I graduated from the University of Bristol with a degree in Classics and then did a post-graduate teaching certificate. 

I taught in Surrey for five years before going abroad with my husband.  We spent 15 idyllic years in Malawi, travelling extensively in southern Africa and having a generally wonderful time. 

We then spent some time in Kuwait before finally settling in Andalucia. 

I returned to the UK in 2003 to study for a Master’s degree, on completion of which I decided not to return to classroom teaching, but to become a private tutor. 

I specialise in Latin and English and also run a tutoring agency. 

In my spare time I enjoy reading, pottering about in my garden, trips to art galleries and the theatre and attending CASA courses – surely these must be some of the happiest, most sociable and thoroughly good events ever?.