CAREER IN WORDS
I have been writing for as long as I can remember — my first short story at six, and, as a teenager, pieces I both wrote and illustrated for fanzines.
After university I joined the Financial Times, working on the Weekend section and Arts pages under the legendary JDF Jones, founder of the FT's weekend supplement. It was there I published my first piece and kept contributing. From the FT I moved to Country Life, where I became Features Editor, before going freelance in 2002 to combine writing with motherhood.
Since then my freelance work has included columns for the Evening Standard (on single parenting) and the Daily Telegraph (on eco interiors), and features for The Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, The Field, School House, Somerset Life and WI Magazine — where I also styled the front cover.
I've appeared on BBC Woman's Hour, BBC Breakfast, LBC and Radio 5 Live — most recently on the struggles of the hospitality industry during Covid — and was quoted by The Mirror in early 2026 on B&Bs and hospitality.
I love this image as the "chair" I'm sitting on (actually a sculpture by the artist Felicia Fletcher). The chair, reminds me of a comma which strikes me as a suitable emblem for a journalist. Pic by JOAKIM BLOCKSTROM