So every city tells the lie
Of beggars, tramps and butterflies
Of all these things, then what am I?
A princess in a threadbare gown?
A gaudy, painted circus clown?
A child who lost her key and can't get home?

I was born in Paddington Hospital, west London, to quite normal parents. I have no brothers or sisters. We three shared the middle flat of a big three-storey house with a cat, a dog and a budgie, and a strange old man living upstairs, who scared me, and a drunken old man and his long suffering wife living downstairs. We had no garden, but we did have a balcony. My dad built a greenhouse on the balcony and we grew tomatoes. At the age of 5, I attended a Catholic first school for a year or so, until we moved to north London when I was about six, because my dad thought it would be a nicer environment for me to grow up. I remember lying on the painted blue floor with the spinning sounds of your parents old record player; 1976 air rockets that fled through the eyes of little boys and girls everywhere dreaming out their bedroom windows. I'd listen to vinyl and you'd be my monochrome starboy.

I wasn't a very conscientious student at school but I did what I had to do for a quiet life and passed all the 'o' levels that I put my mind to, before going on to do a couple of 'a' levels at college. My ghastly first job was working for a bank, which was the worst environment to work in ever because it was like working for the Gestapo or something. I was very young and didn't know any better, I suppose. I went on to work in the social services field, which is strange because I'm not much of a people person, and now I work for an environmental health department, which suits me fine because we're providing a non-profit service for people; nothing more and nothing less.

I'm down to earth, hard working when required, organised, quiet, self-sufficient, dependable, and rather anti-social. I am also apathetic, very cynical, morbid and dismal. I'm around 5'5" tall and of average build, with pale skin and dark brown eyes. I have medium brown chin length hair that is naturally slightly wavy and always dyed black. I wear black rimmed glasses, mostly for reading and driving, and five little silver earrings in each ear. I wear quite a lot of silver jewellery in general. My hair is rarely down loose as I prefer it in braids or in bunches so it's not hanging around my face. I almost always have my silver Sony Discman with me or my notebook.

Occasionally, my head is in the clouds but my feet are firmly ashore. I like to daydream but I live in the real world. I can't build beautiful sentences with words like sparkle or mist. I'm not a heroine from a romantic novel. I'm modern, on the ball and observant most of the time. I tend to repress my feelings (I'd be Elinor from Sense & Sensibility). I am very secretive, but sincere. I believe in the magic of moments, like when you realise for the first time someone is on the exact same wavelength as you are. I'm not a party person. I'm not exactly one who stands out in the crowd, and I like it that way. Being around crowds of people scares me.

I'm currently sharing a house where I have a purple bedroom and three computers . I have a bit of a menagerie including a german shepherd dog (milo), three cats (levi, geordie and murphy) and three cockateils (george, mildred and pj).


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