I was born in 1977 in the middle of a forest (don’t worry, conveniently there was a hospital in the forest). I hold this early connection with nature responsible for my love of all things outdoorsy … well, except hiking or biking or sporting activities of any kind. More just sitting by the sea or sitting by a babbling stream, that sort of thing. Feeling close to nature without any pesky activity getting in between us. The younger of two children I was labelled the “nice one” at an early age and my sister the “clever one”. This level of disappointment in my potential from my parents gave me the opportunity to spend countless hours on my own playing make believe with dolls and the like, while my sister was busy adding things up and discussing politics.
It was all change when I hit secondary school though, the largeness of the school finally allowing me to claw my way out from under my sisters shadow and it turned out I had hidden talents, i.e. learning things and thinking and so on. I was near the top of the class for pretty much everything. Never the brightest star, but able to tap the brightest star on the back if I really, really went for it. My greatest loves at this point were English, Music and Art.
I then pretty much chucked the towel in on everything to concentrate on my music, and joined the family firm to keep me in penny sweets and teenage angst while I did. A dozen years later, there I was working on my music, working for the family firm, trying and failing to write several books, when hey presto, I fell in love and EVERYTHING changed. Suddenly I found my book. Not about falling in love though, about getting married and how that REALLY is, when you have a mind that works a bit wrong, like me.
Now living in Leamington Spa with my husband Andy and our blind cat Womble, writing, singing, painting pictures for my house and working for the family business … only now Andy has been sucked into working there too, so it’s not so bad.
