All About ME!
I was born in 1960, and spent most of my childhood growing up in a small village in Lincolnshire called Wilsford. I doubt that anyone has heard of this place outisde of the people who have lived round and about there. I don’t know who Wil was or why he built a ford, as the river is more or less a shallow trickle.
Until the 70’s I grew up as “pub-kid” – my parents kept The Plough Inn – where I did and saw many things that I child of my age should not do, especially when they are a bit (a lot) on the chunky side, such as climb on to the house roof and walk all the way round it by balancing on the rusty cast-iron guttering. One of the down-sides of being “pub-kid” is that there is always a customer who is going to snitch to your mother that you are skywalking on the pub roof.
In the mid 70s I moved to the metropolis that is Sleaford and became a disco diva at every local village hop (a big ‘up’ to those who remember Ashby Hall Counry Club).
I grew up and grew sensible and at the age of 25 went off to Nottingham to pursue a career in Nursing. It was there that I had my first piece of writing published, a short travel piece in the Nursing Standard about a trip to India and Nepal that a friend and I took. That was it – I caught the writing bug.
As ever, being the master of procrastination (I don’t know why I don’t just GET ON with stuff) I let: career, kids, cleaning, relationship turmoil, taking a writing course, money, feeding the goldfish, ‘coming out’ get in the way of serious writing, until a couple of years ago, when I realised that in order to become a writer one actually needed to WRITE SOMETHING.
So, here I am writing part-time with a growing list of publications under my belt: two children’s books, online writing, copywriting, various published letters, magazine pieces and a novel called Pop Tarts For Breakfast half way written.
Yet, I remain, the queen of procrastination…
Georgina_writes | 
August 17, 2009 5:52 am
Subscribe