I still live in the town where I was raised, having moved from London aged 3. I have worked in financial services since 1984 in a variety of roles in different institutions (some say I should have been committed to one!). I have been interested in history since I left school (the school’s version of history-teaching was quite enough to put me off studying it whilst there). I am currently unattached for the first time in 19 years and coming to terms with getting on with my life.
I am the proud ‘Mum’ of two standard poodles called Gina and Tessa to whom I could not be more devoted if I’d actually given birth to them! Child-substitutes, maybe, but a lot easier to take care of.
I love reading (both fictional and factual), spending time with my friends and family and long walks with ‘the girls’ – even at this time of year. I hate prejudice and politics and cricket spoiling my weekend’s viewing! I enjoy talking to people I meet on the forum as I think it’s a great way to break the ice and a shared interest is a solid basis on which to build friendship, so I love the East Anglian TTFF get togethers and think there should be more of them, but I’m dreadful at organising other people as I find it difficult enough to organise myself!
Special Interest Areas
Ancient Egypt, Alexander the Great, evolution of mankind.