: About Me

I'm a trained journalist and I have undertaken freelance work with some local British newspapers and some national magazines. Lately my writing has been for web sites and company publicity. I edit and blog for a US site regularly and I maintain my own blog. I live and work in France and am fluent in French, also undertaking French/English translation so long as it is not too technical.

I've been writing for Helium since I discovered it in 2007. Here I've discovered some very talented writers and some very lovely people. I have written to over 200 titles with subjects as diverse as food and cooking (about which I am passionate), politics (in which I am both qualified and opinionated), animals and reptiles, diseases and weddings. My training and possibly stubbornness too have taught me never to say never to any challenge presented to me in the field of writing, and I pride myself on delivering to deadline (if ever I cannot, I will say so).

My featured article can be seen below 'Helium Favourites' further down the page. Some other diverse articles I've produced can be found at these links:

http://www.helium.com/items/1167306-fishsalmonpoached-salmonpoached-foodpoachinghealthy-eatingfish-reciperecipe-for-fish

http://www.helium.com/items/1165485-foreign-currency-currency-exchange-money-markets-dollar-europoundyen

Academically I have an Honours Degree in Politics from the University of Portsmouth and I have the certification of the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ)

I live in the Charente department of France, where I am a commercial agent for an estate agency. I get to see some wonderful houses and properties for sale and help people to fulfil their dreams as I did mine.

When I'm not looking at houses or writing, I love taking photographs, cooking and singing, though I don't consider myself especially talented in any of those fields.

My blogs can be found at http://oldhack.squarespace.com

Some of my better photos - most of which can be bought as prints or high quality cards - can be seen at http://www.redbubble.com/people/cmorley

My passion is ...

Good Food

I know too much about ...

Nothing

My parents always told me ...

Grow Up!

My childhood ambition ...

Never to have to grow up!

My favorite memory ...

There are just so many that is an impossible question.

Why I write ...

Because I think, therefore I am.....etc.,

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Anything that turns me on - I have very eclectic tastes

My first job ...

Clerk in an engineering works

My best moment ...

The present (and that was so yesterday and will be so tomorrow)

My inspiration ...

Knowing that I'm damn well right!

Computers & Technology > Internet Issues Ridding the Internet of porn: Is it a realistic objective?

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Do you remember being at that age when you had learned your alphabet enough so that you were just about able to look things up in the dictionary? Do you remember the first words you looked up? They were "rude" words that you'd heard adults using and you wanted to be sure you understood properly so you could tell your friends. Take another look at that old family dictionary on the shelf. Note the dirty finger marks around that f' word in there. Apply the same logic to some other words you can think of. Am I right or am I right? So long as we live in a society which imposes via religion, cus...

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