CAREER IN WORDS
I love this image as the "chair" I'm sitting on (actually a sculpture by the artist Felicia Fletcher) reminds me of a comma which strikes me as a suitable emblem for a journalist.
I penned my first short story as a six year and wrote and illustrated pieces for Fanzines as a teenager. Post University, I joined the Financial Times where I worked on the Weekend section and Arts pages. This was where I wrote my first piece and where I continued to contribute. From there I moved to Country Life magazine where I became Features Editor until I left in 2002 to go freelance, largely to be able to raise my son. I was crap at hiring nannies.
Since then my freelance work has included a column in The Evening Standard (on single parenting); a column on Eco interiors for the Daily Telegraph; and written features for several other titles including The Sunday Times, Daily Mail, The Field, School House, Somerset Life, WI Magazine (where I styled the front cover too). I've appeared on BBC Women's Hour, LBC and also BBC Breakfast television and been interviewed on several local radio stations across the UK, the most recent being during Covid on Radio Five Live where I spoke about the struggling hospitality industry.