I was born January 28th 1940 and lived in Stamford Bridge, East Yorkshire where I attended the local primary school. I then went to a girls’ grammar school in York followed by teaching training college in Bradford.

I married in 1960 and led a fairly nomadic life before coming to Somerset in 1976. I live with Keith, my husband and great supporter, in Cossington near Bridgwater and have no desire to leave the West Country. I have two sons, a daughter and two grandsons.

As a child I inherited a love of wordplay from my grandfather but did not begin to write poetry until 1999 when I joined the Bridgwater U3A Poetry Group. Most poems are written ‘to order’ on the homework topic set at our fortnightly meeting, though I do become inspired on occasion to write on other subjects. I work mainly in rhyme and metre with the odd foray into free verse.