My name is Elizabeth Cameron and I live in Glencairn, a little seaside village on the False Bay coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. We are about 40km from Cape Town, about halfway between Cape Town and Cape Point. We are near to Simons Town which is a Naval port.

My birthday is 20th December.

 I'm a Sagittarian, a fire sign and true to form, I explode like a volcano when mad, then subside till next time! I was born in the Chinese year of the Snake [a good thing apparently, unlike the Western view of snakes] and am uncannily  true to the characteristics, so am more inclined to give credence to the Chinese horoscopes than any others.

 I love to travel and have lived in England, Brittany in France and Uruguay, South America visiting Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Argentina.

 I'm fascinated by the Incas and the old civilizations. I would love to be able to go back some day.

 My favourite colours are blues, greens and violets. I'm not crazy about pink, but now do use it in my embroidery. My daughters never wore it while young though!

I have almost the entire collection of DMC embroidery threads, but they keep adding new colours so I'm never totally up to date. I recently discovered their rayons and so have started a new collection! I've also discovered random dyed silks, metallics and all sorts of lovely threads that I can use in my embroidery. I used to only do cross-stitch, but hardly do any now, as I'm having too much fun with BDE, Raised Embroidery and Stumpwork.

 Fabrics have always been a favourite, I have a vast 'stash' of dress fabrics and a rapidly growing one of silks, linens etc for embroidery. I even bought the material for my daughters' wedding dress, with the idea in mind that scraps can be used for embroidery projects! [It's brocade with a train of ivory raw silk]

 My husband took early retirement at the end of last year, so started the new century unemployed! However, he's one of those marvelous men who like housework, so he's taken over running the house, household expenses shopping etc. All jobs I really do not like doing. My daughter or I do the cooking, but that's it as he even washes up! It's marvelous as I can honestly indulge myself in my hobbies without feeling guilty about jobs
I'm not doing.

 I have three adult daughters.
 My eldest daughter Margaret is a Professional Nursing Sister, qualified in General, Community and  Psychiatric Nursing, Midwifery and ICU Nursing. She has been living in London, England for the last 18 months, but is back here for 6 months to attend the weddings of her best friend and baby sister. When
she goes back in April next year, she wants to move to Dublin.

My middle daughter Janet has chosen the Alternative Therapies route and is qualified as a Reflexologist, Reiki Master and I have no idea how many others, as she has quite an impressive list behind her name. However, she works as an Au pair to keep life and limb together and her therapy  treatments provide the jam on the bread. She no longer lives at home, but is within an hours drive from us.

 My youngest, Lesley has qualified as a Food Service Manager, which means she can run a large kitchen in a hospital, restaurant, hotel, etc. She however, is not over keen on the management side and so concentrated on the practical side and now works as a Chef at a small restaurant some 10 minutes from home. She   married in March 2001 .