: About Me

I am a Mum of 4 children, and I stay at home with the youngest who is just 2 years old, then I have the other 3 children in school. Much of my day is taken up in running to and from school and all the usual mumsy household chores!

I have lots of hobbies and interests including, Cross Stitch, Knitting and Card Making. My interests are reading, and I will read any book that I can that I find to be of interest.

I have always been creative in writing since being a child, but never pursued any talent that I may have had as a child. As I grew older I always said that one day I would try to write just to see if I did have any talent, and that time is now.

I know too much about ...

everything and too little about nothing

My childhood ambition ...

to be a writer or a poet

Why I write ...

I can say what I want, often better in words than in speech

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

Barbara Erskine, Hiding From the light

My first job ...

Secretary

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Death of a pet

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Sasha had been in my life for 11 years since she was four months old and she had been my best friend. She was what the vet called a real Heinz 57 she was a real mixture she was part Alsation, part Rottweiller and part Labrador! I had cried into her fur on more than one occasion over the years, I had laughed with her and I had laughed at her crazy and sometimes naughty antics. We were two lost souls brought together through violence, for her it was by being an abused and unwanted tiny puppy. For me it was by the boyfriend I had thought loved me, I was just seventeen when I found her and fou...

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