I grew up telling stories – to anyone that would listen, including some pretty tall ones to get out of the endless scrapes I shared with my two elder brothers!  Now normally children are in a hurry to grow up….but I really didn’t like that idea and determined it wasn’t going to happen to me.

Being ‘grown-up’ takes a tight grip on some, and they forget how to access the playful ‘gems’ of their childhood.  I have been lucky in evading this grip.  My adult life has been spent working with children and young people both in education and leisure, at home and abroad. Telling stories has always been an integral and joyous aspect of my work.

In the meantime, life evolves, and it was about 2000 when I decided that storytelling would become ‘my way of life’ rather than an aspect of my life.

Drawing on extensive training and experience of knowing what makes children and young people 'tick’, and utilising ever new learning of the craft of the storyteller,** now I know that the secret of staying young (at heart anyway) is to spend as much time as possible doing something you love – and what better way than to share stories with all who would like to listen.

My home is on the Beds/North Bucks border, where I live with my husband and our erstwhile stray cat. We have two adult daughters. 

**I am a regular attendee at The School of Storytelling in Sussex, in addition to ongoing study and exploration of differing modes of drama, storytelling and theatre arts including puppetry and music.