: About Me

I am a mother, a daughter and a sister.

I have been employed, in my time,as a horse riding instructor, groom, a farm hand, a civil servant,an insurance clerk, a massage therapist,a care worker and a nursing auxiliary. Oh yes, and a market research interviewer. For the last fifteen years I have worked as singer and songwriter.
Right now I am a volunteer worker

I have always written, since school days, though never published apart from a letter in the Cambridge Evening News.
Motherhood has not left much space for writing so I am looking forward to doing more with time on my hands.

I am always delighted to communicate with other writers

My passion is ...

encouraging others to explore their creativitiy

My parents always told me ...

i was difficult

My childhood ambition ...

to be a nurse, a missionary, a pirate and composer get married and have six babies

My favorite memory ...

norfolk holidays

Why I write ...

its as natural as breathing

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

the news! the tennis the people coming home from work

My first job ...

assistant in a record shop

My best moment ...

getting copyright from sony for a musical project

My inspiration ...

nature, dh lawrence, daphne du maurier, and lots more

Pets & Animals > Exotic Pets & Animals Exotic pets: Thoughts on bans

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One fine day, humans will awaken and appreciate fully what a wonderful planet we inhabit and what a miraculous organism the living world, with all its innate intelligence, is. How many losses and catastrophes it will take for that day to arrive we cannot know but when it does we will know that the place for "exotic" animals is in the wild, living freely in the way in which nature intended, untroubled by the activities of the human world. What is an "exotic pet" ? I assume , for the purposes of this article, an "exotic pet" to be a mammal, reptile, amphibian, bird or insect which has been i...

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