staring at us and by the end of the day my breasts were turning a gentle golden brown. 

It set up a habit of a lifetime. 

It’s liberating and they end up looking nicer, rather than if you’re still wearing a bikini when you’re naked!

So now wherever I go (unless I’d get arrested) I sunbathe topless. And that includes in my garden, which as I live in terraced street in London is overlooked.

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The reactions have been varied. 

My neighbour who lives upstairs has never said anything to me but I do notice that he pulls down the blind in his kitchen when I’m outside topless. So I’m guessing he doesn’t approve – but I don’t feel remotely guilty. 

I think it’s overdramatic, after all he doesn’t HAVE to look out of the window, and though my boobs are 36D they aren’t so huge that you couldn’t avert your eyes and look elsewhere!

My neighbour to the right is the coolest woman on earth. 

She’s in her 60s and spent time on Greenham Common in the 1980s where women set up camp protesting against nuclear weapons and were often topless. She’s seen pretty much everything in her time. She always laughs and jokes that it’s nice for her husband to be able to admire the view.

My neighbour on my left is more disapproving. 

Her husband was building a shed in their garden during the first boiling hot covid summer and she told me that he found it stressful as he worried that he couldn’t help but see my breasts when it was time to work on the roof. 

I’m in my own property not parading down the street waving them around for all and sundry

I pretended I didn’t realise that she was clearly hinting I should cover up and laughed it off! Mostly because I simply don’t see the big deal – it’s just a pair of boobs and most women have them in some shape or form. 

I’m in my own property not parading down the street waving them around for all and sundry. 

I do accept there’s a time and a place for it, but I can’t see why my private garden isn’t one of those places, just like the beach.

My sons have grown up with it and were fine until they became teenagers and now they tell me that I’m embarrassing – but they find everything I do embarrassing so I can live with that! And my husband Brian is fine with it.

So during this gorgeously hot weather, whenever I’m not working, you’ll find me in my garden, happily lying on a sun lounger wearing no more than a pair of bikini bottoms. 

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I’m yet to do a Heidi Klum who recently posted a picture of herself naked in her garden on Instagram. 

Though thinking about it I bet my bottom would look better with a tan…….”

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