​As an army child, I grew up all over the world. My family's most memorable posting was to Vietnam where we lived in Saigon during the Vietnam War. The experiences I had as a child, left me with a life-long interest in travel and food from all over the world. 

Although I went to a French speaking convent school in Vietnam in my early years, most of my education was in the UK, posted to boarding school like many military children with parents abroad. I had always been interested in writing and lost myself in the world of books. By the age of 12 I had read the complete works of Shakespeare. Language and the subject of English was my passion, so it was no surprise when from the moment I walked into the offices of the Financial Times,  I found my vocation.  

I started on the Weekend FT under the legendary JDF Jones who founded the weekend supplement for the Financial Times  who, with characteistic aplomb appointed me Bridge Editor - largely because no one else played the card game, but having grown up abroad and without a television for entertainment I'd learnt a plethora of card games including bridge. I also worked for him on the FT Arts Pages.
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From there, I moved to Country Life magazine where I became Features Editor, taking the magazine through its centenary and later on acting as Deputy Editor. At the magazine, I launched the Travel and Schools sections, brought in the cartoon Tottering-by-Gently by Annie Tempest, created and edited the popular Living National Treasures section of the magazine about artisans and launched a nationwide award-winning rural crime campaign which was taken on by the government of the time. I published several books there, edited and published books and ran several events for the magazine.
 
I went freelance three years after my son Jasper was born contributing to most of the national newspapers including, the Daily Mail and the Times. I had a column on being a single parent in the Evening Standard. I also wrote a column on eco interiors for the Daily Telegraph. 
 
I've acted as a PR consultant for the likes of Cordings in Piccadilly owned by Eric Clapton and Noll Uloth, Britannia Stone and Penelope Chilvers amongst others. 
 
In, 2005, I moved to Somerset where I still continue to write and where met my husband Martin with whom I run a busy B&B which has been featured in The Daily Telegraph, Country Life, Radio Five Live and BBC Worldwide. Martin and I have three children between us and four grandchildren.