I guess it’s time to give myself up and submit a biography! I’m a Blackpool sand-grown ‘un (though now living just outside the place because it’s gorn orff in recent years.) I’m old enough to have just celebrated my Silver Wedding anniversary to Peter the Philistine, though I was of course a child bride. As the daughter of two teachers there was no way I could escape childhood without a heavy smattering of culture, and I spent much of my early years around old buildings and sites. I was mad keen on archaeology, asking for “Digging Up The Past” for a school prize at the age of 11, but my enthusiasm was dimmed a bit by a sadist of a history teacher who clearly thought the Corn Laws were the height of human achievment, and regularly bombarded me with chalk and occasionally the board rubber too. However, my total and inevitable failure to gain an “O” level in History did not put me off. I’ve remained a mainly armchair archaeologist all my life, though I’ve done one short course at the local college. I’m in management at a large comprehensive school, and I don’t have much time at the moment. However, I do write in what little spare time I get (just had a children’s play published) and have three cats, which is timeconsuming in itself.
I love Time Team, and really enjoy the Forum. Long may both continue!
Special Interest Areas
Pre-history, Dark Ages, Medieval, Elizabethan, Late 19th Century