Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Retired Teacher
Location	Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Introduction	Born in England in 1931. Evacuated in World War 2. Trained as a teacher at Brighton Training College, Sussex. Taught in London. Moved to Zimbabwe. Seven years later worked on a mail ship. Married Malcolm in Capetown. Two children, Rebecca and Greg. Moved to Australia in 1974. After retirement worked for a publisher. Three grandsons, Blake, Harry and Max. Disabled by stroke in 2013. Now in wheelchair with husband as carer..
Interests	Grandchildren,home-making,family,singing,writing,poetry,teaching,genealogy,graphology,reading,acting,public-speaking,day-dreaming, green energy,childrens literature, performing, monologues, melodrama,walking, films, television, conversation, choral singing, nostalgia, friendship, family ties, atheism,England, South Africa, Australia, art, euthanasia, entertaining
Favorite movies	'Sleuth' 'The Childrens'Hour' Old musicals.
Favorite music	Anything from the Swing era. Light classics.
Favorite books	Fact, not fiction. Biography and popular science. Richard Dawkins.

How tall would you be if you had never cut your fingernails?

I don't think I'd be any taller than I am now but I'd be pretty wide. (Who makes-up these questions?)