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Back in the 1990s I was the only female electrician/ "Gaffer " working successfully in the UK film industry. I had all kinds of movie adventures but...
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I was on a constant quest to show them all that I wasn't using my place on set to "get into production". I needed to show everyone I was SERIOUS about sparking -which of course I was.
Hiding the creative side of myself was a small price to pay if it meant I got to travel to incredible places, work in fantastic teams and play with some of the biggest and most beautiful lights in the world.

I was very happy as the only female spark in the industry but for various reasons I left the film industry in 2004.

It was a huge personal loss at first, but slowly I realised that I no longer had to hide my creativity. I started getting work as a storyteller - only now I didn’t talk about my old life as an electrician!
Now I’m going to bring these two parts of me together. I'm making a storytelling show about my life as a spark. As part of the research I just met Carolina Schmidtholstein who is the most successful woman Gaffer currently working in the UK. It was surreal to finally meet someone who truly understood my unique experience.

We talked for hours and as well as being smart, fascinating and inspiring, she helped me understand some of the weird and wonderful things which happened back then.

Thank you so much Carolina. Watch this space. (PIC 2 shows me at work on location in Spain on a James Bond movie)

This #moss is called dead man’s fingers

Appropriately taken in Nunhead Cemetery

Shed roof - the wonderful diversity of the tiny forest. #mosstodon

We are going to be in this spooky haunted house in Peckham, telling stories (and drinking hot chocolate) on 18th February 🥰 #thinplaces #storytelling #storytime #london

Judge Wyndhams Oak. About to come into leaf. Estimated 1,000 years old, and at 9.79 metres, the largest girth of any tree in Dorset. It is said to have marked the boundary between Selwood Forest and the Forest of Gillingham. It was named after Judge Hugh Wyndham who purchased the manor of Silton in 1641. He was the Justice of the Common Pleas and used to sit within the tree and smoke his pipe to relax and contemplate. The current owner of the farm remembers losing a cow, only to find it two days later stuck firmly inside the hollow.
#thicktrunktuesday

No one can resist the smooth bark of the beech tree #thicktrunkTuesday

Storytelling at Dubai Lit Fest at the weekend. I was the only performer there providing an event for under fours! #dubai #storytelling #uae

In #Dubai for #EmiratesLitFest storytelling for children. #sunset #uae

An immensely valuable part of land in central London which- thanks to a tenacious grassroots campaign- has been retained to honour the poorest in our society. The crossroads by #crossbones memorial garden for the #outcastDead. #stories #storytelling