: About Me

In 2007 I completed my Literature Degree with the Open University. This entailed five years of combining study from home while working or being a mum. I greatly enjoyed the experience and have become much more focused and less of a procrastinator as there is really very little opportunity to navel-gaze when embarking on home study. I am currently studying for a MA degree in literature with the same university.  I would dearly love to begin developing a career in writing as well as developing my passion for digital photography. My ultimate aim is to be able to build a portfolio-style career so that I can be there for my daughter but also to develop myself personally and professionally. I want her to see that the possibilities are endless!

My passion is ...

reading, eating good food, learning new things.

I know too much about ...

self-doubt.

My parents always told me ...

I should be more lady-like!

My childhood ambition ...

Didn't think that far ahead!

My favorite memory ...

Christmas mornings...opening the living room door.

Why I write ...

to get better at it!

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

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

My first job ...

Climbing trees (Rhododendron actually)

My best moment ...

Daughter's birth, finally passing my driving test, getting my English degree

My inspiration ...

My daughter...I want her to have an interesting, passionate mum.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Learning to drive

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Oh my God...learning to drive was one of the most hideous and depressing ongoing episodes of my life. My father was a driving instructor during this period and basically that was the root of the problem. As a perfectionist my father was rather disinclined to comprehend how anyone could possibly be incapable of following his clipped and precise instructions. I cannot remember my first driving lesson with my father and this is probably something to do with the seemingly infinite stretch of time between this first earth-shattering moment and finally the surreal day the driving examiner said "...

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