Hello and welcome!
I sit alone, and make sh*t up.
And when I don’t, I stare out the window and watch the birds and bees getting busy.
If I was an Aesops’s fable character, I’d be the grasshopper who starved to death over winter.
Five fun facts about me
- When I was about eight, I spent a lovely sunny afternoon in an apricot tree eating sun-warmed fruit straight from the branch. And was very ill the next day. Haven’t eaten them since. Can’t even stand the smell of them.
- I took a cruise on the original Love Boat (Sun Princess), but decades after the show finished when she was Festival Cruises Flamenco.
- I sang First Tenor in my high school’s Choir and Barber Shop Quartet.
- I am a dog magnet. Wherever I goes, dogs (and sometimes cats) come to check me out. I’ve been approached by stray dogs in London, San Francisco, Geneva, Pompeii, Rotorua and across Australia (amongst others).
- My hair started going white in my early teens; I had Lily Munster streaks and I thought I looked cool.
Awards and publications
More me than you can poke a stick at
All photo credits Kristian Gehradte
The small print
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Another disclosure
For the sake of my friends’ and family’s privacy, I refer to all:
- Women as Katy in memory of the What Katy Did books by Susan Coolidge – I loved her as a child and I thought she would make an excellent best friend.
- Men as Toseland, from The Children of Green Knowe by LM Boston. I adored this series as a child and still have the full set I reread periodically.