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About me
My Life's Timeline...
| Date | Age | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Born Birmingham, UK | |
| 1946 | 2 | 6 weeks in isolation hospital with scarlet fever |
| 1962 | 17 | Head girl, Swanshurst Girl's Grammar School |
| 1963 | 18 | Accepted for training as officer in WRAF |
| 1964 | 18 | Awarded Sash of Merit on commissioning |
| 1967 | 22 | Married RAF navigator |
| 1974 | 30 | Divorced & remarried |
| 1975 | 31 | BEd Hons Music & Philosophy. University Prize, Exeter |
| 1975-80 | Head of Music, Thomas Bennet School, Crawley | |
| 1980 | 36 | Divorced |
| 1980-82 | Academic administrator, Goldsmiths College, London | |
| 1982 | 38 | Remarried |
| 1983 | 39 | Son born. Only child |
| 1986 | 42 | Breast cancer. Mastectomy |
| 1988 | 44 | MA in English Literature, Sussex |
| 1992 | 48 | Breast reconstruction, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead |
| 1993-95 | Voluntary Associate with the Probation Service. Corresponded with two men convicted of murder and visited Holloway Prison. My client had been found guilty of aiding and abetting the rape of her own children. | |
| 1994 | 50 | Appointed Deputy Head, Our Lady of Sion School, Worthing. |
| 1995 | 50 | Appeared in BBC 2's programme Cancer Wars |
| 1998 | 54 | Contributed a chapter to Fighting Spirit - Stories of women who went to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre (Scarlet Press ISBN 1-85727-033-9) |
| 1998 | 54 | Appointed to English staff at Worth School, Boys' Benedictine School. Head of Careers. Chairman of Common Room. |
| 2004 | 60 | Retired from Worth School. |
| 2004 | 60 | Appointed Head of English at the International Community School, Amman, Jordan |
| 2006 | 62 | Retired |
| 2006-12 | Lived with the poor Bedouin at Petra, Jordan (My neighbours had occupied the tombs and caves of Petra before tourist development) | |
| 2014 | 70 | Self-published Living with Arabs |
| 2014 | 70 | Celebrated 70th birthday by spending 7 weeks at sea in a container ship. 14,000 mile round trip from Felixstowe to Mexico and SE US. For 5/7 weeks there were only 2 passengers and I was the only woman. |
| 2014 to present | Volunteer befriender at St Peter and St James Hospice, Haywards Heath | |
| 2015 | February. Spent 12 days in Jordan revisiting my former neighbours and marketing my book |