I'm an African girl at heart - born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa (with a short stint in Australia) but I currently live in Warwickshire in the UK. As a child, we moved house almost every year of my life, which would account for my extremely itchy feet.
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While I love the creature comforts of home and am a huge advocate of afternoon naps, I'm happiest out in the world, knapsack on my back, exploring new landscapes and marvelling at the magnificent and the mundane.
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I have devoted my life to my greatest love - travel - and I hope you do too if this world calls to you, because if I can do it anyone can. I say that because I'm the last person on earth who should be travelling let alone travelling alone - I'm petrified of everything: people, flying, flying people, the ocean, anything in the ocean, anything on sand near the ocean, anything that moves really, being too hot, being too cold, being hungry at anytime at all...you get the idea.
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I was writing creatively from age seven. I loved it! I loved the feel of pen on paper and how I could retreat into my imaginary world and create utter nonsense, and this would keep me amused for hours. I rewrote Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes thinking I could definitely improve on them - oh the audacity of youth!
I began writing professionally at twenty-three, when I joined a TV company as a scriptwriter - with no experience at all. I spent the next twenty-five years in TV, Theatre and Radio as a writer, presenter, voice artist, actress and production manager.
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In 2019, I moved to the UK. I was badly burned out and shifted careers so that I could focus on getting better. The past six years as a live-in carer has enriched my life, but it's also been immensely challenging, and frankly exhausting. As I write this, I am beginning to make the transition out of care work so that I can pursue my two great loves: counselling and storytelling​​​​​.​
