: About Me

I am British through and through, I was born in a city called Birmingham (England's so-called 'second city) and grew up there. As far as I know all my ancestors were English as far back as I can trace them. I moved to Solihull, which is a reasonably small town, just outside Birmingham when I got married.

My childhood was spent reading and writing. I had a vast collection of books, so many in fact that my Father built not one but two good sized cupboards in my bedroom to keep them all in. I lived in a world of Enid Blyton, thinking I could be one of the Famous Five or the Secret Seven and often wrote my own stories (in which I was the heroine of course).
Marriage and babies curtailed my literary efforts for a good many years, but now that my babies have babies of their own, I am once again drawn to reading and writing.

I always have a novel in my head, and have started several of them, but never finished them, and write amusing little poems to put into the personalised birthday cards that I make on my computer.

I work full time as a receptionist/telephonist and have a passion for theatre - especially musicals. I'm not a bad singer myself and have won a few competitions and appeared in shows for many years now.

My ambition is to one day write a novel that will out-sell Harry Potter ! (Oh well, a gal can dream).

My passion is ...

musical theatre

I know too much about ...

heartbreak

My parents always told me ...

familiarity breeds contempt

My childhood ambition ...

to be a heroine in an adventure story

My favorite memory ...

showing off my new born babies to my parents

Why I write ...

my head is full of stories and words - I can't surpress them

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

reading chick lit at the moment, nice and light, watching comedy shows on TV, listening to 'Les Miserables'soundtrack

My first job ...

As a clerk in the offices of a laundry

My best moment ...

becoming a MUM

My inspiration ...

Julie Andrews

Arts & Humanities > William Shakespeare Is Shakespeare's writing incomprehensible?

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I'm no scholar, but then I'm not totally ignorant either and I love literature and studied the subject at college. However, I have to admit that I have never managed to get to grips with anything written by William Shakespeare. I studied Henry 1V part 1' for my A' level exam and was totally bewildered by it. I have to admit that the tutor I had scared the life out of me and I was always terrified to ask for explanations about things I did not understand and I definitely did not understand Shakespeare. After a few weeks of reading the book, she asked us all to tell her which character we li...

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