Writer, EFL teacher, trainer, and translator, I was born in Tanzania, have lived in a dozen countries over three continents, and describe myself as an ‘expatriate sin patria’. Wherever I go I make it my business to learn the language, get to know the local people and customs, and discover the country’s remotest corners. I became interested in writing in mid-2006, did a short Open University creative writing course and a Writers’ Bureau course, and began getting articles published in 2007.

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I slept very badly – woke at 2 panicking about tomorrow’s event and my Spanish exam and the holes in the fence that the neighbour’s dog had dug, and my visitors arriving from Belgium on Monday, and so on. Lay and counted backwards from 30 about 80 times, then got up at 4.30 to write my little welcome speech for tomorrow, took some plant-based calming drops, went back to bed and eventually dropped off.

Woke up too late to go to yoga.

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Today's photo is one I took in the north of Uruguay last year: we used it to make our Christmas cards

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