I’m closer to seventy than sixty, married, with two wonderful grown-up daughters and live in Hervey Bay, Queensland, on the east coast of Australia.
It’s a long way from Newport, South Wales, where I was born and spent my first eighteen years. After obtaining a Foreign Correspondent’s diploma in Bradford, Yorkshire, I worked in London for three years and Paris for five, before traveling to Australia in 1981 for a friend’s wedding. My one-year working holiday began in Sydney and moved to Darwin, where I joined the public service and we bought a house.
Thirty-three years later, my husband and I retired, spent six months with a camping trailer exploring parts of the country we hadn’t seen before and finally reached Hervey Bay in January 2018. It was supposed to be a base for further travel but during 2020’s pandemic, Hervey Bay with its lovely climate and beautiful beach, became a haven during the lockdown.
I’ve always enjoyed writing, though far too much of it was work-related. When we settled here, I signed up for a U3A writing group in a bid to write more and, perhaps, better. I don’t think I will ever write the great novel, but at least I’ve managed a few short stories, some based on real events, others purely on imagination.
Thanks to Louise for publishing these on the Writers Circle web page:
You can see posts from my travels on my Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/verity1603/?hl=en
Contact me via the Contact Form
Stories
Blind Date
Breakdown
Locked Out
Paddy
See You In My Dreams
Stars Over India
The Final Curtain
The Witch Doctor
World Trip
Zoom
It’s a long way from Newport, South Wales, where I was born and spent my first eighteen years. After obtaining a Foreign Correspondent’s diploma in Bradford, Yorkshire, I worked in London for three years and Paris for five, before traveling to Australia in 1981 for a friend’s wedding. My one-year working holiday began in Sydney and moved to Darwin, where I joined the public service and we bought a house.
Thirty-three years later, my husband and I retired, spent six months with a camping trailer exploring parts of the country we hadn’t seen before and finally reached Hervey Bay in January 2018. It was supposed to be a base for further travel but during 2020’s pandemic, Hervey Bay with its lovely climate and beautiful beach, became a haven during the lockdown.
I’ve always enjoyed writing, though far too much of it was work-related. When we settled here, I signed up for a U3A writing group in a bid to write more and, perhaps, better. I don’t think I will ever write the great novel, but at least I’ve managed a few short stories, some based on real events, others purely on imagination.
Thanks to Louise for publishing these on the Writers Circle web page:
You can see posts from my travels on my Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/verity1603/?hl=en
Contact me via the Contact Form
Stories
Blind Date
Breakdown
Locked Out
Paddy
See You In My Dreams
Stars Over India
The Final Curtain
The Witch Doctor
World Trip
Zoom